This Disabled 'Animal Crossing' Player Gets Viral After Creating His Own-Designed Wheelchair

The popular Nintendo Switch game 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons' has reached its pedestal, especially amid pandemic. Everyone loves to play and decorate their islands, with what they wanted to see or how they look. For disabled people, a rare item is available to be used in the game. A wheelchair!

Interestingly, this handicapped player made his wheelchair more awesome-- by looking it exactly like his. Here's how he did it.

There's a wheelchair on Animal Crossing?

The man in the picture is named Sam Bosworth. According to his Instagram account, he is a disability advocate and activist and was diagnosed with kyphosis of the spine and chronic fatigue.

Bosworth told the Redditors on the platform that he decided to post the image of his personalized wheelchair in order "for other disabled folks that wanted to customize theirs, I hardly expected it to be on the front page, and posted my insta because I've spent the last year and a half of my life advocating for disability every single day and like educating people about disability."

He also seemed to be a huge fan of the game, based just on his t-shirt that says Nintendo. So far, the post already received over 40,000 upvotes and nearly 500 comments on the platform.

How to get a wheelchair on Animal Crossing

As reported via Gamepur, there are three easy ways for you to claim your own wheelchair item on the store.

First, buy a wheelchair straight from the store. Just go to the furniture section of the store and find the wheelchair item. Commonly, it costs 2,700 bells at Nook's Cranny.

Secondly, you can wait for the wheelchair item on a floating balloon present. Some players said that they receive a wheelchair through those floating balloons. Maybe you'll get lucky.

Thirdly, you can easily ask a friend for a set of a wheelchair. If you're lucky enough, you can even ask in the Nintendo Switch community for friend codes.

So who needs a wheelchair?

ALSO READ: Play Animal Crossing: New Horizons For 50 Hours and Earn $1,000: Here's How to Apply

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Written by Jamie P.

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