TikToker Shames Woman Who Confronted Him About His Handicapped Placard

An Australian man is reminding people not to make assumptions about whether someone has a disability after an altercation over a handicapped parking spot at a McDonald’s.

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@pnuks initially recounted the incident while sitting in his car right afterwards.

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“I have a disability card because I have a fake leg, right?” he says, getting right to the point. “Disabled. Makes sense. Obviously, you can’t see my disability if I’m in the car.

“So please tell me why this old lady thought it would be a great idea to approach me and knock on my window and demand to know whether this is mine or not. It’s not your business if we have this card!”

He reminds viewers that you can’t always know if someone is disabled simply by sight, which applies in more cases than simply not being able to see if they’re walking or have use of both legs.

“If they have this,” he says, shaking the placard, “you shut your mouth and you walk away.”

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The incident clearly upset @pnuks, who expressed that he’s tired of people expecting him to explain or share his disability if it isn’t immediately visible to them — which seems completely reasonable.

So once he went into McDonald’s, he decided to confront the woman who had so intrusively confronted him moments earlier.

“Excuse me!” he says in the follow-up video. “Did you not approach me because I don’t look disabled enough?”

The woman immediately gets defensive, insisting that she “desperately” needed the handicapped spot, and that the fact that sometimes people misuse placards or those rare reserved spaces means that she “has a right to” interrogate everyone about their cards.

“No, you don’t have a right to! If the card is there, you don’t need to worry about it,” @pnuks tells her.

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People in the comments were grateful to @pnuks for standing up for himself and for engaging in this conversation on TikTok.

“THANK YOU I am disabled and I don’t look it and I’m so terrified of anyone telling me so I don’t use any ‘perks,’” @dianademeijer wrote.

Another suggested we “normalize treating old people with the same amount of respect they give to you, even if it’s none.”

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*First Published: March 14, 2021, 9:53 am