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    Lidl Shopper told she 'Did not look very Disabled'

    05 May 2020

    A Sheffield woman with a rare impairment has made an official complaint to a supermarket after she was not allowed to do shopping with her carer because she did ‘not look very disabled.’ Chantelle who has the rare progressive neurological disorder Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia, said:
    “What is ironic is that there is a sign in the shop window saying ‘not all disabilities are visible’.

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