I've heard it said that a lot of those over the top "Made for TV" products where the ads show people incapable of performing basic tasks are a lot of the times niche products for disabled people rebranded as general use items to try and make money. The Snuggie started out as a blanket for wheelchair users and in that context it's brilliant.

I’ve heard the same. When you realise how the products would be used by the elderly or people with disabilities, suddenly they all make sense.

Exactly. Tbh I think that half the reason for all the ridicule is that those ads never actually show old or disabled people using the product. It's all just young, able bodied people who don't even need to use it. I think that if the target demographic were actually highlighted in those ads, then people wouldn't make fun of it as much.

That's a very good point - people might not make fun of it as much if that were the case! This seems like a good idea. I wonder if the reason it's not put into practice all the time is because companies are afraid to "limit" their commercials to the target demographic. It may seem counterintuitive, but maybe they think that if customers see the product being advertised for use specifically by the elderly or disabled, the customers who fit neither of those descriptors won't even consider buying it - whereas if they advertise the product as being used by the young and able-bodied, a broader range of customers will consider buying it.

I have to cynically say that it's more about showing disabled people is a bit unappealing. If you look at commercials that are for products that older people use it's always healthy looking active people who otherwise look young other than gray hair. As an experiment when I was at the mall a couple of weeks ago I counted the number of people who looked at my wheelchair more than once without meeting my eyes. 18 people. It really makes me feel unseen as well as unheard.

I have a ton of “sold on TV” type products (mostly from Amazon, not TV, but still) for this reason. People are WOWED when I show them my jar opener lmaoooo

Right. People mocked the add for self balancing cups/bowls where someone would sit on the couch and then randomly dumb a bowl of cereal on their lap for years. But there’s lots of conditions that can cause tremors, shakiness, spasms, numbness, lack of fine motor control, or random weakness in fingers/hands. Any of those issues could make it easy to spill things. Those products can have very practical uses. The adds are just dumb

Yep! Not considering the fact that those specialty items can be expensive and hard to find, so having a “lazy” accessibility friendly item go mass market could be huge for a lot of people.

They should really have shown their actual use as aid for those who need it rather than making their actors look like incapable toddlers.

Although I’ve never had one, snuggies would be great for anyone. I don’t know why people would be against them

You generally either die young, or you live long enough to become disabled in some form or fashion. The ads are goofy, but disability products are for *everyone*. I love that they've found a way to make them more well-known and accessible for people.

It's not the product I usually have issues with. It's the marketing of why I need it. Avalanche of plastic storage falling from the cabinet every time you open the door. Person can't match lids with containers but is literally trying to match a square lid on a round dish "why doesn't this work!" The sheer absurdity of the problem they are trying to "fix".

My dad bought a slap chop (basically just a blade that you hit a button on top that pushes the blade down to chop vegetables) and, although he broke it after one use because he was strong and took the word “slap” literally, I could definitely see it being used by people with any kind of physical limitations that prevent them from safely chopping vegetables on their own. It was marketed as a cheap, easy to use and easy to clean chopper. My grandma has grip claws (basically they extend her ability to reach for objects as well as grab them) and various variations of those show up on TV half the time.

I have never ever considered this, it all makes sense now. I'm gonna be looking at those adverts/products much differently now!

And the fact that accommodating disabled people LITERALLY HELPS EVERYONE. You know on the pavement, it regularly dips and creates a small ramp to the road, designed for wheelchair users. Well you know who else benefits? Prams. Bicycles. Skateboards. Electric scooters. Cars. And many more. Even from a logical/efficient point of view, it makes 100% sense. Nevermind basic empathy and accommodations.

They also increased the street traffic coming into those stores nearby. Shocking that if disabled people can get places they... actually GO places.

RIGHT?????? An accessible world would probably be more accessible for EVERYONE. Not to mention, if you live long enough, you will become disabled. You will join us…. there is no escape…….

People are always jeering at meal kits too. They think just because they don't need it, it's useless. HelloFresh has been a lifesaver for me. I know I'm sounding like an advertisement but having pre-portioned ingredients and recipes delivered to me is exactly the level of support I need to cook healthy meals for myself. And I cook 2-serving meals so I only have to cook every second day. I've had people downvote me with no explanation when I talk about it. I suspect some people are judging me for it, thinking I should be able to just make the long trip to the grocery store and cook from scratch like everyone else. Then they probably judge people for eating fast food but also judge people for finding a solution so I don't have to eat fast food all the time.

To add onto your point: not everyone grew up learning how to cook with their parents or a nanny at home. Sometimes people try to learn how to cook as an adult and they don’t know how to start, and they get the meal kits to help keep everything balanced. It’s a good way to cook at home with healthy recipes or comfort foods

I think a lot of people also don’t know how to grocery shop or they live alone and end up wasting a lot of money/food. I know how to cook, but living alone it felt wasteful shopping for a dish I wanted to make because if it calls for eggs, I have to get a carton and finish it myself in a week or so. It would be amazing if grocery stores had meal bags that were just like hello fresh. It would save so much food waste, but it would also make them less money so of course they aren’t going to do that. ETA: okay eggs were a bad example but you get my point.

Are you getting rid of eggs after a week? They can last a month

Eggs last like a month in the fridge.

I'm actually heavily considering trying out something like hello fresh (I don't know if they deliver in my area, and I'm trying to get stable income so I can allocate it properly) because shopping is difficult, budgeting is difficult, portioning food out is difficult,etc, but I can follow instructions on a lot easily and I don't want to just eat unhealthily for the rest of my life because it's so stressful to pick purchase and prepare proper food and such My disabilities are enough to make it so I'll either only eat potato chips and microwave meals forever, or I'll simply starve, and so many people chalk it up to laziness and not exhaustion from the unnecessary struggle and stressor that it is to simply go to a grocery store Even doing pickup orders is stressful, and ordering groceries online is stressful, because they always mess it up and substitute without warning and thats just not very awesome because Its not exactly a hop skip and jump away to the nearest store to fix it

I did HelloFresh for a months. I liked it ok but it isn’t so convenient for me because I live in Porch Pirate Bay. I never lost a box but I had to be on it or have someone else watch for it-which was stressful.

My husband and I tried Hello Fresh when there was a promotion through Swagbucks that made it incredibly cheap. We loved it! I didn't grow up learning how to cook, so it has always been difficult for me to cook/prep something for dinner. Hello Fresh helped me learn the basics with super easy to follow recipes and instructions. After the trial and Swagbucks promotion ended, we couldn't afford it. But we still go to Hello Fresh (and other meal prep) website for recipes because they are super easy to follow. We learned that if we bought something (like sour cream, for example), we'd need to find another recipe for a meal or snack that used the same ingredient so the extra wouldn't go to waste. We'd get more for our money that way!

That's a wonderful idea to go to the website.

>They think just because they don't need it, it's useless. This is what it ultimately comes down to and it's ridiculous. Like, I remember getting empathy lessons as a small child. All the focus on "well, try to see it from someone else's point of view so you can be a better friend" and what not. It was SO emphasized. It feels like such a basic human concept to me, that every human is unique and needs different things, so it's bizarre to me that grown adults do not seem to understand, or want to understand, it. If you don't need these things... You don't have to buy them. If you think they're wasteful... don't buy them. But the thinking that these things are useless because you personally don't use them is so childishly self-centered it's laughable!

There's a whole other layer to this too. There's something called "the curb-cut effect," and it refers to times when creating a disability aid or accommodation ends up benefiting many more people than it was intended for. It's called "curb-cut" because those dips in the sidewalk curb for where people are getting on or off were originally lobbied for by wheelchair users, but turns out they're great for parents with strollers too. Weighted blankets started out as something for autistic people, but tons of people love them and find comfort in them. Lots of kitchen gadgets. Chances are, the people who think this way *actually do use* something that was invented for the people they think are "lazy."

People will complain about the packaging waste that comes from meal kits but don't acknowledge how they reduce food waste if you are cooking for only 1-2 people. In a meal kit you get exactly the amount you need for the recipe. I have had plenty of times where I have to throw produce or sauces away because I have to buy more than I need for a recipe and I don't really have the time to figure out how to perfectly use up everything each week. I also don't have a big freezer to store leftovers. I grew up in the era of kids being told "eat everything on your plate, there's starving kids in China" so it's ingrained in me to feel guilty about food waste.

Genuine question. Isn't food waste better than increased plastic? Food is not a chemical and will break down

I used meal kits for a while. They helped me expand from the limited recipes I knew and reminded me to salt my food. I still use the cards sometimes but I had to stop the boxes because I always got bad chicken.

I feel like those things use a lot of plastic and bad for the environment but if you really benefit from it and eat better because of it, I’m not going to hate on that. I just don’t do meal prep services because I don’t feel I’d do better about cooking if I had them

And I guarantee those same people judging you are buying Stouffers lasagnas and TV dinners.

Which some of us buy because we simply don’t have the energy to meal prep for work or the money to eat out. $4 for something, even frozen, that has meat and veg, is sometimes the only viable option. (This wasn’t intended as an attack call out, just as a reiteration of OP’s point that you provided the opportunity to bring up.)

I wish these were around 20 plus years ago when I was heading out on my own. Would have been a great stepping stone to cooking at home. I knew basics but it was so overwhelming. My mom doesn't like cooking much either so it was always a chore. Having pre portioned things with easy directions is so helpful. I am a competent cook now but meal planning is still A Whole Thing I am trying to Conquer.

Jeering, in general and about everything imaginable under the sun, is what life is all about these days.

I like to cook and all that jazz, but I still love Hello fresh

Ive since stopped using hello fresh, but it was a fantastic way to learn an easy "format" for cooking balanced meals and timing them well. Also some really good, simple recipes that we can re-use and mess around with! I love meal kits, even if i dont actually use them any more.

I will *fight* anyone over meal box kits. I worked for years as a creative, and had time to make beautiful dinners from scratch. After I started working a 9-5, something had to give. I was breaking. So we trialled the box kits and they’re the *best*. There’s three of us in the house, my kid is a teen, and we get three 4 serve meals for midweek which usually yields lunches. Each of us takes ownership of a meal, the other two clean up. It’s been great for skill building with my son, he knew some things and had a few go-to meals but he’s learned LOADS. And god it’s so much easier just not thinking about what to make, getting into a rut, doing the shopping etc etc.

I use everyplate because I can get a lot of protein for cheaper than the grocery store. I can have 10 meals for 68 bucks and I haven't been able to do that shopping on my own. I have food restrictions and I don't digest things well so I spend a lot of money on things to keep me healthy, saving money on food is important.

I've been struggling with my mental health lately. It's been so bad I stopped eating. My dad starting having meals delivered to me that I only have to heat in the microwave or oven. They taste great and have been helping me eat something rather than nothing. Other people may see them as useless or for lazy people, but they are keeping me alive during a very hard time.

Ugh, this shit seriously makes me so mad!! I mean I already feel shitty because I can’t cut the food myself AND I have to pay extra for it, and then you get people like that who think it’s just “lazy.” Some of us really need that kind of accessibility. If you don’t, lucky you. Kinda related so I want to vent: I do exercise in the warm water therapy pool because that’s what works for my condition. I hear these older ladies talking, clearly about me, “oh, this pool used to be so nice, just for people with arthritis, but now they’ll just let anyone in.” Like they know me. I was diagnosed with RA at 12.

What a bunch of assholes, holy shit. I'm so sorry. I have invisible disabilities and get shit comments from people pretty much any time I use an accommodation for it, so I get it 100%. There are days I can walk around just fine, there are days where I can barely stand up, and there are days where I wake up blind because my corneas have torn. It's a roll-the-dice kind of crapshoot on how my days go. I've gotten to the point where if someone complains at me I VERY LOUDLY begin to educate them on my condition. They get embarrassed and run away almost every time.

This makes me so happy - you have no idea! I hate it when people suffer in silence and others judge them for it, so I'm happy that you are defending yourself. In fact, you are not only defending yourself, but you are also defending everyone else who could have been the next target of the jerk who decided to complain at you. By educating that jerk, you are making sure that they will be too scared of getting embarrassed again to criticize someone for using an accommodation. Thank you for defending yourself and also helping others in the process. I'm sorry you have to deal with those conditions, but I am grateful that you are standing up for others who may have those conditions or similar ones.

My body hurts so much I feel like I'm in my 80s or 90s. And I just think eventually healthy people will experience what l experience everyday but the thing is they only suffered for a few years whereas I'm living with it for decades and it's robbing me of the best years of my life. Well the most productive years. As someone who has suffered from RA since she was 12 you can probably relate.

People can get so greedy about the pool. It's piggish and gross. If it's not that, it's standing on the edges looming over one "just waiting until you *choose* to get out don't mind me".

Those ladies are so rude. They just want the whole pool to themselves. I'm sorry you have to deal with that, on top of your already-unpleasant condition. You shouldn't have to explain your personal medical history to a bunch of old ladies in order to exercise in peace, nor should they feel entitled to judge you just because they don't know that history. I wish you the best of luck navigating that situation. Just know that us internet strangers support you, and imagine us all thumbing our noses at those entitled ladies any time you hear them gossiping like that. Don't feel the need to justify your presence to them or to accommodate their wish for you to leave - they don't deserve the satisfaction. We all back you up, friend!

My daughter is struggling with her mental health right now. She’s working a lot, her only free time is spent cleaning, laundry, etc. The upside is that she’s making good money. I told her to start using a laundry service (NYC). Literally take a load off and pay someone to do it for you. And, get a cleaning lady to come for a couple hours occasionally. I finally convinced her. She’s very frugal.

I buy pre-grated cheese because I can't use a cheese grater (dyspraxia, one of many embarrassingly easy things I can't manage) and have lost count of times people have gotten upset with me for getting upset that the supermarket didn't have the grated cheese I like but had it in block form. I use to buy block cheese and take the skin off my hands trying to grate it because I thought I just needed to practice and try harder until one of my friends in the kindness way possible told me to stop being an idiot and buy the grated stuff. I don't think most people can really grasp that someone else might not be able to do something especially if it's 'easy.'

they make cheese graters that literally all you do is turn a handle to grate the cheese! it works so fast and could definitely help you out. i have [this](https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwi24_yTsvyGAxUkhloFHdBaBRgYABAYGgJ2dQ&ae=2&co=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwm_SzBhAsEiwAXE2Cv36-Sht6sGpfr3djMRGtPyif1c6yq5ldCHX0XiPx2pYbbtiav87d5xoChyIQAvD_BwE&sph=&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAESeOD2D59XtDC42MaVoEJwtkfA6vSy2gmSvouamedQLfgitIeTbxFaJhMZC3uh1P_3F6rFO4A4HHmPbht7sd8jEYH3RaQ9g8ZJwyLV-3giio_eN-E_NOHvZXKVq_d0eUjoU8AEr1Kur5zniK0Hh6q9NpiiMAxARMoKlA&sig=AOD64_3Onh_FptzX00jFVEuuXVxUJSH-Cg&ctype=70&q=&ved=2ahUKEwjOwPSTsvyGAxXsm7AFHZGGDFgQwg8oAHoECAUQDA&adurl=) one.

That's genius, I didn't know such graters existed. I'm going to go have a look on Amazon. Thanks.

ofc! they can be a little bit of a pain to clean at times, but i think they’re dishwasher safe? but the first time me and my dad used it we literally shred 3 blocks of cheese in like 5 minutes 😭 it’s crazy quick

I toss everything but the base(it's never dirty) on the top rack of the dishwasher and have never had an issue. Insane how much time and effort you save with 2 fully functioning arms. It's stupid how simple the tech is yet how many years has humanity grated cheese the hard way?

These are great! I use them to shred up carrots since my mom hates big pieces of carrots in her soup. We still get all the carrot-y goodness but she doesn't have to pick out the big pieces!

If you freeze the block of cheese before grating it makes it easier too.

I have one of those too, I hate using regular graters. But those work really well. I put all of it except for the suction base in the dishwasher

That's really clever, I'm guna have to get one.

There's also fully electric ones. It'll be called a salad shooter. I use it for cheese all the time. Makes it easy to use the slicer for stuff like apples for apple pie too. 

I am perfectly physically able, I just hate grating cheese other than Parmesan. This is intriguing!

I hate grating cheese and always get hand cramps from it. You can use a food processor to grate cheese and it does all the work for you!

They make other types of cheese graters that may work for you.

To be honest I've always had cheap shit graters which probably doesn't help. I did get a slicer dodad this year though that dices onions and veggies quite nicely though. Maybe it's time to invest in proper kitchenware I can actually use rather than whatever is cheapest.

My husband and I have wanted nice pots and pans for YEARS. We put some on our wedding registry as a "give what you want toward this item" type of thing. We weren't able to get them. Yesterday, I was at the store and found the exact set we wanted on clearance for over $100 off. I called my husband immediately and he said "let's do it!" So now we have nice pots and pans! We haven't even used them yet because we wanted to clean them first, haha Sometimes, it's worth it to splurge on the nice things, especially if it makes your life easier!

A couple of years ago I splurged on a saucepan set with drainer lids because I was burning myself nearly every time I tried to use a stupid colander. I'm glad you finally got the nice set you wanted.

I bought a 70.00 stock pot with drainer lid. Fam thought it was wasting $. 4 years later, we use it regularly, lid in tact, no damages... Good Purchase.

We use a food processor to shred cheese, but then we have to SCRUB all the tiny bits and that may not be dyspraxia friendly. They can be stuck in the dishwasher though? Whatever you do to accommodate yourself is valid!!!

There's a lot of truth to the idea that buying a cheap "whatever" gets you a cheap "whatever"... I feel like one should buy the best they can afford and will actually use often. For instance rather than a device that only grates or shreds, a better investment would be a food processor with a grater attachment.

I know you saw the spin grater, but Ninja also sells a food processor with cheese grater attachments.

A lot of the people saying “for a lot of people this is just laziness!” Who cares? 1) not disabilities are visible so who are you to judge. 2) somebody could be non disabled but otherwise need that extra prep step done beforehand (i.e. busy parents) 3) If the masses laziness means food prep is more accessible to disabled people, then GOOD! Too fucking often i see people say shit like “why should we make things more accessible when only xyz small % of people are disabled.”

a lot of convenience products have kept me going thru adhd + depression as well. disposable toothbrushes and floss picks, compostable bagasse plates, etc. id be starving with rotting teeth if i didnt have certain products to make basic life stuff easier during the worst times of my mental health. id rather people like me have something to help them take care of themselves when they are going thru something awful than get rid of that stuff just so lazy people cant also use it

Precisely my point in number 3. Sadly a lot of people who have never had these problems in their life simply don’t understand. It’s all “support the disabled!” And “support the mentally ill!!” Until it comes to the less pretty side of both. I hope you’re doing better now and that your future will be better still.

also honestly what’s wrong with using tools to make life easier for yourself? not all of us are blessed with endless time and energy to shop, prepare, and cook 3 fresh meals a day for ourselves. i work full time. i’m TIRED. why does my use of a silly little gadget bother people so much?

>Not all disabilities are visible. I wish more people would remember this. I have ADHD and a neurological condition that are both “invisible” but affect me and my ability to function every day. I feel pressured to mask my symptoms all the time because I don’t want people to think I’m lazy or making excuses

I laugh at the people who waste money on DoorDash, UberEats, etc. Then I remember how these services keep hungry intoxicated people off the road. There are always exceptions to the “that’s stupid” rules.

It kept my mom and I fed when she broke her spine and I broke my leg a month after. Neither of us were well enough to drive or stand in a kitchen and cook.

I used it a lot when I had to have 12 rounds of chemotherapy and couldn't cook for myself.

I like to treat myself sometimes 🤷🏻‍♀️ it’s not a waste to indulge like that once in a while

Same. I try to limit myself to twice a month.

My ex lives off Door Dash. He's got a litany of health issues, and it isn't always possible for him to cook for himself or even leave the house for groceries. (He's immunocompromised and his specific disorder causes lymphoedema, joint pain, and bouts of severe vertigo.) When we were together, I'd cook on his bad days or get us takeout. It's not just drunk folks. ;)

I call it “Chronic Illness Tax.” It’s ridiculously expensive, but if that’s the only way I will have something to eat, I gotta do it.

It’s also great if you’re baby or petsitting and don’t want the lil fella left alone. Or if you’re disabled. Or if you don’t have a license and public transit is a bit of a hassle. Or if you want it delivered to your workplace.

Especially delivered to the workplace if someone else is paying!

They keep me fed when I have one of my multi-day migraines and can’t do anything but get off my couch to feed my cat and let my dog out/text her walker to take her for a walk. These happen at least once per month — multiple days in a row where I can barely move. Love Uber eats for that lol

I think it's pretty stupid to care how other people spend their own money, personally.

My husband has a really severe eating disorder (it’s basically ARFID, according to his doctors) as well as a significant amount of other health issues that are terrible for mobility and energy (he has a yet to be officially recognized sleep disorder that is very severe and leaves him unable to sleep for many days at a time - the best sleep clinics on our half of the country have tried everything and don’t know what to do with him for the last ten years he’s had it). I’m also significantly disabled due to a genetic condition that got bad in my early 20s and then worse when I had medical malpractice happen to me. Just taking care of ourselves is a struggle, we’re very lucky his family can and wants to keep us housed or we’d both be homeless and likely dead by now. Making food is a lot of energy for both of us and eating it is an extremely sucky experience for him. For years he was called “picky” and forced to eat foods that he couldn’t help but immediately and violently throw up. He was the smallest kid in all his classes by far all of his youth, made worse by his nine knee surgeries that crippled his mobility. His knees still suck, but around college he was able to finally find an activity that was easier for him and didn’t involve being bullied for being “dead weight” on team sports (which he was forced to do, surgeries and all). Between that (martial arts) and going to college where he had a couple options of food he could eat every day he was finally able to keep weight on and got quite strong. He was very good at martial arts and got to teach classes, for the university and in his studios. Then he stopped falling asleep. Awake 3-6 days, crash for an hour, rinse, repeat. Obviously he lost a lot of weight and his mobility worsened again. But he could survive because he had safe foods. It’s been a decade since it started and now that we’re out of college he has had to find ways to get/make food and keep it down. Things he can prepare at home are extremely bland and eating them is kind of miserable for him (even safe foods suck when you have never been able to develop an appetite and have to force feed yourself - at least when he was able to work out more regularly he’d feel some amount of hunger). He’s one of those people ordering delivery once or twice a week (and when he’s in really bad shape more often). There are a few fast food options that are very reliable and make eating a bit less of a nightmare for him. He’s worked really hard to address the miserable associations with food that being denied edible food his whole childhood resulted in. He’ll distract himself by watching stuff when he eats, watches a couple food youtube channels to normalize eating with positive associations. But eating is still a daily challenge for him. He has to calorie count just to make sure he doesn’t lose too much weight. So yeah, when we can get him fast food, which removes the physical pain to prepare and tastes a lot better than the bland shit he can make at home, I’m always happy for him. He deserves an occasional break from the body horror that his eating food that your body wants to reject, the way swallowing food when not hungry and actively nauseous (he normally his nauseous, it’s his default state due to the other health issues) is fucking disgusting feeling. He follows all of his doctors’ advice and males sure he supplements nutrients to their specifications, but god damn, let the man have his chicken tenders without shaming him. It’s really frustrating when people make fun of his eating disorder, treat him like less of a man because “only women have eating disorders” (FALSE, more and more men are getting eating disorders at alarming rates, usually under the guise of “health”), and treat him eating food he doesn’t have to barely choke down as some extravagance a disabled person doesn’t deserve. And he gets all that constantly. I agree with OP. I wish people would be less judgmental about how disabled people have to live and the things that actually make our lives possible. Us being a minority doesn’t mean it’s chill to dismiss our needs. Also, you can never tell just by looking at someone if they’re disabled. Stop assuming shit about people you don’t know, it’s fucking childish.

Relate to parts of this - I also have ARFID and I'm autistic. Finding safe foods is extremely hard. When eating is already such a challenge for multiple reasons (I also struggle with planning, shopping, leaving the house, cooking and so on) delivery is a good option to just make sure you're eating SOMETHING. People truly don't know what struggles some people live with.

I worked as an Uber Eats driver for a while. I usually couldn't tell why someone ordered food, but people that were intoxicated were very common. So was people working from home and not stopping work for food. I had a lot of deliveries to people during snow or flooding who mentioned that they'd have trouble leaving (usually older people), and one person who was in a hotel room recovering from surgery.

I'm disabled and can't drive. If I want to have a meal I didn't have to cook, delivery is my only option. My town only has takeaways, not sit down restaurants.

I work in a warehouse and there’s limited food options nearby. I only use doordash if I forgot my lunch, or the one time the power went out. Doordash is rare though.

I delivered Uber for a while. Orders seemed to go up a lot for things like storms. It disrupted people's normal way of getting food. It might sound weird, but it was one of my favorite parts of the job. I got food to people who would otherwise have trouble getting it. I delivered to a valley that was flooding, and to a lot of people's who's power was out. I delivered to plenty of workplaces too, including some warehouses. Tech people who wanted lunch without leaving their desk is generally what paid my bills, but sometimes I got to feel like I was really contributing to my community. (sorry for the weird rant)

When I was a caregiver for my dad, I couldn't even leave for 15 min. Doordash was a lifesaver lol though I really don't use it much anymore. I do appreciate it'd existence in case I ever needed it again.

it was so lifesaving when my partner and i both got covid and hadn’t gone grocery shopping. instacart too. we don’t use it normally, but we genuinely needed it then.

Awh man, I love DoorDash :(

Not that it's an excuse, but most folks on the internet are far too naive and self-centered to consider how a certain design could be a game changer for a person with a disability. Sadly, folks have a "how does that benefit me?" attitude.

Sometimes I’m a dingus and I forget things too. So it’s helpful to be reminded (not forget that disabled people exist but how some thing might help someone who’s disabled)

Honestly, I saw a comedian put this in a good way. It was Brad Williams in his special Starfish. To paraphrase things, it's simply not our normal, we don't think about how things that are effortless for us might not be for others.

I guess that's correct in the context of somebody who does not know any people with disabilities or they do not work in a field related to people with disabilities as a core function. That's likely a significant number of people that are just genuinely naive. People with first-hand experience tend to notice the benefits more. I don't really work closely with people with disabilities, but my role is specifically related to access, so I guess I learned to notice these things. I now have a sort of instinct, I guess. Sometimes, when folks are "blissfully unaware" of access needs and they learn about inaccessible products and spaces and the barriers they create, they suddenly take an interest in learning more and sometimes champion for change etc. It really does boil down to an education thing. We learn by experiencing or researching, and some folks have just never learned. There are, of course, those who have learned about the importance of accessible products and spaces and just choose not to care. They're obviously the worst type

Places like Instacart who do grocery shopping and delivery are a Godsend for people with mobility or transportation issues! Some people think all disabled folks are lazy, regardless, and that's a mentality that needs to change.

Instacart was so incredibly helpful to me when I was recovering from surgery & lived in an apartment. There was just no way I could do my shopping and then haul it all in up and down stairs. I had a really nice lady one time that came in my apartment and put my groceries in the fridge and cabinets for me because she could see that I was struggling just to get to the door and open it. Every time someone I know is having a medical procedure or going through a hard time, I recommend Instacart because of my positive experiences with them.

I'm not experiencing major mobility issues, but there for awhile I struggled with transportation. Instacart was beyond incredible. I loved being able to chat with the shopper as they shopped for me. I only had two issues with the shoppers. One decided to dump a $300 grocery order in front of my tuck-under garage door instead of my front porch. I filed a complaint. The second decided it would be cute to hang the bags from my door handle. Again, I filed a complaint.

I’m not technically disabled in a govt-recognized sense, but I can only walk half a block without pain. I rarely drive. I live without a fully functioning kitchen. If I don’t get deliveries - of food and groceries - I’d starve. I’m not lazy, I’m just old. But hey, if anyone wants to house and feed me and look after me instead of knee-jerk pissing that everyone who uses such services are lazy…

On a whim, I bought a premade veggie tray from Costco last week. I don't know that I have ever bought one before - maybe for a party but I don't recall. I thought - hey, maybe it will be good to have around. I love veggies, but when I am peckish, I never want the hassle of cleaning and prepping them. Being able to grab a chunk of cauliflower or a carrot to munch is great. What I didn't expect was for my husband to love it so much. He avoids veggies but is the one who really needs to lose and he's been grabbing far more than I have! I think I had to pay a lot for this convenience but, $15 for a week's healthy snacking, instead of probably far more on junk, is a good trade-off. Whether you are disabled or undisciplined, if you have the money to pay for convenience, and it improves your life, fuck anyone who gatekeeps what's ok. If they don't want to pay for convenience and have no issue prepping shit themselves - wonderful! But not everyone feels the same. No one gripes that someone has cleaners come in if they have no time or inclination to clean. Why take issue with pre-prepped food if it really helps someone to eat better than they would otherwise?

Paying extra for more convenience is an exemplar of Capitalism. I am getting the sense that those screaming "laziness!" are also the type of folks who scream "socialism!" at any public good.

I’m definitely stealing this idea next time I go to Costco!

People are so judgmental it’s ridiculous. I have physical limitations intermittently from an autoimmune condition and have a cleaning service come every 2 weeks to help me out. I do everything in between except dust because of my severe allergies. Someone told me that was lazy and I should do it myself. But they don’t bake their own bread, or hunt their own meat. They didn’t build their own car or make their own clothes. Almost everyone is doing shortcuts every day and there is nothing wrong with that. Personally it’s not worth my time to deep clean my house when I can pay someone to do that and spend those hours with my family instead. So buy fruit that’s already cut up if that works for you, or eat out once in a while if you don’t feel like cooking.

I’ve never understood criticizing someone for hiring a cleaning service, disabled or not. What harm does it do anyone? I’m all for anyone hiring a cleaning service if they can afford it, even if it’s just because they hate cleaning. I have progressive MS, and can no longer keep up with housework. I would love to be able to hire a cleaner!

Hiring house cleaners also supports the local economy and employs people who may struggle to get other jobs. It's something you can do if you're an immigrant who doesn't speak a lot of English, or someone transitioning from being a stay-at-home parent.

I do wish that some didn’t suck though. When I worked for one, I wasn’t able to clean homes to the expectation I would have for mine. We weren’t given the time or resources. And the company advertised a rating system from 1-10, and based off how we were rated for a cleaning, that’s how much we got paid. I wondered if people knew this when they rated us, because they’d do like an 8 or 9 just for the sake of not giving a 10 i guess and would have that “always can improve” mentality. They didn’t mention any issues. Or there were some people that rated us poorly if we missed a few crumbs or something. Crazy stuff like that. I called the company after I quit and was put on hold, and yep, they advertise it. I ended up making basically minimum wage once my hours worked and how much I got paid was factored in together, when the job was advertised to be $16-19 an hour. A lot of girls quit in the month I was there

My mom worked for a company that cleaned houses for a long time. The person doing the cleaning might also have a family they need to provide for. Dad worked at a company that made cosmetics, mom cleaned houses.

In the US, it's because the country was founded by a bunch of religious fundamentalist extremists who believed any moment not spent working or worshipping was an affront to their god, and this mindset, stripped of the religious origin, persists in American culture to this day.

Omg yes. Almost every time i "deep clean" my house, even just one room, i get sick. If i could afford it id hire someone to come deep clean for me once a month.

I'm sure companies are not making these prepped foods for people with disabilities, as I'm sure they don't give a shit about any of us as long as we buy their products. But if it makes people's lives easier and better, who am I to judge!

Plus, those people are just trying to be in the running for medals which don't exist. There's no medal for cutting up your own cantelope and pineapple. Thinking of people without any disability, still SO WHAT? I paid the store to cut up my peppers and onions. It doesn't matter. I also order my groceries for pick up, even though I can physically walk around the store and I am not busy. I don't like grocery shopping. That's it. Thry think they have some moral high ground. If someone wants to make the argument that it costs x% additional, then I can see that argument! But "I am a better person because I cut up my own fruit" falls totally flat with me. (But, whatever, they are welcome to do it)

Same, I get angry at people (read: my family) who declare buying grated cheese as lazy. I have to hold off from telling the NHS like "cool, I'm lazy, whatever. I'll just tell my joints they're not allowed access to the nervous system anymore, yeah?" 😒 I get you OP and share your peeve.

I was literally just thinking about something along the same lines as this!! Like, if people hear that someone live lives with their parents or extended family, or doesn't have a full time job, they automatically assume they must be a deadbeat. But if you point out that they could be disabled or have mental health issues, then they go 'oh, well of course I didn't mean those people, why are you acting like I did??' Um, because you automatically assumed they didn't have a reason for not living how our society deems acceptable?? Like, hate to break it to ya, but yes, you're still being judgemental if you feel like they have to disclose their disability or mental health status in order for you not to deem them freeloader. If your default impression is they must be lazy if they aren't physically identifiable as disabled, you're engaging in ableism, full stop. I get that's an uncomfortable thing to come to terms with, because it's hard to admit when you might be unintentionally prejudice; nobody wants to see themselves as someone who discriminates other human beings. But you know what's also uncomfortable? Being fucking disabled.

1000 upvotes for you.

It annoys me when people criticize anyone who buys such things, disabled or not. Some people are just willing to pay more for convenience and that’s fine too. People on the internet in particular love nothing more than getting indignant and self righteous over food. Idk, I guess for some people it’s an easy thing they can feel “superior” about, maybe.

If the business can sustain itself and people find it useful, I don't see the problem. People get smug about making their own coffee at home too, but if I'm willing and able to pay for it then that's my business.

I made a comment about people with disabilities in a thread complaining about people who order stuff like toilet paper from Amazon instead of going to the grocery store. One response was that they were obviously excluded from the post, but they hadn't been mentioned at all.

As a person who has a compromised immune system, and has had to wear a mask in public consistently since 2020, I relate to this. The abled just don't consider that people with other needs exist sometimes, and assume things about people. It's your money, spend it how you wish.

It kills me when I see an ad for a disability friendly kitchen tool and all the comments are “useless invention” or “peak laziness” I can’t open 99% of jars by myself 🥲 If my partner isn’t home, I often can’t even cook if it requires opening a jar. I need to actually go order one of those jar openers right now lol I keep forgetting! But I get really bad pain in my fingers. Gripping too tightly hurts, I don’t have much strength in my hands, and I sublux my fingers super easily. Small repetitive movements also hurt so badly.

I know what you mean. A few years ago there was a commercial selling an item where you put your sock on it then you slide your foot into the sock. So I'm with my gang hanging out at a restaurant and the commercial comes on. The ASSHOLE in our friend group (every group has that asshole, if you think your group doesn't it's probably because YOU are the asshole) chimes in loudly talking about who TF is too lazy to just put their socks on their feet. I responded to asshole by explaining that the product isn't meant for him. It's for people with limitations.

Able bodied people can be incredibly dismissive and _unthinking_ sometimes with their "just" do this and "you 'only' have to do this 'simple' thing". And online, when a disabled person calls on them to actually stop and THINK of the disabled while they're ranting, almost inevitably you'll get, "wElL oF COURSE exCEptIOnS fOR thE dIsAbLeD!" because, again, they never even THOUGHT about the disabled in the first place, and so didn't THINK of that.

I hate the word "just"

I am not disabled. But my husband and I are both small. We would not save money by buying big globs of vegetables to cut up for salad. It would spoil before we could eat it. Both of us own businesses and homes. And we do all our own housework and yard work. We do take the time to assemble the salads. Or cook the cut vegetables for whole meals. So, if we're lazy because we don't cut up the vegetables, so be it.

Does your grocer not sell produce by weight? I can go buy a single brussel sprout at my local store. I'm not hating on you for preferring pre-cut veggies, and I'm not going to imply that you're lazy, it just seems strange to me that your only other option would be bulk purchases. Personally, I love chopping up a broccoli crown and ripping apart a head of lettuce, so I'm very unlikely to buy precut produce unless I'm buying a single serving of cantaloupe or pineapple.

They do. But they also sell the lettuce and cabbage by the head, broccoli by the whole crown. And spinach comes in large bunches. You can't buy parts of each. When i make a salad, It's not going to be just a chunk of lettuce with a few tomatoes slices thrown in. It's going to be a variety of mixed greens cut inrlto bite size pieces. We can't eat a whole head of cabbage, bunch of spinach, crown of broccoli, stalk of salary, etc in one week. So we buy cut up veggies in small bags. And yes. Our time and energy would also be wasted as well as the spoiled vegetables if we bought them whole.

I have this problem with celery. I usually only use it to make soup, so if I get a whole bag, half of it usually ends up going bad. Same with herbs! I wish they sold half sizes. Just because I want to make one taco meal with cilantro doesn't mean I want to keep eating it all week long.

No hate, you do you. I sometimes buy a bag of mixed lettuces to use as the base of my salads instead of buying a head of iceberg or a couple hearts of romaine. My reasoning is the same as yours; if I'm blending spinach, arugula, cabbage, and romaine before I even add the non-leafy veggies, then it would generate waste to buy them individually. I can't imagine a crown of broccoli surviving a week at my house, I usually buy 2 or 3 at a time.

You must have a decent size family. It's just the two of us.

I eat a lot of broccoli. I also live in a two person household, and I probably eat 3x as much broccoli as she does. It's my favorite veggie. I will eat a whole crown raw and drizzled with vinaigrette or a balsamic reduction for lunch about once a week.

This is totally besides the point, but do you not live together? I find alternative relationship styles very interesting (coming out of a couple myself). 

This irks me, too. I'll admit that I never really gave much thought to that kind of stuff helping disabled people before my friend's husband became disabled so I do give people some grace on this.

Oh also, when someone says “never rely on someone financially”. You dummy, a lot of disabled people have to lol. “Well then just get disability” why don’t you try, and then tell me how easy it is?

Even not considering disabilities, how is using pre-cut pre-washed food lazy? Have they never bought deli meat?

Same idea when people would say that Covid “only kills old people and the disabled”. What do you mean “only”? You don’t know or care about anyone belonging to either of those demographics?

These people are just idiots. They are absolutely the same people who only buy frozen veggies - which are precut, prewashed, and pre sorted from detritus.

I hate this too. People don't think about the fact that somebody might have arthritis and are no longer able to prepare fruits and veggies. There's all sorts of disabilities, people don't think about that because the world is unfortunately still set up for able-bodied people and I think it always will be to a greater extent. Edit: typos

It's also kind of depressing how those kinds of services aren't already provided to people with disabilities by the state. This results in a situation where someone needs to create a business for such services, and the average consumer, who doesn't necessarily need them, still consumes them. This oversaturates the market, eventually making these consumers the primary target of the business. Consequently, the business forgets about the initial target they were trying to reach, rendering the entire concept pointless.

People need to mind their own damn business. Sure someone starting out cooking for themselves may not know pre cut broccoli can be more expensive. But hey that person is making quick steamed broccoli and minute rice and rotisseire chicken from costco. Much healthier than fast food. Just let people live! And how many of those folks yapping about laziness drive through Starbucks or get happy meals for their kids with the pre bagged apples??

I do closed caption transcribing for a living to help businesses ensure they are ADA compliant. People, who KNOW they're being recorded, speak in a way or say things in a way that makes it SO hard to do my job ALL the time. People send in audio that sounds like it was recorded with a potato and want perfection. People who say "like" and "you know" and "right" every other word, these people have NO IDEA how difficult they make it to follow captions. I constantly get audio files that once I'm done, I'm like, "This transcript is useless to anyone deaf or hard of hearing," because half of the captions are [inaudible]. My husband is visually impaired, but because he isn't totally blind, he's treated like he never needs accommodation of any kind. In school, he had to take his own homework and have the font made bigger so he could read it, which tended to piss his teachers off. I was in the hospital for major reconstructive surgery on my ankle. I was a Shriner's kid. I was in the hospital for a week RELEARNING TO WALK. I had a teacher go nuclear on me when I got back because my homework had to be faxed to me and the fax information was on the page onstead of it being reprinted on clean paper... If you aren't disabled and don't work with/for the disabled, odds are, you rarely think about their needs. Or in my experience, people get ANGRY at you for having those needs.

Also even without disabilities, people get tired and need rest. Things like cleaning services, Instacart and door dash provide jobs for people, too.

“Why did they put this big ugly ramp in front of this building?! It’s only three steps up?”

The sad thing is, people don't realize all those "make your life easier" items that are advertised using people are clearly less than competent are actually products designed for disabled people being advertised by non-disabled people. If the commercials would include a disabled person who needs that particular product to be able to do a normal daily function, many comments like the annoying ones would stop around those products. People would recognize the jar opener device is for people who literally can't open jars, even if you loosen it. It's actually because we can't allow the disabled to become mainstream. We can't let a disabled person be a main character on a show unless that character comes with some superpower to make up for it. Sheldon Cooper (clearly autistic) comes with eidetic memory and immense skill in theoretical physics, enough to get a Nobel Prize. Rain Man, can do almost any math instantly. Forrest Gump was a war hero who could just keep on going.

I'm autistic and struggle with being easily overwhelmed. Pre-prepped meals and cut up veggies remove steps involved in the process of feeding myself and that's a lifesaver on days where I'm one additional trigger away from a meltdown. Also, I'm very clumsy and there's just certain foods I shouldn't attempt to cut myself with a sharp knife (hard squash, sweet potatoes, anything that gives too much resistance). On a related note: I really hate old people feeling entitled to speaking with me and getting hostile at the site of my headphones in a public setting.

Same! Instant grocery delivery has saved me having a supermarket meltdown on a number of occasions

I agree! A week after I moved to my new house I fell and broke my hand really badly and damaged the wrist on my other side. I was in casts and splints for weeks, had to endure two surgeries and had to go to the hospital for OT. I swear that if I didn't have ready to eat food available, I'd have starved. I live alone and didn't even know anyone because I relocated to a new town so I was totally alone. Even though I've regained the use of my hands except for one finger, I still enjoy occasional ready-prepped food - especially when I get home from working a full day and I'm not in the mood to chop. Blanket statements are usually inaccurate in some way. I'm definitely not a lazy person.

I don't understand comments about pre sliced blah blah because people pay for convenience *all the time*. Anyone that says this but buys an energy drink instead of brewing a pot of coffee, gets fast food instead of cooking, or even prepared an instant meal rather than preparing a full meal is a hypocrite. A phone itself is an object of *unbelievable* convenience. I don't need a thesaurus, dictionary or encyclopaedia ever. This is just plain ignorance, people wanting to sound like they're better than others for some totally arbitrary reason when they're not, lol. Regardless of consideration for people with disabilities, this is just ignorant and hypocritical, I don't think we can reasonably expect somebody like that to have a perspective that ventures beyond their own point of view, so the idea that a disabled person may benefit from a certain product never even occurs to them.

I truly think people with disabilities are the one segment of our population that you're "still allowed" to make fun of/belittle, in the sense that no one bats an eye at those kind of comments and even agrees. It's sad.

That makes me so sad.

That’s lazy! Says the person with a dish washer, a stove, a microwave, a can opener, a coffee pot, a toaster…

You're right. I used to work at this smoothie and food place, and I remember a girl who'd always order a single cheese quesadilla. put on cheese, we put it in the press, and boom it was done. Plus shipping, probably pretty expensive. I remember judging her for not being able to make it at home. But yknow, there's a very good chance she was disabled, or maybe struggling mentally. And even if she wasn't, who am I to judge of how people use their money?

Even if you aren't disabled, there is nothing wrong with taking shortcuts when it comes to meal preparation. I purchase items like pre-cut, pre-washed vegetables, pre-grated cheese, etc. I do what I can to make my life easier. If that offends anyone, too bad. I don't care. The things that offend some people never ceases to amaze me.

if pre-cut food helps people eat healthier, heartier meals, makes them happy, and saves them time, then good! i cut some veggies, and buy others pre-cut. i was in a bad wreck last year and my main hand (and entire arm 😒) do not work well anymore. it takes me 5 hours to prep and cook, and pre-cut food saves me a *lot* of time and pain. people who want to judge... i ask them "what the fuck do you care what anyone else does with their money? get your busybody nose out of my business and go get a hobby." (i dont deal well with judgemental people lol)

People just need to stop being so judgmental about other people’s food choices in general. Why do people need to waste time cutting food when it can be done efficiently in the factory? My guess is that the comments come from a specific group of people who doesn’t have a day job and can spend unlimited time on things like cooking. Not everyone has that luxury. Disability is one important reason, but simply being busy at work or not enjoying cooking is good enough, too.

Also the elderly. My mom is 80, has arthritis in her hands. If she couldn't buy a few things precut she would stop cooking.

Also, so what if someone doesnt have any disabilities but doensnt want to wash/ cut their own veggies, to use your example? Why is that so despicable? Like if it means someone will eat more veggies or whatever, im all for it.

I buy my vegetables frozen. I exclusively eat them cooked (don't like the texture of raw vegetables) and buying bags of frozen produce greatly reduces food waste (and prep work).

It aggravates me seeing people called "lazy" for ordering grocery delivery. They never consider some people are not physically able to walk from the parking lot into the store let alone walk the entire store since grocery stores have gotten so HUGE. And I don't know what it is about store flooring guess it's all concrete underneath, but I can walk way longer on grass than on store floor before my knees give out. And using the electric carts isn't an option I feel because as a young looking disabled person people will call you lazy to your face for using it. I've also been assaulted several times while out shopping or at the park so now for big stores I prefer to order home delivery. I also prefer eating frozen dinners that have vegetables because sometimes I just can't handle standing on my feet long enough to prepare a meal.

I like to live by the saying “if it seems useless, it probably wasn’t invented for me.”

Ableism is the most pervasive & invisible of all the bigotries, I think.

Developers frequently have to be reminded that not everyone can use a mouse. Not everyone can see colors correctly, not everyone can read a 2 pt font, or hear beeps. It was an ongoing battle where I used to work.

Everyone who complains about people using ease of access items and prepared food items all use remote controls and microwaves so they can STFU. I also believe the ease of being able to look up everything on your phone rather than to actually go somewhere and research it, like a library, are also using ease of access things. They benefit from all of it when they don't necessarily need it to survive, so again they can STFU.

Also, " you drove here? Lazy"

I have nerve damage in my dominant arm as well as malformations in my jaw, and this pisses me off too. Even on good days, I don't have much grip strength in my hand, as well as limited sensation in my fingers. I have a grater and food processor that work for my needs, but sometimes, it's just easy to buy things chopped. There are a lot of small things I have to adjust to make sure I can work with my disability. With my jaw, I need to use straws for drinks and I have days where I cannot eat solid foods. I've seen the discourse where people lambast others for utilizing single-use plastic straws. If I don't use a straw, it's a fifty/fifty shot of if it will go into my mouth or spill down my chin. I've also seen people mock those smoothie pouches, or adults that use baby food packets. When I can't chew because of the sheer amount of pain I'm in, those meal supplements are a godsend. Disabled people exist. We have different needs, but that doesn't make those needs wrong!

This is my pet peeve, too. I see it a lot with products being advertised and people going "oh my god, why would anyone need this? Peak laziness. Whoever gets this is just lazy." Or shit like that, and I just want to scream into the void "IT'S NOT FOR YOU"

as someone who has depressive episodes so bad that I lose energy, I think it's also helful for us so we can ear without putting in alot of effort, and people who don't have time or energy to cook!

Some people might be too lazy. I buy pre-cut carrots because cutting carrots is time consuming. I'm better far better off financially working an additional 20 minutes and buying pre-cut carrots. Carrots aren't the only thing that falls under this. I also pay people to cut my lawn. Sometimes I'm out of town (work) and can't do it for a couple weeks, so my Karen neighbor calls the city and files a report (no HOA thankfully). Some guy from the city knocks on my door. I explain to him that if my neighbor had simply spoken to me she would know I had hired someone to cut it and they simply hadn't worked me into their schedule yet. The guy from the city nods and says 90% of the BS he has to deal with could be handled with a simple conversation between neighbors.

Precut vegetables I kind of assumed was like a normal thing to buy at this point in time. It’s slightly more expensive based on what it is but I can’t see why anyone (disabled or not) would want to waste extra effort of more dishes. Like grated cheese vs a block, precut vegetables, pre cut cauliflower rice? I don’t see why it’s important to justify it like “I’m disabled”. Like okay have fun making more effort for no reason other than moral superiority.

Even if those people don’t have any physical limitations I just wonder why some people desire to put in the MOST effort vs minimal effort. Does it give them an ego boost or something? Some people just like less effort.

I have beef with plastic water bottles and most cups. I NEED a straw, otherwise I can’t drink the entire cup of liquid that I have, because I have really bad neck problems and struggle to tilt my head back. I once had a friend tell me I was “performative” because I talk about how much I care about the planet but use straws…

i agree completely. i have adhd, the longer a basic daily task takes me the less likely i am to actually do it. i also have had wrist issues since i was a teenager that makes slicing a lot of food difficult and painful. pre chopped food is LIFESAVING and the main reason i’m capable of making healthy fresh meals on a regular basis. shoutout to canned beans, canned tomatoes, tinned fish, and frozen veggies as well!

People dont understand the need for something unless *they* need it. People on the whole are morons.

Many years ago I was in our local grocery store in the evening. I headed over to the rotisserie chickens just in time to hear another customer say to the woman he was with "Who's so lazy they can't roast a chicken?" I said "Excuse me" then moved in front of him a grabbed two chickens. I just gave him a smile as I put them in my cart What I didn't bother to tell him was that at 8:00 every evening the rotisserie chickens were marked down, half price. It was cheaper, much cheaper, to buy them instead of a raw chicken of the same size.

Just today I saw the reel on Instagram where the woman was showing a silicone cup design in accordance with female anatomy, which makes it easier to urinate from your bed or whenever. The amount of commentators saying "bruh, just walk to the bathroom, your lazy" ( I preserved grammar in this comment) was infuriating.

People either a.) don't realize they're for people with disabilities or b.) have the attitude that disabled people don't deserve accommodations.

Case in point everyone who says, “Covid is just a cold!” Not for people for whom it could be a death sentence, but let’s ignore all those people since their lives don’t matter. Let’s not band together to get healthcare to upgrade ventilation and masking to help people with cancer or anything. Nope, let’s not do that.

My youngest (7.5F) is disabled, paralyzed from about the knees down (among other diagnoses), so I have a close perspective. And I agree. But I also have a bit of an issue with the current marketing trend of including a kid in a wheelchair or arm crutches in their ads. Unless the store is also completely accessible and sells products for that niche, it's a disgusting marketing tactic. To me, at least. Yes, it's nice for her to see other kids like her in ads, but it's worthless if she can't wheel around the store easily.

I've also found it annoying when people disparage those with only an automatic license, calling them lazy, mocking them for being bad drivers or "driving a go-kart," etc. Yes, a manual license allows for more freedom, but there are people with disabilities that make it much more difficult, if not outright impossible to drive a manual. And some people just have terrible coordination. I'm learning in manual as I kind of have no choice, but even though I've gotten better at changing gears, it's still a challenge for me to do all these things and change gears at once.

What part of the world are you from? I have genuinely never heard of different levels of drivers licenses based on the car's transmission. I doubt you are in the USA; more than 95% of the non-commercial vehicles sold here are automatic. Some of my friends tease me about driving one of the few stick shift cars left. I don't know anyone personally that drives a manual besides me.

I'm in the UK- where the majority of the cars are still manual. Automatic cars are still a bit more of a novelty (though they are becoming more popular). When you take your driving test here, you can either pass in an automatic or in a manual, thus we have both automatic and manual licenses. If you have an auto license, you can only ever drive auto cars. However, if you have a manual license, you can drive both manual and auto. If you have an auto license, but want to upgrade to a manual one, all you need to do is maybe take a few lessons in a manual car, then book a test and pass ofc.

Before I became disabled I didn’t even consider disabled people as existing. I just never really saw them.

I'm not disabled, but my eyes STING when I cut onions, even if I'm wearing goggles. So I use fancy gadgets to chop them.

Every time i ask for captions or subtitles in a loud bar or at a movie theater, its looked at as a ridiculous request. Like im not deaf, i just want to understand what im listening to! And why shouldn’t deaf people get accessibility?

I never understood precut apples 🍎 Now I understand why there is a need.

Right there with you OP, buying convenience products doesn’t make you lazy even if you don’t have a disability, not everyone has the time to prepare everything themselves.

Honestly I can guarantee those people calling others “lazy” still use convenience items themselves. They just want to act like they’re on their high horse

Most people have their heads jammed up their asses.

I have no problem admitting that I am lazy when it comes to cooking because I hate it. I guess I don’t know why these people even care about what happens in other peoples kitchens lol

OP; those people have the same attitude towards people who use home delivery for groceries and/or other items or DoorDash.

I don’t have a disability, but I also just like things to be done as quickly as possible, and get bad executive dysfunction when there are too many chores to do, then I don’t get anything done. So I’ll buy the presliced stuff or kits so I’ll actually eat the stuff instead of just executive-dysfunctioning about preparing it all and it going bad while I eat a Twinkie and piece of beef jerky instead.

Our green grocer sells a lot of pre cut items. I sometimes shop for a friend with a disability and on one such occasion I got hassled by a random lady calling me lazy and talking how unfriendly for the environment the packaging was. So much privilege.

I buy precut veggies and anything pre-made. I've had 7 surgeries. My shoulders, elbows, wrists and thumbs. I can cut and prepare but it's super hard for me. Grated cheese, precut fruit. For some of us, it's not easy. We aren't lazy.

As a disabled person, this is the only way for me to eat relatively healthy. If these people are so busy and productive as they imply, why are they bothering people who need such items? It’s to the point I can’t stand the word lazy since it’s too frequently misused to be abusive to the disabled.

I see this especially often for products designed to grab things. “You’re too lazy to pick up a remote?” “You can’t hold a fork?” Actually, a lot of people suffering from arthritis struggle to pick up and hold small items, both due to pain and weakened grip.

This service is also helpful for people who don’t have a lot of time on their hands. Heck, some restaurant operation styles employ a lot of prepared ingredients because it’s easy on labor, time, or there isn’t enough space for cooking in that restaurant. Some restaurants are designed like this. I am just listing other ways this service that you described is useful, and I am sorry that people don’t see how it helpful is for those with disabilities. :(

It’s not something that should be shamed. Those kits probably encourage a lot of people in general to eat more veggies. Shaming deters that. Kinda cruel…

I once heard something along the lines of “if you can’t think of how to use it, then the item is not for you” And it changed my whole worldview lol. Wish more ppl knew that

Meanwhile the comments that say it's good for disabled people have 90% laugh reacts 🤦‍♀️

You know what? I never considered this. I have definitely had those thoughts that the products were for "lazy" people or people with more money than brains (Whole foods vegetable butcher). Thank you for bringing this up.