Full time spoonie & part time human muddling through life. 30s. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ถ๐ฉโโค๏ธโ๐ฉ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐จ๐๐#Fibromyalgia #CFSME
Wales, United Kingdom
Joined June 2015
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Was inspired to write this poem after seeing #IDanielBlake & personally experiencing the #DWP. Share widely, use freely, please credit me.
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Modern life leaves almost no room for unpredictable bodies.
Work wants consistency.
Friendships want availability.
Healthcare wants clear answers.
Society wants visible proof.
Chronic illness rarely offers any of those.
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To all those who say claiming #PIP is to easy.....try it. Make a claim. Experience the system you say is so simple to abuse...go on, put your money where your miserly mouth is! I reckon the chances of any of these so called 'fraud fighters' taking up the challenge is ZERO. โ at Plympton, England
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Some people won't be happy unless sick/disabled people are in hostels, eating porridge/lentils on food vouchers, no TV, phone, pets, and ankle tagged
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Instead of subsidised food and alcohol in the House of Commons, I think that only vouchers should be given out. We'll call them dinner tickets - and abolish the alcohol.
That's how they want to treat disabled people, and that's how we should treat ableist politicians.
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Having sex with someone whoโs black out drunk is rape.
Having sex with someone whoโs asleep is rape.
Having sex with someone whoโs unconscious is rape.
Having sex with a minor is rape.
This isnโt regret. This is a woman realizing sheโs been sexually assaulted.
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Dear Folk with non-mental health disabilities,
Vouchers would be an absolute disaster for mental health claimants. Donโt let anyone persuade you folk claiming PIP for anxiety are worried well. Happy to discuss anytime in depth but please donโt inadvertently harm us.
Dr Jay
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The hatred towards disabled people doesnโt just extend to those on benefits, but also to people like me:
Disabled and rejected for PIP twice (but unwilling to force myself through the dehumanising process again).
What Iโve realised is society wants us out of sight and out of mind, and gone the moment we protest. They donโt want us in their world.
Well tough shit. Weโre not going anywhere.
I survive purely out of spite.
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The public are being led to believe that to claim PIP you just fill in a form and that's it. It is time the media reported the truth. It is not true at all. People are also being led to believe - as I see in posts - that millions are claiming fraudulently. This is also not true.
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Chronic illness teaches you how to operate at โfine enough.โ
Not well.
Not healthy.
Just functional enough to get through the day.
From the outside, that often gets mistaken for being okay.
And that misunderstanding affects how people respond to us.
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No one chooses to be disabled or chronically ill.
Itโs not a moral failing.
People blame the disabled because it makes them feel morally superior.
They can tell themselves itโll never happen to them.
It can happen to anyone. Itโs a minority group you can join at any time.
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Why are the ableds obsessed with saying disabled people are 'writing themselves off' when they tell them what they can and can't do?!
Like no I just know my bodies limits?
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Apparently there is a report out suggesting that after the lifting of the two child benefit cap, families on benefits will be entitled to more money than the average working family. 2 things wrong with this, (possibly more)
firstly, there are many people who are on benefits who also work but have to have their wages topped up because they are too low to live on, and secondly, the methodology seems rather suspect (I know what a surprise) you see, what they've done is taken every single benefit that it is possible to claim and added them together at full rate. This is despite the fact that some benefits simply can't be claimed in conjunction with each other and therefore no person or family would ever get the figure that they suggest in the report.
Of course, the people who write this bollocks already know this, they just want to spread as much division and vitriol towards those on low incomes as they possibly can, even if many of those people are in fact working. It's truly staggering just how many people will be out there falling for this shit, and I dare say many of the people angry about this will paradoxically be claiming things like UC, because they won't realise the report is talking about them. They'll think it's talking about people they don't like, such as disabled people (who must be faking if we even dare to consider leaving the house) or 'illegal immigrants' as they call them, (who can't even claim in the first place and have never been able to)
A little newsflash to these people, the report is talking about you, it's talking about me as well, but you are not exempt from the ire of right-wing think tanks and press barons. They despise us all, the only difference is, I know that already but if you are reading this and are still not quite convinced, you'll find out eventually if Farage and Tice ever get their hands on power.
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Volume up!
Whoopsie I shouldnโt laugh, Bramble being spooked by the scary lid! ๐คฃ๐ฆก๐พ๐พโค๏ธ
