I'm sure your health problems are real. However, there are MANY right now on Social Security Disability who claim similar problems. The reality is --- they'eve exhausted their 99 weeks of unemployment and have nowhere to go but this route...
OK, so this mostly about fraud.
I do want to comment about these spaces. It angers me to no end that more and more spaces for handicapped (and Eco cars, and pregnant women, and etc.) are made but THEY ARE NOT USED! So I’m forced to park very far because God help me I take the hallowed empty space.
Here’s another thing. Not all you see “healthy” at those spots really are. Some have troubles that are internal, others have problems that don’t appear that much but often are. My mother now has a temp pass. She has had excruciating nerve pain in her thigh some 15 years now, only the last 5 or so did she get the pass. My father likewise has problems sometimes with his leg because of the blood clots in them, particularly AFTER walking through a big mall or so. They sometimes have good days, but often just a bit of walking hurts them. Again, most of the time these spaces are unused, irritatingly vacant. I don’t have a problem with someone using it for a change even if their ailment seems hidden.
To boot, I have MANY chronic body problems, worst my hip problems, and somewhat my fasciitis. You can’t see it but it’s there. My sister, RIP, had cancer but she was such an A personality that you would not know it, except maybe when she was bald. She never had a pass in her 3 years. Sometimes if we were with our parents we were grateful to borrow it (stage IV she had more exhaustion) if not feeling well.
My father had emphysema, and to all appearances he was perfectly healthy but he struggled to walk a long distance. He still refused to get a handicapped sticker because he said there were people in worse shape than him who needed them. He would just stop to catch his breath a time or two while walking to the store.
I've noticed that too; I've never been in a parking lot where even a third of the handicapped spaces are occupied. Even allowing for the occasional fluke spike, they've gone overboard.