“So should 1 in 2 Americans have handicapped parking stickers?”
Did she say that? I didn’t see it. I live with two chronic illnesses, neither of which you could see by looking at me, and neither of which limits my ability to walk from a regular space, so I don’t have and wouldn’t want a tag. I thank God I don’t have something like RA. But I’m still part of that 133 million.
Did she say that? I didn't see it.
No, she didn't say that. She said she had a chronic condition (“My rheumatoid arthritis is flaring badly, causing extra fluid in my knees to dislocate pieces of loose bones. Every step is painful and unpredictable.”). I inferred that this chronic condition was why she had the handicapped sticker (“So after fifteen years of having this “privilege” at my disposal I still warily scan the area before reluctantly dangling the placard from the rear view mirror.”). She then states the statistic “Nearly 1 in 2 Americans (133 million) live with a chronic illness.”.
Since she seems to claim for herself that a chronic condition is justification for a handicap parking sticker, I was curious if the argument carried for the other suffers of chronic conditions. If she's not claiming this, then why even mention the number of persons with chronic conditions?
Maybe her intention is that only severe chronic conditions are a legitimate justification for a handicapped parking sticker. It's not clear to me from my reading of the article; hence my question.