Some asshole with no handicap sticker parked in the last available disabled parking spot!!!

[Nevernose]

142. I dont!

I don’t want to make things more difficult, although I wouldn’t mind seeing things more equitable.

People in ELECTRIC scooters or wheelchairs don’t need to be close. Of course they might not have the strength or stamina, that’s why they’re in electric wheelchairs. But the carts/chairs do all the work. There’s no difference in stamina between the electric wheelchair and driving in the car.

They need enough room to get the chair out of the car, not be closer to the door.

My mom’s paraplegic and relies on me very heavily for transportation. Our biggest problem is people taking the large handicapped spots when they could use a regular sized handicapped spot. I realize they probably have issues that make it difficult to walk to the door, but a lady in an electric wheelchair doesn’t have hose same issues.

The ADA and IDEA are, in my opinion, one of the very few places where I can say “America Is Number One!!!” without irony. We used to just throw “those slow kids” out of school. Autistic, in a wheelchair, deaf? In America, we try and get those kids through college, where in most other countries — including the so-called “advanced” European countries — the solution is “fuck you, maybe we’ll put you in a (very nice) institution.” Whereas in America it’s “You have the right to a free and appropriate education.”

And have you ever tried being in a wheelchair, whether pushed or electric, in Europe? Depending upon where you are, it’s nightmarish. Even in America where it’s head and shoulders above anywhere else, there aren’t enough gutter-ramps (or whatever they’re called) for the handicapped parking spots and hey DO have.