Controversial as some may see it, I’d just like to flag this article up debunking the myth that it is the dream of every cripple to walk. I can walk up to a point, but use my chair for longer distances; I don’t sit around bemoaning my inability to walk as my chair works perfectly well. Thus the insistence of some that we must walk at all cost essentially boils down to the imposition of a type of conformity. As the article points out, ”The implicit message from the media seems to be, ‘Wheelchairs suck! Walk in this robot instead!”’ referring to the more and more Borgish devices they are making for disabled people to enable them to walk. But wheelchairs do not suck, and I refuse to conform to an arbitrary notion of normality, especially when it is tiring, painful and sometimes dangerous. Yet what puzzles me is, why does that seem such a difficult concept for others to grasp?