If it's people making them up then they should know it ahs effects.
I have 4 children, 2 have a dx of asd at varying levels but both require a SN education which should indicate that their needs are substantial enough. DS4 is at teh start of the dx process, has already acquired a speech delay labels (I am not sure bout that; think it's a different issue), I know well enough that he will eventually one of ASD.
I get DLA for 2, not planning to claim for ds4 unless one of the other claims changes (ATOS-fear). We get LR Mobility X 2 which does NOT cover a new car as some beleive but helps us run a second car so I can avoid buses etc, park closer to palces than face a long walk in.
Local rules currently prohinit a blue badge for ASD as it's not a physical disability: it's being reviewed but that's been the case for years. SSD want us to have a badhe on grounds of trying top supervise a number of Sn children but there is no provision for that. It's not the money of HRM I want or the car, just safe aprking.
Anyway yesterday we were out with ds3, fairly severely asd, prone to unpredictability and DH headed for a P&T space and I stopped him, rfused to let him in case I got a Mumsnetter yelling at me. He was fairly annoyed and it took us another 30 minutes to apr somewhere both safe and appropriately labelled.
AS he points out, Mumsnet induced paranoia caused me to risk compromising ds3's safety by refuisng tompark in the safest place possible. His point is that anyone who would see us risk ds3's safety (he is 8 btw) is a knob not worth listening to anyway.
I wish I had his confidence in times of confrontation though: it's me who gets the comments froms chool aprents about TAs, and the resty of teh standard disability associated crap. Thank goodness they are in SNU's now, except ds4 starts the school nursery in MS Wednesday- a massive sense of here we go again!
SW thinks we should fight ahrder for teh HR DLA to get the blue badge, I refused becuase of the tales I hear from people with kids with non visible SN: NT people and those with physical SN alike accusing them of fraud and being aggressive. I;d rather stay at home when i have not got another adult and more than one child tbh. So that's what I do.
All the frigging time.
Fun like. But hey it's just an AIBU punch up right?
Or as a so called mate said to DH on another forum when we compalined that disabled people using a car park linked to out hobby were going to be charged double as there was a 'better view from their spaces'
'disabled people get everything anyway'
Except independence, a career (or their carers) and- well pretty much everything most of would ask from life.