8:35pm September 17, 2014

Please help.

fullyarticulatedgoldskeleton:

activeobserver:

fullyarticulatedgoldskeleton:

activeobserver:

lichgem:

I’ve lost my source of income, and I need some help until I can figure out something else. I’m disabled, mentally ill, and basically alone. My needs are few, but without income, I’m afraid I won’t be able to meet them.

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Couldn’t you apply for disability? The government is legally obligated to help you out.

I am. I have been, for years. The government is obligated but it doesn’t want to. I’m not sure what your experience is- maybe you got disability on your first try, or maybe you’ve never applied for it to begin with, but getting on it is HARD for most people. Especially if your disability is not visible.

Well, I have Aspergers Syndrome, which in my experience, isn’t that much of a disability to begin with, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t familiar with the process of getting disability payments. I don’t know where you live, but if you’re clinically diagnosed, then the government pays you, they aren’t allowed to not pay you.

Maybe it’s different outside Ontario, but I haven’t heard of that much of an issue getting disability for those that need it before

There’s like a long thread of people sharing their experiences with Disability putting real disabled people through hell outside of this thread so I suggest you check it out. ‘Haven’t heard of it’ isn’t the same as ‘isn’t a real problem.’ Sorry if I sound snappish, but I get interrogated all the time about why I need help, and it makes my anxiety skyrocket. I’m dangling by a thread here and people keep asking me if I REALLY need that thread.

@activeobserver

I’m delighted to hear that the Canadian disability system is so generous and accommodating (I really am, that’s awesome), but that has pretty much no relevance whatsoever to folks dealing with the system here in the US. Rather than assuming that someone who is struggling to survive is simply too silly to do *perfectly easy and obvious thing* that helped you, and that they need you to “correct” them when they explain the realities of their situation, perhaps instead you could trust that people describing their life and situation really do know what they’re talking about.