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Disability

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OneGrassRoot

(23,444 posts)
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 08:58 AM Jan 2013

Do any of you blog about your experiences, or would you be willing to? [View all]

My experiences via Wishadoo and those who find their way there have shown me how the lack of safety nets throughout our country for persons in the process of applying for disability is a critical problem.

Honestly, I'm fairly ignorant about the process as far as specifics, as well as how being on disability (depending on the reason for disability, of course) affects other things, like being able to generate a small income to supplement SSD.

I want to add blogs to Wishadoo which chronicle the daily life of people in various situations mirrored across our country by millions of others. Until people have insight into the path of others, they often remain clueless and judgmental. I'd like to help change that in some small way.

A blog by a veteran on the verge of homelessness, sharing his journey, will be added to Wishadoo, as well as a blog by a caregiver who had to sacrifice her job, home, etc., in order to care for her ailing mother, all on a severely limited monthly funds.

People need to understand more about the daily trials and tribulations encountered by those already suffering with a disability, and what they encounter via our system and from other citizens who judge without knowing anything about the other person.

Do you know of anyone writing such a blog? If you have an interest in writing a blog, would you be willing to do so for Wishadoo?

Someone currently going through the disability application process and struggling without a safety net, as well as someone who has been approved and is now "in the system" would be most helpful.

Thanks much.



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