Asa
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I didn't see this BBC article mentioned elsewhere. It's not ME/CFS specific, but describes the culture that people with disabilities/impairments must contend with. (Please note though that the article was published over two years ago.)
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-21196616
On paper, Linda Smith's job with an Aberdeen company was straightforward - she was meant to be helping the long-term unemployed - many of them disabled - to find jobs and move off benefits.
The reality, she said, was a corporate culture that saw staff in training sessions referring to those same people as LTBs - code for "lying, thieving bastards".
"That is how they are referred to," she said of the clients of Triage, which is a key player in the government's ambitious plan to pay private companies to move people from benefit into work...
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-21196616