FUCK EVERYTHING~~~
Jul. 14th, 2014 03:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberettCOME AND SEE THE ABLEISM INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM
incidentally, my practice has my title as "Mx" :D :D :D :D
Dear Ms [surname]
I have recently received a DLA form from the Department for Work and Pensions but I have not yet completed it as from my current understanding you seem ineligible to claim this benefit
Please refer to the link below for eligibility.
This benefit usually applies to people who need help with washing/dressing or meal making or who are unable to walk unaided.
Please make an appointment to discuss this in more detail if you feel I have not properly understood things from your perspective.
Yours sincerely
Dr M Daniels
Imperial College Health Centre
incidentally, my practice has my title as "Mx" :D :D :D :D
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Date: 2014-07-14 02:26 pm (UTC)What the fuck is your problem?
Sincerely,
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Date: 2014-07-14 03:06 pm (UTC)And wasn't it you who was expressing interest in a thing like HabitRPG except the daily task 'shower' could expand into the subtasks 'make sure shower curtain is inside tub', 'turn on hot water', 'make sure water is hot but not scalding', etc? (Shame
eta: wow it's been a while since
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Date: 2014-07-14 03:17 pm (UTC)(And just... fucking doctors/other professionals who go out of their way to "go beyond the call of duty" in a way which is that unhelpful. Also every mental health professional over the years (there are blessedly fewer of them in my life now) who has told me that I shouldn't identify as disabled, it's letting my condition define me.)
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Date: 2014-07-14 03:20 pm (UTC)This GP has met me once, for ten minutes, during which I was attempting to present in such a way as to optimise for getting given my anti-depressants on repeat prescription.
As it is the vagaries of the NHS are such that if it weren't for the stockpile of meds the NHS doesn't know about and doesn't want me to have, I'd've been cold turkey off ami + citalopram for two days, because I did not have the cope to make an emergency appointment of any variety. SO. THAT'S A THING.
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Date: 2014-07-14 03:37 pm (UTC)(And why do they both tell me that cold turkeying by accident off meds is evil and proof I'm not responsible/a grown up/don't WANT to get better and then have a system which makes accidental cold turkey REALLY LIKELY if you have problems with working memory and leaving the house)
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Date: 2014-07-14 04:47 pm (UTC)/o\
IDK why all disability assistance systems ever seem to be predicated on the notion that YOU MUST BE SUFFERING SO TERRIBLY and YOU MUST SUFFER MORE TO PROVE HOW TERRIBLY YOU ARE SUFFERING and also DO SO EVERY X # OF YEARS and if we see you smile, we will cut your benefits or something! It feels so not about actually helping people with disabilities feel better, and more about making people without disabilities feel like they're helping people not die on the streets but also not helping the "undeserving" (whatever the fuck that means) and thus feel satisfied with themselves. And also useful target of ire in election year ("those lazy people who don't deserve disability pensions").
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Date: 2014-07-14 04:51 pm (UTC)Or the GP who rang my baby sister at home the day after her 18th birthday to tell her that she should know that she was on very strong medications for epilepsy, and that she should not and could not get pregnant, it would be irresponsible and dangerous (at nine in the morning on a Monday, when baby sister had been having a lie in before her exam that afternoon so that she would have had enough sleep to function)
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Date: 2014-07-15 06:08 pm (UTC)What. Even. That's terrible. (And also, I sympathize, having been on a lot of anti-epileptics for Bipolar Disorder. Fortunately I have negative desire to get pregnant and my partner isn't going to without divine intervention, but jeezus. Also thank goodness for the one pharmacist who was responsible enough to tell me that Topamax can make birth control spontaneously stop working when *none of my doctors did*. Like, kind of important information, even if I'm not currently with a partner who might necessitate birth control, no? And I have friends who are married, on Topamax, and had never been informed. What even people. KIND OF IMPORTANT. OK sorry, that got really off topic. I just. Doctors, I have a Thing.)
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Date: 2014-07-17 01:00 pm (UTC)And a doctor finally bothered to ask me, when checking about reproductive health stuff recently, if she actually needed to ask about this because if I didn't have intercourse then she could probably skip the questions and give me less frequent check ups.
Haha- I think you may be right about the constant BMIs. Like, both myself and my dad do KNOW our shirt size, and that we are fat, and also that there is a range of reasons for that including meds we've been on. But we've both had a number of doctors tell us about our BMIs in a tone which suggested that we probably were just too thick to notice the size of the our bodies.
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Date: 2014-07-14 03:39 pm (UTC)...But mental health. But.
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