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It’s easy for people whom work “hard” to unreasonably and ignorantly prejudge others to “get a job,” when there’s various individuals whom have invisible disabi

It’s easy for people whom work “hard” to unreasonably and ignorantly prejudge others to “get a job,” when there’s various individuals whom have invisible disabilities: can’t get along with other people, understand or perform traditional work. Some also can’t perform useful work because either accommodations would be costly/extreme or they have debilitating socio- or psychological conditions like psychosis, bad memories or are too kinematically-slow. It’s even worse that in the US, Social Security disability is focused mainly on physical disabilities and randomly excludes certain social/mental imparements due to a patchwork of dumb laws. As such, people in social services are often unilaterally-declared (Abled-Bodied Adult Without Dependents) ABAWD, and have their food (SNAP) and other benefits withdrawn without mandatory participation in programs that basically ignore and discount the reasons why they got there in the first place. In California, for example, SNAP goes away for ABAWD’s for 9 months out of the year beginning September 1, 2018. IOW, penniless homeless people are having their food benefits cut off for most of the year if they’re randomly assigned this status. This is what “falling between the cracks” looks like.

taxicabjesus 8y ago
I knocked myself out when I was 17 years old, don't remember two weeks... I used to think I mostly recovered from that head injury, but I've recently realized that it left me rather non-functional. I'm making progress, but I guess I'm "invisibly disabled", in certain ways. Thanks for that description. I took to taxi driving because of the flexibility: no direct supervision, breaks whenever I wanted, etc. I get nerve pain, so breaks were necessary. I was perfectly happy working 12-hour shifts, though... > It’s even worse that in the US, Social Security disability is focused mainly on physical disabilities and randomly excludes certain social/mental imparements due to a patchwork of dumb laws. As such, people in social services are often unilaterally-declared (Abled-Bodied Adult Without Dependents) ABAWD, and have their food (SNAP) and other benefits withdrawn without mandatory participation in programs that basically ignore and discount the reasons why they got there in the first place. America is very much "sink or swim". The politicians don't appreciate that sometimes people need floaters to keep their head above water, while they figure out how to get the concrete block off their feet...

taxicabjesus 8y ago

I knocked myself out when I was 17 years old, don't remember two weeks... I used to think I mostly recovered from that head injury, but I've recently realized that it left me rather non-functional. I'm making progress, but I guess I'm "invisibly disabled", in certain ways. Thanks for that description. I took to taxi driving because of the flexibility: no direct supervision, breaks whenever I wanted, etc. I get nerve pain, so breaks were necessary. I was perfectly happy working 12-hour shifts, though... > It’s even worse that in the US, Social Security disability is focused mainly on physical disabilities and randomly excludes certain social/mental imparements due to a patchwork of dumb laws. As such, people in social services are often unilaterally-declared (Abled-Bodied Adult Without Dependents) ABAWD, and have their food (SNAP) and other benefits withdrawn without mandatory participation in programs that basically ignore and discount the reasons why they got there in the first place. America is very much "sink or swim". The politicians don't appreciate that sometimes people need floaters to keep their head above water, while they figure out how to get the concrete block off their feet...