Too busy to be this disabled

[cosmolinguist]

I woke up to a text message - sent at 8:16 on the morning of a bank holiday Monday! - saying "Your PIP review has started."

Because, yknow, my optic nerve might have grown back in the 13 months since my last PIP decision! My condition has been lifelong and untreatable for the entire existence of humanity but it's been a year so let's check again in my particular case, yeah why not.

I'm already busy and stretched way too thin with work and other stuff at the moment (I've had an emotionally exhausting weekend and my physical exhaustion has been bad too since my chronic insomnia has really flared up again in the last couple weeks). I actually have three little holidays planned during the what-turns-out-to-now-be general election period and will now also be the month or so I get to do my PIP review. And the two that aren't Springsteen involve camping so aren't conducive to getting paperwork done anyway!

So it's a great time to add the emotional, mental and physical labor of detailing how I meet the UK Government's ableist expectations of what disability looks like!

Comments

[lilysea]

I remember reading about the woman with Downs Syndrome who was asked by the PIP people

"So, do you still have Downs Syndrome, or has that cleared up now?"

[barakta]

Fuck, I am sorry. Fuck the DWP for sure.

[otter]

Sending hugs

[jesse_the_k]

Fuck that noise!

What a ridiculous waste of your time as well as tax monies no doubt paid to someone’s nephew’s cousin as a consultant.

[silveradept]

Ugh. And it rarely seems to be that DWP takes all that information and says "Yep, same as ever. We'll up your award to cover price increases." instead of scrutinizing everything for the slightest sign that something wasn't done exactly correctly.

[sfred]

Ugh :-(

[andrewducker]

Gah!

[davidgillon]

Forgot to say sympathies! And strength!

[barakta]

I don't know if it's any use, but if I can help with PIP renewal, hit me up as that is probably something I have capacity for, and can help bounce ideas or help with the admin aspect. No worries if not useful, but thought I'd make an explicit thing offer rather than assume you knew you could ask (which you always can, cos I'll always say if yes/no capacity etc) which I know is harder.

[forests_of_fire]

fuuuuck. I'm so sorry.