This text is part of a project in which Inventura interns create texts for an emerging educational web portal operated by the organisation People in Need.

My experience is that the younger generation will make a seat available to me on the tram or bus, or in the metro. When they see I’m boarding the bus, they make a seat available.

Some people look at people with a learning disability and they don’t know where to look – up or down. As if they didn’t have a child with a learning disability at home. As if no child with a learning disability was born and they didn’t have difficulties with him. As if they didn’t take care of any child. As if they didn’t know how to put themselves in their situation, and when certain people are in a hurry they would push you and knock you down. And women standing in the metro, I’m afraid they’ll hit me in the back and mangle me. Mom always stood behind me so they wouldn’t hit me in the back. Mom always has the best intentions for me, and that’s why I love her and she’s my sunshine, shining in the sky. She’s my beloved mother.

But certain people are willing to let you sit down on a bus or tram or in the metro, and you listen to the station announcements and pay attention to the information board so you don’t miss your station. You’d have to get off and go back a couple of stations. That’d be stupid and you’d be angry with yourself for getting to work late, and the boss might be angry with you.

I hope they don’t discontinue disabled passenger cards so I don’t have to buy tickets at the tobacconist’s, because that would be quite expensive. I’d lose my shirt and then I wouldn’t have anything to wear.