Anyone feel privileged as a disabled person?

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Let's see here how I'm privilged:

I grew up in middle class and we lived on one income. My mom worked to support me so all her hard earned money went towards me.

I had a mom who treated me as human and made me feel normal.

My mom was able to advocate for me and knew how to get support without the internet.

I don't have chronic sicknesses so I don't need to pay for my own medicine and medical supplies so I have more income because of it.

I can go anywhere without being limited by autism.

My meds are not expensive so it costs me $10 a month with Walgreens prescription savings program and my tretonion lasts me several months which costs me over $100 out of pocket. But I can live without these so I can just drop these if I wanted to save money and make budget cuts. I won't die or lose my job if I don't have these.

I can drive so I am not very limited to where I can go.



I dont have to work to survive but I only need to work to support the lifestyle we have and so my kids can go to a better school.

I never had to do drugs despite being poor because I had my parents. They could always bail me out. Remember, I didn't come from a poor family.

I live where I can commute to work and don't have to deal with "if you're late, you're fired" nonesense if a incident or a mechanical issue happens that makes me late. This saves me on gas.

I only need to pay $28 for a monthly pass to commute than spending over $100.

I got diagnosed in childhood so I never had to deal with getting tested as an adult or paying money for it.




What privileges do you have despite your disability?

I don't qualify for compensations, I could get a discount on public transportation, but the service is lesser than the standard service. As for being able to show up late for work? Also no. If I'm late its still my responsibility. I'm also responsible for my insurance premiums (not inexpensive) so any small discount on medication doesn't really mean I am saving money.

Perhaps you are Lucky rather than privileged?

Maybe a title "Anyone feel privileged despite being a disabled person?" would be more understandable? Or is it just me?

I am privileged because despite being born with a chronic condition that would've led to sure death as a toddler without proper treatment, I was born in to a family that had the right circumstances to get me the treatment I needed. Others like me often die young.

I am privileged because I complain of the side effects my meds cause me when I take them instead of having to complain of not being able to afford the meds I need.

I am privileged because I can sit here wondering how am I privileged instead of working on getting my next meal. Many people have no free time for such a thing.

A little old lady knocked on my door once. She was peddling lucky charms. I was feeling particularly sorry for my self and down on my luck so I gave her 50p and in return she gave me a black cat on a piece of string.

Before the old lady disappeared in a puff of smoke she looked me square in the eye and said to me: babybird, you'll make your own luck.

Now I'm a bit of a slow learner so it took me almost 30 years to understand what the little old lady meant.

Yes, I am privileged enough to be in a situation where I can make my own luck.

I don't feel privileged as a disabled person.

The only reason why I could've is because my mom's involved in local politics, and that my Sped teacher is connected to the city hall offices.

Heck, I myself involved with it here and there... Still unreliable.


But actually privileged??? No.
If I go elsewhere? The status doesn't apply.

Sometimes at the wrong time; say, the priority lanes -- it's not always available.
Or that cinemas are free every Tuesdays on first screening -- except I have work at those time and days.

Or, just me, with lack of knowledge, and with crappy description reading.
Or having to 'negotiate'. I hate negotiating.

Then there's the medical matters...
I couldn't touch that without someone in between to negotiate and explain or I would do another round of negotiating and explaining myself.
It's those damn scammer's fault.

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I basically have everything going for me except the autism and mental health.

I’m priveleged to have a family and circumstances that can and will support me now. I’m still heavily dependent on them, and they can and do assist me without (to the best of my knowledge) any resentment.

Extremely priveleged to have been born into a moderately-wealthy family who all get along the vast majority of the time, and nobody has any problems with drugs or alcohol, I think there are only one or two people in my extended family who might even smoke tobacco.

Never had to worry about money growing up, now that I’m in my own apartment I can’t be frivolous with money, but my parents can and do make sure ends meet reasonably comfortably, even though SSI barely would cover rent alone.

Never had to face any sort of discrimination beyond the disabilities.

I was quickly diagnosed in childhood, didn’t have to go through a lot of hassle trying to get the right/any diagnoses, I barely even remember the process.

I had cancer, but was fortunate for it to be one of the most readily treatable kinds and my family had enough money to not even have to really make any sort of lifestyle changes to be sure we could afford treatment. Otherwise I have had no major trouble with physical health.

I’m also fortunate that the same thing that’s the reason why I’m so removed from things also makes me not mind, and to actually do better with isolation - my ASD makes it possible to live the sort of life I live because of the ASD without deleterious effects like loneliness.

Probably plenty of other things I haven’t thought of right now as well - and that too is a privelege.

I am white, straight, cis and middle class. So in that way I'm privileged. I'm Ashkenazi Jewish and there is anti-Semitism out there and I know people who were assaulted in public for being visibly Jewish. However I've never experienced direct anti-Semitism because I don't wear anything to indicate I'm Jewish.

Not really. It could always be worse. But, just living, day-to-day, is hard enough for me. A struggle full of suffering, where holding on to the things that bring hope, make it easier, and are the only things that really keep me going. Not really woe is me, rather just reality, as I can be objective with myself sometimes. Like aghogday, I've been blessed with the wonderful thing known as TN. There's not really any mental illness worse than Schizophrenia. There's not really any single traumatic event worse than life-or-death at the individual level.

No, I'm not privileged.

I don't have the privileged to give up hope in the end. Maybe I'm privileged that I was gifted the strength of mental fortitude, positivity and endurance, but sometimes it doesn't feel like a gift. There's always some light, something glittering, even in complete darkness. I probably am privileged there in a way in that I always see it, I guess.

I don't feel privileged at all. I have been fairly successful despite not because of my autism. That being said, I lost everything at the age of 50, totally flat on my back, and my autism had a whole lot to do with that. Autism sucks.

Had a illness free life so far.

Lived in a middle class family on a nice estate.

Was prompted to learn to drive as soon as I was legally able.

Pretty good school life in general.

Left school and sunk into loneliness.

Loneliness lead to looking for fulfilment in other areas and saving a lot of money when my NT peers were doing the complete opposite.

Used money on those other areas to become "middle" class myself.

I feel like someone who managed to make a big lemonade stand with the lemons thrown at me thus far.

I haven't had most of the above, really----but maybe it's my fault.

Do I feel "privileged" as a disabled person? No, I don't.

It's more like I feel fortunate that I didn't have any severe traumas, and that I was able to get a civil service job, so that my disability didn't stand out as much as it would if I had other sorts of jobs.

I can have a part-time job instead of working full time. I didn't have to go to 10 weddings in one summer like my sister did. She had to buy a bridesmaid dress for each wedding that she went to. I don't have to work in a stuffy office where it's required that you dress from head to toe. I don't get invited to 20 social parties that you need to bring something to in December like my sister does. I do not envy her at all.

I have asexual privilege. I am not affected by the anti abortion law and I can live without sex.

Another privilege I have is my husband can't have sex so this is a bonus for this anti abortion law.

I am glad to live in Oregon where this is a safe state for women who don't have these privileges. This is a privilege these women have who live here and men are lucky too. They don't gave to worry about child support or keeping their own legs closed.