• plyth@feddit.org
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    Tear out all available wood and build a rescue raft while you can, your ship is going to sink. Collect all available water and fishing equipment to bring with you.

    For this world, contact other disabled people and friends and build a company. If you own the company you can’t be fired.

    • Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      I know that you’re trying to help, and I appreciate the sentiment. But that advice is literally meaningless.

      Build a company? Doing what? I’ve got 3 autistic kids with varying levels of developmental disability, a partner who we just discovered has a pituitary tumor that’s causing her to have episodes where she loses large chunks of her memory for hours on end or “just” become so dizzy and disoriented that she can barely walk unassisted, and I’ve got chronic joint pain which makes it to where I can barely manage to take care of everyone else along with myself.

      We live off government assistance and my partner’s disability benefits. So we have draconian asset/income limits we have to live within to not lose food/housing money. Like several months ago we got approved for an extra like $300 a month for our oldest because of his disability and we immediately lost roughly $250 dollars a month in benefits. We get in trouble for having more than like $3,000 in assets.

      We know a handful of other disabled people in the area and we all try to help each other where we can but “where we can” is very few and far between. We’re all barely holding it together out here as it is. We just don’t have the resources.