He then described the challenges of his job: “You’ve got to push the social workers along. When they get here they are totally in a social assistance mindset, compassion for people, which doesn’t work at all with their support role. Here, people need us to shake them up, but ...
For their research, Redman and Fletcher interviewed a JobcentrePlus (JCP) manager; three JCP front-line staff members; one Work Programme front-line worker who had previously worked for JCP [the Work Programme was the coalition’s “payment-for-results welfare-to-work programme”...
This was me saying, “Fuck you,” to my limitations, and to the tyranny of internalized ableism. The second reason is that I do a great job of “passing,” especially in written form, around my cognitive impairment. People who are not part of my day-to-day don’t understand — and...