Aaron Boster

The goal is not to park at the back of Walmart and walk the whole store.

The goal is to obtain groceries.

And so if you identify the goal as obtain groceries, I care not as much about how you get the groceries.

And so if you are having an awesome sauce day and you can park in the back of the parking lot and do all the things and do all the walking, good job.

But if today's the day that you can't do that, have someone drop you off at the front, take a cart.

Or if it's really not physically possible to do that, then order groceries and have them delivered to your house.

Because in this example, the goal is to obtain groceries.

Win-win.

And so the workplace, one of the things that I think we do a very poor job of in the United States is vocational adaptations and accommodations.

And I think the Family Medical Leave Act is a really, really important piece of legislation.

And I think most families impacted by MS benefit from signing up if they qualify for FMLA.

And one of the things that's not always appreciated about FMLA is it's not just about missing work to go to a doctor's appointment, it's about demanding accommodations.

So I have patients, for example, that will work in a factory where they're at a machine and they're doing a task.

And if I can write an accommodation where they can sit, they can keep doing it.

Now, they can't do it standing any longer, but they can do it just fine if they're sitting.

Or something as simple as a teacher who has classrooms where they have to go up and down flights of stairs.

Not the best of ideas.

The goal is not to teach on multiple levels of the school.

The goal is to teach.

And so writing an accommodation and saying, look, keep them on the first floor, gosh darn it.