You know, I'm tempted to punch the next person I see right in the mouth with the response to Trump's victory, but that wouldn't do any good. So I'll just explain why it is I personally don't give a damn about this.

After reading the bit about Paul Ryan wanting to pull the plug on grandma at the Orange Shitcan, I have this to say:

There are times when I just wanna take a mega phone and tell the world that disabled life is rarely as it is portrayed on Tee Vee. Most of the time we keep to ourselves, or at least my wife and I do. She has a circle of friends she hangs with now and then but we're both home bodies. And I lost touch with the only 2 friends I ever had after leaving home for good.

Whelp...after my meeting with Social Security, I'm back to square one. Literally. Since my childhood records were destroyed many moons ago I now have to apply for disability as an adult.

So now I'll have to face 10 more denials in five more years despite my well documented medical history. Even if I do go for legal representation. Fuck this shit.

See ya around,
Aspie

So today the old lady and I had our first experience with Uber because my mother-in-law wasn't available to bring us to Urgent Care (Our county school board is riding her like hell with regards to training teachers). The experience wasn't bad and the drivers did their job well even with the minor traffic jam on the way home. We'll probably use them for trips we might have to make on our own that we can't do so by golf cart.

As I've said many times before, I've been in and out of Voc Rehab for well over a decade. Fifteen years, actually. And I've spent those years, close to half my life, trying to get out of a rut many of us disabled folks often fall into. But this month, I finally decided to say screw it....well, not entirely, but at least when it comes to looking for full time work or 'gainful employment'. This isn't their fault anymore than it is mine.

So tomorrow my employment specialist wants to take me to a few places she applied to on my behalf. No doubt they'll tell me they don't do anything face to face anymore and that everything is done online now because that's the default response. Even when I do get to introduce myself to a higher-up, it never really goes anywhere. You simply can't get your foot in the door in the IT world.

There's something that really pisses me off about this particular argument about people who deserve benefits and people who don't. That's one of the many topics I had to deal with when my mom and her partner visited. The guy is a real piece of work, let me tell you. Before I deleted my account, I argued with him quite a bit on facebook, especially when Bernie Sanders came up.

Finding a job was hard enough for people with disabilities even before our current economic cluster. Now, with more and more jobs requiring drivers' licenses and the ability to travel to multiple locations, it's damn near impossible to find any employment whatsoever.

Other people here have already written similar sentiments in regards to how Hillary's supporters keep trying to guilt us into stopping the Trumpenstein monster the Clintons and their allies in the media built to give her something she could beat to begin with, but I feel the need to take it a few steps further.

Last night I wrote about the monthly meetings I was forced to go to for SNAP. Well, at today's meeting I was told I wouldn't have to do this anymore due to the fact that I'm no longer considered 'able-bodied' according to DCF rules. This is how it should have been because I've been working with Voc Rehab for years to begin with.

That's a huge weight off of my shoulders.

See ya around,

Aspie