Blue badges for hidden disabilities triple as councils issue permits to drivers with anxiety and ADHD
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/blue-badges-triple-drivers-anxiety-adhd-5HjdZKb_2/
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
Blue badges for hidden disabilities triple as councils issue permits to drivers with anxiety and ADHD
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/blue-badges-triple-drivers-anxiety-adhd-5HjdZKb_2/
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
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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.
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.
Reminder for people: don’t fall for the anti-disability propaganda.
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
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
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
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’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.
Yet my epilepsy doesn’t qualify.
The amount of times I’ve had people helping me to climb into the car while recovering after a seizure is uncountable. The wider disabled bays would be great, instead of someone going to the car and then parking up outside the store doors would be helpful.
Here we go disabled bashing again this country is something else if its not boat people its disabled people.
>Permits issued under the category have trebled in three years, jumping from 18,000 in 2021 to 55,000 last year.
>The change was designed to help people with conditions such as dementia, Parkinson’s and arthritis.
>But experts warn the scheme could be drifting from its original purpose, with the change in eligibility resulting in “abuse of a system designed for those with more profound, visible or life-altering mobility limitations”.
>Videos circulating on social media show users openly coaching people on how to get a blue badge for ADHD or anxiety, with some encouraging parents of anxious or autistic children to apply.
So because some online grifters are giving people advice, I have to be demonised online because I have ADHD. Let’s be honest there is little to no chance that someone who has ADHD will get one. You’d think the systems that be would investigate the individuals giving the “coaching” and have a proper review of all their applications to prevent all the cons and grifters from gaining the system that helps the actual people that need the badges.
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.
I’m autistic and have adhd and dyspraxia.
Sure, I have been advised to look into a blue badge, I looked into the rules in my area and a lot of physically disabled people are denied.
There is a huge difference at each stage between advising people to look into, looking at, applying and getting
The article is automatically bullshit. Councils do not give blue badges without the recipient getting the enhanced rate of mobility PIP. At that point, it means they have genuine difficulties with mobility (not necessarily purely physical) that would mean they are able to achieve more independence by – amongst other things – having a blue badge to allow them more options with parking.