I’m disabled myself, just to put that out there.
It just seems like the number of people with a disability, usually a psychiatric one, is going through the roof.
40% of disability benefit claimants are claiming for mental health related reasons. The number of anxious children and teens on here, and that I know in my own life and family, is really really high. So many schools refusers and kids in need of extra support, special school placements and so on. It seems there are a lot of unemployed young adults living at home who simply don’t have the mental acuity to get a job, live independently, have a life of their own.
3 children in my family are currently school refusing, one we only found out about today but it was not a surprise as she’s always been very anxious and has selective mutism.
My AIBU is, should we be doing something to prepare for what may be a very high number of adults not working in years to come? How will we sustain them all?