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Originally Posted by Osem
Exactly. There ought to be more of this sort of thing in order to better educate the wider public about the problems disabled people face.
Sadly, it's not only the able boided who can be abusive to the disabled either. We've experienced some quite nasty comments and behaviour from other disabled people when taking our youngest into the disabled toilets. They assume because he's able bodied he isn't disabled. It's really very hurtful and you'd think they'd know better about making such assumptions....
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This is a somewhat grey area as disabled loos are generally set out to cope with physical disabilities and these are the people they are designed for.
I have never known any of our MH or LD disabled tenants use the disabled loo at our work when they have been there on a visit