ABOUT ADA MATTERS

I did not think I would be disabled.

A year before all of this, I was at the peak of my health, my career, and my family life. Then life did what life does when it is feeling particularly creative. My body changed. My hands stopped working the way they used to. My energy changed. My ability to communicate changed.

And suddenly I was learning something most people do not learn until they have no choice.

The ADA has been law since 1990. But nearly thirty six years later, disabled people are still treated like they are asking for favors when they ask for access.

ADA Matters is about that gap. It is about what happens after you ask for an accommodation.

It is about the silence, the skepticism, the vanishing emails, the shifting answers, the polite brush offs, the not so polite brush offs, and the strange institutional talent for making the disabled person prove the obvious.

I started documenting my own experience because I had to. Then I realized the story was bigger than me. If this is what happens to someone who saves every email, tracks every receipt, and refuses to disappear, what happens to everyone else?

ADA Matters is where I tell that story. Not as theory. As real life.

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I am not a lawyer.

I am a disabled dad who likes donuts, dogs, and dad jokes. I was the sports editor of my high school newspaper, back when newspapers actually existed.

So if you are looking for legal advice, you may want to find an actual lawyer. Taking legal advice from me is roughly equivalent to taking medical advice from Homer Simpson.

What I can offer is my experience, my documentation, my mistakes, my observations, and an honest account of what happened when disability rights stopped being something I read about and became something I needed.

I do not offer legal advice. I offer the truth, the receipts, the documents, the screenshots, the emails, and one person’s experience trying to understand why basic access still feels negotiable nearly thirty six years after the ADA became law.