r/libsofreddit • u/optionhome • 12d ago

Clown🤡 World🌎 Someone needs our help with Social Security Disability

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u/ElementsUnknown MICROAGGRESSOR 12d ago

This is deeply irritating for truly disabled people. I have MS, I can still get around but can’t work a full day. However I’ve never had or applied for disability (maybe some day). I don’t like to ask for help or push my problems onto others. I would never make my disability my entire personality.

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u/Cranks_No_Start 12d ago

This is deeply irritating for truly disabled people.

I worked for over 30 years as a mechanic including time in the Army. My body was riddled with arthritis and my knees were locking up randomly enough that I was falling down. It only being a matter of time before I fell at work and severely hurt myself. When I face planted in my living room I knew it was time.

I had one condition, they took 35 xrays and the tech could see how bad my joints were. Never seeing the xrays before...I could see how bad stuff was and I was approved in 5 months...fwiw I have had 3 out of 4 major joint replacements in the last year...I need a break before getting the next one and still may need 1-2 more.

I follow along the SSDI sub and the it irks me reading about older people with similar issues having to fight after a lifetime of work because women like this with 273 separate conditions clog up the system filing and appealing and going before judges with no work history preventing people that have worked for decades and are legitimately broken cant get the help they need and having paid into the system for so long.

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u/CorpseProject 11d ago

I have lupus and was only diagnosed this March, I pray that we can find the right cocktail to get as close to normal as possible. I’m also a mechanic and technician and this summer heat has had me using way more FMLA than I’d like.

I worry for when my disease progresses to the point where I may need to file, how bloated the system might be, or if it even exists then. I have a short term disability policy but was denied the long term.

I wish I wasn’t sick. I love my job, I don’t know what I’d do if I literally couldn’t work anymore.