If I had been present, I would have at least attempted to provide them with some real empathy.
> 25% of those surveyed said they had been accused of faking their disability.
> Naomi believes that might have been a factor in her encounter.
> “There was kind of an implication I was faking it,” she says. “They were almost keen to see, if they tipped the wheelchair would I be able to get up by myself?”
Wonder if the endless government propaganda about disability benefit fraud has anything to do with this attitude
I’ve cared for several family, including for a number of years a loved one who was born severely disabled so can well believe it, in fact I’d suggest the true figures are worse because much goes unreported or occurs so frequently some people just accept it as normality because they don’t feel anything will get done.
Government and media demonising people over the last decade hasn’t helped either if anything has made some think it is ok to behave that way
Brutal, thuggish behaviour is now applauded, and not punished. The veneer of civilization is cracking, disintigrating. Look how the coarseness of life is spreading …there is no longer any shame in behaving badly; in fact, it is emulated. Decent people are not supported if they try to stand up for what is right, and some of them have been killed for trying to do this, whilst the perpetrators have little to fear. There is a knock-on effect, and although there has always been violence, the scale and level of it is now moving into Clockwork Orange territory. Society has been manipulated into a dog-eat-dog world, and the weak are viewed as prey.
My mum is in a wheelchair and Polish kids/teenagers threw stones at her, call her all sorts whilst their parents just stand there or watch, or even worse praise them for it. It happened almost everyday until she moved houses to a British dominated area now it hasn’t happened yet in two years.
Can completely believe this woman. I am hearing impaired and get abuse as well mainly from Eastern Europeans. Even from Eastern Europeans I have worked with before, management has never cared when I have reported it. Ended up leaving 3 jobs because of disability related abuse from Eastern European colleagues.
I have never been verbally abused by anyone British but my Mum has been. Police and my employers are never interested when it is reported either by me, by her or by her partner on her behalf.
We have also both been told by racial minorities that we have “no idea what it is like to be abused because we are white”.
It is a lot worse for women and a lot worse for physical disabilities particularly in regards to violence, in my experience as I am 6 foot 5 people are usually careful to not physically threaten or commit any violence towards me. Probably the figures should be ten if not twenty times worse, as eventually you just give up and accept it as part of life and stop reporting it to uncaring authorities. Particularly where Europeans are the ones abusing you, the Police literally do not give a shit.
“Young people can be utter cunts” shocker….
Has happened to me loads especially about 20 years ago. A lot of men just can’t cope with young disabled women it offends them because lots of men see women as potential mating stock and we don’t fit.
Post 40 most of it cleared up . One random bloke screamed in my face about people like me wasting his taxes with our fake nonsense – he wasn’t even European so didn’t pay tax here!
If a fraction of the energy committed by wokes on lgbt and diversity was diverted towards disabled issues, I may actually start to respect their grift. Being disabled is no joke, and guess what? 99% of people don’t give a shit, and the most abuse I see directed towards disabled people comes from supposedly progressive people.
Surely this is just teenagers being cunts. I don’t think they’re treating her any differently because she’s disabled. Bullies are bullies. If she didn’t have a disability, they’d just find something else with her to pick on.
A survey of just four is laughable given the disabled population size.
I presume the BBC writer is a numpty and you need to read the source.
That’s conservatives for you
Some people are just arseholes, not everything is a grand social change.
These teenagers live in a society that rather put cars on pavements or live in the past and let shops keep inaccessible entrances. Then we’ve been banging on about benefits fraud for ages. It’s no wonder some kids might act that way.
It’s miserable that the largest portion of the chat under this is about people faking disability. Feel that speaks volumes about how disabled people are viewed.
I have autism, and you wouldn’t believe the number of times that I can see it in peoples eyes when they think things like “really?” or “can you just not be autistic?” and/or the help that is available is either really poor, or people just don’t bother as autism is clearly too difficult as its always a study of one.
To try and get any help is nigh on impossible.
You should hear about the horrible shit autistics have to put up with.
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If I had been present, I would have at least attempted to provide them with some real empathy.
> 25% of those surveyed said they had been accused of faking their disability.
> Naomi believes that might have been a factor in her encounter.
> “There was kind of an implication I was faking it,” she says. “They were almost keen to see, if they tipped the wheelchair would I be able to get up by myself?”
Wonder if the endless government propaganda about disability benefit fraud has anything to do with this attitude
I’ve cared for several family, including for a number of years a loved one who was born severely disabled so can well believe it, in fact I’d suggest the true figures are worse because much goes unreported or occurs so frequently some people just accept it as normality because they don’t feel anything will get done.
Government and media demonising people over the last decade hasn’t helped either if anything has made some think it is ok to behave that way
Brutal, thuggish behaviour is now applauded, and not punished. The veneer of civilization is cracking, disintigrating. Look how the coarseness of life is spreading …there is no longer any shame in behaving badly; in fact, it is emulated. Decent people are not supported if they try to stand up for what is right, and some of them have been killed for trying to do this, whilst the perpetrators have little to fear. There is a knock-on effect, and although there has always been violence, the scale and level of it is now moving into Clockwork Orange territory. Society has been manipulated into a dog-eat-dog world, and the weak are viewed as prey.
My mum is in a wheelchair and Polish kids/teenagers threw stones at her, call her all sorts whilst their parents just stand there or watch, or even worse praise them for it. It happened almost everyday until she moved houses to a British dominated area now it hasn’t happened yet in two years.
Can completely believe this woman. I am hearing impaired and get abuse as well mainly from Eastern Europeans. Even from Eastern Europeans I have worked with before, management has never cared when I have reported it. Ended up leaving 3 jobs because of disability related abuse from Eastern European colleagues.
I have never been verbally abused by anyone British but my Mum has been. Police and my employers are never interested when it is reported either by me, by her or by her partner on her behalf.
We have also both been told by racial minorities that we have “no idea what it is like to be abused because we are white”.
It is a lot worse for women and a lot worse for physical disabilities particularly in regards to violence, in my experience as I am 6 foot 5 people are usually careful to not physically threaten or commit any violence towards me. Probably the figures should be ten if not twenty times worse, as eventually you just give up and accept it as part of life and stop reporting it to uncaring authorities. Particularly where Europeans are the ones abusing you, the Police literally do not give a shit.
“Young people can be utter cunts” shocker….
Has happened to me loads especially about 20 years ago. A lot of men just can’t cope with young disabled women it offends them because lots of men see women as potential mating stock and we don’t fit.
Post 40 most of it cleared up . One random bloke screamed in my face about people like me wasting his taxes with our fake nonsense – he wasn’t even European so didn’t pay tax here!
If a fraction of the energy committed by wokes on lgbt and diversity was diverted towards disabled issues, I may actually start to respect their grift. Being disabled is no joke, and guess what? 99% of people don’t give a shit, and the most abuse I see directed towards disabled people comes from supposedly progressive people.
Surely this is just teenagers being cunts. I don’t think they’re treating her any differently because she’s disabled. Bullies are bullies. If she didn’t have a disability, they’d just find something else with her to pick on.
A survey of just four is laughable given the disabled population size.
I presume the BBC writer is a numpty and you need to read the source.
That’s conservatives for you
Some people are just arseholes, not everything is a grand social change.
These teenagers live in a society that rather put cars on pavements or live in the past and let shops keep inaccessible entrances. Then we’ve been banging on about benefits fraud for ages. It’s no wonder some kids might act that way.
It’s miserable that the largest portion of the chat under this is about people faking disability. Feel that speaks volumes about how disabled people are viewed.
I have autism, and you wouldn’t believe the number of times that I can see it in peoples eyes when they think things like “really?” or “can you just not be autistic?” and/or the help that is available is either really poor, or people just don’t bother as autism is clearly too difficult as its always a study of one.
To try and get any help is nigh on impossible.
You should hear about the horrible shit autistics have to put up with.