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Marissa Bode Raises with a simple act of kindness that she recently experienced when traveling through an airport.
The Evil star, 24, took to her Tiktok On Monday June 16 to describe the rare moment, while becoming sincere if the ongoing problems that wheelchair users often experience when traveling by air.
“You know that the bar is in H–when I became lowkey emotional when an airport worker, for once, recognized my autonomy,” she begins the video. She then recalled her previous experiences with airport roll-assistant workers and TSA agents who were “terrible” when it came to listening and talking directly to her.
“Here I am once again heading off the flight. They take over the walking chair. The two wheelchair assistants are about to help me,” Bode says. “And this person goes to the flight value,” How should we help her? What should we do? “And the flight value was like:“ Ask her.
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Although Bode notes that “logically”, this should be the expected action, she says that is rarely the case.
“It’s so exhausting, every time. Every time I’m at the airport they always ask each other, they never ask me until they absolutely have to, because again, no one bothered to ask me in the first place, so they don’t know what to do,” she continues in frustration.
She goes on to say that workers who talk to each other as if she is not there make her feel “completely invisible.”
Bode wanted to admit the caring airport worker.
“Shoutout to old boy,” she adds in the clip. “It should not be something that I am surprised by or something I praise in the first place, because it should only be standard, but it is absolutely not, unfortunately. All the love of the flight attendant to be the only rare to actually see me as a person.”
Many wheelchair users have increased complaints over the years about third party Wheelchair workers at airports and what they claim is disrespectful behavior against those who use the service.
While airline usually agrees this work, in October 2024, US Ministry of Transport Hit American Airlines with a penalty of $ 50 million for its “many serious violations” against passengers with disabilities who traveled with them between 2019 and 2023.
“ERA to tolerate poor treatment of air passengers with disabilities are over,” said former US transport secretary Pete Buttigieg in a statement that was divided into an edition at that time.
“With this sanction, we set a new standard for liability for airlines that violate passengers’ civil rights with disabilities,” Buttigieg continued. “By setting penalties at levels beyond a clean cost to do business for airlines, we strive to change how the industry behaves and prevent these types of abuse from happening in the first place.”