anotherdayforchaosfay:

simonalkenmayer:

grawlboy:

rambling-serketstan:

krispythinkings:

slaygnstonhughes:

gabrielleamaris:

the-prophet18:

universaldelusion:

cutecurvycoffeebrat:

Lol savage

I no longer believe in the human race.

This is the laziest shit ever

How lazy can humans get?

Have you never met white ppl?

I didn’t realise only white people lost mobility due to age, physical disability or degenerative illnesses.

Because the target market for this product are those people who are disabled or lack mobility. You are literally mocking people who cannot for whatever reason do something you take for granted and then packaging it up as a race issue.

anyways, yall who commented before this last person need to be more careful and remember that uh disabled people exist 🙂

(This is not directed to krispythinkings or rambling-serkstan)
I had to put my grandfather’s socks and shoes on for him for years and sometimes he would get really mad about needing my help.
His legs were paralyzed, so, in order to get his feet into his socks and shoes he would have to use both hands to pull his whole leg up to get his foot off the floor so I could slip the sock on over his foot and then I had to make sure it was on right (I’m autistic and I often put things on backwards, inside out, or sometimes in the case of shoes i put them on the wrong feet).
It was really difficult for him to do this because he was in a ton of pain.

I wish I’d known this existed back then cus he would’ve loved it. It would have helped with our morning struggle so much. He wouldn’t have needed help with his socks at all.
This thing is designed so the weight of your leg will put the sock on for you.
Being able to put your own socks on may seem like a small thing to some people but when you can’t take care of yourself without help; things like these can help you maintain at least a little bit of control over yourself. And it can help you feel a little more independant.

I’m not saying that ppl who need help putting on clothes (or with taking care of themselves in any capacity) are a burden either, (Hint: we aren’t a burden) but I definitely feel like a burden whenever I cannot do something that allistic, neurotypical, or abled people can do by themselves because of this kind of attitude.
Products like this can help with that.

Typically any product that you see in infomercials that looks like its designed for “lazy people” is actually designed for disabled people.
But they market to a wider audiance to make more money.

AND BEYOND THAT; why the fuck do yall care so much about how someone else chooses to put their socks on???
Get a fuckin hobby.

The purpose of the device is to allow people to put on their own socks…the opposite of laziness, methinks. In fact it facilitates doing an activity. 

@kristina-meister

The reason they don’t have disabled people in these ads is because we are often mocked and teased and bullied.  I’ve seen it happen in the past.  They use able-bodied people for these because the only mocking is done by folks who are ignorant and don’t understand who the target audience is.  Those of us are disabled know these are for us.

The Snuggy?  It’s for folks in wheelchairs.  It’s great that able-bodied folks are buying these because they sell more and thus make more. 

See where I’m going with this? 

I have chronic pain in my right wrist and tremors in both my hands.  Do you wanna know how many cartons of juice and milk I’ve dropped over the years?  My husband and I are saving money for me to get the cool device we saw on an infomercial I can put the carton on and gently tip it fill a cup or put milk on my cereal.

This sock device will do wonders for my husband.  He has chronic back and knee pain due to working in kitchens for 30 years.  Putting on socks and shoes is a painful chore but he has to do it.  Working in a kitchen barefoot is a VERY BAD IDEA.

Stop mocking these devices.  Stop mocking the people who use them.  The infomercials are memorable because some of them are genuinely goofy.  That’s only because they’re exaggerating the results of NOT using these.  Do you how embarrassing it would be for the target audience to display WHY they need these things?