Disability
Edit: I want to preface by saying I do believe mental illness is a very real form of disability for many people and my sister does have severe mental illness that makes life very hard for her in many ways.
Ever since my family signed my sister up for disability, she leans really hard on that narrative and claims she is disabled from her mental illness but never claimed that in the past.
She was fired from jobs in the past due to being super late, skipping work and not notifying them. But she was able to work. Now she claims she can’t work because she’s disabled and always expects money from my family claiming they’re starving her if they don’t give her money.
She has ssi or SSDI I forget which, and food stamps. Is it wrong to think she can seek work if she wanted to because she has had a job in the past and that she’s convincing herself that she’s this incapable victim when in fact she is capable of working?
Doordash for example she has done in the past and you don’t need to worry about being on time. She seems to go in on this victim narrative more and more as time goes on claiming that she has autism, chronic illness etc but won’t get tested for them. She just claims them because of TikTok’s and stuff.
Obviously some people really can’t work due to disabilities and I don’t want to be an ahole about it and be like “suck it up” but I’m pretty confident this is not the case despite her qualifying for disability benefits.
She has really strongly seemed to convince herself that she’s is a helpless victim when she seems to be quite capable of functioning when it comes to going to bars or going shopping, and it this victimization just seems to get worse. Does anyone have similar experiences where their family does qualify for disability but seems to take advantage of that label?