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Our son's college registered him with a charity, which, like many, only exists to generate income to keep themselves open, and their staff paid.

As expected, the only contact he had with the charity for over a year were strongly-worded requests for him to chug in streets and outside supermarkets, or go door-to-door asking for donations direct from bank accounts.

They would provide a tabard, an ID card, collection box and/or a donations pad. No help with transport, and he had to collect the items himself, and return them at the end of each day's activity.

Then out-of-the-blue came a request from them to support a movement to have the word "disability" stricken from the English vocabulary, to be replaced with "otherly able".

I remember when "handicapped" was pushed further and further out of use. The change made no difference.

Then another request to design a replacement logo to replace the "person in a wheelchair" one that adorns parking spaces, toilets for the disabled, etc. The charity wanted to address the "hidden disability" question.

How did this help with his condition?

The pandemic brought "hidden disabilities" to the fore in some places. A company designed and then sold the "Sunflower lanyards" to shops, who would then give them free to people who could not wear masks. This would indicate their "hidden disability". A nice little earner for the company behind the masks (no pun intended).

But then anti-maskers found copies of these lanyards online, so it all became a farce.