I live in northern Europe and we have had a pretty good attitude towards the disabled in the past. It was also pretty easy to be on disability if you really needed to.

It has changed. The new government renders sick people fit for work. They come on on TV and claim the real issue is not that people have long term illness, it is that they had a short term illness and then they got well but they kept wanting to cash in money... They blatantly deny long term illness! I wonder what dimension I woke up in.

They kick people off disability benefits right and left so people have to go to the welfare office but to cash welfare you have to be part of their work program which means you are sent to a company as free labor for them. If you stop working, you do not get paid. You have to show try and fail to work like that for several YEARS before they let you off the hook, or in some cases actually even grant you disability.

And the population has changed their mind about the disabled because the government fed them things like half of the "disabled" are fakers and so on. So if you say you are on disability these days, people will think you are either lazy or a faker.

I can not believe how fast things changed......

Still, the UK is much much worse. The other day, my friend's friend there got beaten up by a gang for "acting" retarded (he has autism).

Good heavens.