Thread by @chrysopoetics

1. Second time in a month a bus driver accused me of faking disability to save $1.50 #cyride
2. “May I sit down or would you like me to overpay?”
“What?”
“/May I sit down or would you like me to overpay?/“
“Well, I was hoping you would sit down—“
K, Monarch of Competence, SAY it.

On the one hand it would be awesome if @kcmetrobus would, like, Not do this, and on the other hand I keep not reporting it out of fear they’ll side with the driver. 🙃

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But @kcmetrobus office to get a reduced fare card is an hour away from me by bus and down a flight of stairs because /of course it is/

and my PCP is Malpractice McLiar

so yes I’d motherfucking rather go through Humiliation Roulette than that sure bet. Amazing. #cyride #cymed

Fucking hell everyone else today had been so good. :/

Yes. Politics of this with non-apparent disabilities aside: You are definitely picking me up from in front of a specialty clinic with crutches, a filter mask, and four hundred fucking dollars of obvious DME hinged knee bracing because I felt like lying for two dollars. #cyride

And you know the fuck what, I /do/ feel entitled to fucking drivers fucking realizing I’m motherfucking obviously disabled

Because the passengers whose verbal and sometimes physical harassment they don’t intercede in let alone lift a finger to prevent sure fucking do. #cyride

Given that it’s specifically recent, I don’t know if @kcmetrobus and @SoundTransit issued recommendations to drivers to question anyone limping aboard paying the disabled fare on paper about whether paycheck upon paycheck in visible medical gear was a long con or what. #cyride

I don’t know if 2018 crawled up these specific drivers’ asses after killing their families

or if it’s just that “[Don’t assume people AREN’T disabled based on what you perceive] =/= [Assume when you DO perceive disability it’s a false positive]” is too hard for ableds to grasp.

I am… extremely unhappy with this. I had managed a nearly three-hour hospital appointment that was /a good day/, before this. #cymed

Thanks. Thanks.

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