To expect people to have a little bit of empathy as one day it could happen to you

[Dollymixtureyumyum]

Totally fed up of all the benefit bashing threads on here.
10 years ago I developed epilepsy out of the blue and suddenly had to give up work (well lost my job through it). Was having 20 fits a day and spent the next three years on benefits. I looked healthy, would not have seemed to have had a disability to the outside world. I claimed housing benefit, DLA and income support. At the time I thought people where ok but now I know how much I must have been judged.
Now I work with people with disability and the comments and sometimes abuse they get us disgusting especially those with unseen disabilities.
All I am saying is one day you may wake to to find you or one of your family is disabled. You may lose your nice job and not be able to pay the mortgage
You may even find you have a condition where you put on weight.

FFS have a little bit of empathy and please don't be silly enough to think it may not happen to me, it bloody well might.

I lost the use of my arm due to an accident. I'm massively lucky that I've been able to continue my job and that I had generous sick leave. Because I still have my arm, the criticall illness policy didn't cover that (if I'd had it amputated it would have). A year after my accident, dh had a nervous breakdown and was off work for a year. Again, we were incredibly lucky with his employer.
But I'm very aware that we could both have lost our jobs and life would be very different