Hello,
I have a physical disability. In fact I have been disabled since I was just over a year old. I never thought about it that much until I got older. Now that I have lived over half of my life I realize how having a lifelong disability has affected not only me but the people I have come in contact with. I wanted to start a blog where people like me might share their thoughts and maybe even support each other. This is not about money or pity. I have a lifetime information about living and working with a disability and I think maybe, just maybe I can help others. There were many times in the past I wished I could just talk to someone with a disability to see how they felt about something or how they overcame a particular challenge. I felt really alone in my situation sometimes and that can damage you if you don’t get it under control. Today we have the Internet which provides a place that we can easily communicate with people around our city or around the world. People with disabilities are not segregated by race, gender, religion, or politics. We come in all shapes, sizes and colors. If you are not disabled chances are you will know or meet someone with a disability in your lifetime. Come on this blog adventure and let’s see if we can make a positive change in someone’s life. – Dave Diggs
Working with a disability. I have worked since I was 15 years old. I would like to hear from other people that have a physical disability and still work every dayy. Do you work? What challenges do you have? How do you overcome those challenges?
Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my blog. I am just getting started with this blog and still trying to figure out what I want to do with it. Again thank you for posting your comment.
You should go and apply and take your maeicdl records. If you get turned down APPLY AGAIN -they always turn you down twice unless you are blind in both eyes, have missing limbs, are deaf, and things like that. When your second application is turned down you get a social security lawyer. They do not get paid until you win. Your case can take up to a year but you will get compensation for the year from the time you first applied. Meantime you can’t work. If you work then you do not qualify as disabled. I don’t know if you are getting benefits from workmans comp or some other source but you have to be unable to perform gainful employment.
Thank you visiting my blog and for your reply. I think you may have misunderstood my intent. Although I am disabled I do not want to be on disability. I want to work as long as I can. My intent is to help connect other people who like me have a disability but want to work. My goal is to create a network of people with disabilities that want to work. This is so we can support each other and maybe at some point create a source of employment for the working disabled.
Dave