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Originally Posted by ckelly78z

I chose not to have a handicap placcard after my bad car accident (someone blasted through a stop sign into the side of my 944). I was off work for 6 months learning how to walk again with 17 broken bones. I limped by (with my walker) several idiots jumping out of lifted trucks, or fancy cars while parking in the handicap spots, who all appeared much healthier than I was at the time.

Not that you probably didn't run into some D-Bags, but, I read a "Dear Abby" or something like that years ago. It was a guy with Muscular Dystrophy that was college aged. Because he had MD, he worked out as much as he could to try to counter-act the effects. So he looked really able bodied, but walking a long distance very quickly tired him out because due to MD, he just didn't have the endurance of someone that didn't have it. He apparently got lots of comments and dirty looks from people.

Appearances can be deceiving, and you won't know someone's condition from appearance alone.

Good on you for fighting to recover!