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Comment by zippyman55

18 days ago

It’s kinda difficult in an antidotal observation to prove if someone is truly disabled but three of my observations that rubbed me the wrong way was the co-worker who ran regular marathons but was planning to seek disability pay for a physical injury; the co-worker that never seemed to have a hearing issue over the ten yrs I worked w her but instantly claimed to have had damage from earlier; and the co-worker who got back injury disability but surfed at lunchtime. I’m sure there are edge cases that can explain all of these. But I’m feeling better if the person really needs the assistance get it.

My mom is as broke as fuck and yet can't get SNAP.

The people punching down and gatekeeping are either completely ignorant or parroting racist and classist tropes they heard from Fox News denying the existence of inaccessibly and hurdles to reaching the scant assistance available in the US to people who desperately need it.