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So what happens now? The moment you learn that your equipment has been damaged is just the beginning of a bureaucratic, logistical marathon.

Starting a thread that answers your questions and follows next steps through to the end.

https://twitter.com/shortyvoorde/status/1626890145663275009

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.

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.

1/ 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.

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