I want to talk about a very particular type of Crip Tax. For a more comprehensive idea of the extra costs with being disabled, check out @Imani_Barbarin’s hashtag #TheCostOfBeingDisabled!
Let’s start off with asset caps. Many disabled people live with an asset cap, meaning they cannot own or make a certain amount of money. The most common limit is assets over $2,000.
But it’s also just more expensive for disabled people to exist. Our $2,000 doesn’t mean as much as your $2,000
Why? The most obvious reason is increased medical bills, and insurance not covering things like $800 wheelchairs that people need to navigate the world.
the name's kayle. i'm 23. i'm disabled and chronically ill. i got my bachelors degree in 2018 in some major called "Media, Society, and the Arts." my senior thesis was titled "Disability in the Age of Technocracy."
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i will be getting my masters degree in december 2020 (if the world doesn't end by then) in Disability Studies. what is this, you ask? well, it's a lot of things. it studies disability from an interdisciplinary perspective.
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it's the study of disability history, sociology, theory, demographics, law and policy, media, art, literature, everything.
having gone to art school, i appreciate that. but i've become especially interested in law & policy as i go through my studies
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