5 things make a post: you're boring, baby, when you're straight

[nilchance]

5 things I'm recommending:
- Bad cripple, mythbusting re: disability fraud, or "no, those OTHER disabled people who are leeching off the state."
- Fuck yeah, Jensen/Cougar, a tumblr blog about, well. Jensen/Cougar. I am pleased.
- JGL sings Bad Romance, and my uterus falls out.
- Ghosts in the Machine, a horror Losers fic that was written off my prompt and it's so pretty I can barely stand it. Also, you may never be able to watch Food Network ever again.
- Hyperbole and a Half: Dinosaur, or that one where the goose invades a house.

Then I heard a sound like grinding metal coming from outside and I was like "Do you hear that?"
Boyfriend: "Hear what?"
Me: "It sounds like robots having sex."
Boyfriend: "I'm not familiar with that sound."

I can even see Cougar's patented "..." face for when Jensen says something horrifying and Cougar is torn between smothering him or just feeding him his dick to shut him up.

Comments

the joy of life on disability

[auroramama]

Thank you for that link!

People want to believe that it can't happen to them. It's horrifying, the things they'll believe about other people in order to reassure themselves.

Add to that the people who want to believe that they use no government services or public resources, and therefore ought to pay no taxes.

And the people who consider it important to prevent the undeserving from getting health care, even if it means a few people dying while we check their documentation. Because health care is a special privilege, and other people's health is irrelevant to our own well-being. Thousands of people walking around with untreated infectious diseases -- no, this could in no way bite us in the ass.

Sorry... this is not just a rant trigger for me, it's apparently a Belief System Infodump trigger. Anyway, thanks for the link. A lot of people just haven't thought this through. Some of them may even be capable of doing so *before* it happens to them.

Re: the joy of life on disability

[nilchance.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY. God. I used to work in disability services, and the nervousness of my coworkers when I started using a cane, the us vs. them language of people who were supposed to be advocating for students with disabilities, made me so angry.

FWIW, I'm sorry you have to struggle with this every day.

Re: the joy of life on disability

[auroramama]

Things are good right now for me, so I'm not really struggling on my own behalf these days. But many of the people I love have run the services gauntlet with an invisible disability.

Before my Girl was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer, we thought she had chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. Same symptoms, different diagnosis: voila, disability payments! It was bleakly funny. We lost her many years ago now, but I'll never forget that CFS and FM can feel like metastatic cancer.