Hi disabled community! I’m so sorry the megathread is late this week. I hope everyone’s new year is going well so far!
As always, we ask that in order to participate in the weekly megathread, one self-identifies as some form of disabled, which is broadly defined in the community sidebar:
“Disability” is an umbrella term which encompasses physical disabilities, emotional/psychiatric disabilities, neurodivergence, intellectual/developmental disabilities, sensory disabilities, invisible disabilities, and more. You do not have to have an official diagnosis to consider yourself disabled.
Mask up, love one another, and stay alive for one more week.
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
I spent 16 years working, mostly as a carer for the elderly but also had some other jobs on the side like telesales, waitressing and even spent 18 months working in a gym. I paid in all that time when when I need to draw out, I’m left to literally beg strangers for help.
people in the imperial core have such a “fuck you, got mine” mentality, it’s sickening