Elucidating Questions

Disabled poverty

They don’t want you to go on benefits, so they make the process hard

They don’t want you to work once you’re on benefits, so they make the requirements for “acceptable” income that doesn’t get clawed back as tight and painful as possible

If you can even manage to get hired for the amount of hours you’re allowed to work for

The workplace doesn’t want you to get accommodation for anything you have wrong with you so they put it behind a nice shiny piece of paper you have to pay the doctor to fill out

They don’t want disabled people taking the bus so they make them as uninviting as possible

Casually injuring people because the governing insurance agency will take care of it for them

So they don’t have to take care of you

They put the “accessible” bus behind being able to prove you’re disabled enough

And then they make the service as undesirable as possible so you’ll seek other modes of transportation

First come first serve works for the “normal” people when there’s another bus coming in ten minutes

Why can’t it work for disabled people who now have to wait days if not weeks for that make up appointment?

Why can’t disabled people be okay with less?

The federal dental plan, which they had to create because the provinces were doing shit all, is locked behind the DTC

Which cost me $200 to get filled out

And the DTC is specifically written to classify millions of disabled Canadians as “not disabled enough”

If you stay on provincial disability long enough they pressure you to go on federal

Federal disability is based on how much you worked

If you were fortunate enough to slave half your life away before becoming disabled you may make enough to

Well, live in abject poverty (1800 a month at the absolute most) or less if you were too stupid not to get disabled until later

You really should have known better

Says the federal government

I’m too disabled to pay for the student loans for a degree I never got to finish

But I’m too poor to pay for the forms to possibly get that debt written off

So the feds are going to try to come after me every six months

I’m too poor to have peace

And they do all this stuff, right?

Like they’re trying to dissuade people from becoming disabled

Look how awful it is!

Are they fucking psychotic?

Had Fortuna not danced on my grave twice I may have lived out my dreams

You think I chose this?

I can’t escape

And they made it this way on purpose