Mz T –guess it’s a matter of time and persuasion –no citizens should suffer discrimination. I have a dispute with the state, too, and i wonder if it’s similar to yours. I’ve spent a fortune on traffic tickets –it’s my adult ADD, I zone out and forget to not roar past the highway patrol over the posted limit, and once in awhile i do not note them trying to pull me over in what they consider a timely manner. I’ve actually lost my license a time or two forgetting to pay tickets and finding out i have arrest warrants out, and then there’s a few squabbles with judges and such. And I can’t help it –i’m mentally ill –i know, cuz at the behest of the family women i took the D-whatchacallit test at a stop-smoking shrink’s and he said i was off the charts ADD and the smoking was a coping behavior of jabber jabber sort. I’m otherwise just fine, even fairly high-functioning when i can quit daydreaming — but i do have this one thing that causes the state to treat me in a fashion i consider wrong. I think the licensing ought to reflect my lack of accidents and any known harm done. but, no, no such luck. it’s just an injustice i have to bear until society at large comes ’round to my wants. BTW the shrink started me on nicotine gum but i never could keep it lit so i sorta trailed off on the program. Ok that was an attempt at humor but the whole comment is not flip –it’s a serious, well- my attempt at a serious, response to yours.