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When abled people become temporarily disabled and heal again, most forget the they noticed.

When this high school student actually spoke up, at least partly because of a school project on accessibility, she got a taste of how fiercely systemic ableism trains us to defend it.

This doesn't suddenly get better in higher education - it often gets worse.

@disability @academicchatter https://bc.ctvnews.ca/abbotsford-student-s-speech-about-accessibility-challenges-at-her-school-censored-by-administrators-1.6946123

As part of her Grade 12 art activism class, Lexis De Meyer was tasked with investigating accessibility challenges faced by people with disabilities in her community of Abbotsford. Just days after her presenting her report, she broke her ankle playing rugby. She was on crutches, and she learned her own school, Robert Bateman Secondary, is not easy to navigate for students with physical disabilities. “Our school doesn’t have any functioning automatic doors. They are pull doors and very heavy to open, and there is also a latch you have to push and pull. I didn’t have hands to open the door at all, so I needed a hero to get in,” said De Meyer, who also found there were a limited number of elevator keys for the three-storey school, and she didn’t always get one. “My teacher was like, 'Why don’t you write a letter to the principal about this?' Because nobody did that as a part of their project. And I said, 'Absolutely, I will,'” said De Meyer.
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