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Originally posted by Reeka:
For your information, all handicaps are not physically obvious. Before I had my open-heart surgery last August, my heart was functioning at 30%. I could not walk across a room without being exhausted and out of breath. I was supposed to walk as little as possible. BUT to look at me you would have never known anything was wrong. Don't be so quick to be judgmental; some disabilities don't manifest themselves to the physical eye. I'll admit, if you had done that to me last year; I would have cussed you out in no uncertain terms and had you arrested for assault.
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My grandfather was the same way. He had a heart bypass operation, and as such, had a disabled parking disk. On a number of occasions, people accosted him about parking there despite not being obviously physically handicapped.
They soon changed their minds after they saw his scar (neck to ankle). Just a shame these people were
far too stupid to keep their mouths shut *before* they leapt to the assumption that
no wheelchair = no handicap, and
able to walk = healthy. Some people are just far too quick to comment in an ignorant fashion before knowing the facts, I guess.
Also, many people used to comment on my father using the disabled ticket to park near to the hospital, and used to chew him out because he was obviously physically able. What they were far too dumb to realise was that he was at the hospital to pick up my disabled grandfather. Self-righteous, ill-informed people like that used to drive us mad. We found the best solution was to embarrass them in public by shouting in a loud voice "So you don't think he qualifies as disabled after his 5 heart attacks and double-bypass surgery, just because he can walk without crutches?"