I badge blu per le disabilità nascoste triplicano mentre i comuni rilasciano permessi ai conducenti con ansia e ADHD

Can someone explain to me (as someone with autism spectrum, mind) why someone with anxiety or ADHD needs to park in a disabled spot? My understanding was they were there so people with physical disabilities can more easily get in and out of their vehicles…?

Typical nonsense story. Their evidence of this is they saw a TicToc where people were ‘encouraged’ to apply for a blue badge with ADHD, so that is clearly absolutely definitive, nothing untrue has ever existed on social media.

Oh great.

My son was deemed to disabled for a blue badge.

I’m not kidding.

He scored 12 points on the planning part of pip. He’s very disabled with no chance of improvement so got an indefinite award on pip.

So I applied to renew his badge only to be told no he needed to score 10, to get the badge back!!!!! Another 3 month wait 7 more pages of evidence, gp, social worker and sen school back up we have it back.

The sad thing is a lot of parents with really disabled kids are so stressed they don’t fight back. Pip took high rate mobility from a kid at his school with cp. His mum said she was too scared and exhausted to go to court to fight it.

Applications or actual badges issued?

My mother can not stand unaided, nor walk more than a few steps without a frame or walker. She has decades of medical evidence to prove her spinal damage and the impact it has on her mobility. We still had to jump through hoops to get one, and still have to jump through hoops to renew it.

I call BS on this one.

Yet another article deamonising people with disabilities. Exaggerate one small faction to imply all disabled benefit recipients are scammers.

So many people enjoying watching people with disabilities suffer.

Absolutely zero evidence other than the numbers increasing? Total Tory shit piece.

We are quickly approaching a place where there is almost two parallel systems. One for those with these kinds of disabilities ( debate on the legitimacy of some of these claims aside), and those who don’t.

It’s going to create resentment in the later group, many who perceive to be paying for all this. My local town now costs £9.60 for 4 hours of parking, but a disabled badge holder can park for free for 3 hours on double yellow lines.

I worry we’re minimising the physical limitations that day to day life has for people with physical disabilities with this over focused on mental health disorders. I say this as someone with diagnosed ADHD, I’ve been in so many trainings about disability where they talk about me for hours and physical disabilities are an add on.

I think it comes from a good place buts it’s an overcorrection when it comes to things like this. I think it has created a sense of entitlement rather than support.

I wouldn’t mind seeing the 40 or so disabled spots used at my local tesco. Silliness aside, I’m not sure how I feel about this. There will be plenty of places where there is limited parking for disabled people and well a physical disability and a mental disability will have huge differences for access.

A couple years ago there were two disabled spaces on my entire street, and one on the adjoining street. Council put up parking meters and suddenly – and I wish I was exaggerating – the entire street, along with the adjoining ones are nothing but painted “disabled” spaces. There are two outwardly physically disabled people on my street, the same people who had the original disabled spaces. Everyone else, well if they are disabled it’s the invisible kind. Lived here over a decade so I am very familiar with my neighbours. 

Two members of my household are disabled themselves and whilst we will get to a point of needing a blue badge eventually, currently the 5 min walk to a street with available parking is still doable so we haven’t applied. 

As someone with diagnosed anxiety, not self proclaimed made up bullshit, i am massively confused as to why someone with anxiety needs a blue badge ? It has nothing to do with your ability to get out of a car and walk an extra 10ft …

It’s shocking how the media asserts ideological positions through apparently neutral headlines.

They write “Half of the schoolkids in Randomshire are ASN”, as if describing a fact, but knowing that this headline is written and read from a position of outrage, more like “HalF of KiDDOS are ASSN??!!!!! Howww??! Benefits!”.

You’ll never see other headlines though, like:

“Gentry member (Duke of Westminster) avoided 40% inheritance tax”.

“Half of autistic adults systematically excluded from access to employment”.

Funny.

Anxiety should not be on the list of things to get a blue badge for, absolute pisstake

I scored 8/9 on both inattentive and hyperactive scales when doing my ADHD test in the UK, so I have it pretty bad.

I can’t imagine why the hell I would need a disabled parking permit? If I’m in a huge car park and there’s a risk I’ll forget where I parked I just take a picture of the car / zone etc.

Ragebait article and a complete distraction. All part of the deserving/undeserving poor narrative to get people frothing.

Nobody should fall for this, then they would stop.

A lot of people I see don’t even feel the need to apply for a blue badge and waltz into the supermarket from the closest spot they can find.

“As” councils issue permits to drivers with anxiety and ADHD, not “because”. LBC are heavily implying the reason why more blue badge holders is because of anxiety and ADHD but they don’t present any evidence that that is the case.

Misleading stories like this create a more hostile environment for disabled people, and could lead to an uptick in people accosting blue badge holders because they don’t “look disabled”. Shame on LBC.

I’m fuming learning how people con the system. I’ve ankylosing spolynditis and I don’t even qualify for ADP because I’m too independent (it’s a fair assessment) and it grind my gears that people get benefits, cars, etc with engineered disability claims.

Another divisive article to put the spotlight on the disabled

If you spend any time watching disabled bays you’ll see that the system is being exploited by selfish arseholes.

Many blue badges are issued for people with higher level mobility PIP. The majority of people with PIP have multiple conditions however only the primary condition is reported for each person and primary condition usually comes down to the first listed condition. Conditions are usually listed in alphabetical order so you see a lot of people who appear to be getting PIP for anxiety, ADHD and autism when they actually have multiple other conditions alongside those which aren’t reported.