It’s about time we shake up stigma and public perceptions surrounding disability? Take, for example, the words 'walking stick’. What comes to mind? The elderly perhaps, hospitals, or maybe the irritating clicking noise of a grey, metal stick as it hits the floor.
Well, Lyndsay Watterson, disabled entrepreneur and changemaker, is on a mission to shatter these narrow - and often negative - connotations and along with them, shame around disability as a whole.
It all started in 2007, when Lyndsay, from North Yorkshire, contracted a catastrophic post-surgery infection in her knee which wreaked havoc and left Lyndsay’s leg permanently and irreversibly damaged. After living with excruciating, debilitating pain for 3 years, she took the drastic decision to have her leg amputated above the knee.
