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Hi! I'm Lindsay - a 40 year old white lady from the Mid-Atlantic coast of the USA. I love to travel and I am an ambulatory wheelchair user. Prior to my last few international trips, I struggled to find helpful information about it or how I could navigate the place I was traveling to by wheelchair, so I'm hoping sharing some of my experiences can be helpful to others in similar situations.

My blog title refers to things that ambulatory wheelchair users experience all the time - the general public thinking that "it's a miracle!!" if someone using a wheelchair can't stand. Not understanding that a large portion of wheelchair users are ambulatory, we just can walk far or stand for a long time, or some combination of those. Non-disabled people can have a very black-and-white understanding of disability and don't understand that plenty of non-paralyzed people or non-amputees use wheelchairs to facilitate mobility independence in the world.

I hope the information I share here helps make it easier for folks to see details of access before they travel somewhere. I know that for me, having more information in advance can help lessen the anticipatory anxiety I have about going to new places with my chair.

❤️
*Lindsay

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