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she PLAINLY has the acumen and the education to work if she chose to. despite all of her excuses to the contrary, her very thoroughly researched reasons why she can;t work are, in direct conflict with her statements, evidence that she COULD.
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On what knowledge of the myriad ways in which neurological problems can and do affect disparate individuals, do you base that statement?
I wasn't intending to involve myself in this discussion any further, as i believe it has become skewed towards the ridiculous and frankly nasty; however, i feel compelled to refute the constant assertions that anything Mari has written here bear any kind of evidence towards her ability to work, or lack thereof.
In my work as a councillor, about ten per cent of my cases relate to social services and/or provisions. I have a regular queue of people for whom the proving of their disability is less than simple. Despite letters and reports from doctors and consultants, people are often refused on the grounds that they seemed alright/cogent/healthy/confident or articulate on the days they have had to interract with staff. The fact that these people are often choosing to visit the agency to deal with their claims on precisely those days when they are most able to cope with the process is rarely taken into account.
The thing I find most sickening about this, and I find it strongly echoed on this board, is that those people are accounted as liars and malingerers and thereby forced into a position of (or in the case of marichiko taunted into)
defending their condition.....
defending a condition they most likely hate and fighting for their right to be recognised as sick/disabled. Psychologically, I cannot believe it is helpful for people who are labouring under an illness or disability which is controlling many, aspects of their life, to have to defend that illness or disability.