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Disabled Parking Nazi

Notice to the General Public: Put your brain into gear and your mouth in neutral!!!

If you still don’t understand what I mean…  use your eyes and your brains FIRST before using your mouth! I am so FED UP with my wife and I being abused by people for using disabled parking spots, when transporting my son, just because we (the drivers) are able bodied.

Is it not enough that our lives are complicated through having a child with a disability that we have to be inflicted by people who believe it is their right to launch a verbal assault on my wife and I, for using a disabled parking spot, without politely inquiring first?

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Never Say Never (Part 2)

My original blog on Never say Never attracted a lot of hits (thousands) and spurred a number of comments. I am pleased to say that the last two weeks for us have raised the bar even higher and got us shaking our heads in bewilderment. I watched as my wheelchair bound son ride a surfboard …

(I have to pause and re-read that sentence again as, even now, there is still a level of disbelief!)

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Labelled Disabled

Ahhh … you’re in a wheelchair so you must be … – fill in the blank!

We are lucky in that we live in a society which has a reasonable understanding of the needs of people with a disability, however, it still has a long way to go.

Recently our family was invited to a function where we mixed with people who didn’t know Daniel, so wheeling a kid around in a wheelchair attracted a bit of attention.

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