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Chronic Illness@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

Support Thread regarding the situation for Disabled people in the US

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Support Thread regarding the situation for Disabled people in the US

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Chronic Illness@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

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As many of you might have seen “disabled” “disability” “accessibility” etc are among the words being purged by the Trump admin.

This means no new grant proposals for research for example can contain these words or it won’t get funded. And that government websites (like NASA and other agencies) are being forced to remove these words.

This is a very scary time for us all, and ontop of everything, there seems to be very little recognition of the harms Trump is doing to disabled people in the media or in activist groups and such.

I know how scary and isolating this can feel. I’m putting this thread up so people can vent and share.

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I’m scared for SSDI. I’m on VA disability and can’t work. Without both I’m pretty screwed. There’s quite a few vets in the same boat. I don’t understand wtf they expect us to do.

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