Invisible Illness Awareness Week continues...

[nilchance]

Fortuitous timing: a woman with an invisible disability speaks out about parking. It's from a Christian news site, but the writer is concentrating on disability issues, not her faith.

ETA: edited to clarify.

Comments

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

nowadays I just focus on whether they have the blue parking sticker/tag - if they do, enough said

[nilchance.livejournal.com]

Exactly! If the DMV gives it to them, I'm not one to judge.

Once my mom, who had the tag displayed and was using a cane, was ticketed by a parking attendant who thought she didn't look disabled enough to have that tag. It took SIX MONTHS to get that fine erased from her record.

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

I also point out that it is not the DMV that makes the disability call - it is the family doctor who does. So unless they want to argue with my doctor - in which case feel free to call her and she'll fill you in on my medical history. and then they can call social security disability administration. and then they can call my employer's disability program.

and then they can call my cousin Vinnie who *loves* to ...explain...things to people.

personally, what I do is this - unless I am seriously hurting (like today) and/or there is no parking in my walking radius, I always leave the handicapped spots free because there may be people who need it more than me - that day.