Disabled seems to have some new meaning!

[suanna]

I am amazed at how many young, seemingly healthy 20somethings come in with medicare for insurance, since they have SSDI-completely disabled. From what I've seen with my friends and family, getting approved for disability is about as likely as winning the lottery on the way to pick up your Nobel Prize. Any tips? My bones are killing me. I can barely walk to my car after a 12hr shift. My personal med list is longer than any patient I've taken care of in the last year. What is the magic that gets these people approved? I'm not criticizing them, I'm envious. At the rate I'm going, my only hope it to end up in a permanently vegetative state long enough to draw my pension. Even then, I bet the government will declare my decomposing as proof that I am capability of gainful employment-as a flower pot.

[TheGooch]

Attitudes like this are why police have such a hard job. Not only do they have worry about criminals, but also the technically law-abiding with crappy attitudes.

It's called having an opinion. And yes, I do consider it harassment. Maybe you ought to walk in the footsteps of those who are not visually disabled and have to live through cops harassing you because you don't look disabled and the stares and comments from people who think you are abusing the placard because you don't look disabled. Let's see how quickly you develop a "crappy attitude" over such treatment.

IMO the police have more pressing issues than going around and seeing if someone is abusing the placard that is displayed properly in their car window. It's not like that person is parking in a handicapped space with no placard or disabled license plates. Those are the offenders the police should really be going after.

[duskyjewel]

And maybe you should live through worrying your father won't come home after work because someone who felt entitled to their rage overreacted.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

It's called having an opinion. And yes, I do consider it harassment. Maybe you ought to walk in the footsteps of those who are not visually disabled and have to live through cops harassing you because you don't look disabled and the stares and comments from people who think you are abusing the placard because you don't look disabled. Let's see how quickly you develop a "crappy attitude" over such treatment.

IMO the police have more pressing issues than going around and seeing if someone is abusing the placard that is displayed properly in their car window. It's not like that person is parking in a handicapped space with no placard or disabled license plates. Those are the offenders the police should really be going after.

I'm one of those with the disability placard who didn't LOOK disabled. I've been hasseled by bouncers, valet parkers and mothers with small children because I didn't LOOK disabled. And I'm one of those who agreed with duskyjewel about crappy attitudes. (Only she said it better than I did.) I've walked in those footsteps; and I agree that the attitude was crappy.

In my city, cars are broken into for the express purpose of stealing and fencing the disability placards. I'm happy to have the police check to see if the healthy-appearing individual with the disability placard is indeed entitled to it. Maybe it'll help prevent someone from breaking my car's windows to steal mine.

[FineAgain]

Not alcholics, meth abusers and people who have ADD, ADHD or anxiety problems.

I always say (tongue in cheek) that if I had know that I could get SSDI for these, I would have reconsidered my career options.

Makes me crazy.