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[heidi]

question to other comic con attendees - did the visually impared girl do the same "want to see you" thing to anyone other than Milo and Jensen?
Poor Jared to not be someone she wanted to see!
And how much do the Ghostfacers rock?!?

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[rivier.livejournal.com]

Oop, just saw your edit!

Again, that may also reflect her own experience of the reality of disabled services in action at conventions - and I know from some of the responses I got at the time that my experience of being let down was not at all unique.

I know that, no matter what it may say on the websites or in the (amusingly) small print on the tickets, I simply won't ever trust any convention organiser to make good on disability concessions - that undertaking to provide reserved seating, for instance. Once you've been on the receiving end of a whole gaggle of acid-faced strangers looking at you as if you were some scummy liar trying to cheat them out of their birthright, it's not something you do again for fun and frolics, unless you have substantively thicker skin than me.

Putting it bluntly, I wouldn't even trust the assurances of the stewards - not really their fault either, even the biggest and best conventions are notoriously chaotic on the day. And because of that, they're more likely to promote survival of the fittest: that's just how it is.