n2o_lonewolf74 said:
no one knows what they would do, until they are actually faced with the situation.
its all good to say you'll do this & that, but its not the same as being there faced with the decision
This whole thread is purely hypothetical... and i even said a couple of times in my reply 'it depends'. I basically judged it on how i react to everyday people i meet.
For physical disability, i know people well who are wheelchair bound, no arm and other guy with no fingers on one hand. Beyond the usually thinking once or twice 'shit, that must be fucking annoying' i pay no attention to it.
As for mentally disabled people, it depends how bad. I personally know no one who is mentally disabled, but you need quite a few on the trains. It really depends on how bad it is and what it is they do. Like coming home from school once, a lady asked us to leave the carriage because we were saying things about her, cept noone had said a word since she got on the train. I couldnt deal with that, because she has obviously lost the plot, so i dont think she would even recognise a partner gone.
But then, there are those people who have like a really late down syndrome thing, so they look absolutely 100%, but their speech and thinking is that of a 10yr old. I wouldnt have as much of a problem with that, because they still think straight - it might be hard to carry an interesting conversation on your part - but there would be no wierd happenings like the train incident.
Again, all is hypothetical...
