Wheelchair jokes

 Wheelchair jokes

In this article we will explain and discuss about wheelchair jokes?

Wheelchair jokes

Wheelchair jokes, after all, work like this: If you can't laugh about it, you'll cry. And, the month of May is National Counseling Month, so there's also no better time to laugh about something that will either make you or break you, depending on how you look at it. So, grab a friend and join me in breaking the ice with an inspiring, powerful and seemingly impossible-to-comprehend top 10 list of wheelchair jokes.

1. Toss out those wheelchairs in the street and watch the blind men's hands go crazy.

2. How many doctors does it take to change a lightbulb? Just one, but he has to get it out of the box.

3. My wife has rheumatoid arthritis, and that's why she's always wanting me to buy her big, expensive presents.

4. I can't drive in the rain. I need my wheels to soak up the water so my ride doesn't get so soaked.

5. The kids at my daughter's school all have wheelchairs. I thought they were just a bunch of bullies.

6. How can you tell if someone in a wheelchair has a sex life? The wheelchair always has a pillow shoved up the back.

7. My wife wanted to have a baby, but I wanted a dog. So I told her to take an aspirin, and the baby happened.

8. Why do the blind go into the middle of the street? Because they can't see there's a paved road right in front of them.

9. The guy who runs the Marathon of Losses for charity: 'So-and-so gave $1000 for my leg?' So-and-so: 'No, So-and-so gave me a sex change!'

10. Want to know the funniest joke I know? You don't. You never will.

Wheelchair jokes

Happy Counseling Month!

Most wheelchair jokes 

Most wheelchair jokes 

fall flat, but this one is actually funny.

I hadn't made a joke about hands or wheelchair or paralysis in a while.

Maybe I was rusty.

I threw this one out during a conversation yesterday.

We were having a discussion about what I was interested in and it was maybe something I would pursue.

I asked what she thought and she said, "I don't know, I wouldn't be too interested in it."

I told her that I wouldn't really pursue something like that.

"Why not?"

"I don't know," I said.

"I've never had any surgeries.

I never had braces.

I've never had vision problems.

I've never had muscle problems."

"But you're good at it.

Your ideas are very insightful.

I've never really thought about why you're good at it."

I'm not sure what it is about the hands.

My hands seem to bother some people, but I didn't ask.

I can kind of relate it to being tall or skinny.

People, including guys, tend to be fascinated with that.

Wheelchair jokes

Wheelchair jokes

A gag at the end of one of South Park's recent episodes was about wheelchairs.

Several websites have wrongly reported that the episode features people using wheelchairs for sex, but the jokes are aimed at disability charities.

The episode follows the day in the lives of some of the South Park kids, including those that are either in wheelchairs or use them to play wheelchair sports.

A boy named Butters, who has Down syndrome, starts using the "Relief At Last" wheelchairs donated by the charity Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Association (EDSA).

At the end of the episode, Butters and Kyle play wheelchair rugby, with Butters eventually falling off the wheelchair to the floor.

Kyle turns to Butters and says: "That's not funny. Butters has no business falling off a wheelchair."

An EDSA spokesman said: "These "children" are actually people in wheelchairs, either recently diagnosed or still in the hospital. It is the silliness of the show that annoys people."

However, the show was slammed by campaigners who say that the characters are living in "a dark world that's only too familiar to many people living with disabilities".

Carol Ball wrote: "I don't know why so many of you keep going on about EDSA. They don't want to be the butt of a joke. It is simply not funny. It is tragic and cruel."

Thomas Kidd, a wheelchair user from South East London, said: "Those jokes will only ever hurt those who actually have disabilities, and society needs to face up to that.

"Those who don't like the disabled, really really need to stop and think."

Disability charity Guide Dogs said that there had been an "influx of inappropriate and offensive jokes about disability in recent years", including in TV shows such as Doctor Who, which features a disabled character, and Channel 4 comedy series Green Wing.

Mike Oxlong, the charity's managing director, said: "Just as it is right that disabled people are no longer forced to wear loud shirts, in some cases people with disabilities feel the need to make themselves heard by challenging stereotypes.

"If that means people make a joke about disability, then that is one of the hardest fights that we face.

Wheelchair jokes

"The difference is that we will continue to make jokes, making us even more an outsider in a society that is supposed to welcome us all. That is not acceptable."

South Park was first broadcast on Sky One in the UK in November 1998. It has now moved to Comedy Central.

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The One Show 's absurd claim that having an animal nip your bum causes bladder cancer was no laughing matter.

In 2009 it was revealed that One Show presenters Alex Jones and Matt Baker had been given a free "weight-loss product" worth more than £500 after showing a piece about the product on air.

Wheelchair jokes

Wheelchair jokes

Humor can be another way to cope. Openhearted laughter may make you less self-conscious, said Katherine Munoz of the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, who has found that medical students exhibit less humor in stressful situations if they are acutely worried about their patients' feelings. But these jokes can also be demeaning or inappropriate. How does a doctor, with a patient, respond to a joke about diarrhea or incontinence? How can a patient respond to a sexual-humor joke about defecation? (See "Tough Med Students.")

Patients are generally able to deflect humor directed at them, but the risk is that these jokes might make others in the room uncomfortable. A study by Munoz and her colleagues found that on a day when physicians in training weren't the target of humorous remarks, it was more difficult to engage in openhearted laughing.

Patients may feel uncomfortable if humor is directed at them, or even if they hear a joke but don't find it funny, because it triggers memories of bad experiences. There's evidence that humor tends to trigger unpleasant feelings because it taps into emotions that you want to suppress or otherwise avoid. For example, women with rape or sexual-assault trauma who are told jokes by their friends are more likely to respond with discomfort, according to research by Nancy B. Sandberg, a psychologist at the University of California, Davis, who conducted this work with Munoz. (See pictures of President Obama's second term inauguration.)

It's best to be prepared to explain that you find the humor in a situation, but if you choose not to, you can say something like, "It was funny at the time but it's making me nervous right now." Try a joke about a situation that's a different emotional category than what the person has been through. If you can't turn a patient's psychological trauma into a joke, at least use that to your advantage to show empathy and to connect with the patient.

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