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"Although I'm on disability now, I never feel safe that I'll be able to keep them. And the threat of reassessment constantly looms over me." Share on X
"I've already proven to the powers that be that I'm disabled. So, why must I do it all over again to keep the benefits I need?" Share on X

The Humiliation of Divulging Details of My Weak, Faulty Body

"The constant need to assert my deficits to strangers trained to doubt me and who don't know me or understand my disability feels unsurpassable." Share on X
"As I write, I try not to cry or swear as I fight feelings of inadequacy. I feel less than as I confess to a faceless bureaucrat to everything my body no longer allows me to do." Share on X "The constant need to justify my existence is traumatising, exhausting and stressful. And it often feels that the system's designed to make us feel this way." Share on X
Filling out benefit forms is a stressful and demoralsing experience
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Why I’m Hesitant to Admit to The D Word

"It's heart-wrenching to hear the increasing vitriolic language toward people like me. Words like faker, burden, or drain on society scream at me from stories and tweets on my screen." Share on X "I shy away from using the D word: disability, as in, I'm on disability when asked what it is I do. Shame immediately set in whenever it has, as any self-worth I had disappeared into the abyss." Share on X

Being Sick is Not a Lifestyle Choice

Benefits: Being sick is not a lifestyle choice the government claims it is
"I didn't work hard for three years for a degree to spend every day hidden behind the same four walls. Instead, looking at the certificate I worked hard for, gathering dust is painful, taunting me about what could have been." Share on X

It’s Not All Endless Free Time and Fun

"On the one hand, home feels like a sanctuary, a safe place. On the other, it feels that the symptoms that plague my every waking moment continually hold me hostage in a prison I call home." Share on X
Stigma of Benefits: Home is my source of comfort. But my sanctuary can also feel like a prison

The System Makes Me Feel More Like a Criminal

"The stress of the claims process is worsened by a system that treats me like a criminal. Like, I've had to attend a tribunal in an actual court with guards and judges to prove the existence of my disability." Share on X

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