I just saw this on the telly in the pub: a tandem bicycle event from the Paralympics. One of the people on the bike””presumably just one of them””is visually impaired.
My childhood best friend was in a wheelchair, and in the course of our friendship I developed a real distaste for the condescending way people speak about the disabled as “brave”, or use them as a reminder to feel better about their own situation. The Paralympics drive up all those feelings again.
That said, there is something awfully damned inspiring and moving about their achievements.