not looking disabled?!

Mojo_Fones

stefos wrote: »

Unequivocably, if you're in a wheelchair then you should be allowed to park as near to the supermarket entrance as possible. If you have two legs and can manage to walk around the supermarket then you can manage the extra 20 yards from where you parked the car. Too many people seem to qualify at the moment in my opinion. Unless it's raining of course, when everybody becomes disabled, obviously suffering from Ombrophobia!

£10 says you're an Atos assessor. :rotfl:

eskimo26

stefos wrote: »

Unequivocably, if you're in a wheelchair then you should be allowed to park as near to the supermarket entrance as possible. If you have two legs and can manage to walk around the supermarket then you can manage the extra 20 yards from where you parked the car. Too many people seem to qualify at the moment in my opinion. Unless it's raining of course, when everybody becomes disabled, obviously suffering from Ombrophobia!

Sorry but your way off, chronic conditions don't work like that!!
Its often a choice, go shopping OR walk from the parking space to the car. There often isn't enough energy or pain threshold to do both, the badge ENABLES these people to go shopping.

The problem is your thinking like a person with no stamina problems. Don't take each activity as separate, each one expends your energy and you have a lot lot less then the average person. Your stamina goes to zero very very fast and then your dealing with a relapse in condition and recovery time. I hope i'm explaining this well.

Consider CFS, people with this condition have unrefreshed sleep so they recover much less energy then they expended during the day and wake up feeling as bad as the night before if not worse.

My uncle has only half a lung that's functioning. He can walk short distances fine in short bursts but could he walk the extra distance if he had no blue badge? Doubtful, he looks like an average guy but he spends all night on oxygen from a tank beside his bed. He was also in intensive care with a 50% chance of survival only a few years ago.

You also have to consider people that are fine until they go over there stamina threshold and then they are at risk of extreme pain or death.

When i heard of ESA i was very happy imagining this government would use it to put a system in place that supports people with chronic illnesses. Some of us would be able to work under the care of dedicated specialists who understood pacing, grading and the other things that we need implemented at work. The government has made things worse for us in everyway. We need dedicated support not to be cajoled and beaten like we're fine but just need a bit of persuasion.

There is no understanding of chronic conditions even with GP's we sometimes fall through the gaps. Mine put back my condition by years.:(

Also with two many people qualifying, these are rich people buying them off a burgeoning black market. Besides how do disabled spaces hurt anyone? Its just plain envy.