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I'm No Longer Ashamed of Using Disability Parking With an Invisible Illness

“You should be ashamed of yourself.” These are the words I heard recently as I approached my car. They were coming from a woman who had just exited the same store I was in and was walking to her car a few spaces away from mine. At first, I had no idea why this woman [...]

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Disabled parking permit hanging in the window of a car.

Amelia Blackwater

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6 Reasons Not to Feel Guilty About Using a Disability Parking Placard

There are a lot of stigmas that surround using a disability parking placard. When this discussion of the disability parking placard is brought up, I always hear the same thing, “They just give out disability placards to anyone these days.” It gets my blood boiling. There are many reasons you can need to use disability [...]

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Jennifer Burgmann

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#CheckInWithMe #Disability #Wheelchair #Accessibility #Parking

COMIC STRIP- "Accessible Parking"
A Day in the Life of a PWD

Frame 1:
A man in a wheelchair confronts a driver who has parked his car in an accessible stall without a permit.
DRIVER: But I was only parked here for 5 minutes.

Frame 2:
A man in a wheelchair confronts a driver who has parked her delivery van in an accessible stall.
DRIVER (carrying a box): But I just have to make a quick delivery.

Frame 3:
A man in a wheelchair confronts a driver who has parked her car in an accessible stall without a permit.
DRIVER: But all the other stalls are full.

Frame 4:
A man in a wheelchair confronts a driver who has parked her vehicle in an accessible stall withoutapermit.
DRIVER: But I have my kids with me.

Frame 5:
A man in a wheelchair confronts a driver who has parked his taxi in an accessible stall.
DRIVER: But I'm just picking up a customer.

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Angela

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@gloaming

mobility 4y

How to deal with new #mobility issues

I’ve always been fairly active, but when I got sick in mid-March (just a couple months ago!), all that changed. Now the fatigue and muscle weakness are so profound that I struggle to walk more than 15 feet at a time. Sometimes my husband has to help me to the bathroom.

I’m working with three doctors (adding a fourth in a couple weeks) to figure out what’s going on. I’m so grateful for their care, but sometimes I don’t know which doctor to ask for help.

These new mobility challenges are turning out to be very difficult, and I don’t know which doctor to ask about it. I’m undiagnosed at this point, so it feels like I don’t really have the “right” to assistance, but I’m still struggling to get around. I also don’t feel like I can seek help from organizations that help people with certain diagnoses, because I don’t know what the heck my diagnosis is.

Does anyone know a good resource? Should I talk to the neurologist? The rheumatologist? The endocrinologist? My PCP?

#mobility #Parking #Cane #Undiagnosed

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MiaB

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@29mia

Disabled 4y

For those of you with disabled person's license plates and/or parking decals.. how was the process for you?

I've been thinking more and more lately with my progressing symptoms that I should get at least a parking decal. I hadn't been to worried about it before because I rarely drive myself anymore, but when I do it can be difficult finding decent parking at the few places that I frequent (hospital, grocery store, etc.) From what I have read online on the DOR website the process seems pretty straightforward and simple. Can anyone give some insight on their personal experience? #Disabled #Parking #parkingdecal #ChronicIllness #InvisibleIllness #ChronicPain #ChronicFatigue #imbalance #mobility #Mobilityaid #Cane