Challenges

JustPete
Community Volunteer Adviser, Scope Member Posts: 303 Empowering
What is/are the biggest challenges you face as a disabled person? These could be specifically related to your impairment (like issues with pain) or compounded/added to by you disability (like issues with being gay but feeling unable to express yourself because you need support).
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As someone with IBD and a stoma, access to public bathrooms let alone a disabled bathroom is always a huge challenge. I want to go visit a village where my ancestors grew up, yet there is no public bathroom, just one pub within a 4 to 5 mile radius.0
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Mine is definitely lossing my independence and my ability to be as active as i used to be, I also have to plan any time outside of the house around getting to toilets, x1
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People not taking me as seriously.0
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