Hello disabled comrades! Sorry the mega is late again. I hope we’re all weathering the COVID surge as best as we can.
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“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 don’t bother disclosing anything to jobs or coworkers anymore unless absolutely necessary. About a year before COVID I worked at a place which had a fully remote guy who was “allowed” to do it because he was a “rockstar” — not my words. I asked if I could also work remotely full-time because it would accommodate my medication and glucose monitoring needs better and was given a big fat emphatic hell no. Then not too long later it turns out we really were just capable of being fully remote completely, after all. Funny, that.
The suits and their toadies (see: everyone) immediately jumped on the “I’m more productive at the office” bandwagon, so I do not assume they give much of a shit about the welfare of anyone who actually needs help. Until it’s them, of course. Personally I’m living for that day to come, and in this era of unmitigated & continually intensifying plague such that can be dubbed “quad-demic”, it certainly will.