CNN has dropped an article in an ongoing expose of the way disabled people are mistreated when it comes to airports. It’s not just happening in America – it happens all over the world.
Traveling alone from Amsterdam to Manchester, I was once dumped in my airport wheelchair at a cafe in the Schipol airport, between connections, and when nobody on staff came to collect me to my next gate (as promised), I had to ask a fellow cafe patron for help. 
I knew exactly where I needed to be and when – I just needed help getting there.
Another time, on a different trip on my own, when I was waiting in line for security check in my chair, the security agent asked the group of people behind me if I was traveling with them – ignoring me and speaking only to them, right over my head. It was as if I didn’t exist, or at least, they assumed I was incompetent enough to not be traveling alone. I had no idea who they were, and informed security of it.
