Re: Re: Social Security; chronic illness support

[Guest guest]

, your feelings expressed are echoed around the country and continent by

the most vulnerable who don’t have access to adequate protection and advocacy,

including by disappointing relatives and former " friends " who have abandoned

them in their time of perhaps greatest need.

As statistics state that 60% of elder abuse is by family members, we can

perhaps extrapolate this to vulnerable disabled.

I don’t know about your state, but mine has some wires crossed as far as whom

they identify as their most vulnerable. Those identified disability populations

in fact are large revenue sources for their career caretaker and service

providers. I would appreciate anyone knowing of larger organizations, e.g.,

focused on chronic illness disablement and generized disability support and law,

pointing us to their links. Thanks, cg

Christ <antares41_41@...> wrote: I get angered at what

Barb has seen and have witnessed this type of

abuse myself. And when someone is REALLY physically impaired the way I

am they ALWAYS look at me like I am a scamster. They give me that

look like their too smart to be fooled by me and I better get up a

littler earlier in the morning if I'm going to pull one over on them.

Shame on my friends and relatives whom have known me all my life and

KNOW this isn't the case. The irony is any one of them would fly

right though with shining colors if they were in my situation. It's

all about what you appear to be, not what you are.

I agree with both KC and Jane. You don't scam someone but just like

you have to put your best foot forward in business (code for hype your

product to the hilt) you have to do the same to get past these fools.

That's why their are so many people abusing the system while others

who haven't made it their career to work these systems can't seem to

get the help they so DESPARATLY need.

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:27:32 -0800 (PST), you wrote:

>I am not telling you to fake it. My friend had enviornmental allergies and

lived in a small podunk town and figured she better look sick. I did not say to

fake it by any means but for goodness sake don't go all dolled up into the

interviews and you better pass the psychological test or else they will say you

are just crazy. It never hurts to know what they are going to ask. It is like

studying for a test. She got her disabilty--going back for 8 years, the courts

lowered the attorney's fee, etc. She was not faking and was truly sick. If you

are sick, you will just have a little knowledge and power to play in a game

where the deck is stacked against you.

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