Have you ever felt guilty for just being born? For having a roof over your head? Guilty for having community resources, guilty for having ideas, emotions, ambition?
Due to a mental health disability, I am made to feel like I have no rights. No right to say what my needs are, let alone have any of them met.
I have no support with living in my flat where I am and feel isolated.
Why? Can anyone tell me? Why am I being made to feel like a criminal for just being me and living my life to the best of my ability given the circumstances in which I am in?
I like to be creative, so why am made to feel that I ought to get a proper job or do more work than I already do and am capable of?
Its hard to put your finger on what is actually happening to me and people like me in the world today. It can be summed up though as feeling like you're being placed in a straitjacket. Like we should not have any entitlement to do anything at all, just pushed around and gawped at, tormented even.
Our very existence as people with special needs is being denied, we are being denied the right to be ourselves. Expected to be like some fictitious other that exists in the imaginations of high ranking officials and actually bears no resemblance to reality; the reality of who and what we are.
With feet firmly on the ground - reach for the stars!
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You're clearly moderately intelligent and you should be able to see that you should contribute to society. If you have mental problems you deserve minimal support to ensure your safety. However, if you wish to have luxuries or money, or anything above the absolute minimum you should work, and be creative in your own time.
ReplyDeleteIt is wrong to expect others to pay for you, and if you want anything other than the minimum than you have to contribute to society and work. People that work and pay tax do not do so to subsidise the ill or the lazy, we do it to contribute to society as a whole and to allow the government to pay for essential services. I work and I like being creative, but I do this when not at work.
You have every right to be who you are, if mentally ill you deserve to have support enough to survive, but you have to understand that you have a responsibility to broader society as well as society having a duty to you. We have to give you support, but you in return have a duty to contribute tax and not be a burden on others.
John, I would have gladly entered into a debate with you about all such issues you bring up, like economics, exploitation, poverty and disability and so on, but for the fact that your comment on another post of mine called "consequences, meaning and resolution of madness" starts by your statement that "If you do not work you do not deserve to eat". I am no longer willing to debate with you or publish your comments here because that comment and this one to a lesser extent, is actually hate speech and something that blogger does not support and I am not willing to waste any of my time on. Life is too short for that kind of clap trap. Goodbye.
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