POV: You’re a USian on disability benefits who is just assumed to be able to survive on 12k a year whilst being literally disabled and unable to do most things healthy people can. And now people with 150k a year, 10 times my income, are complaining. 👁️👄👁️

This was me basically before I started to learn how to do shit properly.

Ie. when I was a teenager and learnt about pirating through low quality youtube vids

Okay but as a chronically ill person in poverty struggling to feed myself in a late stage capitalist hellscape. I feel like I tick the first few boxes.

I dunno if you want this.

But just gonna say I felt this way for a decade or so. A very lonely decade where my only relationship was short lasted and one sided.

But honestly now looking back it kinda feels dumb I looked at myself that way. I’m literally too disabled to work (which I thought would make it impossible to date). And I have this wonderful partner who loves me more than anything, to the point it can be kinda annoying like she’s obsessed with me.

(Sorry if this comes off as a brag, don’t mean it too, just wanna say what can feel hopeless might change).

Me who is stuck in a wheelchair

“I guess I don’t stand with anybody”

The people in power have the most influence. The people in power tend to also believe they deserve to be in power — ie. Just World Fallacy — so it’s really unsuprising how societally engrained that bias is.

That reminds me of one doctor advising me to look into assisted suicide…

That felt absolutely awful. The person I trust to help me live, because I want to live, doesn’t see my life worth living.

These same people don’t actually help me if I need it, they can’t seem to deal with the reality of my disability.

If people want to help, there are so many ways to actually help them.

You don’t “help” a blind person by trying to sell them a random sham, you help them by asking them if you can do something for them.

I can’t tell if you’re joking or not?