The advice for what to do in an active shooter situation is always the same: Know the exits ahead of time and run. If you’re out in the open or in a hallway, find a room and secure the door. Hide. But what if you can’t do any of those things?
The author presenting"The Power of Embracing my Disability" at the Pittsburgh Humanities Festival in March of this year. In the case of an active shooter, so much of this evacuation plan would have been moot. Waiting to be rescued in a stairwell definitely wouldn’t have been an option, because I’d be stuck on a landing, out in the open with absolutely nowhere to hide or go. And hoping that someone can carry me while they’re running for their own life is a terrifying, unrealistic thought. So what would I have done? To this day, I don’t know.
Even now, as a 33-year-old woman, I worry. I worry when I’m at a movie theater with friends, or shopping at the mall, or at a concert. I look for the exits, but I worry that it won’t matter, because I won’t be able to open the door. I worry that in the chaos that ensues, an accessible exit will be blocked. Most of all, I worry that despite my best efforts, I won’t be able to be fast enough, that in a sea of people who are running, I’ll be too slow.
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