First, a disclaimer:
My experience is my own. My equipment, my disability.
Airlines damage ~28 wheelchairs per day. Some aspects are universal, but many aren't.
Jul 27, 2020 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
thread alert! indulge me.
30 years ago today, following tooth-and-nail insistence, the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed. less than 2 years later, a random genetic mutation would place me amongst its beneficiaries.
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While Osteogenesis Imperfecta would cause my bones to break easily, my parents never used that as an explicit reason why I couldn’t do something. They knew that society had started doing that the moment that I was born.