My favorite thing ever, going to conventions, was suddenly a lot more complicated [by fibromyalgia]. … I don’t use a wheelchair, I use the Segway. … it looks similar to an e-scooter, but it’s not. For me this is a mobility device … [Cosplaying at a con] I incorporated my Segway into it … and a security guard tried to prohibit me from moving around the convention hall, because I was on my Segway. And I started arguing with them, I explained to them that I had a disability and that this was my mobility device. They did not know what that meant, they continued to try to stop me. Another superior of that person came over and was equally kind of aggressive towards me, because at this point I was upset, of course. ... [It was ] one of the most notable instances I remember of times when because I look young and because I don’t have any outward physical appearance of disability, people assumed I was trying to get away with something.
— Joan Miller in our “Disability and Fandom” double episode. Click through to listen to our entire conversation with her or to read a full transcript.
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I'm a doctor. You could've told me.
Well, I thought it would pass. It didn't.
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