We NEED to start emphasizing to young people that conforming will feel easy and grant you privileges.
When their lives improve because of it they think they revealed their true selves and everyone else can see, when really they just discovered the rules to the oldest game ever
A hard truth: some disabled people who look like they could work… can’t. Not reliably. Not consistently. Not in ways employers need. But the benefit system doesn’t recognise this. If you’re not visibly incapable, you’re expected to “try.”