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[vetran]

It actually is in the UK. Depends on the individual with it.

I understood just having Diabetes isn't, but having a long term disease that affects your ability to work is?

[SueEllen]

I understood just having Diabetes isn't, but having a long term disease that affects your ability to work is?

There are conditions e.g. being deaf, cancer, HIV which means you are automatically classed as being disabled. (I think type 1 diabetics are on that list as well but not type 2.) However being automatically classed as being disabled doesn't mean you can't work.

Also some people in work claim PIP to help ensure they can continue to work. I know people who claim it and work.

This is from .govuk

You’re disabled under the Equality Act 2010 if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a ‘substantial’ and ‘long-term’ negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities.

[SueEllen]

Disabilities now include benefits for neurodiversity.

Friends of ours have a partially deaf child they are entitled to various benefits and a blue badge.

The thing is people tend to have one condition you know about and other conditions you don't.

So to you it looks like they are only claiming the blue badge because they are deaf but in reality they have got it because of their other conditions which means it isn't safe for them to walk down the road and have to be driven virtually everywhere.

This also goes for people who have neurodiversity. So you may be told they have autism but you won't be told they also have arthritis or Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Then you will get people claiming they got their blue badge/PIP/DLA due to the autism, when if you talk to people who help those complete blue badge/benefit forms it is actually the other condition which the assessor(s) use.

[NotAllThere]

Disabilities now include benefits for neurodiversity.

Friends of ours have a partially deaf child they are entitled to various benefits and a blue badge.

Are there benefits for being battulip crazy? I think everyone here is eligible.

[vetran]

https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and...ts-you-can-get

[Paddy]

Fun fact. I need to use disabled toilets, but you'd never have guessed meeting me.

Just because you need a magnifying glass to find your willy does not warrant using the disabled toilets.

[SueEllen]

Just because you need a magnifying glass to find your willy does not warrant using the disabled toilets.

Unfair - I had to use disabled toilets for a couple of years to take drugs.

[sadkingbilly]

Unfair - I had to use disabled toilets for a couple of years to take drugs.

was that the only one with a flat shelf over the cistern?

[SueEllen]

was that the only one with a flat shelf over the cistern?

They had yellow clinical waste bins and proper lighting. (My GPs surgery has purple lighting.)

[sadkingbilly]

They had yellow clinical waste bins and proper lighting. (My GPs surgery has purple lighting.)

don't see why you need that for snorting coke