Canada

They all want us dead. We live in extreme poverty through no fault of our own. Zero extended medical care in many places unless you need permanent care which means you pay out of pocket for medications, eye care and more. Even if you need extended care often you cannot afford it on the low amount of money you have allotted for that, or have to live in a less than ideal care home situation because it's cheap.

I am a disabled person who worked for 20+ years and had a very young family just prior to my sudden no fault disability. My income is less than half of extreme poverty for a single person in my area on federal disability payments. M Yet I have three children and I am married and I am expected to buy groceries, pay rent/mortgage and household bills, medication, clothing, kids activities maybe some kind of communication or entertainment if we are very lucky, with less than $12,000/year. If I manage to make some money from employment, I am limited to $6900/year or there is a possibility that my income will be cut off completely. If I volunteer more than 10 hours a week anywhere, I can also loose my disability payments. So no socializing either or feeling like you can fulfill some kind of role in society. If I do work or volunteer I must report my actions to the CPP board as if I were on parole. If I want to take a class or some other sort of "education for employment purposes" for my own benefit or to better myself, I also have to report in like a criminal and be judged wether I should retain my CPP payments. Perhaps I spend a good day in the garden puttering about but my nosey neighbor reports me. We grow a lot of food so we can feed our kids. We obviously have to. I could lose my CPP for doing laborious work regardless of the actual situation. No one cares.

This is also not taking into account that our extremely low income and medical care situation means our children also suffer unduly and then typically become problems for the system as well. If they do manage to get out, they are usually mired in debt to make it happen or have their own medical problems from a lack of medical care, lack of quality or quantities of food etc. as children.

There is not a politician or political party in the country advocating regularly for the disabled and their families. There is no one interested in helping us. The citizens of the country fall into this category as well. If massive volumes of people were suddenly thrust into our situation as many of us have been, they would literally revolt. Imagine having been born into your disability and dealing with this hatred and disdain your entire life. I can't even comprehend the hell those folks have to endure just to live.

Most people have no idea how fucked they would be if they slipped and fell or got some crazy kind of cancer that is so popular now. We disabled, are killing ourselves and publicly screaming on the national and international news at you. We tell you that we are doing it not because our lives are terrible and we can no longer manage but because we SIMPLY CAN'T AFFORD TO LIVE!

WE CAN'T EAT.

WE CAN'T PAY OUR BILLS.

WE CAN'T AFFORD MEDICATION OR GLASSES FOR OUR KIDS.

WE HAVE NO VIABLE LIFE THOUGH WE ARE ALIVE.

All you see is a poor cripple in pain who must need to die no matter what we do or say. Our government as well. We martyr ourselves in the name of progress and it's a byline at the bottom of the news cycle you read and say "oh what a pity" then go watch tv or eat some chips.

Too many good points here to decide what to even quote. The ultimate result of not coming to terms with missing pillars in our health care and social services.

Could not agree more. I feel like I am living in Ontario nazi land right now with Ford following the fascist handbook to a T. Also Canadian citizens need to decide themselves if we want to be a country that actually takes care of their less fortunate and disabled and if not then start shipping us off to the camps. It would be better than living in this living nightmare limbo. We are a family of 3 permanently disabled people living on $17,000 taxable income a year with no support.

Below is a rant I have been posting around a bit. Very long but adds some context I believe.

Ford has literally gutted ODSP and his abhorrent handling of the Ontario Autism Program (OAP) is disgraceful and hurtful.

They combined Ontario works and ODSP. One noticed immediately a difference. The workers treated ODSP recipients like they were Ontario works recipients. They sent out job search forms, etc. to people that were permanently disabled and incapable of working and humiliating them (ask most disabled people, they will say one of their dreams is to actually go out and work so to have these forms sent to them is literally a slap in the face) because these workers were never trained on how to deal with the disabled only people that were unemployed.

We can no longer email our local ODSP office anymore, no more one on one workers, you are tossed into a pool and they rarely call back if ever.

We had to actually get a lawyer involved just to contact the ODSP office to get anything done after 6 months of us calling with no call back in that 6 months.

Things ODSP used to cover, gone. Our child has autism and epilepsy. He has never ever had any form official therapy, guidance of any kind due to Doug Ford and gang. We were “approved” for OAP and SSAH almost 3 years ago but are still on the waiting list to actually get funding.

Our case is not unique, there are literally 1000’s of Autistic kids/adults that are not getting ANY therapy that they need to exist and communicate in society. This will lead to more violent altercations with police due to limited communication skills due to lack of therapy and more hospital visits plus more that will by carried by taxpayers down the road for years if not decades. Guess Ford does not care about down the road while he and his gang fill their pockets.

We are very grateful for all that we receive. We do not expect anything. The Ford government promised OAP, SSAH and more but have not held true to that promise. Doug Ford is truly despicable for not helping thousands of his fellow Canadians that are disabled kids and adults and leaving them in the lurch.