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Disabled Community Megathread from May 1, 2025 to May 11, 2025

Sorry for the (pretty late) mega y'all, getting back on track with this one

Not much else going on with me to be honest. Semester's coming to a close soon, which is nice, the classes weren't the best this time around. Hopefully I'll be able to wrap it up without too many issues.

Of course, I also hope you all do well this week! Well, this week and a half

As always, we ask that in order to participate in the weekly megathread, one self-identifies as some form of disabled, which is broadly defined in the community sidebar:

"Disability" is an umbrella term which encompasses physical disabilities, emotional/psychiatric disabilities, neurodivergence, intellectual/developmental disabilities, sensory disabilities, invisible disabilities, and more. You do not have to have an official diagnosis to consider yourself disabled.

Mask up, love one another, and stay alive for one more week.

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  • It is kinda fucked how when I signed up for medicaid I basically had to hand write a letter saying "pwease help me my teeth hurt"

    bottom emoji included. Been taking advantage of it but I always fear with the cuts coming that I won't be able to anymore. Annoyed how no one told me to basically say my household size is 1 (just me) and 0 income like glad it covers some stuff but for years I'd been signing up with my family and we kept being denied despite being under the threshold for a family of 4.

    Right now I'm real happy my sibling has been getting the help they needed, they got pretty sick and lost a lot of years and their mobility for like a decade all from not being able to get medication and a simple procedure. Got them on medicaid too since this really helpful nurse showed me how to do it and then I showed them. Trying to speedrun their treatment before shit gets cut and it seems to be working.

    • I lost a lot of time and money to the incomprehensibility of the "household" question, too. There are all those studies about how much benefit money goes "unclaimed" even in states with better outreach campaigns, so I have to wonder what percentage of that is from people not realizing the "How many people do you live with?" question is not to be taken literally even though you're threatened with perjury penalties if someone's decided they don't like how you fill out that form.

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