Why is Adam in a wheelchair on Mom?

The CBS show Mom has been going strong for six seasons now.Last week, we watched as wheelchair-bound Adam bought Bonnie a new car, while Christy went out with Sergei.

Adam Janikowski became a mainstay on the show in Season 4 after accidentallydialing the wrong number and Bonnie answered the phone.Mom fans who loved the character and never wanted him to leave were relieved when Adam moved in with Bonnie.

Now that he is here to stay, many viewers are wondering if William Fichtner uses a wheelchair.

William Fichtner does not use a wheelchair in real life.

William does a pretty good job, according to someone who does use a manual chair and has something of a sixth sense about which actors are real users.

Some people are unhappy with the decision to cast an able-bodied actor in the role of a disabled stuntman.Is it difficult to cast an actor in a wheelchair?One viewer wrote a letter.I know a lot of them.Ableism is discrimination.One person suggested that they could replace Adam with an actor who was in a wheelchair.

This isn't the first time able-bodied actors have portrayed characters with disabilities, and it might be time to stop.A recent study by the Ruderman Family Foundation found that 95 percent of characters with disabilities in TV shows are able-bodied.

William Fichtner is not the only one who plays a character in a wheelchair.The actress who plays Delilah in the show doesn't use a wheelchair, as well as the able-bodied actor who is playing the same role in Superstore.

There is only one sigh of relief on TV these days, and that is the fact that the character of "Patton" is played by "Chill" Mitchell, who is also paralyzed from the waist down.

Hollywood can do better not just in casting actors with disabilities for these roles, but also in making sure the characters they write aren't just there for their physical differences.

Adam feels like a round character who lives with a disability but also has a life of his own.He loves beer as much as Bonnie.

Adam ended up in a wheelchair because he got into a snowboarding accident while going off a cliff.He was no longer able to continue his career as a stuntman.

He was afraid to meet Bonnie because he used a wheelchair.