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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not get a job and work? There are quadriplegics on ventilators who work. There are people with severe multiple sclerosis who don't demand our tax dollar support them. Why can't you work?[/quote]

My MIL has early onset dementia. She's not even 60. Got approved for disability because she can't work. Literally can't function. she also has extreme paranoia as part of her dementia process and it showed up before she got diagnosed. Her boss was willing to keep her getting paid if she just showed up but she refused to show up because she said her coworkers were planning against her. That they conspired against her. This is when she started getting evaluated because her boss said she hadn't really been able to do her job for awhile. Making lots of mistakes but they kept trying to work with her. This is also a woman who had an abusive childhood, starved for the first 2 years of her life, was in a nunnery and then got fostered by a family who used her as a domestic servant. 100 her childhood is affecting her mental status as she goes down the dementia path. 
You don't want her driving. You don't want her collecting a paycheck for work she isn't doing (state worker). So she sits all day in a house she paid for while working for decades and gets x dollars a month to barely survive.

I can only hope that scientists in another part of the world where they'll be supported will actually be able to help diagnose and treat dementia like this so other people don't have to live like this.  or that they'll come up with diagnostic criteria/tests that will allow them to be treated prior to spiraling into full-blown dementia. 
I do feel for people who have physical disabilities because the world is not built for people with physical disabilities but people whose brains don't work from either dementia or mental health issues can't function in a job.

Disability shouldn't be given freely but it also is necessary [/quote]

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