Angry at folk that think there hard working.

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^^^^^

This. I see people describe doing things as if they are a single thing that is easily mastered, but I often see multiple things that have to be organized and executed in the correct order, which to me appears to be multiple skills, or the same skill used many ways in a short period of time.

It's like starting at a level of "skill" that most people are not aware of because their starting point is at a different level where all of these things are already unified in some way. I totally got that analogy from anbuend, but it makes sense to me. Unless I misunderstood your post.

Anyway, it doesn't make me incapable of learning to do things, but I have to learn how to learn how to do things, which may be one thing that makes it hard to generalize skills - like learning to cook one thing doesn't mean I can apply that knowledge to cooking another thing (sometimes I can, sometimes I can't). But, I still learn to do new things.

why is it so hard for the capable to understand the struggles of the incapable?

I think you're making the common mistake of thinking that disability benefits are a matter of making things easier or more comfortable. The actual criterion is that you are not able to work (and even that might not be enough). If you're able to work, then you're able to work.

I have 20 years of health problems that included cognitive deterioration. My third to last job was designing a pulse transformer for medical x-ray machines. My second to last job was debugging circuit boards. My last job was in a mail room. By the end, I couldn't read or write, or remember well enough to even sort letters into mailbags. But I kept faking it, knowing I was likely making a lot of errors (same with the circuit board job, but someone caught on), because I had no diagnosis of anything and needed money to pay the doctors to keep trying to figure out the problem and fix it. After that and passing out for the second time in the parking lot (and having accumulated enough money for the right tests) I was completely trashed; beyond the point at which effort makes any difference. If you can work, then you can work.



Agree, but I think people will always create hierarchies of human value.