♿️SHOCKING DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION IN 2020 

We already have to prove our validity more than any other group in society. It's just one more level of bureaucracy. And as to the "manager" at The Range, he was just trying to guilt you with his claim that other customers would not like it. Don't accept that kind of crap. I have actually found non-disabled people have been more obliging in the current climate. He was just trying to make his own life easier. But I won't be going on Twitter because I made a commitment online years ago that I would never use it (my reasons have been proven right - I foresaw the way trolls would abuse it) and I can't back down because people would rightly see me as a hypocrite. My integrity is the only thing of value that I won't sell.

PageMonster Thank you. Totally respect that. But if you have any other ways of sharing please feel free to do so. 😊 and yeah, the manger was a douche! But I didn’t feel well and didn’t have the fight that day 😖

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@@Wheelsnoheels I know the feeling. I always seem to come up with the right things to say AFTER the event! 😭

Gem this could be turned into a real positive for The Range we could Try it on its head and say The range leads by example and puts in temporary disabled parking after complaint Will DM you x

I have also an European Disability Card (EDC), maybe this can be a help for you if you are in the eu?

Start lobbying to automatically get a priority card? Here I France I had to apply for one...but as I use a wheelchair for getting around and shopping, 99% of people are very kind and helpful and offer to let me go to the front of the queue even if I've opted to just join a queue.. oftentimes I don't insist on my priority if I see someone in front of me who is elderly/frail-looking etc. as I'm relatively comfortable waiting in my wheelchair....It's a slightly different story when I've just spent the week in IV & feeling very much the worse for wear, (which is every 4th week at present)

I can relate to this. I use a mobility scooter(I don't have the stamina to use a wheelchair and I can stand for a few mins). 90% of places are just a no go at the mo. I can't sand in a queue. If I use my scooter, I get funny looks. A lot of the stores have put one way systems but you try turning with a scooter 1. It goes on.

Hey, check out the hidden disabilities website and order the sunflower badge and lanyard. They cover most hidden disabilities, from autism, hearing, and visual impairments and worth looking into.

When I was in college I injured a muscle in my shoulder. The doctor told me that I didn't need a cast or any kind of immobolization, I just needed to avoid lifting anything heavier than about an apple until it healed. However, eventhough he said it didn't need to be immobilized, he had the nurse give me a sling. I later understood that the sling was so that my injury would be visible and people would hold doors and such for me, because when I went out without it I'd have to catch the door that someone opened in front of me and then let go of, and what feels like nothing normally, really aggravated my shoulder while it was injured.

I Know. :(

i honestly doubt many if any one would be upset a person ina wheelchair or with a walker cane etc was allowed to skip the line. of course there will always be buttheads but in general most ppl want to help or at least be nice to disabled ppl

@@rexcaliburn trust me,some would get angry

Robert Weber - People can be pretty nasty - I know by personal experience of being a chair user for 20 years.

Let me correct that for you. Most people are heartless and tactless. Why should they consider anything besides themselves? Empathy is no longer taught.

They did the same thing in Connecticut too. Stop & shop, shop rite and Big Y all have special hours for seniors and the disabled, same thing with walmart.

Here in Georgia, too! I’m shocked at the lack of compassion and common sense in the U.K. (in this instance, I know they are more compassionate than the US in other instances). Go get ‘em, Brits! You got this!

The supermarkets did that here, but other shops have only started to reopen in the last month or so - some are still shut. I haven't been, but from what I've heard the shops have been really quiet in these special hours (i.e. the people who can go don't want to go at those times). So I think they're starting to relax those times now.

We had that in the UK too but many people went anyway so theyd be able to get first pick of things there. At least where i live, not certain about the rest of the UK

That kind of helps though people with disabilities or cards that prove they need to go first should just be allowed, because it's not like we are traveling in droves. At most in lines you might get 5 people with a disability that's high needs that makes them need priority. That way they can have just about as much flexibility with when they travel as everyone else and better manage their needs.

Agreed! I have a temporary pass due to fatigue issues possibly from a serious illness last year. While I'm doing better, I have no guarantee I'll be able to walk back out to my car after working or shopping. I've had to learn to basically assume that I'm barely going to be mobile afterwards and use the pass while I continue to recover. If the spot isn't close, there's no point.

My Neurodivergence is really causing problems in the current situation. There are so many new signs in shopping centres - some are very important safety information that I need to stop and read, but a lot is just repetitive information, or advertising, it's visually very busy and overwhelming to my senses. Then there's the overwhelming difficulty of maintaining social distance, some people just aren't doing it. I wanted to enter an ailse to get milk but it was crowded so I waited near the end cap, several people pushed past me, and it's happened every time I've been shopping since march, I even had people yell at me to "stop blocking the ailse" I'm not blocking it, I'm literally waiting to enter, the rules say only 4 people at a time, and there's already 6 people in there! I tried to bring a friend to act as a support worker because I have had so many panic attacks/sensory overwhelm meltdowns as a result of the crowds in queues, conflicting rules, conflicting social etiquette. But the staff said "your support worker can enter and shop for you, you don't both need to enter" (in my country we have a "community hour" for people with disabilities to shop before the rush, but you have to show proof of disability - I have ID and explained that the person with me was support) I understand that the fewer people in the store the safer, but shopping is one of the few things I can do to try and claim some independence for myself, it was hard enough to ask for help in going shopping after accepting I was struggling when shopping alone, to have companies tell me I have to give up all my independence in shopping is hard. It's hard to recognise that on one hand, these changes are here to keep us all safe, I want to be happy to accept that, and I cognitively understand it. But emotionally, I can't help feel bitter that other people are allowed to shop with family or housemates, but because I'm using the community hour only one person can enter. There also hasn't been many company policies introduced to help people who are hard of hearing - face masks make it very hard to communicate and it would help if staff would use gesture to be more expressive rather than just stare at me then yell angrily because I didn't hear them the first time. Not being able to drive due to my disability issue also a barrier. The government needs people in my area to get a covid test before we can leave the suburb, but the only testing facility in my suburb is a drive through, I called them and they don't take pedestrians. People who can drive can get tested then get a letter to let them pass the police checkpoints.

I have more than one disability. People can not even tell. I have a lung condition which I am not proud of. It is called bronchiectisis. The first time I was diagnosed, I was fired from my job. My boss told me that I was sick for too long.

@@laurieberry4814 That is disgusting treatment!

We had the disability equality act past in 2010, but im not too sure its as good as the ADA.

We have legislation. The Disability Discrimination Act was passed in 1995, but it was drafted to be so weak that it's hardly worth it. It took years to get anti-discrimination legislation passed.

Wheelsnoheels - Gem Hubbard it doesn’t help the shops just decided to ignore the equality act, and the Equality and Human Rights Comission, when they got involved.

@@helenllama sounds bad the ada isnt perfect but it helps A LOT. start a petition on change.com to the PM or parliament im sure you would get plenty of signatures. keep calling out places hell call the news and get on tv if you have too. force the govt to listen

Oh we have legislation lol The UK isn't in dark ages. 🙄🙄🙄 We face same issues as USA, not everyone follows the law.

Hi get out of your chair you haven’t pay vip chair yet

Were you successful with your lawsuit? I can't even find an attorney.

Oh the shame. But we got a result.

Hate the word handicap lol

@@ecologist_to_be sorry

Sarah The word handicap is archaic here in the UK but it’s still widely used and acceptable in the USA. The person that wrote it probably didn’t mean to cause offence.

@@HighTen_Melanie your right I didn't. We just call it handicap accessible parking in the United states.

Yep thats exaclty how I feel x

@@73zxee Totally

Hi Helen

A lot have vulnerable hour

Most places here in Iowa have their bathrooms closed. :(

A lot of convenience stores have locked their bathrooms for “staff only usage” due to COVID in my area too.

I've known the disabled spaces to be blocked off for construction vehicle storage. When I complained, the answer was that the builders needed convenience! And I obviously didn't?!?!

I think she wanted to get in to shop and use the toilet though. Use the toilet, no problem, go shopping ahead of everyone else in the line, problem.

@@kootenaystringworks1765 She needed the toilet before going shopping, so she would have gone straight to the toilet. They should be letting more vulnerable people in ahead of normal people anyway.

Let see it from the other side: Here in Norway we have a lot of snow in winter. And where do we plow the snow? Yes, you guessed it: put it on the disabled areas!!

Hi Naomi

Thank you. :)

I hope I can get something sorted.

I don't know but I'm in Washington & there are a few places without spots or with them blocked off. One place takes all deliveries through the only ada spot.

Yeah, the UK has the 2010 Disability Discrimination Act. It says all publicly accessible locations must make "all reasonable and nessessitus adjustments" to better enable disabled people to access the venue ... but it leaves defining "all reasonable and nessessitus adjustments" to the property owner along with the bill for making adaptions... thus giving a financial incentive to do no more than the bare minimum and enough legal wiggle room to justify the least effort!

Do you accept my invitation think you

Disabled people are pretty invisible in the UK. When we're not invisible we're considered a nuisance

😂 do you feel dumb now they admit the masks did nothing and niether did the social distancing it was just to dehumanize your fellow man so when they start executing poor and disabled nobody cares

How are you doing now

@@AK-uk9kj still immunocompromised and living in a global pandemic people refuse to acknowledge

She's directly facing her camera, and even someone holding it, standing directly in front of her... if any droplets are expelled from her mouth or nose, they're not going past that camera and the person holding it. It's really disappointing that is all you thought to comment about this video. This lady shared with us some of the struggles shes been experiencing, and all you got from it was something to point a finger at her for. You proved the point that compassion for those with disabilities is a thing of the past.

Kim the Artist it doesn’t matter. The droplets stay in the air for hours. Leave your fucking mask on.

@@kimpaintscanvas7023 thing of the past it never existed to begin with sadly

Hi Ryan

same thing i say on many of Gems vids. you need to start petitioning your govt to pass something like the ADA (Americans with disabilities act) it does tons to help us disabled folks, makes it law for all public spaces /businesses to be handicapped accessible. protects your rights regarding service dogs etc. and so much more.

Ugh

@@rexcaliburn I need to take a trip over to the US. Learn the ADA, and bring it here

@@Wheelsnoheels We won't get real change unless we stop electing Conservative governments.

@@Wheelsnoheels or you could use this handy website to start www.ada.gov/

Yeah, we're in Alberta too. I've only had to cue once since this all started, and that was at IKEA, so it wasn't a surprise.

I hear this alot, the announcements I mean, and while wearing my lanyard it sometimes makes me more insecure by them pointing it out

then you need to report those stores they are in violation of the ADA

@@rexcaliburn Totally

Yep, I feel this way. too.

Same

It went up at the wrong time today.

Hi Lilac

As for anything it takes practice. Of course its worth it because you get to where you want whenever you want!

There are some driving schools that use cars with hand controls - I learned that way 30+ years ago. You might need an assessment as to what hand controls suit you best.

Hi Royce

Ah thank you for letting me know. Ill sort that today.

Well people don't like it when we do speak up, so I think it works in this context. 😉

@Rachel S Hello