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What does disability mean to you and who qualifies?

What does disability mean and who should get it?

  • who cares, it is unmanagable

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    27
  • Poll closed .
I think it definitely needs to be overhauled. Too much fraud and waste. Not enough following up to make sure that people aren't cheating the system. I can't say what it would take to fix it though.

Competent doctors for one.

Getting lawyers out of it would be another good way to work towards fixing it.
 
We already established that about you.

Now, please tell me what you meant by "Trouble reading? perhaps you should file."

So you think a guy can ride a motorycle for 1200 miles one way and back in a week and still be disabled? :lamo No wonder the country is in the ****ter and needing the debt ceiling raised
 
So you think a guy can ride a motorycle for 1200 miles one way and back in a week and still be disabled? :lamo No wonder the country is in the ****ter and needing the debt ceiling raised

Yes, because disability impacts a person in many variant ways, depending on the individual. This is one of the basic concepts of disability.

Are you going to tell me what you meant by that comment or not?
 
Competent doctors for one.

Getting lawyers out of it would be another good way to work towards fixing it.

Sounds like a good start to me.
 
Yes, because disability impacts a person in many variant ways, depending on the individual. This is one of the basic concepts of disability.

Are you going to tell me what you meant by that comment or not?

What comment? There is NO ****ING way a guy can cover 2400 miles on a bike in 7 days and be disabled without lying on the application, especially if it is back, neck or legs
 
I knew two men who both lost an arm. One of them drove log truck, the other was on disability. Need I say more?

I have an uncle that lost a hand, he may reitire this year at 68
 
What comment?

"Trouble reading? perhaps you should file."

What did you mean by that?

There is NO ****ING way a guy can cover 2400 miles on a bike in 7 days and be disabled without lying on the application, especially if it is back, neck or legs

You do not know that. Again, you have a limited understanding of disability, you are not a professional, and you have no access to their medical records.
 
refreshing, 77% of the people in the poll think the system needs attention.
 
There is plenty of fraud in both, not denying that. I am denying that you saw actual fraud just because you saw a snapshot of somebody doing one activity. You assume this person is a fraud and cheating the ADA system simply because he doesn't match your ideal/image of what "disabled" is or what disabled people should or should not do.

I never said the person was committing fraud, I'm saying the entire system is a fraud.

I could go down to the VA tomorrow and file a combat PTSD claim and I don't have to prove it and the VA can't prove I don't have it. And there are thousands of vets who have done it because it's FREE STUFF.

I know more than a few who have done it and they asked why don't I do it ? It's free money.

How many Americans have filed disability claims since Obama has become POTUS ?
 
"Trouble reading? perhaps you should file."

What did you mean by that?



You do not know that. Again, you have a limited understanding of disability, you are not a professional, and you have no access to their medical records.

Do you have trouble reading? if so you should sign up, you are already repeating yourself, that could be a speech impediment.
 
I never said the person was committing fraud, I'm saying the entire system is a fraud.

I could go down to the VA tomorrow and file a combat PTSD claim and I don't have to prove it and the VA can't prove I don't have it. And there are thousands of vets who have done it because it's FREE STUFF.

I know more than a few who have done it and they asked why don't I do it ? It's free money.

How many Americans have filed disability claims since Obama has become POTUS ?

Same with fibromyalgia, no way to prove or disprove it, but it will get you on disability fast
 
Do you have trouble reading? if so you should sign up, you are already repeating yourself, that could be a speech impediment.

Just as I thought. That's an offensive remark.

Your disdain for the disabled, including myself, is noted.
 
Just as I thought. That's an offensive remark.

How so, did you not repeat yourself? Playing a poor victim should help your claim if you decide to sign up
 
Just as I thought. That's an offensive remark.

Your disdain for the disabled, including myself, is noted.

the ones that fake it, you betcha
 
its not like it keeps you from doing other things either

Depends. Something like mowing the lawn only lays me up barely able to move for 3 days or so. But then, I use a riding lawn mower, no way could I push mow over an acre. What I am capable of doing is often determined by how much pain and fatigue I am willing to tolerate or able to tolerate when I have done it.

Mowing the lawn-- 2 to 3 days of pain and fatique
resetting fence posts and putting in concrete for them, max 3 post per day--3 to 5 days recovery
Going to a mall, Walmart or anyplace with fluorescent lighting for as little as 15 to 30 min-- 1-3 days extreme headaches, dizziness, nausea, pain and fatique
Laying under a car to do repairs for an hour-- 1 to 2 days of nausea and dizziness.
Driving at night for too long, say 20-30 min-- 1 to 2 days of headaches, dizziness, nausea
Work at my computer for more than around 30 min at a time-- again 1-2 days (this is why I often appear to disappear sometimes during conversations and am slow to reply and of course, some just move to fast so I never actually get back into them)

Just a few examples. Sure, If I am willing to pay the price, I can do a lot of things, for a little while. Could I hold any type of job, none that I have found so far.
 
How so, did you not repeat yourself? Playing a poor victim should help your claim if you decide to sign up

This is what ableism looks like folks. Yes, I am disabled. Your hateful remarks about us are noted.
 
This is what ableism looks like folks. Yes, I am disabled. Your hateful remarks about us are noted.

So is your denial that people defraud the system, wow you are great at playing victim

But please just for discussion, show us where you were discriminated against.
 
So is your denial that people defraud the system, wow you are great at playing victim

With your attitude is it any wonder why many of us think we are treated like crap by the general population?
 
or you might have a legitimate excuse to be on it, it wasn't random. I have sat at the coffee shop with this guy for years now, just found about hsi SSDI today

I have a legitimate reason to be on disability, but you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at me. If you saw me loading up my car from shopping, you'd probably I think I was a regular working joe.

Of course, I don't have a parking sticker, either. So you wouldn't know I was disabled unless we were talking about how I got my money.
 
With your attitude is it any wonder why many of us think we are treated like crap by the general population?

It probably has more with how you present yourself to others, you bring it on yourself.
 
What is your disability?

First I was diagnosed with a form of mental retardation, where my reading skills were an issue. After that incorrect diagnosis, I was diagnosed with another disability.

No, my own reading scores are no longer a problem according to diagnosticians or even the GRE (as I scored in at about the 89 percentile).
 
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