An Aussie woman, with a painful chronic disorder, became too afraid to use her handicapped parking permit after receiving snide comments from motorists and offensive notes on her windshield. Hannah Bennett, 24, has the immune condition multiple sclerosis (MS), but some strangers decry she isn’t entitled to her parking privileges because they cannot “see” her disability. “It’s often people, they’re just driving past, and you get out of the car in the very obvious disabled spot and they’ll yell out something like, ‘Oh you don’t look very effing disabled to me,’” Bennett told news.com.au. “They don’t have the guts to come say it to my face or let me explain it, they just drive by and yell it out their window.” The Sydney-based speech pathologist often parks further away and walks the extra distance to her destination—risking painful nerve aggravation, making her legs feel like they are “on fire”—simply to avoid an …
Woman With MS Parks in Handicapped Spot, Finds Rude Notes From Strangers Who Can’t ‘See Her Disability’
March 30, 2021
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