So following requests for a topic relating to adults and/or children with physical disabilities, we now have two new threads... mumsnetters with disabilities and mumsnetters with neuro diversity.
The requests from the original poster and contributors to that thread were specifically asking for a topic on physical disabilities relating to PIP, wheelchairs, employment adjustments and generally advice on living with the multitude of physical disabilities which affect people. These include illnesses causing physical disablement, like accidents, arthritis, multiple sclerosis etc, as well as long standing conditions like cerebral palsy. So this audience is large and generally ignored.
So what have we ended up with? Two topics which yet again are all about neuro diversity, ASD, ADHD, dyslexia and so on. 2 out of the first 28 posts (gave up counting then) are actually related to physical disability. Those 2 posts are lost in the other posts and have a couple or no replies.
On the original request post there was a lot of pushback from posters pointing out that autism was classed as a disability and therefore there need not be a distinction. No one denied it was a disability but the request was for support for physical disabilities, which are quite different, and which has just been ignored.
Honestly MN, adding the word 'physical' to the new disability topic does not make you discriminatory. It just clarifies and signposts the topic and stops people like me, with a physically disabled teenager, from feeling pushed out into the cold. A good opportunity to embrace true inclusion has been thrown away.