conuly

I hate those attitudes. What, it might cost them an extra half hour, fifteen minute walk each way, maybe a potential temper tantrum... call it an extra hour of their lives. Well, great - suck it up. If I have to walk extra it'll cost me an extra few days, because that's what I need to recover from walking for twenty minutes. Plus, if I am already low on energy, it means I may end up having health problems wherever I am, and thus a) not be able to accomplish whatever I was there for b) have to do things that are socially awkward like lying down in public places (but it's less socially awkward than fainting).

My sister got a temp placard while she was pregnant. And if you feel the doctors in your area are unreasonably prejudiced against the potentially disabling aspects of being pregnant, by all means fight that. But stop taking spaces if you're not disabled. I don't have any sympathy for your "just five minutes" and not wanting to walk for ten minutes. And that's for one very simple reason: You can walk for 10 minutes.

You can, and you won't suffer any horrible consequences from it. In fact, for many of those people it will actively be good for them. It will improve their health. And it won't cause them agonizing pain.

Really, I'm too lawful for my own good. I'm stuck in limbo with so many of my benefits being based on vision, but needed for mobility issues. I'm not using my placard til I can sort it out, because technically I have it for blindness. But I'm uncertain on whether that's actually the right choice, since I'm damaging myself by not using it. But I really do like following the law. The tricky part is figuring out who to go to to get my placard for other reasons, since I don't really trust my GP to understand, and I'm about to probably lose my health insurance. Which means going out less often, because I truly can't handle the walking.

I just wish that every time someone parked in a handicapped spot without anyone handicapped being involved that they would then get the horrible leg pains that I get when I overwalk. Not anything too horrible... I wouldn't force on them all of my symptoms, but let them get the leg pains. Oh, and the inability to use my legs. So, they have to take itty, bitty steps and have trouble on staircases. They can also have the hip pain. Just a small fraction of what extra walking costs me. Every so often, if they get tired of that and want a change of pace, we can just trap them in their cars for awhile and pretend they need a wheelchair they can't exit the car with.