Insulting MY Intelligence.

I am rattled today because of an email I received from an agency that is run by my local council and they seem to separate themselves even though they are one. They are basically saying that they are not the local council and are passing the buck.

I am getting irate because this is costing me time having to argue with them and not to mention it is also affecting my daughter’s mental health and it is also affecting me. We both have disabilities and I fight my daughters’ battles even though it sometimes can also affect me too.

“No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” – Mark Twain

“Trusting someone’s opinion over your own is admitting you believe they’re smarter than you are.” – Charles Faraone

It takes a lot to get me rattled but people (sheep reading off scripts) do push my buttons and eventually if one does it enough times “you will see me blow”.

I am normally a calm person but if people purposely wind me up and think I am an idiot to believe the BS, they have another thing coming.

Not only this, the said agency are basically insinuating that Multiple Sclerosis is Not a Disability and they are undermining the results by the Professor of Neuorology.

“This post serves as the foundation of the whirlwind I will stir and will happily sing like a canary”.

Me, The Singing Canary!

So despite showing evidence that my daughter has had a relapse this said agency is still in need of more evidence. My daughter’s neurologist is on annual leave should I demand he drop his holiday and everything else he is doing to pussyfoot around these people?

I find the behaviour of this agency are causing emotional distress and indirectly discriminating which is against the law. If I have proven my daughter has relapsed and needs help getting around occasionally, as no two days are the same, you would think they would be more understanding but they keep putting obstacles in the way and causing distress.

I am dealing with this as I do not want my daughter to relapse again and I will not allow her to jump on one foot whilst touching her nose and act like a performing seal just to prove a point. I reiterate medical evidence will suffice and she will not be questioned by someone who is not qualified for the role (my daughter’s friend is a PIP assessor with only GCSEs to her name).

Indirect discrimination

Indirect discrimination happens when there is a policy that applies in the same way for everybody but disadvantages a group of people who share a protected characteristic, and you are disadvantaged as part of this group. If this happens, the person or organisation applying the policy must show that there is a good reason for it.

A ‘policy’ can include a practice, a rule or an arrangement.  

It makes no difference whether anyone intended the policy to disadvantage you or not.  

To prove that indirect discrimination is happening or has happened:

  • there must be a policy which an organisation is applying equally to everyone (or to everyone in a group that includes you)
  • the policy must disadvantage people with your protected characteristic when compared with people without it
  • you must be able to show that it has disadvantaged you personally or that it will disadvantage you
  • the organisation cannot show that there is a good reason for applying the policy despite the level of disadvantage to people with your protected characteristic

If the organisation can show there is a good reason for its policy, it is not indirect discrimination. This is known as objective justification.

https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/advice-and-guidance/what-direct-and-indirect-discrimination

Note From The Editor.

With this said if an organisation treats someone with ‘Multiple Sclerosis’ or any other ‘Invisibile Disability’ the same way you would treat a normal able body person, they are infact indirectly discriminating, which is against the law.

With Multiple Sclerosis you have good days and you have bad days.

The weather can impact your health.

No two days are the same.

The same can be said with someone with mental health issues, one day you can be somewhat fine and other days you could be not doing so well.

There is no way of measuring or predicting if a person will be ok from one day to the next.

Not only this arguing with people (sheep), causes emotional distress which in the case of ‘Multiple Sclerosis’ can cause a person to relapse.

If this continues I will be looking to seek damages for:

  • Emotional Distress
  • Indirect Discrimination.

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