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I feel sorry for the truly disabled.

Versus the millions of phonies who were stiff and sore years ago when tested for benefits coverage and now go on bicycle trips to the lake and have a picnic, go home and rake leaves and mow the lawn before a night of TV. Big day.

Next booth at Taco Bell overheard by me:

Male (maybe 30 or so): So your disability covers that? Mine does ,too. Are you also on Section 8 housing like me?
Female:(Seemed to be casual friend of his ). Yes.
Male: Makes it harder to move to a new place. That paperwork.
((Neither looked disabled from the outside, both walked better than I do most of the time. Maybe hidden PTSD or something that doesn’t show. Maybe....”
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This type of thing always got me mad before I retired at age 71 and my wife had to say “ignore them”. But I had to work and I continue have to pay all my own high rent.

[[((Neither looked disabled from the outside, both walked better than I do most of the time. Maybe hidden PTSD or something that doesn’t show. Maybe....”]]

Yeah, we have to be careful- some disabling conditions can’t be seen- and folks look perfectly able bodied- but i n reality they aren’t- some diseases like MS, or bad Chronic fatigue, show no outward signs, and people can do activity short term, like rake a lawn, mow, shovel a drive way- but then they suffer for it out of view where nooen knows they are suffering-

I know people with Chronic Fatigue, and they explain it to me like having a battery that is only 1/4 charged in the morning- they get up- can do some light activity, but by noon, they are so weak they have to lie down to recharge again to 1/4 charge or so, just to make it through the rest of the day, because if they don’t=- and they keep trying to do activities, they end up in bed for a couple of days- weak, shaky, etc- they just don’t have the energy stores that normal people do i guess- They describe it as having the flu non stop- some days it’s better, other days it’s awful- but they always get wiped out doing normal stuff- just like someone with the flu gets wiped out- weak and shaky- People with conditions like this learn to pace themselves, and we only see them when they are at their best- which again- is only a 1/4 of what normal people are at their best-

of course there are degrees of Chronic fatigue- I’m talking about the debilitating severe cases- These folks can do short term stuff like mowing a small lawn- raking- or whatever- but can’t do it in a sustained effort-

I call conditions like that the invisible disabilities- because people look at them- see them working some light activity, and think there is nothing wrong with them-

Sadly These are the folks that can’t work long enough hours to sustain themselves financially because of the need to recharge during the day (some folks have to do this a couple times a day- if they don’t, and skip the recharging, after a couple of days, they are down for the count for a few day)- but they are the first ones to get kicked off disability so that dead beats who are simply out of work can get on disability thanks to obama and ilk-

They are perfectly capable of working- but like you say- they complain of ‘being tired, sore’ and somehow get disability- while people with truly disabling conditions like MS or Chronic fatigue, Parkinson’s, or Fibormyalgia or whatever - can’t get it-

Many of these folks end up getting kicked off- can’t work enough to sustain themselves, and end up homeless and sick- while deadbeats get welfare and sit around smoking pot all day or drinking- that’s what makes me mad-