10-Year-Old Designs Bathroom Sign for People With Invisible Conditions
Grace Warnock is only 10, but sheāsĀ perceptive. She easily picked up on judgmental looks from strangers when she would use public bathrooms for people with disabilities.
Grace has Crohnās disease, an inflammatory bowel disease you canāt see from the outside. The condition can be painful and requires her to make a lot of bathroom stops. Instead of putting up with rude onlookers, she designed a bathroom sign that includes both a personĀ in a wheelchair and a standing person with a heart, symbolizing people with invisible conditions. Then she took it a step farther. She launched āGraceās Signā campaign to get buildings near her home in Edinburgh, Scotland, to hang the signs up.
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It worked.
The Scottish Parliament installed the signs on three of its accessible bathrooms.
āUsing Graceās Sign at accessible toilets on the parliamentary estate sends out a powerful message to others across Scotland that these toilets are there for everyone with a disability, regardless of whether or not it is āvisible,āā Scottish Parliament member Iain Gray, who backed Graceās campaign, told Edinburgh News.



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