Verbal abuse about PIP and mobility car - which I don't have!

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I don't look like i have a disability but I do, and I have a blue badge. I have a nice car and a private reg, all paid for from me working full time for the last 30 odd years.

Parked in the supermarket and some 'prick' walked past me and made a comment under his breath, I asked what he meant and he straight said to me I shouldn't be parking there as it for disabled people. I said something back to him and flashed him my blue badge that I was putting on the dash. I turned around to put the badge back and he started on about aw right, mental health, PIP, flashy mobility cars, etc, etc and before I got chance to respond (I was a bit in shock and did not want a big argument in the car park) he walked off.

I do not have a visible disability, I do not get PIP and I do not have a mobility car. I have a blue badge.

AIBU to think I should be able to use my blue badge without getting verbally abused by some know it all, I was fuming btw and quite embarrassed cause other people had heard and what if they thought the same.

Absolutely! YANBU I managed to get PIP but I only get standard rate mobility so like you I have to fund my own car to get me and my blue badge around. I have arthritis but on some days I do appear fine to other people, however, I've been lucky so far and nobody has said anything.
Sending love I hope you're okay x

Unfortunately there is so much antagonism towards disabled people lately. Either you're being had a go at for having the audacity to be disabled in the first place,or some twat thinks 'you don't look disabled enough'. I think the right wing media (and this current government) are responsible for whipping up a lot of this hatred. All I can say to these people is just hope that YOU don't end up disabled one day.

YANBU self imposed BB police are the worst. My best friend has a BB and is often out in a little sports car (with her DH as she is not allowed to drive).

I hope you are ok.

Some people are just twats. He is probably also a twat to other drivers, cyclists, people queuing in the post office, and does nothing to enhance anyone's life.

Just ignore any muttered comments. It is not worth it, imo.

Yes and there are posters on here starting threads trying to stir up hatred. It’s depressing and I don’t think Mumsnet should tolerate it.

Fueled by vested interests who want us to look away from the non payers huge corporations not paying any tax to trade here....they want us to be divided and resent each other...playbook stuff.
Sorry OP...this is encouraged by our politicians

Disabled people are just another group of people to scapegoat, and blame for there being "less money", or whatever term that they use.

The spoken words " go fuck yourself" come to mind but I appreciate you're a lot more polite than I'd be.

Would have told the daily mail walking headline ...to fuck off!

How rude

It sounds like he was channelling his inner Nick Ferrari!

The government have stirred up the hatred towards disabled people.

I have an elderly relative who is virtually housebound/disabled non driver. She gets legacy DLA at the highest rate. She has been offered a motability scooter but wont get one. She says she does not want her neighbours to know she is on a benefit of any kind because of the stigma. Instead uses her DLA to pay for taxis to hospital/GP. This is exactly what DLA is for, She claims no other benefits and pays tax on her very modest occupational pension. Its a dreadful thing when a hard working citizen who has paid tax all their working life is afraid to make use of something which would give her a bit of freedom.

I am so sorry this happened to you. I hope you are ok and can be reassured by the responses in your thread. Sadly you came across one of the many stinking used arsewipes in society who are fuelled by the media and politicians whipping up hatred. Their divide and conquer approach means people are too busy attacking groups that are other to them than scrutinizing the wastrels and wankers that infect the corridors of power and influence. I'd like to call those who swallow their shit brainwashed but that assumes these willing foot-soldiers have a brain to begin with. With luck this man will spontaneously combust in his deluded outrage.

No one would know though, unless she told them how she obtained her scooter. They do not have a special mark on them. People are not offered these things either, they have to go on the Motabiility website to see what fits their needs.

Unfortunately, the disabled are now also turning on each other. I have a teen who is a goth and 17, she is also blind. Plus other disabilities. She chooses to not always use her long cane. We get shouted out a lot by other Blue Badge holders for legitimately using allocated disabled spaces.

How unsettling that must be for your Daughter, to have to hear some people acting like that.

I only use the BB at the supermarket and at work so I can be close to the entrance as I have arthritis in both feet and struggle with pain and balance when walking.

I have not applied for PIP, but even if I did, I wouldn't get a mobility car, I love the one I have and have paid for everything my whole life, raised 2 children, struggled but not relied on anyone else.

I was just so angry.

It's because of all the hate stirred up by the media. He was a cunt, try to forget him

The media, and the Government have enabled a lot of unpleasant quiet thoughts, to become loud, vocal, and outspoken. Many people have no shame anymore, and feel quite entitled to make, what used to be unsaid, said. Real people, are being affected by this. Words have power.

I know you shouldn't have to but DH had a sunflower lanyard that he wore in places where he thought he might get some agro. Noone ever actually challenged him but he did get some looks for not looking disabled enough with his terminal cancer

Yes my blind god son wont use his cane anymore as he gets abuse these days.

Its why all the mn threads saying "we dont mean real disabled people" upset me. People do mean them and your words make it harder for them.

I spend a lot of time with 3 different people with significant disabilities and the abuse has ramped up when we out an about due to this media frenzy. Abuse is either verbal, including shouting, blocking entry ways to give opinion or make it purposely difficult, or accidently on purpose bumping them.

What sort of Society are we becoming? Some blind people are scared to be seen with a stick, as they fear some type of abuse, while trying to get on with their lives. I am lost for words.

How would they know?