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Disablity privellage or reasonable accomidations.

  Ok so we really need to talk we now have medical professionals on drive time radio talking about the “gentrification of disability” and the Medicalization of disability and that people who are higher functioning don’t need the NDIS.   Well hold up this is not ok in the disabled community we talk about Allies, and this is not being a good Allie.   We need to talk about this a lot more than the medical professionals think it’s Ok to be able to essentially Gate keep our resources because they see an unfair distribution of resources, can I recommend that this medical professional do some reading on the history of the USSR and communism?   As we do unfortunately live in a capitalistic society and we see that this is just seen as a bad thing when people who start out having fewer resources are given the option to have the same punitive I see that equal opportunities are different from equality of outcome, equality of outcome can be quite dangerous and that we need to be able to work for