unfortunately you can be seen as both, by different people or by the same people at different times... including doctors
[ID: Venn Diagram of “Not Disabled Enough” and “Too Disabled” overlapping with a thin slice of “Right amount of disabled.” There’s points alongside ranging as a scale.
Not Disabled Enough:
- Thrown off benefits
- Dying after being deemed fit to work
- Seen as scrounger
- No suitable or accessible jobs
Right amount of disabled:
- Inspiration porn
Too Disabled:
- No ventilator if you catch Covid
- Social care cuts
- Independence thwarted
- Seen as burden
- “There’s always assisted dying”
/end ID]