->   I live at an apartment complex that is H.U.D. subsidized housing for   
   -> the disabled...and you have to be disabled to live here.   
      
   ->   One resident just grunts...he can't speak a word. I know of another   
   -> resident who is deaf-mute. The only way he communicates is via sign   
   -> language.   
      
   My disability is hidden it's called Myasthenia Gravis and it's a true   
   fatiguing disability.  I don't use a walker or a wheelchair but   
   definately scope a shopping cart to take in.  Occsionally I have to use   
   the riding chair.  I know my day is coming though and seeing my friend   
   go through what she has to go through.  It's bad enough that she has her   
   disability but people have little regard for her ramp.     
      
   Going anywhere is still a challenge to her when her van would equalize   
   her experience if people would respect it.   
      
   There's a movement out there when people are a--holes like this that   
   they put a sign on the window of the car saying "I have no respect for   
   the disabled."  Or worse, "I have a disabiled sticker/tag and I don't   
   play by the rules" in smaller print it trys to educate about ramps and   
   etc.   
      
   I can also say with full authority that 75% of the people who park with   
   the mirror hang tags have other disabled family members who are not with   
   them and they still park in the disabled spaces.   
      
   I am, and always have been, of the mindset if I don't need it this day   
   don't use it.  Most of the summer so far has been very mild... I haven't   
   needed it.  Today it's 87 and I'm in severe respiratory distress... I   
   will use it today.   
      
   Thanks Daryl for sharing it helps to know how others are going through   
   things.  I am fortunate to hang on to my home for now.  I'm barely   
   making it, and won't go into disabled housing in Louisville.  I will   
   have to move to a very high crime area.  I have previously worked, i   
   have nice things and to darling kitties.     
      
   My things can be replaced but I fear if my place in that area gets   
   broken into they will hurt my kitties or I would lose them forever.  My   
   kitties are my sanity.   
      
   Allen   
      
      
      
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