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kestrellNote that the original NY Times article buried this information in the middle of an article titled "Disability Applications Plunge as the Economy Strengthens," a claim that relies on supposition without real evidence.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/11/trump-administration-may-monitor-social-media-to-catch-disabilit/
This is an interesting variation on the stereotype that anyone who is disabled obviously looks and acts disabled. People tell me all the time that I don't look or act disabled. I may have to make my public picture a pic of me holding up both of my prosthetic eyes. FYI, the Social Security Administration does not consider popping your eyeballs out as a documentable demonstration of blindness.
It's one of the ironies of being disabled that there is social pressure, and often pressure by medical and rehabilitation "experts" to not act disabled, but there is a simultaneous pressure to demonstrate that you aren't faking it or malingering.
Here's another interesting quote on how the stereotype is being used by the government:
“This proposal starts with the discriminatory assumption that people with disabilities do nothing socially in the community, or have lives, so that anything the person does on social media can be classified as some form of fraud,” said Eric Buehlmann, deputy executive director of public policy at the National Disability Rights Network, a nonprofit membership advocacy group. He told AARP that methods to detect fraud already exist.
https://www.aarp.org/retirement/social-security/info-2019/ssa-social-media-disability-fraud.html
https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/11/trump-administration-may-monitor-social-media-to-catch-disabilit/
This is an interesting variation on the stereotype that anyone who is disabled obviously looks and acts disabled. People tell me all the time that I don't look or act disabled. I may have to make my public picture a pic of me holding up both of my prosthetic eyes. FYI, the Social Security Administration does not consider popping your eyeballs out as a documentable demonstration of blindness.
It's one of the ironies of being disabled that there is social pressure, and often pressure by medical and rehabilitation "experts" to not act disabled, but there is a simultaneous pressure to demonstrate that you aren't faking it or malingering.
Here's another interesting quote on how the stereotype is being used by the government:
“This proposal starts with the discriminatory assumption that people with disabilities do nothing socially in the community, or have lives, so that anything the person does on social media can be classified as some form of fraud,” said Eric Buehlmann, deputy executive director of public policy at the National Disability Rights Network, a nonprofit membership advocacy group. He told AARP that methods to detect fraud already exist.
https://www.aarp.org/retirement/social-security/info-2019/ssa-social-media-disability-fraud.html
