Apparently trying to get pain treatment is too hot for Reddit. You learn something new every day.. Physical Health When the HCP (health care professional) isn't taking your pain seriously: The pain I'm experiencing is impacting my life in X way. I cannot tolerate it....
No Goodness, No Hope
It seems that society has shifted where you used to have to give an answer for the hope that was in you (1 Peter 3:15) where now it's expected of you that you give an answer for the hope you don't have. For me there is a real good reason for this because I have a...
The Opposite of a Christian
The opposite of a Christian is not an atheist, it is someone with mental illness. Christianity posits that you can trust your inner voice, mental illness demonstrates that you can't. People say "God" tells you things that are outside the scope of what you could come...
Tips for Improving Diversity
As an individual with a visible physical disability (some visual impairment) who has some autistic spectrum tendencies (though not diagnosed) I am an outcast most places I go. I am trying to improve myself to be less of one but here are some tips for groups that want...
Cures for Depression
I cured depression! I am diligently working on my Nobel Prize acceptance speech. I actually have 3 cures: Shame it away. Shame is powerful and sets people straight. If you shame depression away it disappears. You are a terrible person for having depression, it's your...
On Abortion: Christians don’t want to pay for things
Christians are rightfully horrified of the fact that there are hardly any Downs people in Iceland because most of them get winnowed out via pre natal tests and aborted. However Iceland is more socialist than the U.S. with cradle to the grave social services. People...
God’s Inaction in Action
Christians are so turned off by people with disabilities because they display God's inaction in action. They are kryptonite for prayer, their conditions often worsen instead of better with time. Christians are not allowed to resent God for his inaction directly so...
Disability Article
Great comment by phil on a NYTimes disability article: Every person begins in a state of total dependence and most end life in some level of the same. one day I will be disabled. I think the real problem is the wretched idea that the most human among us should be...
The Insidious Ableism of the Therapeutic Industrial Complex
Therapists demonize neediness and dependence. Somehow we are all supposed to live in a world where we can live a self contained hyperindividualistic existence. Unfortunately economic reality dictates that many of us can't and certainly most of us with disabilities...
Two Harsh Observations about Disability
You will be judged more harshly than someone without a disability, particularly if you lose things that give you value in this society. As long as you have things a normal person is expected to have like a job and a place you will be tolerated. Lose these things...
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