1. Traffic wardens won't give you a parking ticket because they feel sorry for you.

2. No one expects you to be clever.
3. If you don't want to visit someone, you can just say, "Sorry, I can't get any transport".
4. Doctors are struck dumb when faced with your very different body to examine.

5. You can wear funny clothes and people will still tell you that you look nice.
6. Using your wheelchair, you can deliberately run over people you don't like - and they'll feel obliged to apologise to you!
7. Social workers will eventually give up on you because, after all, you are a lost cause.
8. You can spill your food in a restaurant and everyone will ignore it because they expect it of you.
9. You don't have to get the drinks in when at the pub, since no one expects you to be rich.
10. You can have sex any time you like because no one thinks you can do it anyway!

By Rosie Ballard, from BBC Ouch







