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What counts as disability?
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if you are a slow learner and went to a special school can you get a free bus pass.0
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“Parents and professional should be allies to young disabled people by
• Empowering disabled children to have a strong sense of self as disabled people
• Struggling to stop segregative practice
• Building strong peer relationships with disabled and non-disabled peers.”0 -
I have been forces into uni. So i still get dla but i now only get £14 in benefit for 2 people to live on due to student finance which is supposed to last 3 months it lasted 3 weeks due to everything stopping. As all claims were put on hold till they decided what was going on. Sf had to b used to pay 4 months back rent n bills. Im now cold n skint0
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In one sentence, Mind power is what counts if you're suffering from any kind of physical or mental disability.0
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I'm deaf , I wear two hearing aids, I was told to go to welfare rights and get them to help me apply for DLA, the reply I got from the guy there was "if all that's wrong with you is deafness then I'm not wasting my time filling in forms" he said I had no chance so just bin the forms.
I was under the impression deafness was classed as a disability?
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Yes but people who are "only" deaf don't tend to have many care needs if hearing aids help. DLA is for people who can't tend to their own care needs (like washing, dressing, preparing food, going to the toilet etc) after themselves or who have difficulty with mobilising. It's not money to compensate for being disabled and not all disabled people qualify.0
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my husband has end stage kidney failure, it effects every part of his life, tho he looks like an able 30 year old at first glance. with no treatment it could kill him within a week. he has dialysis 3 times a week and is very ill, but hes not classed as disabled. though if you look up the defintion in a dictionary i would dissagree!0
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Thing is it's not about what disability you have but how it stops you looking after & feeding yourself. I was born with kidney failure so have had experience being young, middle age & now older (past 60) & have found people are so quick to judge. I look healthy most of the time as I pop on a bit of make up to cover the palid face, I have to walk with sticks due to bone disease, so now have DLA & a blue badge. I have learnt over the years not to waste energy on what other people think, but it is so hard when you have a invisible problem.
I am never rude but have been know to tell someone that is none of there business, which is isn't . :-)0 -
Maybe they have continence problems and are running to the toilet.
Oh in that case HRM & HRC for them. I have the same issues and cannot believe anyone would be that stupid to make that sort of trip without preparing themselves before leaving home.
Secondly, if you can get a blue badge just for that one issue, it shows just how much the system has gone wrong. That problem you describe is a condition, not a disability.
Far too many claim a condition as a disability, on this site, someone then supports that view by copying and pasting some gumpf trying to back it up.0 -
babushkava wrote: »I would like a blue badge, so that I could park a couple of minutes from the shops and this would give me some extra minutes to collect items in the shop. It would also mean that I could make several trips back to the car, rest and then return to the shop. But I can walk more than 50 yards without a stick, probably about 100 yards, on a better day, I wonder why there is no scope to help people like us?
Because it should be restricted to those who CANNOT walk, such as wheelchair users (I mean real ones that are issued through Wheelchair services, not purchased from EBay), I am fed up of having no life because I cannot mobilise yet all the parking spaces are filled by people with illnesses that still allow the left foot to walk infront of the right.
Shopping, paying, banking, saving, browsing, online, does not allow you to see your area! I recently managed to go down town and was shocked that several shops had gone, some new ones were there, but they had built two large shops!0
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