To ask, think before you judge who is using the disabled loo!

It's a medical condition though and urgently needing to use the toilet due to a medical condition is exactly what those toilets are for.

Yes but its not a disability? My IBD does not entitle me to use it - im not disabled. My point is that sometimes anybody could find themselves in an emergency situation where a disabled toilet is better than no toilet!

Same goes for people with IBS - they can have sudden awful bouts of diarrhoea. Theres not even anything medical they could really take to help them - so others suggesting "if you are that desperate, go to the Dr's theres something wrong with you" - people do go to the Dr's... They dont get any help!

So your point is, well pointless, because you actually have a legitimate reason to use the disabled loo.

Read a few comments down... I have IBD

No.

The point is that you don't have a stoma and you are telling some people with stomas how easily they can do things when they are telling you that they don't find it easy.

What makes you think you know better? How bloody rude of you.

If you can’t hold your poop long enough to wait for a spare cubicle I think you probably have a need for the disabled toilet and should have that situation investigated if it’s happened more than once or twice.

You might actually have something wrong with you, maybe you aren’t getting the message you need to go early enough which has caused a form of incontinence?

Right? Several times when out with just one baby I couldn't wee because there was no space and no one to open the disabled. Even with a sling, there was nowhere to leave the pram and I've no idea how you slingwear 3, certainly not just to wee because you refuse to use the accessible loo

You don’t look disabled …. You don’t look ignorant but here we are

Often, if you have a non emptying appliance they are 2 pieces so they have a flange and to change the bag does indeed clip and clip onto said flange/baseplate whatever you want to call it.

Anyway the point is a young fit person without any other issues can easily empty or change a bag in a bog standard cubicle, those with disabilities and dexterity issues of course need assistance and more space in an accessible facility.

Most toilet cubicles are tiny, the baby changing and feeding rooms never have a toilet so yes I wonder how you did it?

Just clip on another one?!

Or in the real world, use removal spray, clean and dry skin thoroughly, or the bag won't stick, apply powder, barrier spray and powder again, apply barrier ring, apply bag, apply flange extender. All while the stoma continues to output, because unlike a sphincter, you have zero control of it. Now try doing that in a tiny cubicle with no surfaces to put supplies on, or wash hands before and after.

Clip another one on indeed!

It absolutely isn't. Radar keys apart, there is no reason anybody can't use a toilet that is adapted for disabled people because that is just what it is. A toilet that is adapted so that disabled people can use it. I agree that disabled people should get first dibs on adapted toilets, but it doesn't mean that nobody else can use them.

I say this as a disabled person

You carry 3 babies in a sling at once? That’s amazing… How?

Slings thinking ahead and the 2 second speed wee. With two or 3 babies you plan meticulously anyway. Many toilets are huge so you can fit a buggy in, those that aren’t you use the sling you keep in the basket underneath for such eventualities.

Well done, that is impressive. I really don't know how you managed that. Hats off!

How did you manage? Cubicles are tiny.

I managed it with 3 under 15 months. 15 old month twins and then a newborn. Never once used the disabled.

Arse police 😂

In terms of toileting in a one-person designed cubicle, having two babies in your arms leaves you with no ability to even pull your pants down. So yes, in a toilet situation with no space you become disabled from using the toilet. I did not mean children make a person disabled, just disable them from doing certain things in certain spaces.

What's more physically disabling than having young children? How fucking dare you write such uninformed crap.

I think this is an interesting point of comparison.

People who "just nip in" to the disabled toilets when they have no accessibility needs at all and are doing it because there's a queue - would you do the same for disabled parking spaces? "Just nip in" because there's an empty space at the time?

As other poster has said, it’s not just the disabled loos, it’s parking and priority seating, too.
I had an incident a few years ago- aggressive chemo and preventative surgery (goodbye ovaries, hello medical menopause) left me with musculoskeletal problems. I couldn’t stand on the spot for more than a few minutes or it was painful and sitting caused me to seize up and go stiff. One day I was sat in the priority seat on a busy bus when a woman got on with a buggy, and because I looked able enough when I got on and didn’t move for her I was verbally abused by other bus users.
I ignored them. I needed the seat near the door. It was a shame that I wasn’t getting off till the end of the route or they’d have noticed that when I did I walked like Frankenstein’s monster because I’d gone all stiff.
You just don’t know what issues able looking people might have.

You’re hilarious.

You seem to think people are resentful of the fact people are skipping ahead of them in a queue.

No. People are annoyed that others lack consideration to such a degree that they aren’t respectful of the facilities allocated to others, people who actually need them.

It’s okay to be perturbed when people behave like pricks

To be absolutely clear I am of course not talking about those with hidden disabilities or any sort of need for an accessible loo. I’m talking about those who can’t be bothered waiting, those with no actual need. Like pp.

It also bothers me that we live in a society where basic provision of facilities such as functioning toilets that everyone can use is so poor that people actually get angry at people having a wee or a poo. They're not stealing money, or assaulting people, they're literally taking care of a bodily function. What a waste of everyone's energy.

I find older men are the worst culprits. But I'm a middle aged woman & that cohort tend to think we're safe targets to bully..... I love teaching them a lesson about that - "what have women's toilet habits got to do with you? Pervert!" in a loud voice absolutely mortifies them, never fails.