Angela Votes Biden-Harris '24
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This is such an important conversation. I have mobility issues and using walkers, wheelchairs, etc has always presented obstacles (physical, not counting the myriad other obstacles). Everything is too fast, too high up, too narrow, too crowded, too far away.
Tracy I @foxtrax1
My wife has developed mobility issues over the past couple years. Trying to use a wheelchair when going places is way harder than it sounded before we’d tried it. The dumbest things are a huge obstacle.
11:58 PM - Oct 20, 2023
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Angela Votes Biden-Harris '24
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There are also the way people look at you-- or don't. Comments, or being ignored. Scorned sometimes, like you're in the way. And I think it has to do with generations of people only going to school with or otherwise associating with able bodied, neurotypical people.
12:13 AM - Oct 21, 2023
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Angela Votes Biden-Harris '24
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Having to accommodate, let alone work with, interact with, or plan spaces considering people with different bodies and ways of thinking and being comes as too much of a surprise in 2023.
12:15 AM - Oct 21, 2023
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