“I get it. I’m young, I’m athletic, but I’m also missing legs!” swimmer Jessica Long said in her viral TikTok.
video. Her adoptive parents had part of her legs amputated when she was 13 months old so she could learn how to walk in prosthetic legs. She said that she’s had more than 25 surgeries and emphasized the physical pain of the whole ordeal. But at a young age she fell in love with swimming, and at age 12 she wonDespite her accomplishments, Long said in an Instagram post she published in September 2020 that she gets harassed on a regular basis for parking in handicapped-accessible spaces.
Unfortunately, disabled people being harassed by parking lot vigilantes who do not think they should be parking in
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