Where's a disabled guy supposed to get friends?

[Vida May]

I just realized what a terrible thing our high tech society has done! We have used education to make people technologically smart but dependent on "experts" rather than thinking for ourselves. Everywhere we have organized ourselves to be dependent on the "authority" above us and the policy made without our input. As a senior companion, young people are training us, and we not organized to train these young people about being old and their judgment sucks because they have such a poor understanding of being old.

If we do not turn things around before we die, our democracy will be as forgotten as Athens, and our young will have no idea of why anyone would want to know about the past. The back into the dark age of Rome is before our eyes.

 

[Linda]

Most friends come from family members and work associates. Well, my family is 250 miles away, and I've been disabled, and out of work for 22 years. So, how am I supposed to make friends? I tried a senior center. But I'm a single, non religious, guy , and hate bingo. Plus, I'm looking for a friend, not a mate, which does not come over that well in a room filled with widows. So, where's a disabled guy supposed to get friends?

Online. On a senior forum like this one maybe? Can you go out in your front yard and maybe talk to people walking by? Maybe make a good friend that way?

 

[fuzzybuddy]

Online. On a senior forum like this one maybe? Can you go out in your front yard and maybe talk to people walking by? Maybe make a good friend that way?

I appreciate the suggestion, but I live in the sticks, the only visitors to my front yard are deer. And, to be honest, having someone in a wheelchair is a hassle. "Wheelchair assessable" usually isn't.