He’s Your Inspiration, Not Mine. The Spike Report discussed this important Washington Post op-ed piece by Kathi Wolfe. Blind herself, Wolfe says that Erik Weihenmayer’s feat as the first blind man to climb Everest, and other sagas of superfeats by the disabled, are not welcome and make life harder for the less able. “One of us bursts onto the cultural radar screen as a superhero, and all of us are expected to perform amazing feats. It’s hard to say which stereotype is more annoying: the disabled as helpless victims or as superheroes.” Realistic stories about the less able are excluded bythe ubiquity of “supercrips” .