Hi disabled community! I’m so sorry the megathread is late this week. I hope everyone’s new year is going well so far!

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  • DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    19 days ago

    Is anyone else just infuriated and so upset by all the online discussions making out that being disabled is great and all disabled people are fakers anyway? Just seen yet another reddit thread (I really have to stop reading reddit) where these horrible people are saying that all disabled people are faking it to get benefits, motability cars and blue badges, and that being “disabled” must be wonderful because you get free money, special treatment and get to sit around all day. Being disabled for me has meant a life of poverty, endless stressful benefit appeals, no financial or housing security, all my friends abandoning me, no chance of any kind of worthwhile life, endless pain and sickness, horrible life-ruining medical treatments, stress and having to beg for food. But hey, I get a free disabled person’s bus pass and if I win my benefit appeal I will get a pittance to live on for a while. Those able bodied people have so much to be jealous of!

    It also angers me that they act like every disabled person has never worked. I worked and paid tax and national insurance for 16 years! They also ignore the fact that many people on disability benefits are in full-time work, and the disability benefits enable them to keep working.

    The UK government plans to slash the number of people getting disability benefits. It’s already so hard to get them, many disabled people have died after their benefits were stopped. This just means they’re going to slowly starve and freeze more of us to death, drive more of us to suicide, to make a small saving while still wasting huge amounts of money on other nonsense. I’m tired of us always being the scapegoats and blamed for every problem the country has just because we can’t easily defend ourselves.

    • RaisedFistJoker [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      11·
      18 days ago

      Its the same way those fuckers talk about homeless people “theyre faking it and then actually have a semi detached house” fuuuuuuuuuck yoooooou. I think people think this was cos they feel guilty, guilty because they know the social murder of the poor and disabled is a function of their inaction (and therefore their comfort), and convert that guilt into hatred of being reminded the underclass exist

    • TheSpectreOfGay [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      18 days ago

      i literally just blocked reddit because i realized i was using it as self harm, lol

      but yea, being disabled sucks ass. i used to work! i was even one of them stem people that redditors love so much. i was a lot happier with a job where i actually did stuff rather than now, where i just sit around all day being depressed. and you know, i probably could continue to work if there were actually accessible job options, but there really aren’t and if they are they’re more competetive and i dont have any selling points above non-disabled people who don’t have huge gaps in their resume. not to mention the mere act of applying to jobs causes so much dysfunction bc of how ableist it is. you want me to network? how? i can barely leave my house

      god those people are infuriating