TIL that before the Americans with Disabilities Act passed, activists with disabilities shed their wheelchairs and pulled themselves up all 100 of the Capitol steps. This action "inconvenienced" several senators and pushed them to approve the act.

it makes sense for a daycare to have a wheelchair accessible parking space, because there are some parents who are in a wheelchair if you still drive and have kids. Just because you are disabled does not mean that you can't have children.

My opinion is probably different because I live with someone who is a full-time wheelchair user, and we have purchased tickets before only to be left overnight in Los Angeles keto at the train station because the wheelchair ramp wasn't working.

or going to New York and literally not being able to access any apartment buildings, any doctors offices, literally nothing in New York was accessible and we didn't get to do anything. Once you show up to a daycare or a doctor's office or a store a couple times and then just get used to showing up and then leaving after you realize you physically can't access the store, it starts to feel like having whites only signs everywhere.

Ada laws do a lot more than you think. For every frivolous lawsuit you hear, there are 100 more genuine ones.

Requiring ramps at places, requiring that a deaf person is given access to an interpreter whenever they are at the DMV... this is a big one. A lot of the time, a deaf person cannot afford $100 an hour to hire an interpreter, and if they go to the DMV and they have to renew their paperwork, no one wants to spend four hours at the DMV and therefore spend $400 on an interpreter. It's also not fair because it's a required fiend, you can't avoid going to the DMV for a lot of things that you legally have to do.

Requiring that interpreters are paid for by the scheduling office is a big one as well.

But I get it, you're an American obviously, so "Fuck you Crip, I don't give a shit about your life because it makes building builders have to spend an extra $2,500 on a concrete ramp.

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