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 t

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unilaterally-declared (Abled-Bodied Adult Without Dependents) ABAWD, and have their food (SNAP) and other benefits withdrawn without mandatory participation in programs that basically ignore and discount the reasons why they got there in the first place.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...