While visiting Bucharest, Romania, I was kicked out of a casino for being disabled and in a wheelchair. “Wheelchairs are not allowed,” an employee told me.
Reviewing my wheelchair assistance experience on Kenya Airways. I checked a power wheelchair and used an aisle chair to board the Boeing 787 to Hong Kong.
Too often, the disabled are invisible to us. We are not ignoring their existence. They’re just not out with us in public. We can’t see what is not there.
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