To think if you’re a slightly more mobile BB holder you should park in the further accessible bay?

I am a BB holder but to meet me, you’d never know. Yet there are days I can barely walk the length of myself, hence the BB.

i don’t take the mikey when I use it but preserving energy is simply too important sometimes.

anyone questioning it can FO frankly.

And if you'd bothered to read the thread you'd see why some non wheelchair users need the extra space as well. 🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

You have no idea what that person's ability level is by looking at them. I might be able to walk into a shop but the heart condition I have often limits my ability to walk far and when I come out I need the car to be close by.

Fucking hell.

One of my friends has a prosthetic leg. You wouldn't know as he tends to wear long trousers. He probably looks quite mobile. Another friend is mobile but has a bowel condition which results in an instant urgent need to empty them so needs to park quickly and get to a toilet without delay.

One of my parents is elderly and has advanced dementia. I'm not sure how experienced you are with trying to wrangle a strong adult across a car park but it isn't easy so I'll park as near the door as I can.

My other parent will look absolutely fine getting out of the car if the air is quite still. But after walking around the shop they'll be gasping for air and need to get to the car quickly.

The blue badge isn't a tiered system, and nor should it be. Everyone who has one has been assessed and deemed to have a need and therefore can use it whenever they want to park in any bay that suits them.

There is very practical reason many blue badge holders need the extra space. Plenty of posters on this thread alone have explained that.

Fair enough, and thank you for thinking it through a bit more.

I have a Blue Badge and would give precedence to someone in a wheelchair, yes, in theory. But in real life, it would be hard to know they were in the car park and needed the space iykwim.

Didn't you know that us disabled people just need to put up and shut up, and deal with our disabilities?! (Sarcasm, of course).

What people don't seem to understand, and this includes some disabled people too, is that disabilities affect every disabled person differently. You can have the same exact disability as someone else, but it could affect you differently to another person with the same disability.

And it's so heartbreaking because we didn't ask to be this way. If I could get rid of my disabilities, I would, because they affect EVERYTHING I do. I can't work because it makes me suicidal. Therapy also makes me suicidal, and medication just makes me more angry than I am when I'm NOT on it.

Obviously this comment isn't aimed at you, it's just a rant based on the point you made because you're absolutely correct

I can't believe that it's a thing to study BB holders when they get out of their cars to see whether they should be further away. It wouldn't even cross my mind.

I think some people could do with living with the disabilities these BB holders have.

Recently on MN I've been absolutely disgusted with some of the attitudes to disabled people.

I think some bays should be reserved for wheelchair users. There’s a very practical reason why they need a bigger parking space.

You have no idea how that person feels! My disabled husband has learned to mask his chronic pain over decades for a short while in public. He cries behind the closed door. YABU.

How did you know this? Blue badge photos are deliberately on the back of the badge

Sigh some disabilities are not visible. I have 2 walking sticks sometimes I need both, sometimes 1, sometimes none. The further I walk in one given period of time the worse the pain and stiffness is later. Yes I have a BB

You are a moron

Their is no hierarchy of disabilities. You aren't just unreasonable, you're also deluded to think you can judge someone's disability and how able they are by looking at them. Shame on you.

Thank you so much :)

Don't feel guilty, your need is different, but just as important!!

Exactly, I do wish some posters could try to understand how hard it is to get a blue badge

Nope. Requiring and use of a BB is not a competition.

You don't know thier disability though do you? If they parked that bit further away, they might shit themselves on the way back to the car!
Stop all this disability bullying..... you can have my blue badge and my disability !

Because that poster might have embellished a little bit.

Someone said the photo of a blue badge holder they didn't know was a different person (can't find the post now) - the photo is on the back, how could you see this?

I think you just never know why someone needs a blue badge. I think one of the criteria is life saving equipment in the car?

My DC with severe learning disabilities have blue badges. Very occasionally they walk into the venue fine but it's very common to suddenly have a massive problem (bolt at a car / dropped to the floor in middle of road and refuse to move / huge violent meltdown). If I have to park even just a few cars away I have to drag a thrashing nearly secondary school age child further sometimes past other cars reversing etc. All their staff have said that I should park as close as damn possible to everything even though I do feel a bit guilty sometimes parking closer than elderly people etc.

You clearly don't understand conditions like MS. But well done on adding more judgement and negativity to the world.

I thought about this when I first got my bb.

it doesn’t really work.

i will sometimes park away from the disabled spaces if there’s plenty of other spaces available but my car is big (to take my wheelchair) and it doesn’t always easily fit into normal spaces.

also you often have to walk along cars to get to Tesco or wherever but from the disabled spaces there is usually a walkway with posts keeping the cars and you separate.

Yes she can use P&C which always have loads of in most supermarkets.