@broadwaybabyto Part of the whole, cruel, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps, Calvinist, US ethos. Single mothers are whore welfare queen, immigrants are lazy criminals, non-CIS persons are perverts, and the disabled should stay in the shadows. They can't even be bothered to add an 'A' to DEI. Anything to make poor white people think their life is better than the "others".

@broadwaybabyto and in many cases, you can "try harder" yourself into permanently worse disability too. I know the damage to my brain and body from my bipolar is significantly more progressed due to subjecting myself to conditions that had me rapid cycling for over a decade.

@broadwaybabyto also, something that may look easy and trivial for you might not be so easy for another person. If it were easy and trivial for them, they wouldn't ask for help at all