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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 Friday, despite the accessible parking permit clipped to the visor. “Park elsewhere.”

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Gillett, who says she was born with Osteogenesis imperfecta, commonly known as brittle bone disease, couldn’t scrape it off her car.

“I was between hurt and completely furious,” she said. “I use a handicap pass. Just because I have an invisible condition doesn’t mean you can degrade me.”

The 22-year-old has, at times, used a cane, a walker and a wheelchair, and needs to park close to her destination because she can’t walk long distances. A simple slip and fall could leave her with yet more broken bones.

Yet she’s found nasty notes on her windshield before.