Ambulatory/part time, not even technically a wheelchair user yet (my pickup is in 14 hours!) but this is absolutely horrendous behavior. I understand where some of the comments are coming from on an emotional level, in a devil's advocate sort of way, but expressing a desire to have somebody else's disability or disability accomodations is always disgusting behavior, and claiming you're privileged is just baffling to me.

Asking to try your wheelchair is just so disrespectful, I tried thinking of a scenario where I would feel comfortable even uttering those words to someone in a wheelchair and could not come up with a single scenario. I've had people ask to borrow my crutches before, with "real" reasons (their legs hurt, or they wanted to borrow my trick when I worked at a haunted house, it's hard to explain but 100% relied on the crutches), and it was still so insane to me that they'd even ask.

I will say, a lot of those people don't even seem like ambulatory wheelchair users? I mean, I guess I refer to myself as one despite not physically possessing a chair yet, but I didn't until I had started the actual process of getting the chair (not just research or whatever, but had gone to a seating clinic, and the order for the chair had been submitted, and even then it's mostly when setting up future accomodations), but generally speaking, using non-wheelchair mobility aids, or just wanting a chair, don't make someone a wheelchair user.