This is SO COOL!!

The fact is, disabled people reacting with anything other than gratefulness & deference for being granted basic human dignity is often perceived as rudeness. And the power nondisabled people have over our lives to enforce that dynamic is extraordinary.

No trains for me today.

Standard for denial of ramp assistance. Abusiveness is, and I was certainly not that.

I have asked for any body cam footage of the interaction and to know exactly which words I said resulted in a denial of service. …

Ramp assistance by any staff due to one’s accusation that I was “rude.”

I do not believe I was rude — I believe this able bodied man did not enjoy a young disabled woman speaking assertively back to him in the same tone he was using. And regardless, “rudeness” is not the …

staff member (who I assume was a manager) came over to tell me that I was rude and so the staff member would not assist me. I told her I didn’t not believe I was, I simply asked him not to lecture me, but okay.

She left and came back to tell me that I would not be given …

& did not need a lecture. He continued on and I repeated myself and said I was just looking to the next train since they’d failed to bring the ramp for the original one. He then said I was rude and that he would not be assisting me. I said okay.

Several minutes later, another…

bring the ramp in time for me to board my train several minutes before. He was telling me that I was a lower priority than those who booked assistance in advance. Very abled-mansplaining.

As I work in accessible transport, I firmly but politely told him that I know the law…