Blaue Plaketten für versteckte Behinderungen verdreifachen sich, da die Kommunen Fahrern mit Angstzuständen und ADHS Genehmigungen ausstellen
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/blue-badges-triple-drivers-anxiety-adhd-5HjdZKb_2/
Von tylerthe-theatre
Blaue Plaketten für versteckte Behinderungen verdreifachen sich, da die Kommunen Fahrern mit Angstzuständen und ADHS Genehmigungen ausstellen
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/blue-badges-triple-drivers-anxiety-adhd-5HjdZKb_2/
Von tylerthe-theatre
41 Kommentare
And here I am having to fight for one. The application requires a written diagnosis from your GP and mine has consistently refused to accept there is anything wrong with me. Guess I’ll just have to struggle for parking then
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 shit-stirring from the far-right LB…C… ah.
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.
I have arthritis and severe mobility issues and I couldn’t get one from my local council, how the hell do you get one for anxiety and ADHD?
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.
Everyone is different nobody should take the piss.
My anxiety locks my back up. My nans in hospital this week and my back feels like my liver is about to do a backwards alien chestburst scene. I’m pretty sure it works differently in different people but don’t be out here assuming.
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.
You know r/unitedkingdom turned into a rage bait sub so quickly I didn’t even notice
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.
There’s no point getting angry at this, what are we actually getting angry about, jealousy that we can’t park in the disabled bays?
We really need a societal switch moving away from ragebait and get people motivated by being happy.
Absolutely zero evidence other than the numbers increasing? Total Tory shit piece.
Everything in life that starts off meaning well, eventually gets emptied of any real meaning sooner or later.
Unless the number of disabled bays also triple it just means that people with Blue Badges won’t get a disabled bay anyway. Quite a few pay and display car parks now charge people with Blue Badges so it’s not even a case of having one guaranteeing free parking.
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.
Reminder for people: don’t fall for the anti-disability propaganda.
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.
As the husband and carer for a disabled wife. Wheelchair, van with a ramp…
My two penys worth.
The blue badge system needs a complete overhaul.
Mobility allowance should be the only criteria for automatic acceptance. A board with face to face interviews for exceptions.
The DWP can issue the badge, take it out of the hands of local council.
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.
Clickbait headline fake news for anyone who didn’t bother reading, councils are not “handing out blue badges to people with anxiety and ADHD”. The council have reported an uptick in applications based on these diagnosis thanks to TikTok scammers, but the provision of hidden disabilities was and remains designed for things like cognitive degenerative disease. Just another “whip up the masses in outrage over mental health benefits” nonsense headline
My son has autism and would be Thrown into this misleading article, he cannot follow instruction, he has no danger awareness, he would just run into the path of a car, road, any danger he would have no understanding of. It’s unfair to do these misleading articles to stir up hate
Anecdotally, my mother in law is physically disabled and uses a blue badge. She has noticed it becoming harder and harder to get a disabled spot and that the people who park in those spots tend to not look physically disabled more often than she’d seen in the past
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.
As someone with anxiety, OCD, depression and ADHD, people like me don’t need a disability parking spot. It should be for physically disabilities only.
Anxiety should not be on the list of things to get a blue badge for, absolute pisstake
You don’t need a blue badge for anxiety or ADHD. Get your shit together.
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.
The media is doing an excellent job at minimising ADHD and autism. Especially autism. Some low functioning autistic people genuinely struggle with staying safe and not running away, getting lost or jumping into traffic. Remember it’s a spectrum and some people have it severely
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.
My three kids have ASD and ADHD, my son has a blue badge. We live in London, public transport isn’t possible for our kids, the blue badge means we can use our car more as we have more opportunities to park. The problem with tabloid headlines is that they don’t actually care for nuance, it’s looking for more scapegoats to bully. We should be angry that our economy has tanked due to very powerful people constantly putting their own needs ahead of society, but that requires backbone, so people go after disabled people instead
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.
I have autism and ADHD and have a blue badge, this stuff is the reason why I get dirty looks from parking in these spots with no visible disability.
I have severe aggorophobia and the only thing that enables me to get out alot of the time is knowing there is minimum distance between my destination and where we park along with the safety of being able to retreat to the car if I get overwhelmed.
Nothing story, and everyone’s buying it hook line and sinker. Their source is ‘someone made a ti*to* showing people how to apply for a blue badge’. LBC writes a half-arsed poorly assembled hashed up article; that means half the country is abusing the system and then attempts to demonise and diminish people with ADHD and AUTISM?! Stop falling for (and sharing) this shite
„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 think we need to change the wording to..
1. Disabled. Someone with a physical inability. I.e. missing limb, need hands on care more etc. They get parking near the store. Wider spaces etc.
2. Less abled. Those who don’t meet 1, but feel like they still need some support. They just get a (pointless) sunflower lanyard from eBay.
Downvote? Ah, have we triggered you because we’re right? Put the ‚love, laugh, love‘ sign down, get out of B&M, get a job and stop blagging the system.
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.
As someone with a spinal cord injury and an adapted car to allow me to drive this is fucking pathetic.
Another divisive article to put the spotlight on the disabled
Appalling clickbait article. It focuses on one individual who managed to get a parking permit due to ADHD, and this was most likely issued in error. This has nothing to do with genuine hidden difficulties, e.g. Parkinsons.
My neighbours get 2 cars on Motability, due to 2 autistic teens. Blue badges of course. Nobody else I know with kids on the spectrum does.
My son has a hidden disability, he can at times run into the road because he doesn’t understand the rules of the road.
I refuse to get a blue badge, because it’s my responsibility to ensure he doesn’t get hit by a car. I’m aware some hidden disabilities are more challenging than others.