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My chronic conditions can make airports harder to navigate. I have vascular EDS with cardiac complications and it makes it difficult to walk long distances, stand long periods of time, carry/lift bags, and setting conserves my energy enough to make it to my destination. I also have a visual impairment, which makes TSA hard to do alone. On top of this, I have epilepsy and environments like this can often lower my seizure threshold. Many people don’t realize that you can have many focal aware and unaware seizures throughout the day without convulsions that only last a few seconds. It makes places like airports very confusing at times. I would like to be seizure, free and reduce my risk of SUDEP but sometimes that means taking precautions to prevent seizures. With VEDS, a simple bump or fall, could cause a serious injury. Being a VEDS patient, almost makes me feel like I’m made of glass. If I haven’t built enough muscle around my joints to protect them in a while, I dislocate, tear, and c...

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