July is Disability Pride Month, but for one local family, a recent incident left them feeling more frustrated than proud.
Adiba Nelson and her 17-year-old daughter Emory Webster are a well oiled machine. But what should have been a quick errand for them, exposed a bigger community problem. They brought Adiba’s car to an auto-repair shop for what should have been a one-hour fix. Instead, they suddenly learned the work was going to take four hours, and it left them stranded.
“They offered to call us an Uber,” Adiba explained. “Which I thought was wonderful. And I said, ‘Well, but I have my daughter with me, we need a wheelchair-accessible Uber.’ They said ‘No, it’s fine, they have those available.'”…