These pictures were taken earlier this week in my local area.

They show something I have experienced regularly throughout my life. Cars blocking payments and forcing me in to the middle of the road.

Now of course pavements exist because roads are not safe to be walked in. Even less so when you are forced to stay in the road due to inaccessible pavements. Here the payments were made more inaccessible on both sides and so I had to stay in the road.

Without drop curbs streets can become inaccessible very quickly to me, pavements do not simply become inaccessible to me when they are blocked my vehicles, they become more inaccessible. Life becomes more inaccessible to me, it becomes that little bit harder.

And when I raised this issue in my area, I was told I was being selfish. I still do not understand why it is selfish for someone to want the same rights and access to the world as everyone else. How is it selfish to want the same?

I was also told that the person who cares for me should be helping me deal with my issues and I should not be doing it myself. I did not think that I needed saying but as it apparently does, you cannot suggest that a disabled person needs help simply because you don’t like what they are doing. I’m allowed to exist and do things others do not agree with even as a disabled person. To suggest otherwise is insulting.

Just don’t park on pavements.