New post: The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner.
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@WeirdWriter
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!
@irina @WeirdWriter @superball
Yup.
Well, the difference is if the accompanying person can go for free or with an extra ticket for themselve. -
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
@WeirdWriter
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!
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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 @whangdoodler disabled people are scapegoats, but more than that, disabled people demand something abhorent to capitalist systems and conservative values: empathy.
the powers that be wish to destroy empathy so that people won't fight for each other, won't stand in unity, will just accept cruelty inflicted on an 'other'. get people to hate enough and they'lll even willingly, eagerly, give up their own rights and protections.
and aren't disabled people such a useful target?
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@WeirdWriter
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.
@Yza Oh and yes! Thank you! Even if she was low level, many folks in the low level places don't like us either, so we can't win!
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@WeirdWriter @whangdoodler disabled people are scapegoats, but more than that, disabled people demand something abhorent to capitalist systems and conservative values: empathy.
the powers that be wish to destroy empathy so that people won't fight for each other, won't stand in unity, will just accept cruelty inflicted on an 'other'. get people to hate enough and they'lll even willingly, eagerly, give up their own rights and protections.
and aren't disabled people such a useful target?
@WeirdWriter @whangdoodler there's a reason nazis began their project of human extermination with the disabled. a drain on society, right? the cost of empathy is one that you, the hardworking voter must bear. and isn't that unfair? your life sucks and these people don't contribute anything and live off your paychecks! blame them, not the state.
but please, never question how much it costs the state to harrass disabled people over and over for information they already have on record
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@WeirdWriter @whangdoodler there's a reason nazis began their project of human extermination with the disabled. a drain on society, right? the cost of empathy is one that you, the hardworking voter must bear. and isn't that unfair? your life sucks and these people don't contribute anything and live off your paychecks! blame them, not the state.
but please, never question how much it costs the state to harrass disabled people over and over for information they already have on record
@WeirdWriter @whangdoodler means testing is so damn expensive. how can our governments afford this extravagant luxury?
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@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!
@WeirdWriter no screams are loud enough
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@WeirdWriter @whangdoodler there's a reason nazis began their project of human extermination with the disabled. a drain on society, right? the cost of empathy is one that you, the hardworking voter must bear. and isn't that unfair? your life sucks and these people don't contribute anything and live off your paychecks! blame them, not the state.
but please, never question how much it costs the state to harrass disabled people over and over for information they already have on record
@Yza @whangdoodler It is a lot easier for the state to get others to hate the vulnerable rather than questioning the undeserving powerful
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@Yza Oh and yes! Thank you! Even if she was low level, many folks in the low level places don't like us either, so we can't win!
@WeirdWriter well, that's part of the brutality of the system, right? it empowers random bigots in their employ to ruin your life on a whim. if they really want to hurt you they can try to manufacture you failure to comply, just as Karen from Compliance did. it's so easy for them, because they hold allthe power and you hold all the responsibility. if they fuck up it's an oopsie-daisy and you'll be lucky if they make up for the harm cause, but god forbid you're late by a minute,
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@Yza @whangdoodler It is a lot easier for the state to get others to hate the vulnerable rather than questioning the undeserving powerful
@WeirdWriter @whangdoodler i suspect part of it is that people default to fighting the easier enemy, even if it's no enemy at all. why bother fighting the state? you know you can't win, but you sure can bully the vulnerable. maybe that'll make you feel better
it's part of why heirarchical systems are so resiliant. the people in the middle care more about preserving their relative power than they do toppling their oppressors
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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 woke up and chose violence holy shit
honestly deserved, i hope that karen and the entire ableist shithouse she works in explodes
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@WeirdWriter you woke up and chose violence holy shit
honestly deserved, i hope that karen and the entire ableist shithouse she works in explodes
@WeirdWriter marvelous prose.
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@WeirdWriter marvelous prose.
@mynameistillian@plush.city @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social oh my fucking god that was glorious.
