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Encourage people like this to take up mountain biking or skateboarding or something - find out how much of a pain in the ass it is trying to get around on crutches for 8 weeks or so, then use the tiniest scrap of empathy to imagine what it would be like to have that be your permanent experience
To be fair, at least here in Germany, the amount of parking spots for disabled people and the amount of actually disabled people parking don't really seem to match. There's often enough a whole bunch of parking spots empty and like one guy on crutches.
I do get, that planners and regulators need to plan for the "worst case", and that's perfectly fine, but the current situation is certainly a bit wasteful.
You can't always tell someone is disabled from looking at them. They may need the spot for a reason you haven't thought of.
https://invisibledisabilities.org/publications/accessibleparking/dontjudgebyappearances/
I'm not talking about people taking disabled spots, I'm talking about these spots being empty, because there are not that many people who could use these spots.
My comment was very clear, but you chose to read what you wanted, because that's more convenient.
To clarify, you used the phrase "amount of actually disabled people parking". The placement of actually before disabled ties those words together, making the subject "actually disabled person," which firmly implies (but does not explicitly state) that there is an issue with "fake" disabled people.
I think you were shooting for "disabled people actually parking," which means "typical usage by disabled people"
I can see why you chose your username.