Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
I wish more people understood this.
A friend had to have his foot amputated due to diabetes and when he filed for disability they asked him to complete a triple jump.
Sounds like some real UK government shit, that
That’s exactly what they thought was going to happen. For-profit health care is a business. Businesses prioritize profits over all else. In the US, it’s just blatant corruption.
Wouldn’t matter if you filled it out you still be denied. You have to pay an attorney to be approved.
My brother (not adhd) was able to do it himself but basically compiled a database to do it.
Have a friend who is essentially bedridden who got denied 3 times before having an attorney file.
I wonder if it’s a bit like the food stamp process where what you get depends in large part on who you get as your program officer so it’s a bit of a crap shoot.
If you can’t afford to pay an attorney it’s very common for lawyers who are representing people applying for disability to work on contingency. If you’re approved for disability you usually get back pay dating to when you first started the process, and the lawyer takes a percentage of that as payment.
This isn’t about health care but disability services and social welfare but sure
Huh? How is it not healthcare? ADHD is a disorder that’s usually well-treated with medication.
I get the person is applying for a disability claim but surely they must already have tried and failed to achieve satisfactory symtpom adjustment to receive welfare?
It’s literally about filing a disability claim
Disability claims are part of healthcare
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
“That’s some catch, that Catch-22,” he observed.Anyone who has been through the process of applying for, and succrssfully recieving SSDI, knows that every single step and element of the process is at least one, if not multiple Catch 22s.
Hey uh, here’s a real basic one:
Oh, are you homeless?
No permanent address?
You basically cannot apply for anything, anywhere, any kind of food assistance like SNAP, TANF, actual SSDI, Section 8…
You literally cannot even do step one if you’re already fucked out of a home.
This is why you really luck out if you can get into a shelter that lets you use them as an address, and also the staff isn’t stealing/opening the mail, or just maybe they lose half of it, or say you can’t have it now because your crippling injury meant you got back to the shelter 3 minutes after curfew, try next week, after it needs to already be sent back out again with a response, or you can’t apply again for 6 months.
Simultaneously, there are basically zero emergency housing resources for those who are not yet homeless, but going to become homeless soon.
Oh you’re not homeless yet? You don’t qualify.
Try again after your life has been ruined, no, we don’t try to stop lives from being ruined, we shuffle them around afterward.
Has to be the funniest novel I’ve ever read. So many moments that literally made me lol
You should read “The gospel according to Biff, Jesus’s childhood friend”
My experience with some of such papers is that you are supposed to have professional help already that does it for you.
Shows that you need assistance.
I have had some that required a shit ton of paperwork from different sources to be returned within a 30 day window.
Its impossible to pull off, but a social worker who knows these pages makes 1 phone call and now you have 90 days. Makes another phone call if its still not done.
Cool!
We all know all mentally disordered people have strong support networks, the ability to schedule things, manage stress, move around a town or city, etc etc.
Not everybody has a partner, a friend, family to fall back on, lots of people are mentally disordered and in crisis because they got fucked over by those people.
The system is broken, and its on purpose.
I used to work for a nonprofit, we helped these people best we could, but the way the government makes you do things is a laughable joke, its broken.
But hey, that was at least back when any of this shit still had any funding and was still kind of working.
Now?
Now?!
Yeah, my guess would be if you started say an SSDI application today, handed it in finished perfectly… 1 to 2 years before you get your first pass/fail result back.
My partner actually went to the social worker to fill the papers with them.
By design.
I’ve always been lucky, filling out forms has always been something I can hyper focus on, I know it doesn’t make any sense, but I guess I just really like putting pencil to paper and seeing my own handwriting
Try doing it with a broken wrist, to explain to them that your wrist, and many other bones and ligaments are broken, torn, etc.
The autism doesn’t help so much there.
