New post: The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner.
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@couscous Oh I’m not done! Life loves to kick me so there will be many more, I hope you follow the RSS feed or share it with others that like narrative blogs. Here is my follow page at https://sightlessscribbles.com/follow but if you don’t like reading, my podcast is https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/ where you can find narrations of my blog posts, and all of my audiobooks, serialized
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thanks ! I just followed your RSS and I already shared your blog with french friends of mine, keep it up i love it !
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@WeirdWriter i have been doing the same lately. they want to know if i am still unable to work? there is a decade worth of files testifying just that. have them all you fuckers. oh, you need another copy of my prescription bc the pharmacy receipt didn’t have my social security number on it? here, have all the fucking prescriptions i currently have, thats about 10. i am just so tired of this endless paper war what cannot be won. they always need something else.
@whangdoodler We should collectively flood their offices the next time they ask us for a review. I could not agree more! I really can’t stand the way the system punishes you for having/using these programs. And a truly ironic thing is, is that I just want to be left the fuck alone, regardless if I use these services or not. Why is it so difficult for others to just let me live my life and let tons of other disabled people live their lives even if they don’t contribute economically to the workforce. I hate this system of perceived value
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New post: The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/
@WeirdWriter an absolutely beautiful act of malicious compliance. Wonderful.
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@WeirdWriter an absolutely beautiful act of malicious compliance. Wonderful.
@quixoticgeek And trust me, that malicious compliance was just years in the making. It was years of frustration, anger, I just had enough with this shitty system.
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@kleines_z @superball I don’t understand why Americans hate poor or disabled people so much! I know it’s not just an American thing, but it feels like it most days because I’m trapped in this system that hates my existence and hates me for using it. I will never understand why Americans hate social security or why they hate anybody using it
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It's in Germany in my nephew's case, and it's not about immediate withdrawal of all benefits, but one example is a certain stamp for a public transport ticket that says he can take a person with him for free for his assistance. It must be renewed every year, "proving" his disability all over again. Before he can get the stamp to validate his ticket, there needs to be proof that yes, he still has down syndrome and no, he still can't use public transport all by himself without being accompanied by an assisting person.By the way, my nephew is five years old.
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@whangdoodler We should collectively flood their offices the next time they ask us for a review. I could not agree more! I really can’t stand the way the system punishes you for having/using these programs. And a truly ironic thing is, is that I just want to be left the fuck alone, regardless if I use these services or not. Why is it so difficult for others to just let me live my life and let tons of other disabled people live their lives even if they don’t contribute economically to the workforce. I hate this system of perceived value
@WeirdWriter i have already made files on different topics on my laptop. housing-shit, disability-shit, poverty-benefit-shit. all the papers go in and all of the papers get sent off on slightest provocation.
funniest thing is we have this anonymous channel to give them feedback by and oh boy do i rip them a new one everytime they ask us anything.
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@lapis That was me doing a literary equivalent of a scream! I’m not sure if it’s this way in Canada, I thought you lived in Canada? but these reviews are always nerve-racking because, as you know, one tiny mistake could have them decreasing your benefits or cutting them off
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New post: The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/
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New post: The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/
@WeirdWriter You did it again! Sooo good!
I'm sure that cookie gave you even more than ten minutes of pure, uncomplicated joy, even if it wasn't The Last One.
Thanks for sharing your stories, your voice is unique.
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@WeirdWriter i have already made files on different topics on my laptop. housing-shit, disability-shit, poverty-benefit-shit. all the papers go in and all of the papers get sent off on slightest provocation.
funniest thing is we have this anonymous channel to give them feedback by and oh boy do i rip them a new one everytime they ask us anything.
@whangdoodler You should see the amount of folders on my external hard drive for these kinds of things. I have things organized into years. That’s how much crap I have. I’ve learned the hard way never to throw anything out.
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@dmoonfire That was the literary equivalent of a scream! Thank you for enjoying it!
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Omg that is hilarious! Well done.@krnlg Like I told someone else, that was a literary equivalent of a scream! More to come, so I hope you follow me! Here is my follow page at https://sightlessscribbles.com/follow but if you don’t like reading, my podcast is https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/ where you can find narrations of my blog posts, and all of my audiobooks, serialized
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@WeirdWriter @superball
It's in Germany in my nephew's case, and it's not about immediate withdrawal of all benefits, but one example is a certain stamp for a public transport ticket that says he can take a person with him for free for his assistance. It must be renewed every year, "proving" his disability all over again. Before he can get the stamp to validate his ticket, there needs to be proof that yes, he still has down syndrome and no, he still can't use public transport all by himself without being accompanied by an assisting person.By the way, my nephew is five years old.
@kleines_z @WeirdWriter @superball Even a five-year-old with the default number of chromosomes would need someone to accompany them on public transport!
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@dmoonfire Yay! That was the literary equivalent of a scream! I did have a git question for you though. have you used Sourcehut? Are they good folk? I’m thinking about moving away from Github
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@lapis You can say that again! And the ironic thing is, I largely just want to be left alone! I’ll never understand why so many people hate it that people are just living their lives even if they’re not contributing to the economy
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@kleines_z @WeirdWriter @superball Even a five-year-old with the default number of chromosomes would need someone to accompany them on public transport!
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Yup.
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New post: The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/
@WeirdWriter I'm so angry disabled people are put through this. It's so dehumanizing. you can tell it's meant to be dehumanizing.
and wow what a shock that the people who accept this job and stick around the longest tend to be the ones willing and eager to hurt disabled people. imagine the psychic burden of having empathy in a job like that, of listening to disabled people day after day, desperate to not lose a critical lifeline, and having to gatekeep them from support on behalf of the state
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@WeirdWriter I'm so angry disabled people are put through this. It's so dehumanizing. you can tell it's meant to be dehumanizing.
and wow what a shock that the people who accept this job and stick around the longest tend to be the ones willing and eager to hurt disabled people. imagine the psychic burden of having empathy in a job like that, of listening to disabled people day after day, desperate to not lose a critical lifeline, and having to gatekeep them from support on behalf of the state
@WeirdWriter i'm in the UK and I simply don't bother trying to get benefts, because I know my country considers ME/CFS a non-disability and because getting an official autism diagnosis feels way too dangerous in the current climate, especially for a trans woman. people really love stripping the right of agency and presumption of basic competance from autistic people, especially when they see you being trans as evidence enough that your brain is broken
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@WeirdWriter i'm in the UK and I simply don't bother trying to get benefts, because I know my country considers ME/CFS a non-disability and because getting an official autism diagnosis feels way too dangerous in the current climate, especially for a trans woman. people really love stripping the right of agency and presumption of basic competance from autistic people, especially when they see you being trans as evidence enough that your brain is broken
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but to keep expecting someone in your situation to prove again and again the obvious fact that, yes, you're still disabled, is absurd. absurd and cruel. our culture hate the idea of disabled people not working so much that it seeks to make existing in society a full time job in itself (as if it weren't already).despicable.
fantastic job striking back, even if it was just at some low level bigotted tool. I hope her distress was gratifying.
a fantasticly told story as always.
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@WeirdWriter i'm in the UK and I simply don't bother trying to get benefts, because I know my country considers ME/CFS a non-disability and because getting an official autism diagnosis feels way too dangerous in the current climate, especially for a trans woman. people really love stripping the right of agency and presumption of basic competance from autistic people, especially when they see you being trans as evidence enough that your brain is broken
@Yza I can understand that, but I sincerely was hoping things would be *better* outside the US. Still, I fully understand! Thing is, I had mine all the way back when I was born, like in 1990, so don't want to lose them! Like I told someone else, nobody can convince me society does not hate disabled people. Everything society does keeps telling us over and over again, we hate you! Get to work! Can't work? Just die already! I have people swear that society doesn't hate disabled people, we just want you all to work. I can't stand this productivity measurement society has. People have value even if they don't stimulate the fucking job market. GAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
