Fans of CBS' 'Mom' are curious whether or not the actor who plays wheelchair-bound Adam is really disabled. Here is what you wish to have to grasp.

CBS' Mom has been going sturdy for six seasons now, and the series presentations no indicators of preventing. Last week, we watched as wheelchair-bound Adam (William Fichtner) purchased Bonnie (Alison Janney) a new automotive, whilst Christy went out with Sergei, Yuri's cousin.

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Adam Janikowski, who met Bonnie Plunkett in Season Three when he by chance dialed the wrong quantity and Bonnie replied the telephone, changed into a mainstay at the show in Season 4. Before long, Adam moved in with Bonnie, a lot to the comfort of Mom lovers who adored the nature and not wanted him to go away.

But now that he's right here to stick, many viewers are wondering whether William Fichtner, the actor who plays Bonnie's different part, in reality uses a wheelchair.

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So, does William Fichtner use a wheelchair?

In real life, William Fichtner — who you might acknowledge from films like The Perfect Storm, Black Hawk Down and The Dark Knight — does not use a wheelchair to get round. 

However, in keeping with somebody on Quora who does use a handbook chair and has something of "a sixth sense about which actors are real users and who's not," William "does a pretty good job." 

But others are not up to proud of the decision to forged an able-bodied actor in the role of the disabled stuntman, and are taking to Twitter to invite CBS about their choice. "Is it too hard to cast an actor actually in a wheelchair?" wrote one pissed off viewer. "I know plenty of them. Ableism is a form of discrimination." "Maybe they can replace Adam with an actor who's actually in a wheelchair..." added some other.

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These days, William Fichtner is not by myself relating to playing a character in a wheelchair. Superstore's Garrett is additionally played by able-bodied actor Colton Dunn and the actress who portrays Delilah in NCIS does not use a wheelchair both. 

In fact, the only sigh of aid on TV this present day is the truth that Patton on NCIS: New Orleans is performed through Daryl "Chill" Mitchell, who, like his personality, is additionally paralyzed from the waist down.

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Remind me, why is Adam in a wheelchair on Mom?

There's definitely that Hollywood can do better no longer just in casting actors with disabilities for these roles, but also in making sure the characters they write don't seem to be simply there for their physical variations. 

Adam does certainly feel like a spherical persona who lives with a disability, certain, but additionally has a lifetime of his own as smartly. He's funny, unbiased, clever and loves beer almost as much as he loves Bonnie. 

For fanatics who would possibly want a bit of a refresher on how Adam ended up in a wheelchair, this is because he got into a snowboarding accident while going off a cliff. As a outcome, he was not to continue his occupation as a stuntman. 

You'll consider he was afraid to even meet Bonnie after their first few telephone calls as a result of he was afraid to reveal he used a wheelchair.

Catch this night's episode of Mom on CBS at Nine p.m.

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