Disabled people 'feel hostility'

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

"They tell us strangers challenge them in the street about the support they claim”
Richard Hawkes, Scope chief executive

Many disabled people in Britain feel media coverage about benefit cheats has negatively affected attitudes towards them, a survey suggests.
Almost half of the 500 disabled people and carers polled for charity Scope said attitudes to them had worsened.
It comes after ministers released data suggesting 55% of sickness benefit claimants were no longer eligible for it.
The government said it was restoring integrity to the benefits system.
It is changing the welfare system to try to get more people into work and is scrapping the three main benefits for disabled people in the process.
Anyone receiving these benefits will be reviewed to see if they are capable of work or eligible for other benefits.
But a report from a parliamentary committee has warned that changes to disabled people's benefits may risk their right to independent living.
The research for the charity Scope is released just weeks before the Paralympics is due to start.
It asked 500 disabled people, their parents and carers a series of questions in England, Wales and Scotland.
It found 46% of those polled said people's attitudes towards them had worsened over the past year.
Some 40% said they had stayed the same and 16% said they had improved.
Nearly two-thirds (64%) said they had experienced aggression, hostility or name calling, while nearly three-quarters or (73%) said they had experienced an assumption they did not work.
When asked what could be contributing to such hostility, 87% singled out people claiming disability benefits to which they are not entitled.
And 84% highlighted negative media coverage about benefit cheats.

(More at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19048294)

I know a few people who have claimed or currently claim benefits because they can't work and these stories really wind me up.
Who are these fuckers that openly harass people in the street?
'Oi! Show me your papers! Why aren't you lining the pockets of the capitalist elite? Eh? Work shy layabout!' :mad::mad::mad:

[cynicles]

This behavior infuriates me, what assholes and fucking government.

[Rottenfruit]

"They tell us strangers challenge them in the street about the support they claim”
Richard Hawkes, Scope chief executive

Many disabled people in Britain feel media coverage about benefit cheats has negatively affected attitudes towards them, a survey suggests.
Almost half of the 500 disabled people and carers polled for charity Scope said attitudes to them had worsened.
It comes after ministers released data suggesting 55% of sickness benefit claimants were no longer eligible for it.
The government said it was restoring integrity to the benefits system.
It is changing the welfare system to try to get more people into work and is scrapping the three main benefits for disabled people in the process.
Anyone receiving these benefits will be reviewed to see if they are capable of work or eligible for other benefits.
But a report from a parliamentary committee has warned that changes to disabled people's benefits may risk their right to independent living.
The research for the charity Scope is released just weeks before the Paralympics is due to start.
It asked 500 disabled people, their parents and carers a series of questions in England, Wales and Scotland.
It found 46% of those polled said people's attitudes towards them had worsened over the past year.
Some 40% said they had stayed the same and 16% said they had improved.
Nearly two-thirds (64%) said they had experienced aggression, hostility or name calling, while nearly three-quarters or (73%) said they had experienced an assumption they did not work.
When asked what could be contributing to such hostility, 87% singled out people claiming disability benefits to which they are not entitled.
And 84% highlighted negative media coverage about benefit cheats.

(More at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19048294)

I know a few people who have claimed or currently claim benefits because they can't work and these stories really wind me up.
Who are these fuckers that openly harass people in the street?
'Oi! Show me your papers! Why aren't you lining the pockets of the capitalist elite? Eh? Work shy layabout!' :mad::mad::mad:
I am a male recovring anorxeic and even doctors look at you like you´r a freak because of this myth that men cant get anorxia , for a year i went 2 times a week to a rehab center for anorxia and almost every time i got asked by staff members what i was doing there, I am outspoken about this subject and some people even burst in laughs hearing that a man can be a sufferer from anroxia.

Anorxia nearly killed me, i was trying to infect myself with tapeworm in 2009 and i had a psychotic episode which landed me in the mental ward, i had not eaten anything for a week, and i mean nothing, just water and laxtivies, not even a single slice of breed. I started to diet in 2005 because i was a little chubby but the deal is i never stopped dieting and one step leads to another, and in 2007 i started to buy laxitives which was my final step into full blown anorxia


And if you think this is funny then fu, only 10% of diganosied anorxics are males yet the number of anorxics in total is estimtaed at 30-40% but men are more afraid then women scared to seek help for anorxia because of the social stigma, in my case i did not really seek help but im thankful for having that psyhcotic episode even though i did things i regrert and can never take back because i would have never gotten the medicail help i needed if it had not happend and i would be dead.

Versus how skinny i was and my lifestyle i would guess i would have lasted for maby a year max

I also noticed that homophobia is connected to it, i was asked over and over by doctors if i was gay, i got the impression that the nurses and doctors were hinting at that only gay´s get anorxia because the stereotype of homosexuals being "femine and fabulous" is prevelant where i live

[Quail]

I am a male recovring anorxeic and even doctors look at you like you´r a freak because of this myth that men cant get anorxia , for a year i went 2 times a week to a rehab center for anorxia and almost every time i got asked by staff members what i was doing there, I am outspoken about this subject and some people even burst in laughs hearing that a man can be a sufferer from anroxia.

Anorxia nearly killed me, i was trying to infect myself with tapeworm in 2009 and i had a psychotic episode which landed me in the mental ward, i had not eaten anything for a week, and i mean nothing, just water and laxtivies, not even a single slice of breed. I started to diet in 2005 because i was a little chubby but the deal is i never stopped dieting and one step leads to another, and in 2007 i started to buy laxitives which was my final step into full blown anorxia


And if you think this is funny then fu, only 10% of diganosied anorxics are males yet the number of anorxics in total is estimtaed at 30-40% but men are more afraid then women scared to seek help for anorxia because of the social stigma, in my case i did not really seek help but im thankful for having that psyhcotic episode even though i did things i regrert and can never take back because i would have never gotten the medicail help i needed if it had not happend and i would be dead.

Versus how skinny i was and my lifestyle i would guess i would have lasted for maby a year max

I also noticed that homophobia is connected to it, i was asked over and over by doctors if i was gay, i got the impression that the nurses and doctors were hinting at that only gay´s get anorxia because the stereotype of homosexuals being "femine and fabulous" is prevelant where i live
Bit off topic, but I was reminded of this (http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/31/the-staggering-cost-of-eating-disorders-in-england/) article. It's hard enough to get an eating disorder taken seriously if you're female, so it must really suck to be male. The problem with mental health conditions (perhaps eating disorders in particular) is that there are a lot of stereotypes so if you don't fit them you don't get taken seriously.

One time I had a nurse who was carrying out a mental health assessment laugh at me and say, "You have an eating disorder do you? You don't look like it," despite being underweight and a diagnosed bulimic. It was just ignorance really, but medical professionals shouldn't be that ignorant and it's not just an isolated incident because things like that happen a lot. I've had all kinds of bullshit from medical professionals because of my mental health, from people making rude comments about my self-injury to a psychiatrist reporting me to social services for violent obsessional thoughts (a fairly common symptom of ocd). All of these things really point to a lack of understanding and an unwillingness to try to understand, and if I'm getting this kind of treatment from medical professionals who are supposed to know about mental health, I don't know what everyone else must think of me.

[Yuppie Grinder]

yea fuck those good for nothing cripples get a job!

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

This insane concept that if your're ill or disabled or whatever means you aren't contributing and so are somehow worth less than those that are able to work and pay the taxes and are lucky enough to not be debilitated by any serious illnesses or maladies.
Shit, just have a smidge of fucking empathy; surely if these ignorant pricks were struck down tommorow they'd want as much help as could be provided / that they required without being demonised for it.

[Will Scarlet]

This insane concept that if your're ill or disabled or whatever means you aren't contributing and so are somehow worth less than those that are able to work and pay the taxes and are lucky enough to not be debilitated by any serious illnesses or maladies.
Shit, just have a smidge of fucking empathy; surely if these ignorant pricks were struck down tommorow they'd want as much help as could be provided / that they required without being demonised for it.
They don't think like that, in most or at least many cases. It is justified on the basis that they're probably faking it, because there are so many "scroungers". Politicians and most of the media constantly push this line about how many people are "abusing the system" and of course kicking disabled people off welfare is a profitable enterprise. guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jul/27/disability-benefit-assessors-film

[Ocean Seal]

People are indoctrinated to try to feel morally superior at every instance and to reflect poorly upon any social "parasites" including the disabled, the homeless, and the general poor.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

And we know exactly where we can trace this propaganda against the 'weak' back to...:rolleyes:

It's horrendous that society has been so propagandised that people think that, when talking of morals, the greatest wrongs in our society are people who sit at home and take benefits when they can't contribute socially necessary labour time due to their physical/mental ill health, but that we should be applauding those who immiserate the disabled, because they mythically 'create jobs' or whatever.