Miss Wheelchair New Hampshire hopes her crown can help others the same way it helped her

By: William Skipworth

Outlets: NH Bulletin

Published: June 12, 2026

Words: 1,381

Last Updated: 1 month, 1 week ago

Today, Nenia Ballard is 2026’s Miss Wheelchair New Hampshire, but her early days using the chair were filled with shame.

She stopped leaving the house. She didn’t want people to take her photo. She didn’t tell her own parents about the wheelchair for six months.

“I had this thought in the back of my head that, like, maybe I’d get better before I had to tell people that I was using a wheelchair,” she said. …

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