Does anyone know the US #tax rules for a #disabled person bringing a necessary companion on a business trip? Are the companion's airfare and lodging fully deductible?
@LinuxAndYarn I'm not an expert. But if she paid for it (or it came out of your joint account) I'm pretty sure your plane ticket is deductible. I don't know where the line is on your food.
please help Rae! ze is tired & in pain from surgery. ze has bills to pay and a family to feed and can't donate plasma for 4 months due to surgery. anything helps!
Can anyone point me in the direction of #disabled persons pursuing self-sufficient lifestyles? The #disability could be mental, physical, or other and the self-sufficiency could be from a #Permaculture, #Prepping or #Sustainability perspective.
Looking for social media accounts, books, blogs, youtube or people doing this kind of thing outside of modern socials that would be happy to have a conversation about it.
@bananamangodog@permacultre@mecfs@actuallyautistic Parkrose Permaculture might be a good YouTube channel. She talks a lot about ableism, and some of her children have various disabilities or are neurodivergent.
I'm disabled and pursuing community-based autonomous structures of social ecological sustainability.
I'm about to move into a trailer and do a work exchange on a permaculture site, which reduces my monetary needs a lot. Getting out of renting has been a big struggle, but one I think is way worth it.
I live in a house with 6 people currently and have bounced around communal houses for the past few days, always filled with disabled folks. We get groceries and cook mostly communally, pool money to hire helpers (friends) on cleaning/chore days, and we interface with other comm. houses, disabled friends, and friends struggling w/ housing or who don't live in houses. Try to support each other and our community.
Self-employment is also big in this for me too. My disability goes through flare cycles, so having flexibility is important. Some of my housemates/life partners and I are starting a cooperative apothecary. Helps meet our financial needs while also helping our community and increasing habitat and food for wildlife on our farm.
Regarding farming/permaculture and sustainable lifestyles, it is tricky being disabled. I think the community aspect plays such a central role for me because it allows so much flexibility and accessibility in roles and fluent abilities. Sometimes I can shovel gravel or harvest plants, sometimes I need to be inside processing herbal remedies or working on communications. And for some folks, they'll be in a role more often because they're great at it or it's what they can do (tho we definitely try not to push our mostly able-bodied friends into large amounts of manual labor). There's always a role folks can fill which is nice, and it's more fulfilling since it's for our community, for our survival, for the restoration of the planet.
I appreciate you posting this as now I want to write more/make videos about the intersection of disability and ecology, food, sustainability, community living.
The start of 2024 I created a campaign to raise $10,000 so that this #disabled man living in #poverty could have the very basic of needs met this year, sadly as today is April 9, I have only been able raise just 1% of that goal, that would enable me to purchase #food to eat and to take care of myself, Please help me today to raise the money I desperately need please. https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=5BN5MB5BVQL22
PEOPLE! I would very much appreciate your compassion and support today so that this #disabled man living in #poverty can raise $500 today so that I can purchase #food and #groceries for the month of April, now most will be consumed this month, but some will be able to help me over the next 2 months, so please give with love today via https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=5BN5MB5BVQL22
A campaign group will be targeting UK media outlets during global ME Awareness Day – calling out what it calls the corporate media’s systemic “mis-and-disinformation” relating to this chronic illness....
Hearing people talk about being disabled/a spoonie on social media, and what that really means, has made a significant positive impact on my life in both understanding and acceptance. This is still an ongoing thing for me, but I’m much much further along due to other people being open.
That is a significant reason I talk about my challenges, in that I hope it may be a small part in helping with their understanding and acceptance.
I can’t speak for the #disabled population as a whole, but the reason i’m giving consideration to filing an aDA suit is because I sick and tired of getting the professional version of Go fuck yourself when i ask for assistance. Telling someone you can't verify their identity becvause your tech is inaccessible is as unacceptable in 2024 as being told you can't eat in a restaurant because your physical disability is making customers uncomfortable.
And to those who are #AbleBodied and feeling complaint fatigue from those of us who are #Disabled, we sympathize, and it's your damn fault. if you'd learned your lesson when a bunch of us got together to pass the ADA and started designing things to be accessible as part of the building process, we wouldn't have to keep having these exhausting conversations. Since you collectively haven’t learned, here are the take aways.
A recent advert by the Alzheimer’s Society has caused significant backlash from both individuals living with dementia, those that love them and provide unpaid care, and professionals in the field of neurological support needs....
A recent episode of the hospital drama Casualty misrepresented the very serious risks that Covid still poses. Jane Stevenson wrote to the BBC to explain just how wrong they’d got it....
plz #boost Situation terrible 😔
Abuse and not fed 2 days. Living on scraps. I don’t think can survive much longer.
I’m fleeing #abuse and #neglect Denied basic needs for years.
If anyone wants to take me in & be my #carer you’re welcome to help.
I am #disabled but you really just need to do basics around a normal day. Bring me some food. Throw on some laundry.
It would include carer allowance (not means tested, about 75$ week) carer allowance (up to about $500 a week if you aren’t working, or possibly less depending on how much you work.) We could go halves in rent or some other arrangement depending on your living circumstances. If you’ve got your own #home, even better.
I have some emergency savings to get going. Can sort something out.
plz #boost Situation terrible 😔
Abuse and not fed 2 days. Living on scraps. I don’t think can survive much longer.
I’m fleeing #abuse and #neglect Denied basic needs for years.
If anyone wants to take me in & be my #carer you’re welcome to help.
I am #disabled but you really just need to do basics around a normal day. Bring me some food. Throw on some laundry.
It would include carer allowance (not means tested, about 75$ week) carer allowance (up to about $500 a week if you aren’t working, or possibly less depending on how much you work.) We could go halves in rent or some other arrangement depending on your living circumstances. If you’ve got your own #home, even better.
I have some emergency savings to get going. Can sort something out.
