Are people just less tolerant of disability accessibility now ?

Wow, this is devastating to read x

I care x

People really need to do a total 180 on when they should be ignoring you and minding their own business, and when they should not pretent like they don't see someone needs help and be all up in their business offering support-it seems people have got it all twisted 🤔

Lord, I dont even know what to say here. Apart from I'm so sorry you and you family have been through such a horrific ordeal. Sending my sympathies and love and Hope things improve for you very soon x

Totally

And yes, it's not even a dilemma when you need a medicine, even if it does come with a side order of unsolicited diet advice from people who don't realise.

14 years of Tories saying ppl with disabilities are a problem. Anti lockdowners painting the vulnerable as a pain in TA who we "had to lockdiown for".

It's the same for the elderly. My parents have both had cancer recently and both been disrespectfully treated as disposable and a pain again and again and again. Mum died last month as a result of the neglect. Humiliated by cruel night staff who mocked her and told her to wet herself in her final days.

I have a child with a disability too and have had experiences similar to the ones mentioned above.

Nobody cares anymore.

It's heartbreaking

Had a scroll around and can't seem to figure what this was in relation to. Sorry🤷🏽‍♀️

I think I've got a good enough idea of your personality by now to be able to 😂at this and know you'll take it as it meant.

I've just come down from 13 1/2 stone to just over 11, due to steroids, now it's just about time to go back on them...but still rather be fat and comfortable than think but in agony -themselves the breaks...

Yh it sucks sometime-thanks for the understanding. Sorry about your grandad 😒

Yes people assume that somehow means you are "less ill" but actually they only see you at the times you are at your best. The really ill bits are often when you are stuck at home.

My grandfather had Parkinson's, I really feel for you. As a grandchild I didn't realise for years as obviously we got the best bits of his time

It’s tough when your disability varies, I can be ok, for x number of hrs, then not tomorrow, mid stage Parkinson’s is degenerative, nasty!
Frequently told i look well ,often I don’t feel it

Nice to see my proof on the bus front being acknowledged (not)

It's exciting times isn't it

I was previously on steroids which made me very large rapidly so I am weirdly glad that these meds "just" make me lose my hair as at least people don't see bald patches as a moral failing

Obviously none of us can tell by a brief observation. My niece is not noticeably disabled, but has a condition that exhausts her after even a short walk. She has a Blue Badge and a Disability bus pass. I have to show my Disabled Railcard in order to get reduced train fares, why not something similar for those of us who really need accessible seating on buses and trams? Does everyone else believe that only those who genuinely need them sit in them?

My immune suppressants don't make my hair fall out, but they do make it look like I have some sort of drug problem due to my constantly dripping and sniffy nose, im wondering if she could take a quick look at my back, because after 3 years of every scan and test they can think of, they still not sure what's wrong-if should could just have a quick gander and tell me i look fine, I can be rid of the small mountain of opioids I have to swallow everyday, that give me cotton mouth and constipation and don't actually help that much with the pain-its gonna be a good rest of 2024 for me I can feel it.🤣🫠🤦🏽‍♀️

Omg! This is so embarrassing you wrote this

"I’m very aware of hidden disabilities, but when someone is striding along then jumps into an accessible seat, I wonder why?

Elderly people, and those anyone else with mobility issues will have bus passes. Perhaps there should be some awareness raising so that those seats should be for people holding those passes? As we age, it’s fairly likely our mobility and our balance will be affected."

It shows you have zero understanding of hidden disability's, my sons can stride up, run up, bounce up to a chair but once a train or bus starts up they need to be seated because they can't balance and one has to cover his ears even with ear defenders on because of the sound of the breaks and wheels which I barely notice.

Disability is not just someone's ability to walk...

I'll tell my neurologist he can discharge me now because some member of the public took a fleeting glance at how I walk and decided I wasnt ill
On the plus side it will mean I can stop taking the hideous immune suppressants that are making my hair fall out

I went to a classical music concert at a time I was mainly bedbound (and before I had saved up for my electric wheelchair). I had to go straight through and sit in my chair whereas nearly all the audience (almost all of whom were well past pension age) were having a lovely time standing around chatting in the bar.

I'm telling you mate, she's going to revolutionaries the NHS in a matter of months.

I often comment how much more mobile my 87 year old grandmother is than me, I'm 44...sometimes its funny, sometimes I just want to cry, but then i think about all the amazing 'perks' we get, like all the good parking spots and all is again right with the world 🫠🫠 never lose your sense of humour, that what I say

Exactly.

who needs MRIs and CT scans and blood tests etc when you can just "tell" from looking at someone how ill they are.

Also I have severe mobility issues, I'm sure I would look fine to you, and to top it all off, I don't have a bus pass. I guess I'm royally well you get my point

My issue doesn't affect my gait though? I walk normally, I just get more unwell with every step I take, have not brilliant balance and if I stand for any time at all rapidly lose the ability to see /speak/swallow. Other people have things like POTs that make standing up dangerous.

I honestly think there just needs to be more awareness training about invisible disability and all the different ways it can manifest.

People need to stop thinking they can "see" how disabled someone is. My mum is 70 and still skis, runs, cycles, works part time (because she enjoys it). My grandmother skiied till she was 80 and gardened long past that. They both need/needed a chair far less than I do. I have to have a lie down after a two minute shower.

You are clearly not aware of hidden disabilities at all. In your opinion, from the few seconds of the parsons life. You have deduced they have no mobility issues. Well, if you have a talent like that, you could save the NHS billions in test and scans, just pop into you local hospital, have a quick look at everyone and you can let the docs know if there is "really anything wrong with them"

This is going to be a game changer for waiting lists-Sir Keir will obviously take the credit, but we here will all know the truth of the superhuman feats you performed for the good of society!

I’m very aware of hidden disabilities, but when someone is striding along then jumps into an accessible seat, I wonder why?

Elderly people, and those anyone else with mobility issues will have bus passes. Perhaps there should be some awareness raising so that those seats should be for people holding those passes? As we age, it’s fairly likely our mobility and our balance will be affected.