Disabled in Boston: Life in a Wheelchair

Two-time Boston University graduate Erin Murphy talks about getting around Boston in a wheelchair, the effect her disability has had on her life, and her hope to meet hockey hero Matt Gilroy.

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Education

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• disability
• spina bifida
• boston university
• wheelchair
• matt gilroy
• bu

[Elly111Ellyaum]

@theYAXreview you are a sick person I pray that you gett help. You don't understad what it is like to be in a wheelchair. So think before saying something like that in such a disrespectfull way. Like wow, My twin sister Mellysah is in a wheelchair on the constant because she has cerebral palsy and POTs (dysautonomia) and well I will say you are sick thinking that a disability is a joke get a life and grow up stop being close minded and think before you speak or type for that matter.

[jedikid97]

@theYAXreview I will tell you that I am in a wheelchair and I am 14 years old and what you just said upsets me. You don't know what we go through. What do you get from calling us "lazy"? I had surgery last February of 2011 and the doctor accidentally hit my spinal cord in several places. You probably will never understand what we go through until you go through it yourself. So if I were you, I wouldn't judge people until you know the other side.

[wheelchairby284]

@blomstersenter Have you ever lived with a disability? People are getting better about it, but there are still so many misconceptions.

[racheledare58]

@pinksledgegirl do u play sled hockey? and if u do wat team cause my team plays all over the contry so jw :)

[cheasom1]

Hi Erin I am herbalist try to tell you that we able to help you .to walk again talk to me at Tasomancientherbal@yahoo.com

Take care

Chea

[theYAXreview]

@cripsticks Listen 'cripple-sticks' if that IS your real name. I devote my life to saving the needed via the review, have put time and support into this and I don't need a 'lazy' telling me whats what. I'm a role model, a figure head and just a general idol in and around the South Wales area. My work as quoted by teen magazine 'Youth Revolt' is 'phonominal'. Now I'm going to be reviewing The Mask a 1996 release starring Jim Carey this friday, make ya self useful and show ya support -Karl Holton

[cripsticks]

@YAXreview If stupidity was a disability you'd get a gold parking badge. Just shut your mouth fool.

[blobby273]

@theYAXreview Karl Holt you will get what you deserve one day .

[theYAXreview]

Right... IS THIS A FUCKING JOKE. (I never cuss and never have sex before marriage but shit like this can lead me to do it). I have spent my life saving the homeless via the review and then these guys the disabled (LAZY?) wheel around on chairs and cant even be BOTHERED to stand up. I mean, test em, set the fire alarm off and i BET they come running down like every other person. If not, sure.. award em they're money (disability obv) but just say dont come 'running' to me if your fakin it - K.Holt

[katheryncruz24]

Inspiring.