[Brydo]

I am a full time carer and not disabled.

I was with my wife yesterday and parked in a disabled parking space, as I got out the car I noticed this guy give me a look. As I was making my way to the boot to get the wheelchair out the boot this guy I now stopped for a chat. The guy who’d been watching me approached and and said I was parked in a disabled bay. I quickly told him the situation and he apologised, I told him not to apologise as I have considered doing the same on a number of occasions.

The thing is many disabled are not “obviously” disabled so there is no way of knowing, until the blue badge is displayed.

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[Macca]

Don’t think he was entitled to park there so some folks took it upon themselves to let him know ?

[Brydo]

That’s a cracker macca ????

[Aygo1991]

Macca wrote:

Well that link doesn’t seem to work, but this video is well worth a watch. So let’s have another go ….. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=disabled+parking+space+post+it+notes&&view=detail&mid=B4098D0F5572127EB197B4098D0F5572127EB197&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Ddisabled%2Bparking%2Bspace%2Bpost%2Bit%2Bnotes%26FORM%3DHDRSC4

Haha ?! I understand that when one becomes angry, their IQ can drop quite substantially but this guy appears to be borderline brain dead! On another note, I couldn’t help but think about all that paper flying about and not being reuse or recycled.

Back on topic, I’ve only ever had people stare or scowl at me until they see how slowly my Mother egresses from the car.

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[Mike 700]

My disability is only obvious because I have to use a stick or a rollator.

I’ve said this before, but it is still true, ‘You know your disabled when your opinion mean less than others & some people really do think of you as inferior, even though they know absolutely nothing about you or your disability, to them you’re just a nuisance?

Someone who is too bloody slow at the checkout, or who parks in a disabled space, which Is not fair to ‘earth mothers and fat boys, who should have an entitlement by law to park inside the Supermarket doors, and who feel that the disabled spaces should be around the back of the stores, out of sight so that the disabled don’t frighten the children

However, a disabled person is no different from a fully fit person and as an example , may have a good standard of education, a good degree maybe, perhaps qualified in fields like the law or medicine, or anything else of note, perhaps they had to forgo a chosen career because of disability, they may have been disabled from serving their country, or they simply may be struggling along every single day as husbands, wives, parents etc., but to some, the disabled are mainly just a nuisance , holding them up at the checkout etc.?

How some people react to the disabled is nothing short of a disgrace-

A 2020 survey of more than 2,000 people for Parkinson’s UK, found that 87% of people with the condition had faced discrimination or harassment.

• 24% of people had been told they were “too young” to have Parkinson’s
• 22% said their slurred speech or poor balance had been mistaken for drunkenness
• 32% said their less expressive facial expressions had been mistaken for unfriendliness
• 10% said they had been laughed at
• (57%) said they had avoided or cancelled social situations because of concerns about how others would react to them.

As far as I am concerned, I may not look like George Clooney these days ( although I am still taller) but what disappoints me is that I am often looked upon as ‘just this old git ‘ on a mobility scooter thingy, and I am regularly ‘now ‘ treated as one ‘WHO KNOWS NOTHING’? ( this is by a minority of people however, I must admit )

 

[Oscarmax]

I get a bit of a double whammy I am Asian and disabled  I use a mobility scooter, a walker or my crutches, I get some strange looks at times and even pushed out of the way.

Cant help some peoples small mindless or ignorance it a fact of life.

Unfortunately I have suffered a brain injury and occasionally say the wrong thing.

[ChrisK]

Macca wrote:

Well that link doesn’t seem to work, but this video is well worth a watch. So let’s have another go ….. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=disabled+parking+space+post+it+notes&&view=detail&mid=B4098D0F5572127EB197B4098D0F5572127EB197&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Ddisabled%2Bparking%2Bspace%2Bpost%2Bit%2Bnotes%26FORM%3DHDRSC4

Looking at a dozen or so of those disabled parking abuse video’s one thing that stood out for me, apart from the morons, is police in north America seem to have the powers to issue tickets and fines to abusers parking in shopping malls disabled spaces.

That would help a lot of us had we had laws like that here.

One other thing came to mind too is that their media still do investigative journalism unlike our’s who just read and repeat Facebook and Twitter.

[joss]

@Macca the first link you posted works fine for me. Just out of interest…

Joss
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