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Kevan Chandler: Don’t let a disability stop you from exploring the world -- I didn’t!
OPINION - By Kevan Chandler | Fox News
I met a family once in the parking lot of a grocery store. It was a mom and dad with their six-year-old son in dad’s arms. The son had a smile like the mid-May sun, his tiny arms rigid, his legs wrapped like a vice around dad’s hips.
They called out to me from a ways off, recognizing my friend and I from our travels through Europe, when a handful of buddies carried me in a special backpack to explore places my wheelchair couldn’t go.
I was born with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, which progressively weakens my muscles, but we’d found a way to get around that foreboding limiter. As it turned out, this family had followed our adventures on social media, and the dad especially was curious to know more about our backpack design. He was a camper and hiker, and had taken his son camping a bit. This was difficult, though, as the son has Cerebral Palsy, making him dependent on a wheelchair to get around. A recent growth spurt in the boy compounded the challenge, too, and they were looking for ways to pull off their next trip—exploring the Rocky Mountains. A backpack might be helpful, they thought, and I couldn’t agree more.
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Over the next few months, we worked together to copy the backpack design, with adjustments to fit the six-year-old trailblazer. By the time they were headed for the Rockies, the family had tested and approved their new contraption. They drove out to Colorado, pitched their tent, and stepped out upon the wild world.
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Castles aren’t “accessible” because there weren’t elevators available in 600 A.D. and even the best trails in the woods get broken by growing roots, so...how do we make waterfalls wheelchair-friendly? You don’t. You find ways to make it happen.
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