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A community/support group for chronically ill people. While anyone is welcome, our number one priority is keeping this a safe space for chronically ill people.
This is a support group, not a place for people to spout their opinions on disability.
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Be excellent to each other
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Absolutely no ableism. This includes harmful stereotypes: lazy/freeloaders etc
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No quackery. Does an up-to date major review in a big journal or a major government guideline come to the conclusion you’re claiming is fact? No? Then don’t claim it’s fact. This applies to potential treatments and disease mechanisms.
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No denialism or minimisation This applies challenges faced by chronically ill people.
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No psychosomatising psychosomatisation is a tool used by insurance companies and governments to blame physical illnesses on mental problems, and thereby saving money by not paying benefits. There is no concrete proof psychosomatic or functional disease exists with the vast majority of historical diagnoses turning out to be biomedical illnesses medicine has not discovered yet. Psychosomatics is rooted in misogyny, and consisted up until very recently of blaming women’s health complaints on “hysteria”.
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I do not think many people would disagree with the title.
In my opinion: the problems come mainly from freeloaders, that according to me do need to be refused.
And another problem I envision is the grey zone. Situations like me. I've diagnosed CPTSD, am neuratypical.
Working with other people 5 days a week destroyed me. But I managed to find a solution as a self-employed person. Am I unable to work, or not, what's the correct government's opinion on that?
You know that the concept of freeloaders is hogwash that mainstream media perpetuates because it gets views, right? At least under the Australian system, far more money is spent trying to "catch" them, than is spent on them.
SSDI is about 1500 a month. That doesn't even pay rent let alone buy you an expensive truck. Alternative theory he already had house and money prior to stopping working or received a settlement for whatever happened. You have no idea what is actually medically wrong with him but have constructed this elaborate fantasy about uncle Sam buying him a fancy truck on benefits which just can't be real.
Nope not a fantasy it's a backwater rural thing you see a lot. Neighbor lives rent free on a slice of land his family owns. Lives in a tiny leaky tin roofed "shed". And wastes his government $$ on a nice truck.
In rural areas where people do not need much cash to survive, you see this sort of thing. It's a sad ugly truth.
How do you know he isn't actually disabled?
Meth head energetic shinnanageons, leaf blowing the roof of his shack, the most energetic weed cutting I've ever seen swinging the weed eater like a scythe, shooting his shotgun next to his dog, screaming it it to quit barking.
A contractor who worked at my house had actually employed him in the past but had to fire him because he couldn't stop smoking meth at work.
Maybe the guy is disabled. I'm not trying to get to know him better, but from my experiences with him the past several years, the asshole is a sponge on society.