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@MyView

Hold on. Are you saying the disabled couple, who are claiming they were discriminated against, are ostracising somebody?

That comes across as some weird, victim blaming, anti disability, shit.

And saying people change laws, when the voices of disabled people are continually muted or ignored, is a real head in the sand attitude. Mostly, news grabbing stories are what change these laws. For disabled people, this is usually when a celebrity with a disability comes forward, or a particularly nasty incident happens. It would be great for once if an alpaca shook up the laws that need updating.

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@MyView

I hope it ends when the needs of people with a disability are taken seriously and society generally doesn't keep excluding them or making their lives more difficult.

In the meantime, I guess people with disabilities and illnesses will have to do the best they can, with the obstacles others put in front of them, and the stigma that is attached to disability and illness.

"A lot of ppl who're , they came to the fed govt bc it was a model employer for disabled indivs -now they've nowhere else to go."

Goidel, a fed WKR in FL, w autism, knew what he could be losing when he got laid off from his job as an equal employ opp specialist at the IRS.

Bc of his autism diagnosis, he'd been able to secure his spot as one of >500K disabled WKRs in the fed govt under Sch A -allows fed agencies to bypass the trad hiring-.
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AP News · Disabled workers question federal government inclusion amid Trump cutsBy Kenya Hunter