#AutisticRave: #DisabilityTikTok, #DisabilityTwitter, and the Economy -s2e10

<p>Experimenting with  a short #AutisticRave format. Let me know if you&apos;d like to see these in the mix for #AutisticAF Out Loud Podcast.<br/><br/>TRANSCRIPT 👇✌️🖖👇 <br/><br/>Listen &amp; Subscribe: <br/>Apple https://neon.ly/mDd3e <br/>Spotify https://neon.ly/p1Vay <br/>Audible https://neon.ly/vkXa1 <br/>Stitcher https://neon.ly/vx5Zn <br/>PocketCasts https://neon.ly/NLL3O <br/>Amazon/Alexa https://neon.ly/mnOeq <br/><br/>TRANSCRIPT <br/>Know what I <em>don&apos;t</em> see on #DisabilityTikTok… #DisabilityTwitter?</p><p>Talk about how the economy is <em>killing</em> disabled folk.</p><p>See… Inflation isn&apos;t <em>inconvenient</em> for the poor &amp; disabled.</p><ul><li>It&apos;s lost wages. We can&apos;t afford gas, childcare… even over-the-counter medicines. And Covid is killing our hours at work.</li><li>It&apos;s hunger. Food is our largest expense after rent. General inflation is  around 10%. But our groceries? Up 40%.</li><li>It&apos;s illness. Covid? Monkeypox? We can&apos;t call in sick. We can&apos;t afford it.  And we can&apos;t abandon our kids when <em>they&apos;re</em> sick.</li><li>It&apos;s homelessness. There&apos;s nothing we can afford to rent. Corporations buy up low-cost homes on speculation… creating a housing crisis.</li></ul><p>And don&apos;t get me started on the medical crisis. Lots of places, doctors simply don&apos;t accept Medicaid. </p><p>Taxpayers <em>pay</em> for our care. Caregivers don&apos;t care.</p><p>Poor? Disabled? Most autistics are <em>both.</em> AND our invisible disability makes it even harder to get help.</p><p><em>I&apos;m</em> autistic. And I&apos;m fighting to keep my Foodstamps… in the libertarian wilderness we like to call Indiana.</p><p>Yay #Hoosiers.</p><p>A side note…</p><p>I&apos;ve been homeless three times in my 70-year life. Manhattan once. Bloomington, Indiana twice.</p><p>I have some idea just how bad this can get. 61 million disabled adults in America.</p><p>It can get bad. Real bad.</p><p>Add tag…<br/><br/></p><a rel="payment" href="https://paypal.