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Trump basically declared disabled people ‘unfit to work’ as he put it by revoking the Equal Employment Opportunity Law of 1965. It means employers no longer have to legally give accommodations to disabled employees. This will render so many Americans jobless and barely anyone is talking about it because disabled people like me are treated as expendable.

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shout out to disabled people who can't access aids

shout out to disabled people who have to fight to be believed

shout out to disabled people who can't get diagnosed for any reason

shout out to self-diagnosed disabled people

shout out to disabled people who have experienced medical neglect

shout out to disabled people with unsupportive/abusive family

shout out to disabled people who are forced to push themselves beyond their limits

i love you

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The worst thing about finally coming to terms and acknowledging your limitations when you’re mentally or physically disabled, especially when it’s chronic, is when someone who means well, a family member, a best friend, etc. tries to convince you that you in fact do not have those limitations. It tends to be coupled with “you can do everything you set your mind to!” but the thing is, it takes a lot of self forgiveness and self acceptance to admit yourself you have a limitation. 

It is not an easy to allow yourself limitations because it’s frowned upon when a disabled person does not do their best to hide their disability. When I say I cannot do something, trying to encourage me to do it anyway does not make me feel better. It instead makes me feel invalidated and fall back into the pattern of ‘maybe they’re right, and I’m just faking or being lazy’, which completely negates all the work put into the process of self love and self acceptance.

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goodnight to people who are unable to run goodnight to people who used to be known for 'running/skipping' everywhere until it became far too painful and dangerous goodnight to people who have a walking gait that shows deformity and 'disturbs others' goodnight to people who have limbs that 'move wrong' goodnight to people who walk with a limp goodnight to people who stumble and fall goodnight to people who use a mobility aid goodnight to people who use elevators goodnight to people who use shower-chairs goodnight to people who use ramps

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crazy that puberty blockers being used off label for gender affirming care has now been banned in several different countries that all have way better healthcare systems than us yet so many american leftists still choose to die on the hill of “if you even question this that means you want trans kids to all kill themselves”

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The U.S. Department of Labor is proposing a sweeping new rule that would put an end to the decades-old practice of allowing employers to pay workers with disabilities less than minimum wage.

The agency issued a proposed rule this week to phase out what are known as 14(c) certificates. Under a federal law dating back to 1938, employers can obtain the special certificates from the government to pay those with disabilities less than the federal minimum of $7.25 per hour.

If the rule is finalized, the Labor Department would immediately cease issuing new certificates. At that point, existing certificate holders would have three years to stop paying workers with disabilities so-called subminimum wage. (Read more at link)

It shouldn’t have taken this long but I’m glad it’s finally being done.

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“Davis was under the impression his insurance company would pay out for any prosthetic, but sadly that was not the case.

The insurance company cited that because his palm was still functional, it didn’t think his fingers were 'medically necessary'.

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i know the medical field is unrewarding and i know patients are difficult and fussy but it is worth noting that i had to tell my medical team on multiple occasions that i don't want men in my room taking my vitals, changing my bedding, repositioning me, administering meds, etc; and they still assigned male nurses to me. one time a male nurse came into my room when my female doctor was present, and when I said "there is a note on my chart requesting only female nurses," the male nurse said to my doctor, out loud, "see? I told you." and left. and it was embarrassing for everyone. they all saw the note, even the guy himself, and they still sent him in? hello

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I'm not interested in your unsolicited health advice!

Art by Liberal Jane

Digital Illustration of a Black fem with curly brown hair sitting in a wheelchair. They have a striped sweater on with a beige jumper and brown combat boots. There's a speech bubble that reads, 'I'm not interested in your unsolicited health advice.'

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Being too disabled to work is not a “rich person thing.” People who are not allowed to have more than 2k in their bank accounts are not rich lazy upper class people lol. And if you try to argue that “well if you aren’t rich how do you expect to survive without working” I’d like to remind you that lots of disabled people who can’t work don’t actually survive.

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@northwest_mcm_wholesale

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One major factor that makes the nature of psychiatric treatment intrinsically violent is the fact that the boundaries of the patient is considered an obstacle to treatment. The lack of consent of the patient is considered an obstacle to treatment. These obstacles are abhorred by psychiatry and considered things that much be broken down. If the patient has a disagreement with the treatment, or objects to it, this is considered a symptom and therefore is seen as something not to be validated or respected. Thoughts, behaviors, beliefs; these are all considered symptoms if they are in opposition to treatment and must be broken down. However, compliance with treatment is almost never seen as disordered or symptomatic, even if the patient is fawning or similarly complying to avoid more harm done to them. The fact that only extreme compliance is accepted by psychiatry is inherently violent and conditions people to accept abuse. Isolation and violence are not vectors of healing.

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As an actual victim of a childbood brain injury who does experience temper issues and struggles daily with controlling myself, I have never put my hands on another person.

The popular narrative with men who became violent after brain injury is that they're good men that just got a boo-boo that made their brain go funny. Oopsies.

This demonizes people like me and furthers the stigma against people with actual disorders, brain damage, or real psychotic disorders.

The man who damaged my brain had bipolar disorder and a prior injury himself. I was preached at all my life to have empathy for the pain that made him hurt me.

--and it made me realize that there's always some pity party crybaby reason why abusive men turn abusive, and yet, none of that logic ever seems to apply to the women they hurt.

"He's violent because he has a brain injury and can't control himself!"

Well, why didn't the woman he battered also turn violent after his beatings damaged her brain...?

"He was abused and treated badly all of his life. That's why he abused his wife and then killed her!"

Weird how his abused wife, who was also treated badly all her life (by him) never killed anyone. Strange that.

Men's pain is always an excuse. If abuse or brain damage or a bad childhood made people mistreat others, then women would make up the highest percentage of criminals and abusers.

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male creator god is like the biggest scam of all time

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Blackout Poem Made of Disability Benefits Applications and Denial Letters:

[Image ID: A blackout poem. The edges of the black are straight and rectilinear. I will indicate breaks in the line using the slash symbol /. Some of the excerpts include boxes where you could draw a check mark. I will indicate these by writing (box). The poem goes

Answer every question. / Please tell us if you want us to return them to you. / Select the heaviest weight lifted. / Using fingers to touch, / (Box) One hand (Box) Both hands / Using hands to seize, (Box) One hand (Box) Both hands / reduction / refusal / Termination / Penalty / You can give us more facts to add to your file. / You do not meet with the person who decides your case. / Notice of Decision — Unfavorable / Disabled worker’s name / Date given when disability began / Date of death. /end ID] 

The final three lines are from denial of benefits paperwork for workers who died before the end of the mandatory five month waiting period. How many of those deaths are connected to poverty? I don't know, but I can guess.