Originally Posted by
DeafFlyer
If you encounter this, what happens when you insist that you really are disabled? I've been using a chair since age 30, which isn't that young, but still young enough to get people to think I don't look "handicapped". I haven't had anything happen with TSA, but they do ask me if I can get up, or if I can remove my shoes. Since I can do neither, I do have to insist sometimes that I really can't do those things. They have not given me a problem after that. What happens when you do the same?
Fortunately, I rarely need a wheelchair - only if I would have to stand for a long time. Asking for a supervisor doesn't always help because they usually side with their own. I just go to another line or checkpoint. I wrote the airport TSA manager, and was told the placards are only good for driving and in parking lots. You can't reason with someone whose mind is already made up.
