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1/4: I was disabled in November of 1992, and I've been legally, officially disabled since May of 1998. I'm 50 now, and I've very often see people asking what they can do the help the disabled. I don't mean to be a downer here, but I think it's inevitable.
2/4: Advocating by petitions, reposts/retweets, etc. is fine and dandy and all, but as a disabled person with multiple chronic medical conditions and limitations and someone who knows a lot of other folks in the same disabled boat, I feel sound in saying that advocacy is fine...
3/4: ...but that just as, if not more often a lot of us could use more than moral and social media support. Many of us could use rides to appointments, to the store, etc. because some of us can't drive or can't easily afford transport. Some could use help, however small, with...
4/4: ...medical bills, because they don't stop coming and increase as we age, though our incomes, like SSDI, don't much. Heck, sometimes just visiting us or calling and talking for a while so we can socialize helps keep us afloat. Yeah, do sign petitions and retweet and...
5/4: ...all, but don't leave it there and leave us hanging while we wait for the government to enact laws (or enforce them) and for our applications for charitable assistance to trickle down the system so we can maybe get some help from them sometime that year.
6/4: Action doesn't require a committee. It only requires action. The hard, uncomfortable part, I know, is you have to do it IRL.
