Hidden Disabilities Time To Fight Back

I've had a lot of the same experiences. Glares when parking in a disabled bay or using lifts.

I used to go on another forum and spoke about my boyfriend moving in so he could care for me, and then that I was going to mystery shop gigs, and was asked how I could go to gigs if I couldn't even cook a meal. (Disabled seating area, is how). I found it hilarious that being unable to cook a meal to them was the most disabled you could get!

I too use my stick partly as a visual clue that there's something wrong.

One of the best was from social services when I was trying to get an assessment. They gave lots of excuses, the best being 'if you take medication for the bipolar then you wont have the ME problems'. !!!!!!?!

A couple of weeks ago I got a community care grant giro. I gave it to my bf/carer to cash but he didn't have my ID, so he came out to the car to fetch me. The cashier at the post office wouldn't let me go straight to the front of the queue, even though bf had already queued once. By the time I'd stood in line to get to the front I was about to collapse.

And don't get me started about the discrimination I faced at university!

What/where is the disability thread that people are complaining about, I must have missed that completely.

Hi guys!
Im a mum of 5, one has ADHD and ASD and another 3 have ADHD traits. I am dyslexia and my mum has schizophrenia and has done since before I was born.

The amount of abuse I have had from society over the years could of made me bitter and twisted. As a child the mental and verbal abuse was horrific. I had a 'mental' mum, life sucked. I have tried the best for my kids and yet they get bullied as my son has ADHD and ASD children take it out on his sibling ( in a verbal way more than any other way)

The thing is I just do not see societies negative views. When I see somebody who is acting out of the norm ( whatever that is) in my mind there is a reason, I do not understand why others don't see this? I know that many ppl dont have the experiences of hidden disabilities but that's not so much the point, the point is everybody is an individual and society as a whole keeps seeing the rest of society as a herd of sheep all to be the same, treated the same.

The key is education and the only real way to educated is to educate from the bottom up. The little children in nursery and reception need to be taught and exposed to hidden diabilites and disability on the whole, within a generation the out look could be brighter but only if we can help shake this prejudice that rules at the moment.

I forgot to say that I decided if you cant beat em join em.... I will kick !!! in less that 3 yrs when (praying) I qualify as a a social worker. I promise I will fight the corner for all my service users :-)

mouseymousey99 wrote: »

Just to give this a different slant. I have a wheelchair, which I loathe using. The first week, we were on holiday. I sat with my partner when along came a lady & her husband. The 'lady' grabbed me by the shoulder and started talking very s-l-o-w-l-y (you get the idea)...
'Are you having a nice holiday'? Hard to describe but in the way some adults speak to children...it was awful just awful..
my partner by now had to hide his face - dreading what I was going to say/do next.....
I was too dumbstruck to do much (if you knew me you would know how amazing that was....)
anyways, the whole thing has left me with a total wheely phobia - I dread it - so I use my stick.....unfortunate I realise but the 'does he take sugar' brigade are alive, well and out there.......

You might like this? It is a film I saw yesterday in one of my lectures click on film 3 http://film.lltv.co.uk/index.html

tiannaleigh wrote: »

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my 3year old daughter has autism and I have the very same problem with her in shops.I have to go the chemist every week to pick a prescription up for myself,and the pharmacist last week told me I wasnt allowed to bring her into the shop anymore as she is to noisy and this could lead to him making mistakes.I tried to explain she is autistic ,but he just replied "we dont see that we just see a distruptive child",and I would have to make alternative arrangements for her when i come in.I have nobody else that can look after her,she doesnt even go nursery yet,as they wont have her until she has a support worker.He wouldnt beleive me and just replied"of course you can make other arrangements"
Of all the shops I have ever been in with my little girl,I have never ever seen anybody treat her so badly,

That's awful tianna.

Does your pharmacist run a delivery service?

It's not right that you shouldn't be able to go in, but perhaps if someone from there was willing to go to you instead

I don't know if he can insist you don't take your daughter. Is there another pharmacist you can use?

Pipkin xxxx

As well as the earlier suggestions

1. Is it part of a chain of pharmacists? If it is I would contact head office.

2. Would your GP contact the pharmacist and confirm that your daughter has a medical diagnosis?

3. Is it possible for your GP to fax or email the prescription through, then all you need to do is go in and collect it without a wait?

4. There is a link in this thread to a company who will dispense meds by post in special blister packs, maybe they could take over your dispensing for you?

5. Contact the National Autistic Society and see if they can offer any advice on resolving this situation.