Walking - aided

I think it would be remiss to leave out aided walking - with canes, walkers, human supports, and even wheels and motorized wheels. Increasingly, as our societies age and with the advancement of technologies, we will see more of such instances.

Those with walking aids take smaller, more cautious steps. They could be racing along of course - I saw an elderly gentleman really clocking it with a walking cane - but their strides would be greatly reduced, for balance I would presume.

While I don't mean to make generalizations, it appeared that those on manual wheelchairs were down and out (panhandlers, if you will), while those on motorized aids were rubenesque.

Collectively, these made me wonder if the type of aids was another way to distinguish between classes.

So the corollary for LDs, I suppose, is whether the kind of correction or treatment chosen and administered will in the long term lead to some sort of social status (almost, although not exactly, similar to how I've been told that Ritalin is now a drug used by college students to boost their productivity).