Was I BU to use the disabled toilet?

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At a local national trust place today, just me with Dd age 6 and baby in his pram.
The baby change unit in the loos is just in the main area, there's a long row of (tiny) cubicles and a large disabled loo with a sink in.
Dd and I both needed the loo, there was nobody around, so I took both kids in the disabled loo.
As we came out there was a woman approaching the loos on a crutch. She hadn't been waiting - she was just approaching as we exited. She told me, sharply, that I shouldn't have used that loo, the baby changing wasn't in there. I said I knew that, we hadn't needed to use it, just wanted a bigger cubicle so as not to leave the baby outside. She replied it didn't make any difference as none of us was disabled.
Was I BU to use the disabled loo?

But your children are perfectly entitled to use the disabled toilet Walton, neither the OP nor her child/ren have such issues

Oh my GOD, read the FUCKING THREAD.

x-post trufflesnout yes, I believe IBS is an 'umbrella diagnosis' for lots of bowel conditions (or at least that's what the GP said to me when he diagnosed me)

needaholiday you want equal rights to the facilities provided for the disabled? Really? Do you want equal rights to the mens' toilets, too?

Accessibility refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities.

Not so much that it's an umbrella term, more that it has subsets. IBS-D, IBS-C and IBS-A.

In a perfect world there'd be parent and baby bathrooms I suppose.

More and more places have them now Greys, when DS was little everytime I went past a debenhams I would go to the toilet just as I knew it was the easiest place.

Oh thats good, I didn't know that Sirzy must try to get out more

Are people really expecting her to leave the baby outside a regular cubicle?
With a six year old - yes.

Needaholiday seems to be the sort of person who would refuse to move her buggy out of the wheelchair space on a bus too, after all why should she for some disabled person she doesn't know, equal rights you know

It's people with that attitude that means disabled people end up staying home as they can't access the bus spaces or toilets that were designed for them

The ones locally are are very good, they have the "baby" change type rooms and family toilets. A lot very have two toilets a normal size one and a smaller one.

YWBVVU.
What is it with parents thinking they can just use the adaptations disabled people fought for decades to win?

Parking bays, ramps and spaces on buses, loos - someone didn't just come along one day and decide to provide them out of the goodness of their hearts, they struggled and fought for them.

I remember how tough it was - I had all of my children within four years. It got a damned sight harder when they didn't start walking and got wheelchairs.

Honestly what you do actively makes people's lives miserable and strips their dignity at times. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

I'm quite happy to do a kid swap for a day by the way, I'll take your buggy riding little one and you can take DS2 or DD and see how you get on with people making life impossible just because they see adaptations as a handy short cut.

needaholidaynow, Accessibility refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities.

Waltonswatcher - autism and bowel issues are completely good reasons to use the disabled toilet. Surely autism is a disability?

I don't understand all the people saying that they use the disabled toilet, have a very good reason/have hidden disabilities and get tutted at - yes, and that is wrong, it happens to us too. But the op was asking if she was unreasonable to use the disabled toilet - and has no hidden disabilities/medical needs (unless she has but didn't mention them in the op)

If I want to use the accessible toilet because I have a pram, then I will. Screw people who have a problem with that!!

Do you feel the same way about blue badge spaces or are you just that selfish about lavatories?

Talk about a storm in a teacup...............

So you stick to using the women's toilet and leave the disabled toilets for those who can't access the women's.

Where the fuck is the OP anyway? Touch of the GF perhaps?

It's called an "accessible" toilet. It is there for convenience for people who need it for whatever reason, including the fact that they have a pram. Toilets which are specifically for disabled people have those keys don't they?

What choice do I have by the way? Leave my baby outside? Sorry no I'm not doing that. If that makes me selfish then oh well.

How dare you talk about choices? My dds did not ask to be born early. They didn't ask to suffer lack of oxygen at birth, they didn't ask to use wheelchairs. But by god they've got a better attitude toward other folk than you have.

Sounds about right, Sauvignon

No not really. Women's toilets will do just fine thankyou - exactly!