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Sunflower lanyard

Stewart

I'm flying for the first time since my diagnosis and found this on the airport website https://www.manchesterairport.co.uk/help/assisted-travel/non-visible-disabilities/ I'd never heard of sunflower lanyard before. I'll be on my own so it seems like a good idea for me to get one to deal with the buzz and business of the airport especially being able to use the fast lane at security. I thought the assistance point was for people with physical disabilities before reading that. However I'm a bit wary of asking for the lanyard, what am I supposed to say without feeling guilty/self-conscious? I wondered if anyone else had used the lanyard and what their experience was?

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  • You can ask for the loan of a lanyard at the desk. I bought my own online. I have used it at Manchester airport and it took about a quarter of the usual time in queuing for the security check, as you use a separate, shorter, queue. Well worth it, in my opinion. In my experience you just have to say that you have a non-obvious disability, no flourishing of diagnoses is required. I did say that I was in fact autistic.

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  • You can ask for the loan of a lanyard at the desk. I bought my own online. I have used it at Manchester airport and it took about a quarter of the usual time in queuing for the security check, as you use a separate, shorter, queue. Well worth it, in my opinion. In my experience you just have to say that you have a non-obvious disability, no flourishing of diagnoses is required. I did say that I was in fact autistic.

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