Do not worry about people's comments it sounds like a good thing for you. I used to deal with stuff like that some people can just be ignorant. Take care

you have to pay for disabled parking tag?don't worry about what people might think, hippa protects your medical information---think of this as a free pass to creative speach writing ;)....i have to keep the papework in my glove compartment, showing i am entitled to disabled parking permit.....a few months ago a kind store clerk came up to me and said she got knee replacement surgery too and she was greatful she did---i never said i had knee replacement surgery? she just came up with it on her own?....if anyone is scathing of you i have found those people really don't want to listen, so i make them listen in great detail(don't do with cops, just show your paper with them) think about the story making you can generate..have fun! you can even make up a rare disease & make up the % of the population that are affected by your mader up disease.

oh i just looked at your profile, you list canadadian.... yoiu don't know how to do it. we'll teach you. did you watch saturday night live this weekend...thaey had a sketch about the canadian mayor who was caught in possesion of crack...our politicians have been able to lie to their constituents for a long tim, it sounds like you politicians are just catching up with us:->

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/rob-ford-cold-open/n43342/

For a long time I was embarrassed to use my handicap placard. My husband and I are both eligible to use one. He lost his ankle in a motorcycle accident. When people asked him why he was parking in a handicap spot he would pull up his pants leg and tell them he didn't have a ankle.

When he would take me anywhere and if any one said anything he would ask them if you could see cancer from the outside so you can't see MS either.

Police very seldom, ask people for proof here. If they do there is paperwork that comes with the placard to show proof.

You have every legal right to your placard, as my husband would tell me , you have to grow thicker skin!

I have one and I am like you - I probably don't look disabled at first glance. I go to school as well and I find it so helpful to park near the doors. Both for walking long distances and bladder urgency. No one, has ever mentioned anything to me, but it is awkward when I get out of the car and I probably appear to be fine. I once cared for an old lady who said she felt awkward about her pass too. She had had TB when was younger and had some trouble with her breathing so she had one. Sometimes disability is not visible. I'm sure you will really appreciate having it; I know I do. Best wishes to you!! :)

Don't worry about what others think. I only ever had 1 person say something to me. It was a grouchy old man who said I was only using the Handicap Placker to get a close spot. I called the police, where my husband works, I kept the grouch yelling at me until 3 officers showed up asking me if I wanted to press charges for him harassing me. Didn't have any problems after that. --- it ended up kind of funny for me in the end

I empathize with how you feel. When I'd first gotten mine I sat in the DMV parking lot staring at the tag and crying. The thing says "Permanently Handicapped". I guess that's when things hit.

Since then, I've been doing a lot of 'lurking' on Multiple Sclerosis Memes in FB and found a poster that I will, eventually, put onto a business-type card that says "I'll trade you my parking tag and my MS for your ignorance. I could use the break and you could use the lesson." Heh... even if I don't get around to doing it, it's something to keep in the back of my mind to 'snark' at those people who like to pass and give nasty looks.

...then again, on a bad day I'm mean. LOL

*hugs* Please keep well

Good for you. I'm glad that you are doing something for yourself to help you deal with your symptoms.

Don't worry what people will think. I have had my handicap parking for several years now, and nobody has ever said anything to me. I haven't noticed if anyone has "looked" at me either. It only matters that you are taking care of yourself and making your life easier. I'm sorry, but for people with disabilities, I say be in it for "me" when it comes to available benefits.

I understand your concern, especially since I know you don't tell anyone about the MS. Maybe you can make up something, like nnyl1 wrote. . . I am still fighting to get a disabled placard here where I live (Spain). In the meantime I throw my American one in the window to ward off people, but it isn't valid here
The Spanish government has been very ungenerous with recognising disability since the crisis. I have asked to be reevaluated. When I go, I will have to exaggerate symptoms (like everyone else here) and I have decided to borrow/rent a wheelchair to play it up. I hate the idea, but the original examining doctor said to me, many people with MS only have 'temporary' disability (RRMS).
Older people used to give me a hard time when I used the diabled seats on the bus, so I stopped hiding my cane in my backpack so I could justify sitting there. But even so, I still got occasional criticism from the grumpier old men. With the cane, at least others would come to my defense.
Good luck!

PLEASE DON'T WORRY ABOUT HOTHER MUTHAFERS THINK, SAY TO YOU AND ABOUT YOU!!!!!!!!!!

I was horribly embarresed long ago after PEOPLE SAID that "You just DON'T LOOK like you need to WASTE THAT SPOT so a real DESERING Disabled person could use THAT spot!!!"

THEY JUST DON'T and SADLY NEVER WILL UNDERSTAND!!

I have had it SAID TO ME THIS YEAR that "There ARE OTHERS worse off than YOU ARE!!!!!"

I'm Sorry that IS life, but I AM HERE THIS MINUET I NEED THIS SPOT RIGHT NOW NOTHING STOPS HOW I FEEL MYSELF!!!


I'm sorry but a person with MS reallly NEEDS to just IGNORE LIFE A LOT!!

((HUGS))