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Also, I'm confused how you were able to have a license and be considered fit to drive, but could quality for disability and not have a job. I'm an advocate for

by zanny 13y ago

Also, I'm confused how you were able to have a license and be considered fit to drive, but could quality for disability and not have a job. I'm an advocate for basic income, but I can still call bullshit in the status quo.

bdcravens 13y ago
Perhaps they can't sit for more than an hour, but can make short trips. However, I completely feel you. I have CF, and I can't tell you how many people have told me I should get on disability instead of being being a developer. As if work is a penalty in life, and anyone who can get out of it should.
billyjobob 13y ago
Not all disabled people are cripples. Just because you occasionally see someone with an obvious physical injury in a wheel chair does not mean that is representative of the vast majority of disabled who have hidden disabilities. For example, many physical conditions vary from day to day - one day she may be well enough to drive, the next she will have to rest in bed. Then there are the millions with mental disabilities who may even function perfectly well most of the time except for the days they try to kill themselves. Sure they 'could' work, but no employer would ever take them on, so they must live on disability.
ceejayoz 13y ago
Have you honestly never seen someone park in a handicapped parking spot?
- zanny 13y ago
  You can be handicapped in locomotion but still able to drive. You can also have one of those fliers and not be able to collect disability so you never have to work again. The point is, how can someone who is capable of driving be given money that is meant for people incapacitated and unable to contribute to society?
  - ceejayoz 13y ago
    Maybe they can only do light physical activity - or even sit up at all - for an hour or two? Maybe they have a debilitating mental illness but still need to get to therapy and doctors' appointments? Maybe they've got Downs Syndrome but are high-functioning enough to drive (it happens!)?

by zanny 13y ago

bdcravens 13y ago

Perhaps they can't sit for more than an hour, but can make short trips. However, I completely feel you. I have CF, and I can't tell you how many people have told me I should get on disability instead of being being a developer. As if work is a penalty in life, and anyone who can get out of it should.

billyjobob 13y ago

Not all disabled people are cripples. Just because you occasionally see someone with an obvious physical injury in a wheel chair does not mean that is representative of the vast majority of disabled who have hidden disabilities. For example, many physical conditions vary from day to day - one day she may be well enough to drive, the next she will have to rest in bed. Then there are the millions with mental disabilities who may even function perfectly well most of the time except for the days they try to kill themselves. Sure they 'could' work, but no employer would ever take them on, so they must live on disability.

ceejayoz 13y ago

Have you honestly never seen someone park in a handicapped parking spot?

zanny 13y ago
You can be handicapped in locomotion but still able to drive. You can also have one of those fliers and not be able to collect disability so you never have to work again. The point is, how can someone who is capable of driving be given money that is meant for people incapacitated and unable to contribute to society?
- ceejayoz 13y ago
  Maybe they can only do light physical activity - or even sit up at all - for an hour or two? Maybe they have a debilitating mental illness but still need to get to therapy and doctors' appointments? Maybe they've got Downs Syndrome but are high-functioning enough to drive (it happens!)?