This note was left on Sarah Metcalfe’s car when she parked in a disabled bay at Tesco.
The PhD student suffers fibromyalgia which causes severe pain all over her body.
She was reduced to tears and it was up to her son Jack, 13, to tell her she wasn’t fat and ugly.
Sarah, who is waiting for a blue badge to be processed, also wants the person who left the note on her car outside the supermarket in York to come forward to discuss ‘invisible disabilities’ with them.
She said: ‘Both me and Jack were devastated to find the note. I think they must have seen me leaving my car with a smile on my face so assumed I wasn’t disabled or in pain.
‘Yet I was just happy to be out with my son – but we were both left absolutely heartbroken to find the note, it left us both in tears. Then our hurt turned to anger.
‘Now that I’ve calmed down I would still like to speak to the cowardly person behind the note to explain how not all disabilities are visible.’
Sarah added: ‘I don’t like to claim benefits, I like to just try and get on with it, but the pain was so bad on this occasion that I was forced to used a disabled bay to limit the walk.
‘There were around 40 disabled parking bays and most were free.
‘I wouldn’t have been able to go in if I hadn’t used it – my ankles had become so weak that I was worried I’d go over on them. But I was enjoying a day out with my son so was determined to make it in.’
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If she was waiting for a blue badge to be "processed" should she have parked there? Why/Why not?
