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Date: 2008-02-21 02:46 pm (UTC)A Catch 22 with deeming a disability diagnosis as an "excuse" for being stupid.
Education and income influence whether you get medically diagnosed or assumed to be a criminal and/or a "hopeless lazy idiot".
The well off stay empathetic gimps who "can't help it" the poor stay "f*cking stupid enough to deserve what they get".
Which I say, because I only got a diagnosis for like, 7 disabilties when I finally hit a middle class income in my 30's. I'm very conscious that the economic semi-dependency of many PWD fuels competetive victimhood between us for "deserving poor" status, which is increasingly defined in white middle class language about health.