Source 3: Story About Woman Refused Help at Airport

This source is a true story about a woman, Nathalie Allport Grantham, who “has branded Stansted Airport staff “disgusting” after she was denied assistance because she “didn’t look disabled”.”  She was refused help onto a plane at the airport because her disablilities were invisible, in other words, they were inside her body.  Nathalie has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which means she suffers from joint pain.  The helper at the airport said that if she wanted assistance, she would’ve had to pay like everyone else.  In this article, Nathalie Allport Grantham is interviewed and gave her point of view on the issue.  She told her story, then said that “then she said loudly, in earshot of everyone at the gate: ‘I’ve got disabled people to help and you are wasting their time’. Everyone was staring. It was humiliating.”  I plan on using this as an example of how disabled people are seen as disposable by society.

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