Hello everyone! This is the first post in the newly made Disability and accesibility community. Feel free to post anything health, chronic illness, disability or accesibility related. If you need a space for support or sharing your experiences regarding all of the above topics, this is the right place as well :)

  • Hi everyone! I am a person with mental disorders, Asthma, prediabetes, and the developing of thyroid issues who has been put on disability benefits due to my inability to find and or maintain work. If anyone ever has any questions about Ontario’s disability support program, feel free to ask me and I’ll try my best to help out. I am not a social worker but I have had to grudgingly read a lot of those horrible, horrible documents and rules relating to ODSP in my experience with them.

    By the way, just a reminder to my fellow Canadians that there’s supposed to be a federal-wide disability benefit program being introduced one day in the distant future. It’s not happening now, but it received “yes” from pretty much everyone and finished it’s third reading back in May. I am sadly not as politically knowledgeable as most people, so I don’t know “wtf does that even mean”, but it’s apparently good news! Yeah!