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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Why do people think helping the disabled with benefits is the same as telling them to not work? Its a weird way of thinking that if offering benefits is telling them to not work and removing benefits is helping them, that is a really strange one 
Unfortenatly there is many people like petelockwood who think if someone can use a computer at home for a few minutes (with unknown aids) they suddenly fit to use one in the workplace, and if they see someone walking out the front door it must mean they fiddling benefits. |
Plus the sheer ignorance of not actually conversing with said people in wheelchairs/wearing deaf aids/carrying a white stick or using a guide dog and discovering what their circumstances actually are and what their employment history is.
I know because I talk to these people and some are friends and family.I know that certain conditions such as diabetes can lead to sight and mobility issues as the condition advances.Indeed my sister is registered as being incapacitated due to a heart problem.
Then there are those like my nephew for whom their incapacity is not apparent at first sight because it is a mental one. Yes the one everyone thinks is easy to fake and don't hesitate to say so.My nephew has such low self esteem that he cannot function in any workplace and wants desperately to be part of society on the same terms as the rest of his mentally fit peers.