I’m disabled but if you’re under 35 you’re supposed to do mutual obligations.
I keep getting told that I'm not eligible for DSP, even though I've been assessed as only being able to work under 7hrs #MOstrike #AbolishJSPs #KnowYourRights #StrongerTogether #UCAB #AUWU 1/13

per week. And even though my illness is incurable, and I have tried EVERY treatment/medication available. I live in the outback, I'm on waiting lists for specialists. In 2017 I was hospitalised 10+ times.
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2/13

Twice I was in ICU. One of those times I was in a coma that the drs thought I would never come out of. When I was in that coma, I was cut off centrelink for not attending an appointment with my JSP...
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3/13

My partner (who receives Carers Pension for being my full-time carer btw. I'm disabled enough to need a full-time carer but not DSP lol) took a centrelink medical certificate to the JSP & centrelink from
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4/13

The hospital, while I was in that coma. The certificate stated that I was IN A COMA. Yet I was cut off my payment. Most Job networks are staffed by people with no fucking training, and no fucking idea about
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5/13

What it is like to be anything but middle class, white, and able bodied. And so many of them look down on people who receive Centrelink payments. I worked full time from the age of 15, until I was 31, which
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6/13

Is when I was diagnosed with the Autoimmune Disorder that has changed every aspect of my life. I now suffer daily seizures. I have had a stroke. I need mobility aides to do anything. I also suffer from
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7/13

Serious mental health issues, that have seen me require inpatient psychiatric treatment (both voluntary and involuntary) since the age of 13. And above all else, if I could still work, I would still have
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8/13

A fucking job. I fucking love working, and I fucking miss working. But it's hard to work when some days I have 10+ seizures. Sometimes they cause me to lose control of my bladder or bowel. Sometimes I lose
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9/13

Consciousness, due to pain. Sometimes I am in so much pain that I end up incoherent. Sometimes I suffer from psychosis. If I could find a job that I could do, I would do it in a fucking instant. And now
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11/13

That COVID-19 is happening, I am literally only leaving the house for medical appointments that I absolutely haveto attend. Since 24/3 I have left the house 8 times. In almost 5 months. But I have an
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12/13

Appointment next week apparently with my new JSP.
Anyway if you made it this far, Thanks for reading, and if you are unemployed join AUWU! We need your support!!!! @AusUnemployment
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