Why Are Some People WITHOUT Disabilities Are Angry That Disabled People Have Certain Disability Privileges?
Posted: June 10th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Common Questions | Tags: Angry, Certain, Disabilities, Disability, Disabled, people, Privileges, some, without | 10 Comments »I noticed that some people WITHOUT disabilities are angry about the fact that Disabled people have certain Disability privileges and have even spoken against certain Disability privileges. Some of the Disability privileges that I noticed that are source of anger with people WITHOUT disabilities are these:
1. Handicapped Parking
2. Being on Supplemental Security Income and Medicaid.
3. Disabled people being allowed to jump to the head of the line (not having to wait in line).
Other certain Disability privileges that I noticed that are a source of contention with people WITHOUT disabilities are these:
1. Using Handicapped bathrooms
2. Using Handicapped scooters in stores and elsewhere.
3. Reserved seats in public transport buses.
Why are certain people WITHOUT disabilities are angry about these Disability Privileges that I mentioned?
Why do certain people WITHOUT disabilities condemn the Disability Privileges that I mentioned?
Why are certain people WITHOUT disabilities against Disabled people having the Disability Privileges that I mentioned?
Because certain people WITHOUT disabilities are angry at anything that keeps them from accomplishing whatever it is they set out to do. They see everything as yet another obstacle and often do not consider what it is like to be handicapped.
Basically, these people are total a’holes.
Some people always worry about someone else getting more than they do. Don’t worry about them. There’s nothing you can do. A lot of people think that anyone can get a job and take care of himself but that’s not the case. There are people who abuse the system, no matter what system it is, and others resent it. They find it hard to separate those in need from those who cheat. Handicapped parking and SSI and Medicaid are necessary things, but when someone who can’t buy his own insurance and isn’t eligible for aid thinks about his tax dollars paying for someone else to have medical care, it would be hard for that person not to be resentful.
If there is no one in a wheel chair waiting to use the handicapped stall, I may use it. I don’t look disabled, but I have pretty bad arthritis especially in my knees. Sometimes I need a cane, but not always. If I’m in Sam’s or Costco, yeah, I’ll use a scooter. Reserved seats are fine with me because people don’t have the courtesy to give a seat to someone who needs it…older people, disabled people, pregnant people…they all need a seat on the bus or subway.
Jumping in line, however, is a different thing. If someone can’t stand, I can understand letting him go to his seat in a theatre because it’s going to be the same seat anyway. But someone who is deaf or blind, or in a wheelchair, I don’t think they need to go to the front of the line any more than VIPs or rich people or people with children.
It’s not so much a problem with PWD’s have certain privileges. It’s people who use these privileges that truly don’t need them., people who abuse the privileges.
1. Handicapped parking:
One of the, if not *the* most commonly abused privilege. It’s simply awe inspiring to see a healthy-looking woman, in high heels mind you, briskly, carry four full bags of groceries to her car that’s sitting in a handicapped spot. I know people will say “well she may be having a good day.” If that’s the case, then she can walk the extra 20 feet on her good day, and save the handicap spot for someone having a not-so-good day.
2. Being on Supplemental Security Income and Medicaid:
Again there are people who truly need it, but there are plenty of people who abuse the system, it costs the taxpayers over a billion dollars a year in fraud. This is why there is so much red tape in the these programs
3.Disabled people being allowed to jump to the head of the line (not having to wait in line).
This is one I really have no tolerance for at all. If you are well enough to be out and about and you *choose* to go to a place that has queues, then you’re well enough to wait in line like everyone else.
4. Using Handicapped bathrooms
If there are no other stalls available and there isn’t a PWD present who requires it’s use, then it’s fair game for anyone. However if there are other open stalls and you don’t require the handicapped stall, then you should simply use the regular ones.
5. Using Handicapped scooters in stores and elsewhere.
Again this is abused often by people who’s only “disability” is a gross lack of self control and/or laziness. These things aren’t there for people who’s only “disability” is their 55 inch waist, they are there for people who have legitimate mobility issues.
6. Reserved seats in public transport buses.
Can’t comment on that one since I’ve never set foot on public transport.
I have flyers that say
You have my parking spot, do you want my disability too?
wheelchairs do NOT fit through queues most of the time. I CANNOT stand for more than a few minutes. I can walk short distances and then rest…that’s a big difference than standing in a line for an hour or more.
people with autism may not be able to tolerate the noise, closeness of people, etc
I am claustrophobic…there is one ride where the queue is inside a cave…when i could stand–i couldn’t tolerate being trapped
1. Handicapped Parking – The ones who do the most complaining are usually the laziest and they don’t want to walk
2. Being on Supplemental Security Income and Medicaid – Most who complain have it in their tiny brains they we are lazy and choose not to work versus being unable to work as is the case for the majority of PWD
3. Disabled people being allowed to jump to the head of the line (not having to wait in line). The ones who do the most complaining are usually the most impatient and they simply don’t care for anyone but themselves
Other certain Disability privileges that I noticed that are a source of contention with people WITHOUT disabilities are these:
1. Using Handicapped bathrooms – The ones who do the most complaining has it in their tiny brains that these bathrooms are ‘cleaner’.
2. Using Handicapped scooters in stores and elsewhere – The ones who do the most complaining, complain because the scooters don’t move fast enough and these same people feel like that if they have to walk that everyone should do the same
3. Reserved seats in public transport buses.The ones who do the most complaining are usually the laziest and they don’t want to stand or walk a few extra steps to the next available seat.
Because they are rude and stupid. A lot of people like to complain (when nothing is wrong) and they feel they deserve everything.
They don’t realize how lucky they are that they can walk far in a parking lot, wait in long lines,use smaller bathrooms,not sit on buses,etc.
It gets me so mad when people tell me that I’m lucky because I can use the elevator. I’d much rather be able to take stairs all the time! Of course, they don’t realize how much of a stupid statement they are making most of the time….
Of course, not all people without disabilties are like this.. my family isn’t at all
Someone who answered earlier said something about if you can’t wait in long lines then you shouldnt be in one or something? When I go to Disney World I get a wheelchair because I can’t stand or walk for a long time AT ALL … Also, a lot of the time there are stairs in the nonhandicap accessible lines and I can’t do those either. They usually have a special entrance without any stairs. Also, the lines get really tiny and the wheelchair wouldnt be able to fit.
1. Handicapped Parking — There are various Non-PWDs (Outsiders) that are lazy and want to walk as little as possible and are angry that PWDs have the closest parking spots to the store which results in PWDs not walking that far to the store but Non-PWDs (Outsiders) having to walk farther to the store. Various Non-PWDs (Outsiders) greatly covet (greatly desire) Handicapped Parking Spaces and are envious and jealous of PWDs that park in Handicapped Parking Spaces and are angry that PWDs have Handicapped Parking privileges and that they do not have such privileges.
2. Being on Supplemental Security Income and Medicaid — PWDs that are on SSI and Medicaid
are not forced to work for a living and get free health care and have lots of “free time” whereas Non-PWDs (Outsiders) are forced to work for a living and forced to pay for health care and do not have of lots of “free time”. Various Non-PWDs (Outsiders) are jealous of PWDs that get SSI and Medicaid. Various Non-PWDs (Outsiders) see SSI recipients as “leeches on society” or “burdens on society”, or “being lazy”, or “scamming the federal government by faking their Disabilities”, or “scamming the USA taxpayers” and even have the attitude of that “PWDs who receive Federal Disability Benefits should commit suicide to relieve the government and society of it’s unwanted burden”.
3. Disabled people being allowed to jump to the head of the line (Not having to wait in line) — Various Non-PWDs (Outsiders) see this as being unfair to Non-PWDs (Outsiders) for various reasons and think that PWDs should not be singled out for “special service” or “special treatment”.
4. Using Handicapped Bathrooms — Such bathrooms stalls are bigger than the regular Bathroom Stalls and Non-PWDs (Outsiders) think that it all right to change clothes instead of using regular bathroom stalls or take their children into such stalls. Non-PWDs (Outsiders) are angry when certain PWDs complain that only PWDs should use Handicapped Bathroom Stalls.
5. Using Handicapped Scooters in stores and elsewhere — There are various Non-PWDs (Outsiders) that are lazy and want to walk as little as possible and will use Handicapped scooters in stores and elsewhere because I have seen Non-PWDs (Outsiders) using Handicapped scooters at stores and elsewhere and some of them was goofing off in the Handicapped Scooters and even racing in store parking lots with Handicapped Scooters.
6. Reserved seats in public transport buses — There are various Non-PWDs (Outsiders) that are lazy and want to walk as little as possible and want the reserved seats for themselves.
By the way, I am Disabled and I get SSI and Medicaid. I have a Permanent Handicapped Parking Space State Permit (PHPSSP) which gives me the legal right to park in Handicapped Parking Spaces. I use a quad-cane, a seated Rollator Walker, a manual Wheelchair (WC), and two Power Mobility Devices (PMDs) which is a Power Wheelchair (PMD-PWC) and a Power Operated Vehicle (PMD-POV) which is a 4-Wheel Electric Handicapped Scooter. I have a Handicapped Conversion Motor Vehicle with a Power-Lift. My only child is also Disabled and gets SSI, SSDI, Medicaid, and Medicare.
The reason is reflected in the wording of your question. A lot of people without disabilities see those things as privileges when they really are accommodations, not privileges. Without those accommodations, some people with disabilities wouldn’t be able to live a normal life or go out and do the same things as people without disabilities.
- Handicapped parking
Handicapped parking is an important accommodation for people with certain kinds of disabilities. Without them, many people would be unable to go out or access various public places. Some people can only walk short distances. Some people need a wider space to get in and out of their vehicle, sometimes with mobility equipment. Some people need to park close to the entrance for safety reasons. However, people without disabilities don’t understand why people with disabilities “get all the best parking spaces”. All they see is a conveniently large space very near the entrance, and they want it. They resent the fact that handicapped parking spaces are reserved for people with disabilities only, because they want to be able to park in those spaces too and they don’t really understand the reasons for reserving those spaces for people with disabilities.
- Being on SSI / Medicaid.
Some people see SSI as “free money” and don’t see why some people should get such “free money” without having to work while others have to work to earn their own money. Some people are jealous of those who get SSI instead of working, but very few of them realize how the money people get from SSI is barely enough to live on and how SSI prevents you from making much extra money at all and how disabled people have to be to get it. They would love to get the money too, but without the disabilities. Some people also resent having to pay taxes that are then spent on helping other people. They don’t have much compassion for other people’s circumstances and think that people should just help themselves, yet they think very differently if they ever acquire a disability and need that same support. As for Medicaid, I think people resent that their taxes are spend on Medicaid for other people when they themselves cannot get it.
- Jumping to the head of the line
This too is seen as an unfair privilege, because people don’t understand that this is a disability accommodation that is sometimes necessary in order to provide disability access to various public places and services. Nobody likes to have to wait in line for long and therefore people get jealous when they see that some people are allowed to jump to the head of the line, making everyone else have to wait longer. They don’t understand how some disabilities can affect people’s ability to wait in line like others. They think that people with disabilities should wait their turn like everyone else and that those who can’t handle that should just stay at home. They don’t understand that people with disabilities want to do the same things as other people and that they have equal rights to do so. They think that someone in a wheelchair could wait in line like others, but the line is often inaccessible for wheelchairs. They think that people who don’t have any physical disability should wait in line and don’t understand how for example someone with autism wouldn’t be able to do that.
- Handicapped bathrooms
Many people find handicapped bathrooms convenient, because they are larger, sometimes cleaner and because there are usually not as many people waiting to use them as the regular bathrooms. They would like to use them all the time themselves rather than leaving them for people with disabilities. There is a lot of controversy regarding whether handicapped bathrooms should be for people with disabilities only, or whether people without disabilities can use them too.
- Handicapped scooters in stores
A lot of people think that people only use those scooters out of laziness. They think that people who can’t walk much would just bring their own wheelchair and that others should just walk and stop being lazy. Some people are jealous, because it seems fun and convenient to use those scooters, but they are only supposed to be used by people with disabilities. People see this is a privilege rather than accommodation and resent that people with disabilities get something that they don’t.
- Reserved seats in public transport buses
Again, people see this as a privilege instead of what it really is: an accommodation. They think that since they paid as much (or more) for their ticket as the person with disability, they should have an equal or more right to sit as them. They don’t want to give up a seat that they feel that they paid for, so that someone else can sit in it. They feel that people with disabilities should just stand like everyone else if all seats are taken, or wait for the next bus and hope there’s an available seat in that one.
i will trade them any day ” give them all the rights and privileges” that I have and I will also give you my disabilities, is that fair? I will give them up any day. Ask the people do you want to loose a leg be blind loose both legs loose your hands loose all feeling in your body not be able to have sex just a few items for a handicapped bathroom medicaid and public bus? Think about it
because alot of people, not everyone, but alot of people these days are milking things and I see people parking in handicapped spaces that are perfectly able to walk a few feet. these spaces should be for people in wheelchairs. It is because there is alot of scamming going on and it makes people angry.