Jade Elizabeth 🍄

Big fan of dogs, books, & board games 👓🖖♿️🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🤘She / her

[Jade Elizabeth 🍄 @JadeEONeil]

You would be mad if your favourite pub put a sign up saying “No Disabled People Allowed” but it’s fine for them to say that exact same thing with steps instead.

[Jade Elizabeth 🍄 @JadeEONeil]

That said, I’m touched that the general response of the other passengers was very supportive. One man said that if we don’t stand up for one person’s rights, who knows which rights will be violated next. He said any of us could break a leg one day and need a ramp to travel. 16/16

[Jade Elizabeth 🍄 @JadeEONeil]

I faced major discrimination by @TfL staff at Wembley Central on Tuesday morning. Three men acted incredibly aggressively towards me and tried to prevent me from boarding a train in my wheelchair. 🧵 1/16

[Jade Elizabeth 🍄 @JadeEONeil]

So, during a week of difficult travel, disabled people are being told they can’t use a station which might be useful to them. I’m disgusted by the behaviour of the people involved and very disappointed at @TfL’s response to the incident. 15/16

[Jade Elizabeth 🍄 @JadeEONeil]

@Charliechatz1 … saying that I had to either get the taxi or “sort things out with them.” They refused to get the ramp out for my wheelchair or to allow other passengers to help despite it being clear discrimination. They were aggressive and awful about it. 2/2

[Jade Elizabeth 🍄 @JadeEONeil]

@Charliechatz1 TFL booked me a taxi as a reasonable adjustment but it turns out the lift was repaired 2 weeks ago and they just haven’t updated their systems. They said they’d cancel the taxi so that I could get the train but when it arrived, other TFL staff tried to stop me from boarding… 1/2

[Jade Elizabeth 🍄 @JadeEONeil]

It’s easy enough to quietly mumble along to your tunes in a late night shower until *just after* the girl’s asked Teenage Dirtbag to come see Iron Maiden with her on Friday and the first Oh Yeah hits 👌

[Jade Elizabeth 🍄 @JadeEONeil]

@oldenoughtosay Both spatulas but in our house the one on the left is ‘the bendy, scoopy spatula’ or ‘the mixy spatula, not the frying things spatula’