Larvatus Prodeo

My co-blogger at Hoyden About Town, lauredhel, has written a post about the proposed national disabled parking scheme (to have a uniform standard between the states):

CALL TO ACTIVISM – Many people with disabilities to be excluded from accessible parking under proposed scheme

For an examination of the details, see her post: the main point is that there is a significant population of legitimately disabled people who don’t fulfil the suggested major criterion of “walking without physical assistance from another person” (sticks/canes will no longer count, apparently).

Who does this exclude? Everyone who walks, with or without a cane, and who does not require the physical assistance of another person.

Every single independent person with an invisible disability.

What, it doesn’t matter how restricted their independent walking distance is by an invisible medical condition?. Even for the visible disabilities, most amputees (including military veterans) and most stroke victims won’t qualify under the new rules.

As for the invisible disabilities?
Tough luck for the chronic asthmatics and the emphysematous.
Tough luck for most people undergoing chemotherapy for cancer.
Tough luck for many people with Multiple Sclerosis or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

These rules will disable me, and many thousands of Australians like me.

These rules will create physical dependence.
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