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articles[ By Megan Gillis

Yes, She’s Really Disabled: Woman Harassed for Using Parking Spot

First posted: Monday, March 21, 2016

In the mere minutes between when Amber Gillett pulled into an accessible parking spot in front of a Clyde Avenue shop and when she walked back to her Volkswagen Golf, a stranger made an assumption about her.

“Stupidity is not a disability!” read the large sticker someone plastered across her windshield recently, despite the accessible parking permit clipped to the visor. “Park elsewhere.”