“I’m sorry, your group is not on that session.”

It sounds like a throwaway line, something small, something administrative.

But at 14 years old, it was the moment I realised the world wasn’t built with disability in mind. It was built around us, not for us.

On a PHSE Day at school, I was excluded from trying wheelchair basketball... not because I couldn’t take part, but because the organisers hadn’t scheduled my group into the session. An adaptive sport, designed to Include everyone, and I wasn’t even in the hall.

At lunchtime, I listened to my friends buzzing with excitement about how incredible wheelchair basketball was. They got an experience that could have changed my life years earlier. I got a reminder that even in the places meant to support us, disabled young people are still an afterthought.

My school, knowingly or not, left multiple disabled kids out of the one activity that should have included them the most.

Most young people never get the chance to try wheelchair basketball.

And my mission is simple: no disabled child should ever feel the way I felt at 14.  

Not overlooked.

Not excluded.

Not forgotten.

I’m building a world where disabled children don’t wait for permission to belong, they arrive knowing they already do.