Disability that is no laughing matter (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Disability that is no laughing matter

9:24am Thursday 2nd September 2010 in

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SIR – Could I bring to the attention of your readers how difficult it is to live with a hidden disability? I am 57 and suffer from a serious neurological condition. I do, however, make tremendous efforts to look good by doing my hair, make-up etc.

My husband and myself were parked at Morrisons at Five Lane Ends in a disabled bay and displaying our Blue Badge.

I was sitting in the passenger seat awaiting my husbands return. I am too ill to shop myself.

An elderly man returned to his vehicle parked next to ours and started mumbling to himself, huffing and puffing and scowling in my direction.

As he drove away he pointed to my badge and shouted through the open window: “Ha, ha, ha, that’s a bl***y laugh!”

I can assure him I would love to have his level of disability myself and be able to go around a supermarket and pack the shopping in the car. I can only hope that he reads this and is truly embarrassed and thoroughly ashamed of himself.

Mrs Vickie Reeves, Winter Court, Sandy Lane