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"Ballard is the first ever contestant in Miss Wheelchair America who uses a wheelchair because of long COVID"

https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/06/12/miss-wheelchair-new-hampshire-hopes-her-crown-can-help-others-the-same-way-it-helped-her/

'“I feel like people still don’t really know what to think because their experience with COVID is not my experience with COVID, and they didn’t need a wheelchair. They can’t rectify it in their brain,” she said. “They can’t figure out why, for them, all it was was a cold, and for me I would need a wheelchair, so there must be some level of I’m faking it or I’m lying or I’m just a very dramatic hypochondriac person that is just like looking for attention. What they don’t realize is like nobody would go this far with the ruse.”

As Miss Wheelchair New Hampshire, Ballard travels across New England through public events. She hopes she can build understanding through those events.'

u/hexagonincircuit1594 — 22 days ago