Why is it that people are permitted to wallow through the American Museum of Natural History with triple wide strollers, but a disabled person is denied entry for a rolling backpack? I can't carry more than 15 lbs per doctor's orders, but the mommy brigade has more rights to access than I do? Have y'all ever heard of the American withDisabilities Act? I even offered to check the bag. You told me to get lost. And I'm a long term dues paying member. Maybe not in the future, though. Why should I support an institution that treats me like a second class citizen?
My kid has anaphylactic allergies. He carries allergy safe food. So he doesn't die. But he can be denied entry? You aren't forcing us to patronize the overpriced cafe by saying he can't carry in lunch. You're saying my kid has to go hungry because there is nothing safe and appropriate on your menu. Thanks so much for the concern for his welfare. Not.
Today at the Met Breuer, we are with a group. They are having class in the cafe. All seats were taken. My elderly disabled ass was prohibitted from carrying a chair over.
The greeter made me get up and took it away from me.
Half an hour later, there's a teenager sitting in that chair right where I had been.
Screw the disabled? Or is it the old? Am I just not "cool" enough to deserve a chair to sit on so that I am not in pain? Apparently the Met Breuer thinks so.
Dear petty little insitutional gatekeepers drunk on your imagined authority:
Thanks for making a life lived in constant pain suck more than it has to. I wish you treble the disability I have to deal with and a third the compassion you showed me.
