Ok, his has now been (over) a week since I began using a cane!!! This post has been hanging in the drafts ever since lol
I thought I’d have to buy one in secret, but that day one of my legs was giving me hell and I talked to my mom about it and finally said I want to get a cane during that talk rather than out of the blue, and instead of telling me I don’t need a cane she said I don’t need to buy a new one and gave me the cane left from my late grandmother.
She also at first kept giving me sad glances and “reassuring” me that my legs will get better (so far they have only been getting worse, I think I might well need something more than a cane in future), but now everyone seems to be cool with it.
I wasn’t even sure it would help at all, and how, but it helps so much. Today at least at times I wouldn’t be able to walk or stand at all without it.
Special thanks to @stripedroseandsketchpads with her support and resources, @space-glasgow with their (ours 💔💔) Higgins!Master, @aro-spectre with his addition to my post that has played a part in encouraging me to make the decision on Getting The Cane, and, yeah, all the Get The Cane posters — I was very lucky to have skipped the part I was fearing the most and I still stand on my point that people shouldn’t dress over the ableism the person might encounter in just the process of Getting The Cane, but also without all those posts I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t have even occurred to me that I might benefit from Getting The Cane. Guess I gotta be just eternally grateful. Really, thank you all so much.
Also all my blorbos are cane users now.