• LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    Not always. For example, I’m 100% disabled with a neurodegenerative disease for which there’s no treatment or cure.

    This is good advice if you’re not locked in a situation entirely out of your control, but for plenty of people it’s not that simple.

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      10 months ago

      I’m sorry, but all civilized countries in the word offer some social assistance to people in your situation. Put together all disabled people and their families and fight for your rights.

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        10 months ago

        People have been fighting for those rights for decades. That doesn’t change the fact some people are destitute because of health issues with no way to improve their personal situation. And if I had the physical ability to organise people and fight for things, I’d have the ability to work. I’m not sure you know what ‘100% disabled’ actually means.

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          10 months ago

          There are a lot of disabilities, so I don’t know… in my country you could have a 100% physical disability but be in your mind (quadriplegic for example), and in fact there was a person in this condition that fought the government in court and won forcing the government to legislate in his favor and others in similar conditions.