to love this disabled parking idea?

[Kladdkaka]

Because of this issues with non-blue badge holders parking in disabled spaces some Swedish municipalities are now replacing the usual disabled parking signs with ones that include the words 'LAZINESS IS NOT A DISABILITY'. I love it :o

2shoes That's why I said 'not if there's nowhere else'

I also X posted
which caused even more confusion

MoreBeta but have you not read what people have said about fluctuating conditions?

For example, on some days I can walk quite far, albeit slowly, but others can walk no distance at all - ie not even to the house from the car - and need support. Most days are in between those extremes. Do you really begrudge my blue badge because on some days I can walk a bit?

Heck, the judgy pants on this thread

I don't always use a Dis Bay if I am having a 'good day' but one day I parked in a bay as was in a lot of pain and a woman knocked on my window as I parked and said "are you disabled?", instead of saying "none of your jeffing business" I was a bit taken off guard and said "yes". She came back with "good!" I was a .
On another note, stopped at supermarket the other day, was having a 'good day' so parked in normal space. Walked past disabled spaces on way in to see a lady jump out of her 4x4 (long way down!) and when she saw me she started to limp and drag her leg a bit. I thought " god, how does she manage getting in and out of that thing, she should have bought something nearer the ground?".
Strangley enough saw her in supermarket 2 mins later and she was walking completely normally!

..And to add to that, on days I am well enough to be out, the disabled bays can make a difference between being able to do something and not - I don't go to supermarkets much as I find them too much hard work but to be able to go out with my children, etc - if I coudln't use the spaces I would often struggle too much to make the trip viable.

I am not resentful of a car parking space, don't be so ridiculous.

What's the point I'd aibu if you can't comment on things you have witnessed.

I don't either on my best days - I like to walk if I can :)

I DO use my blue badge on my good days. This is because I'm prone to thinking my problem has gone away and then paying for it big time the next day.

Too true Klad. I tend to not use it on best days but that could well mean a worse day the next day. Problem is I can never tell...it's just crap

Or, I should add, because my good day will stop being a good day half way round the supermarket (or whatever) and then I'm up the creek.

Madhairday, that's why half the time I feel like a fraud, because I can't balance the ups and downs in my own head.

Aha! Was it you tough ? Thought you were too posh to shop in Aldi
Nah, my point was the miraculous recovery in 2 mins! One minute leg dragging the next minute fine as can be.
I find normal supermarkets too big to walk around so Aldi is ok for bits and pieces.

Mine is like that kladd, I can be fine and then just put my foot down and be in agony and not be able to walk. You are sensible to always use it really, I just seem to get so many judgey looks for some reason?

@ tough

So do I Cheeky. I hate it. It makes me less inclined to even bother going out.

Klad yes I do that too, feel like a fraud and get myself in a tizz about it all, but then the next day when I can barely move remember why and resolve never to be so daft or give in to such feelings. But still do. aaaaaaggggghhhh

I think it's one of the reasons it is so very upsetting for disabled people to get comments and looks. We already live with the ups and downs of having a condition and life is hard enough without people thinking we are lying scroungers

My son will sit in the car and read the paper. He hates supermarkets, he can't cope with the noise, the lights, the smells. He has AS. So, I'll bung my daughter in her chair and take her in, we have a wander, look at the clothes and then go back. We use dds blue badge, because dh is in the car, looking normal. He too has a blue badge, not that you'd know to look at him. Dd would also be very distressed to come back and find the car had moved, because she too has AS, as well as needing a wheelchair.
I'm sorry, feeling, you really are being way to judgey. We all know there are idiots that abuse the system, we just don't always know which they are.

too. Sorry.

I DO use my blue badge on my good days. This is because I'm prone to thinking my problem has gone away and then paying for it big time the next day

Shit isn't it?

I have a fluctuating condition to.

I'm so scared of being challenged over my badge. Some days it's fine, I'm in a mobility scooter and if I do have to walk a bit I have a very obvious limp and probably look like I'm in pain too (because I bloody am).

But there are days when the pain isn't quite so bad and I can walk a bit. I walk perfectly normally, if a little slower than other people, so if you saw me walk from the car to the shops you'd think I was completely fine and abusing the badge. However follow me round the shop and pretty quickly my limp starts up and I slow down as the pain starts to kick in (and it seems to go from 0 to 60mph very quickly and suddenly I'm in agony). I find my limp pretty embarrassing so I do try and suppress it on occasion too.

Then there are the days where it's not so sore to walk (although they're very rare and usually I've been in bed for a week all day every day for things to settle down that much), but even then I use my badge because I know I'm still very limited in how far I can walk and even if I did get round the shop without things hurting, that evening and the next day I will have an escalation in the pain which won't then piss off for ages, so I know I mustn't overdo it.

It's just not straightfoward. People who steal blue badges to use or park in disabled bays illegally, out of laziness, make it worse for everyone with an invisible disability. Please just because you see someone without an obvious disability, don't assume it's stolen/they aren't disabled. They could well be.

I have never been challenged over my badge - if I was I would make SUCH a fuss they'd wish they hadn't bothered. I'd also whip off my boots and shove my bionic ankles complete with impressive scars right under their noses, THAT would shut them up

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