Posted by Alison on 5/9/2006, 3:49 pm, in reply to "use of disabled toilets?"

Once, several years ago, when I was on a course for work I tried several times to go to the 'normal' toilets without success, so I nipped into the disabled toilet, but felt so guilty I couldn't go there either, and had to last out all day. I regard it as part of my recovery that I can now go in a disabled toilet if I need to without feeling any guilt or embarrassment at all. I have done so several times, and never been challenged - I doubt if anyone has ever even noticed, and wouldn't have cared if they had. I think the purpose of having disabled toilets at all is to enable people who would otherwise be unable to go to the toilet to have the same right to have their needs met as anyone else, and I think that applies to us as much as to any physically disabled person. I doubt if there is any law against it, and if there was it would need to be challenged.

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