Hi,

This is a good thread. I had a really bad experience with this when a friend told her husband I was on SSDI. He was so rude to me! He told me I was living off the goverment/lazy/contributing to the economic recession etc. I was so horrified that I now am very careful about who I tell. I ran into a former co-worker who asked me where I was working, I just laughed and said "Girl please, I got married." I thought it was pretty funny. Sometimes I say I help at the women's dept of corrections with addiction recovery and life skills because I go to AA there once a week. We could all also say that we're free-lance writers because hey we write on this forum lol. On my linked in account I just wrote Think Tanks for my current employer. I do think it's best to get a feel for people before mentioning disability and just assume that they will tell other people.

My husband is from Ireland, and it's true there that people don't give a flip where you work. He says that in USA ppl go to work and talk all day about what they will do on the weekend then they go out on the weekend and talk all night about their work. Very true.

TnT