#working while disabled

[thedisablednaturalist]

"It is illegal for an employer to discriminate based upon disability! So if you have no excuse if you are unemployed!"

Employers:

[ID: Snippets of job requirements. By bromantically]

1. "This position requires the individual to drive either a company car, rental car or his/her own car in the course of performing their job from time to time. Employee must be able to perform the physical functions of operating a motor vehicle, including use of eyes, ears, arms, hands, legs, and feet. Employee must be able to prove that he/she has a current, valid driver’s with no restrictions." The part that says, "Employee must be able to perform the physical functions of operating a motor vehicle, including use of eyes, ears, arms, hands, legs, and feet." has been highlighted.

2. "Ability to repetitively stoop, crawl, bend at the knees and waist, squat and lift 50 lbs; includes body weight, equipment, tools and boxes, in addition to ability to stand for long periods of time on varied surfaces. Must be able to stand up to five hours at a time." End ID.]

#working while disabled #disabled employee #i have seen desk jobs use the must be able to lift 20 lbs loophole #this is ESPECIALLY PREVALENT in environmental science jobs even those that dont require fieldwork #the first one is for an entry level environmental scientist at dewberry #disclaimer: the second one is from a security guard position bc i couldnt find a ready example of this #without searching through a ton of job descriptions #but i promise you i have seen shit like this for non physical labor jobs #and jobs that have some physical labor but can have accomodations #they just dont want to do the extra work of accomodating to make the work feasible for a disabled person #so they outright say this shit #disability #physical disability #cripplepunk #cpunk #chronic disability #chronic pain #spoonie #wheelchair #from the field

[rosesandthorns44]

I lowkey forgot how helpful my grabber tool is for tidying up my room...

I can sit in a central location and just pick trash/laundry/recyclables and put them where they go!

I've had the dang thing for probably close to a decade. Why don't I use it? IDK. Internalized ableism? Imposter Syndrome? Denial?

I always tell myself, "I'm better now. I don't need all those things anymore," and avoid using any assistive devices unless I'm in so much pain I can barely move. It's bullshit! I'm making things so much harder for myself.

I keep thinking about getting a rollator so I can get out of the apartment more on my days off. Then I tell myself that's being overdramatic, and i don't need it. Lately, I'm resistant to even using my cane.

I get scared to go places on my own in case I get too tired! Clearly, I need SOMETHING.

I didn't use to be so self-conscious about visibly appearing disabled. It's more since I've entered the workforce, and I'm the only one at my company who uses mobility aids. Also, I got severely harassed/discriminated against by my ex-boss (reported her ass and got her fired!).

I'm fucking tired of being the odd one out at work and working in a completely NOT accessible building where the only mobility aid I even have the option to use is my cane.

Heavily considering applying to an independent living center a few cities over so I can be amongst peers and do some good for the local disabled community. It's just hard to make the leap and change careers.

#disabled #disability #ableism #internalized ableism #chronic illness #ehlers danlos syndrome #gastroparesis #idiopathic hypersomnia #chronic pain #dysautonomia #mobility aids #assistive technology #assistive devices #working while disabled

[kingofkingsschizo]

If you are a schizo like me and need to work to make ends meat pick your job wisely. As a schizo that worked I noticed I couldn’t work full time. While I went to college I worked maybe 3 days out the week on the weekends. I had to learn to structure my life with my symptoms. I had sleep issues and because of the antipsychotics I had fluctuations in the time I could fall asleep or I would wake up real late afternoon. I worked at night because these were the hour I had peak energy. I also found out I couldn’t work high pressure jobs like being a line cook. While I worked I did have episodes on the job and I couldn’t be consistent even though I was a hard worker. I found out something, clerical jobs suited me better for some reason. As I got older I had earned enough credits through social security from working that increase my social security benefits and it was best for me to live within my mean off the fix income then all the stressors that I encountered working. One thing I forgot to mention was that I had extreme social anxiety but being in a small town that was highly vested in the tourism industry, service jobs like food and beverage restaurants and hotels were the only options to work. I forced myself every time I entered the employee entrance to swallow my anxious feelings and proceed with the responsibility and duties assigned to me. In retrospect I think it might have conditioned my tolerance level to function with anxiety. I now do things like music and art these things bring me happiness and it’s true if you find something you love doing you won’t have to work a day in your life. Good luck schizos, I say go for it and work and go to higher education because you want to not just because this what others suggest or expect you to do. Protect your sanity and peace always.

Wally aka DEFIANT

#kingofkingsschizo #working while disabled #life experiences #good luck #go for it #mental health #schizophrenia #actually schizophrenic

[performing-personhood]

#job market #full time jobs #low stress jobs #job seekers #jobseekers #jobsearch #job search #neurodivergent #neurodivergent employment #working while disabled #working while autistic #working while neurodivergent #working while mentally ill #late stage capitalism #change my fucking mind #no really #please prove me wrong #i would love to be wrong #entry level jobs #low skilled workers #unskilled #unskilled workers #low-skill workers #low-skill #entry level #chronically ill #chronically ill workers #working with chronic illness

[sailor-cerise]

I hate how work makes me hurt.

I'm too tired at the end of the day to even play a video game or watch a show, and I ache head to toe.

#I am ouch #Vent #Tired #chronic fatigue #chronic pain #chronic disability #Disabled #working while disabled

[datamodel-of-disaster]

I just had my first formal project review at my new job.

It was all compliments.

No complaints. They were very satisfied with my work, felt my deliverables showed true analyst mindset and remarkable technical acumen, enjoyed cooperating with me, and found me pleasant to be around.

And I'm just...

The sheer difference, between working in a place where you are barely tolerated and one where you are appreciated.

I haven't magically become a better functional analyst in the last month. I was just as good at my previous job, where my bosses disliked me and sought out every possible reason to criticise me, ad absurdum.

Working in a place with bad vibes was such a mindfuck. Even though no one was outright rejecting or bullying me (besides one of my bosses, which was why I left in the end), I always felt faintly excluded and awkward. Unsafe.

You can tell when people don't like you, even if they're polite about it -even if they try hard to include you and be nice! Perhaps especially then. You can tell.

I had forgotten what it's like to work with people who like me.

In my head "having a job" had become synonymous with being in a state of constant, low-level distress and discomfort .

It's only now that I realize how awful my baseline had become. I'm constantly surprised at people being warm and genuine -especially because my new job is at a much bigger company with a lot less of a "we're all buddies here" vibe than my previous one.

Anyway. Guess I'm trying to say... sometimes it's not you.

Especially if you're disabled and have a history of professional failure/not meeting people's expectations/being too weird to have friends/etc, you are primed to accept people treating you badly, because well... you probably did something to deserve it, right? You should be grateful to have a job at all, right?

But sometimes it's not you.

Sometimes a place is just shit, and it's not because you're bad at the work or an unlikeable person.

So if you're currently hating your job and just biting your teeth because you don't think you'll be treated better elsewhere... this is your sign. Don't wait until you find yourself thinking about jumping in front of your commute train instead of getting on it every morning. There's better out there.

#working in it #working life #disaster thoughts #shitty job #working while neurodivergent #working while disabled #sometimes it's not you #you deserve better

[jmoonincorporated]

Commission Menu

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#freelance #writer #black writer #black author #freelance writer #commissions open #writing commissions #working while disabled #physically disabled #autistic adult #autistic writer #dyspunktional #cripple punk #fanfic #fanfiction

[thepatchpack]

#autistic adult #actually disabled #actually autistic #disabled advocacy #disabled punk #autpunk #cripplepunk #cripplecore #comfort object #disabled positivity #recovery #self advocacy #autistic positivity #working while disabled #working while autistic

[loki-zen]

been thinking a lot about how to talk about my needs now I’m in an actually understanding workplace, and I think it may well be necessary to put some work into getting across the concept of:

there are things that I will want to do and even like to do that it is nevertheless for the best I am strict with myself and don’t do them. (or am strict with myself and stick to certain rules and limits about doing them, even if it would be convenient to break or bend those just this once.)

And by ‘for the best’ I don’t just mean ‘better for me’, although that’s true - this is the strategy by which we can use me most efficiently, because I work faster and more accurately in the absence of sensory hangovers.

#actually autistic #actually adhd #neurodivergent in the workplace #disability in the workplace #working while disabled

[punkpinkpower]

listen sir the pillow fort is as much for your protection as it is mine

#autism #autistic #working while disabled #working while autistic #don't video call me when I'm wfh unless you want to see the pillow gremlin

[thedisablednaturalist]

Whenever I get the sleepies at work I just put my head down on my desk and take a 15 minute nap (timed on my phone to vibrate and wake me up) and it helps so much. I feel a lot more awake and alert and get more stuff done than if I had just tried to power through it. If you're able to, highly recommend just giving into the sleepies instead of going for coffee.

#wrenfea.exe #working while disabled #my boss did come by and I had to jolt awake but im a very light sleeper #next time Ill probably put up a lil sign by my head #i have my own cubicle so that helps and my boss is pretty relaxed #chronic pain #chronic disability #chronic fatigue #cfs #chronic fatigue syndrome #chronic illness #chronically ill #disabled #fibromyalgia #spoonie #disability

[sickzombi]

does anyone know where to start w/ asking for reasonable accommodations???

i am going to need to start the process but its so hard ;-; hallpp

#chronic illness #spoonie #chronic pain #disabled #heds #potsie #celiac #reasonable accommodation #disability awareness #working while disabled

[kingofkingsschizo]

I think about this and how things need to change for someone who suffers with a debilitating mental illness and is on social security disability. Social security only gives you enough money to survive . That’s what it is, trying to survive. A lot of times we can’t even meet are needs on the amount of income given and we are forced to look for work to make ends meat. So a disabled person will attempt to go back to work out of necessity. It’s a squeeze play. We go back to work and have to deal with our debilitating symptoms while doing so. This is what gets me. Social security will take away your major source of income and eventually cut off benefits like healthcare if it’s been established that you can work. It’s unfair. When your only trying survive they make it worse on you. Social security doesn’t take into account that you might need to save money for things like transportation, clothing, food healthcare, and debt accumulated. I feel we are forced to try to live with in a means that’s below poverty level and is very stressful on a life that already suffering.

#kingofkingsschizo #social security #working while disabled #unfair #follow #mental illness #suffering

[carriesfishers]

hey autistic community i have a question about job applications. i'm applying online to be a dishwasher and everything seemed straightforward until i saw a box to attach a resume. it didnt have the little asterisk so it's not mandatory to fill out but im not sure if its expected anyway? im literally applying to wash dishes, i know that its definitely expected for other positions like cook or whatever but im not sure if its like an unwritten thing i should follow. this would be my first real job so i have no idea what im doing, i just need money to keep on living idk. advice?

#actually any advice on job hunting while autistic would be a lot of help <3 #autistic tumblr #actuallyautistic #actually autistic #autism #working while disabled #is this even a good job to persue? limited contact w people just give me my paycheck lol

[changeling-ash]

Help Needed for Post Finding

There’s that post that has all these resources and ideas for filling out a resume/getting money as a disabled person that I swore I had pinned in my drafts, but now I can’t find it. 

It started out as someone talking about how they never got resources that actually worked from abled people and only after they got it from disabled people did it work out for them, then they provided a ton of great resources for good jobs like transcription and translating and taking surveys.

I need it for a dear disabled friend of mine. 

#disabled #post finder #disabled resources #job search #working while disabled #disability #disability aid #disability resources #changeling posts

[datamodel-of-disaster]

I need a work friend who is a real friend too.

Someone who gets that we’re both just there for the paycheck. Someone who doesn’t get annoyed at me taking breaks, who has my back like I have theirs, who knows it’s us against the bosses who are just looking for the right moment to fire us.

Like…

I can’t be the only one hanging on by the skin of my teeth. I can’t be the only one.

#work life #working while disabled #working while neurodivergent #adhd struggles #job stress