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The Disability Discrimination Act defines a disabled person as "someone who has a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on his or her ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities."

Narcolepsy is a physical impairment that has a substantial effect on a sufferer's ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. Narcolepsy is deemed acceptable grounds for exemption from jury service. Disclosure of the condition to the DVLA is mandatory for narcoleptic drivers.

Yet narcolepsy is not recognised as a disability. This means the 'Two Tick' scheme, introduced to discourage discrimination against disabled people in recruitment, does not apply to narcoleptics, and means they face extreme difficulty in trying to access Disability Living Allowance despite the need for specialist care (e.g. needing someone present when cooking in case the sufferer falls asleep and starts a fire).

The purpose of this petition is to implore the government to recognise this debilitating condition as a disability.

Current signatories

Anne Wollenberg, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Alwyn Harrison
• susan wollenberg
• Rozenn Guennou
• Martin Drury
• Natalie Dallal
• Mr Partis (petitions.pm.gov.uk/NHS-dentists4all/)
• Thomas van Delft
• Louise Heap
• Diane Shipley
• Jennifer Dunkey
• Rhian Drinkwater
• William Ross
• Wendy Howell
• KAREN CUTHBERT
• Elizabeth Vallance
• Emma McNeil
• Emma Williams
• Margaret King
• Jennifer Thomson
• Lucy Morgan
• Hayley Slaymaker
• Christopher Jones
• Matt Morgan
• Ruth Morgan
• emma morgan
• Luisa Monteiro
• David St Vincent
• Emma Forsberg
• jennie emms
• Angela Smith
• Clare Scott
• paul jobes
• Alan Clark
• p jobes
• G.Brown
• Liz Smyth
• Russell Maylia
• TERRY LYNCH
• ANGELA MARSHALL
• Sarah Riddell
• Natasha Smith
• Sharon Keeley
• hayley coxon
• Jacqueline Laird
• Paul Cornell
• anthony walker
• Heather Dunsmore
• Karen Vincent
• lauraine gibson
• Louise Bolotin
• Siobhan O'Neill
• Katy Ross
• Susan Morgan
• Sophia Borovick
• Emma Forsberg
• Steve Bishop
• Nina Ammundsen
• Dorothy A Crossan
• Howard Aspinall
• barbara foster
• Margaret Harris
• Melanie Ashby
• Kelly Bentz
• Sarah Laithwaite
• Jenny Smith
• Spencer Manley
• Paula Manley
• Mike Newman
• Marion Sartain
• Alec Webb
• Sally Vaughan
• Melanie Read
• Amanda Gipson
• Sarah Carne
• Matthew Webb
• martin gardiner
• E.G.Manley
• Ian Bryant
• Tracey Bennett
• stephen gotz
• Wayne Morgan
• Andre Jutel
• Bernard Daniels
• SONIA WHITE
• Jonty Savile
• Tony Gibbs
• Martin Dieppe
• Karen Archer
• Linda Cameron
• David Bennett
• Nicholas Gardner
• d.gardner
• JUDY WEBB
• Diane Allinson
• Jennifer Harrison
• Ian Massen
• Anne Prowse
• Helen Prowse
• Graeme Prowse
• MARK BILLINGHURST
• Danielle Marchant
• Rob Callow
• Elaine maciver
• Graham A Skinner
• Patricia Ann Mackenzie
• Daisy Thompson-Lake
• Laura Simons
• Julie Carr
• David Watson
• Catherine Bell
• Kate Gresham
• Gavin Tate
• Charlotte Priestley
• Nigel Thomas
• Elspeth Malcolm
• Brenda Shackleton
• Hannah Cartwright
• Neil Brough
• John Cartwright
• Robert Brough
• Henry Gilbert
• Linda Skinner
• Patricia Cartwright
• Peter Cartwright
• Peter Chamberlain
• Patricia Walker
• mike arron
• Margaret Farnell
• Lyn Richardson
• Janet Clifford
• bonnie edwards
• Anne Connolly
• Karen Whitehead
• AMANDA BARKER
• Freda Bishop
• Martin James Bishop
• YVONNE PAYNE
• Geoffrey T. Ball
• Colin Shackleton
• Jean Read
• NICOLA READ
• Carole Thomas
• Helen Ford
• Desmond Newell
• Wendy Johnson
• Damian Bradley
• Robert Farnell-Smith
• Janice Newell
• simon dawes
• Nasrin Newstead
• Kirsty Freeman
• Alison Jones
• jane major
• carl barlow
• Kimberley Finn
• Marianne Bloor
• Clara Howell
• Judith Steele
• John Paul Dooley
• Jonathan Flanagan
• Sarah Leasmith
• Anna Wilson
• Leigh Preece
• Helen Leach
• Sarah Jayne Hargreaves
• Linda Brough
• Helen Dear
• Jessica Daniels
• caroline jackson
• Catherine Annabel
• julie robinson
• Sarah Grace Wadsworth
• phyllis hennessey
• Beth Osborne
• Andrew Bennett
• matthew harding
• Rob Hardcastle
• james welch
• Sarah Ballard
• andrew short
• Tammy Pitt
• Martin Nutt
• Naomi Knight
• gemma long
• Sonia Lawrence
• katherine howell
• Natalie Lawrence
• james grocott
• vicky heath
• Nadia Griffin
• Jay-Leanne Hector
• Yolanda Mis
• Bob Lee(petition KeepServicesLaw)
• mary brown
• Emily Forster
• Gwilym Wright
• emma richardson
• Helen Rollins
• Janet Jones
• christina allen
• Alison Bennett
• Clare Howlett
• Patricia Smith
• Tim Kavanagh
• Adrian Philpott
• vivienne pool
• Richard Downey
• Beshlie Pool
• Sandra Harrup
• Amy Beaumont
• Craig Read
• clare dyson
• Kerly Bwoga
• Sue Morgan
• Beldina Bwoga
• Julia Bell
• Becky Kirk