Disabled Quiz.

This is a shortened version of the original quiz.

DISABLED QUIZ

This Quiz should never have had to be written.

The only reason it has been written is to highlight the neglect, stupidity and uncaring attitude which exists in The Care Industry. There are so many different aspects of ‘Care’ that I have arranged this quiz in sections. I have not included as many sections as I would have wished because if I had, you poor reader would probably have given up the will to live by part 27 !!

Humorous though it may initially appear, it should be considered that a great many of the optional answers in the Part 1 Multiple Choice as well as indeed their related questions are in fact based on real events which I or my friends have had to deal with causing us distress, upset and mental anguish.

The really scary bit is that I have endured everything marked *

The reason I have decided to include the humorous content is hopefully to highlight the sheer stupidity of some of the decisions and practices by people in authority who should know better!

I suppose that by highlighting these things I am hoping that steps will be taken to improve matters.

In this respect though, I am not holding my breath...!!

PART  (1)

Question 1)

I have lost my DLA and no longer have sufficient funds to heat my house, Do I ...

A) Pack my clothes and coat with newspaper to stay warm like the government has advised?

B) Drill a hole in the party wall and steal my neighbour’s electricity?

C) Not really a problem as I will have already starved to death by September?

Question 2)

*I am in ‘Respite Care’ for two weeks. There is a metal hoist blocking my way to the toilet, Do I...

A) Press the Fire Alarm?

B) Turn around and break my speed record while finding another toilet?

*C) Just sit there and let nature take over?

 Question3)
*Staying at a Residential Care Facility there is no reliable Wi-Fi signal. Should I...
*A)  Complain about the dire state of their knackered computer system?

B)   Realise that the disabled should not be able to contact the outside world?

C)   Rejoice in the knowledge that I still have a pen and paper?

Question 4)

*When your disabled transport fails to turn up after waiting over 3 hours. Do you...

A) Start making your own way along the hard shoulder of the motorway?

B) Get a tow?

C) Don’t go out?

*D)Get  driven home in a disability vehicle by the Residential Care Home staff where I had been staying after the booked disability transport failed to turn up despite several phone calls during which we were told, “The transport is on its way!”.  I later found out this transport never did arrive!!

Question 5)

 *You have been disabled for a while and unable to walk at all. Your cognitive ability is unimpaired and you are looking for a new challenge or something new to learn. Do you...

A) Study the ‘Beginner’s Guide to Easy Crosswords’?

*B) Study Walschaerts Valve Gear System for Steam Locomotive Engineering?

C) Study Physchology?

D)Study counselling in order to help other disabled people?

E) Give up learning anything new because you are disabled?

F) Find something creative to do like Art, Writing etc.

Question 6)

*You are disabled. The Government is cutting back its welfare expenditure.  Do you...

A)Become a militant protester and chain yourself to the railings outside Parliament?

B)Bombard your MP with letters of concern about your reduced benefit?

C)Write to newspapers and give interviews  about your circumstances?

D)Complain that this is all the Bankers’ fault?

E)Accept that there is nothing you can do about?

*F)Write a Blog and/poetry and gradually gain support?

Question 7)

*You received appalling care in a Residential Care Establishment. Do you...

A)Do nothing because you are disabled?

B)Shout and create a fuss while still at the Care Establishment?

*C)Make notes and log details in order to complain to a higher authority?

D)Accept that this appalling care is only to be expected and you are lucky to be there at all?

Question 8)

Respite Care is provided to give carers a break from caring for a spouse.

*The Respite care establishment should provide (for the disabled person)...

A)Accommodation and basic care for every disabled person?

B)A good standard of accommodation and care for every disabled person?

*C)A good standard of accommodation and care for disabled people of similar ability? (see note)

*D)An inspiring establishment which promotes activities, learning and positivity?

*E)Access to reliable computer and/or  Wi-Fi capability?

C) note. I see little point in putting clients of mixed ability into the same Residential Care Home.

 This is because they will not be able to communicate with each other and if the facilities are geared towards the clients who have learning issues it will be detrimental to those who do not.

Question 9)

*You get free Patient Transport provided to take you to Hospital Physiotherapy. Are you...

*A)Grateful for the provided transport?

*B)Angry because it arrives two hours late for your Physiotherapy appointment?

*C)Angry and Depressed when it doesn’t pick you up to take you home again?

*D) ‘Held Hostage’ when they get you into it but can’t open the door to let you out?

Question 10)

*A 60 year old disabled man who is confined to a wheelchair is in pain, shakes and cannot talk properly and needs assistance to do everything is deemed ‘fit for work’ by ATOS. He goes to the Job Centre and tells them he has been sent by ATOS.  He is told...

*A)  “YOU ARE  KIDDING ME!! GO HOME!!”

B)  “We have a vacancy for a window cleaner.”

C) “I’ve had enough! You can have my job if you like!”

D) “How do you fancy being a scaffolder?”

Question11)

*After being declared fit for work by ATOS and having their benefits stopped Disabled people have...

A)Become Olympic Gymnasts?

*B) Self-harmed?

*C) Committed suicide?

*D)Suffered severe depression and anxiety or made their mental illness profoundly worse?

*E)Died of the illness/disability which according to ATOS they never had in the first place?

Question 12)

A good part-time job for an ATOS medical assessor would be...

A)A Stand-Up comedian?

B)An undertaker?

C)A politician?

D)A Tailor (stitching up) ?

Question 13)

It has been suggested (by myself) that Bankers’ Bonuses should be awarded with the same diligence and effort as ATOS judgements. This would mean that bankers would have to demonstrate and prove that...

A)They can park their 4x4 in a disabled bay?

B)They can list their off-shore bank accounts in alphabetical order?

C)They can provide evidence of having visited the Cayman Islands?

D)They are penniless, distressed, self-harming and on the verge of suicide?

Question 14)

As well as the Disabled, other groups in the UK to be persecuted by the Government in this time of Financial Restraint and Cutbacks include...

A)The Bankers?

B)The Politicians?

C) “Wait... I’m still thinking... Eh!... There have to be others. Surely... Eh!... ?

D)The Job Centre staff harassed by hundreds of complaining and distressed disabled people?

Question 15)

ATOS  Appeals. If you don’t agree with the ATOS Medical Assessment decision you can...

A)Appeal to the brain surgeon who happens to be moonlighting there as a plumber at the same time?

B)Appeal to the ECHR on the grounds of disability discrimination? (I wouldn’t bother – you probably won’t live long enough!!)

C)Appeal on the grounds that you have contracted some deadly infectious disease ( the name of which you cannot pronounce)  from your last visit to the infested swamps of Borneo?

D)Appeal on the grounds of ‘Diminished Responsibility’ because you were mad enough to go to their assessment in the first place?

Question 16)

At the ATOS assessment you are asked if you want to say a few words ...

A)In your defence?

B)To your phsychiatrist?

C)To the  ‘Sun’ newspaper?

D)To the ‘Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights’?

Question 17)

At the ATOS assessment you are asked what kind of job may suit you. You reply...

A) “Are you having a laugh? You self-centred, insensitive, disability-phobic  brainless half-wit!!”

B) “I am claiming political asylum” in your best Bulgarian voice

C) “A North Sea Oil Platform Engineer”?

D) “An Astronaut”?

Actual TRUE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS given in real situations in PART (1) marked with *

                            PART (2) For People who have thoughts about Disability on a daily basis.

Please answer A,B,C or D and check your rating at the end of PART (2).

Question 1

You want to go on a bus journey. Do you say...

A) I cannot get on a bus?

B)Why would I want to travel by bus?

C)They Should design busses to suit me?

D)What is a bus?

Question 2)

You have a hospital appointment to go to. Do you say...

A) Great! I really need my physiotherapy session?

B) I don’t think I’ll bother going. I’m healthy enough?

C)They can’t offer me anything I can’t do on my own?

D)I hope it is a Private Hospital. I don’t want to mix with ordinary people?

Question 3)

You have to stay in ‘Respite Care’ establishment for a week. Do you say...

A) “I know it’s not good, but I don’t have a choice?”

B) “Over my dead body!!”?

C) “Great! I’ll enjoy the computer room and the Sauna?”

D) “I expect it has a sea view and 24 hour room service?”

Question 4)

You see a disabled person in a wheelchair stuck in a large crack in the pavement. Do you...

A)Stay with them and ask a passerby for assistance?

B)Walk past and grin smugly?

C)You carry on going?

D)You carry on going thinking, “Why should I help? It’s their problem – not mine!”?

Question 5

The UK Government  are reducing disabled benefits but also reducing tax payable by the rich, and giving an increased amount of money away in Foreign Aid to dubious Regimes. Do you say...

A) “Exactly what I thought they would do! They don’t care about us!”?

B) “And why shouldn’t they – the disabled don’t need it!”?

C) “I Don’t understand what all the fuss is about!”?

D) “I wish those disabled layabouts would stop complaining!!”?

Question 6)

Disabled people are genuinely worried about how they will survive. Do you say...

A) “I don’t know how I will survive!”?

B) “They just want to be dramatic!”?

C) “The Government will look after me. I’m genuinely disabled!!”?

D) “Will these disabled layabouts ever stop complaining?” ?

Question7)

ATOS have claimed another disabled person is fit for work. Do you...

A) Worry how you will drive the crane when you can’t climb stairs?

B) Say, “All he has to do is sit on his arse!!”?

C) Say, “That ATOS chappie was a really nice bloke.”?

D)Say, “Bet they won’t have to work as hard us! Pass the Champagne, Reginald old chap!!”

Question 8)

In the General Election you think about voting Conservative. Do you want to speak to...

A) A Psychiatrist – Urgently!! ?

B) Your local M.P. to check the small print of their Manifesto?

C)Your friends in the pub?

D) Your Wine Merchant’s Champagne Ordering Department ?

                                                                       PART (2) ~ ANSWERS

Mostly A’s )

Of course you’re disabled but you already knew that didn’t you?

Mostly B’s )

You’re not disabled yet but you have a one in six chance of experiencing severe disability during the course of your lifetime. (More than half of disabled people are pensioners who have lived perfectly healthy lives until their later years). Ditch that smug attitude now and consider how you would want to be treated in that person’s place.

Mostly C’s)

You are disabled but the penny hasn’t dropped yet! Discriminatory practice and a NIMBY attitude have seriously affected your cognitive functions and they are now so deeply ingrained that you don’t even realise the extent of the damage to your mental health. Seek professional help now before it is too late!

Mostly D’s)

You are beyond hope. Maybe a legal injunction will make you behave even if common decency is beyond your understanding. That’s probably why you work for the DWP/ATOS/ House of Commons and wouldn’t dream of changing your Tory vote or deep cleaning that dirty, pus infected swamp that passes for a mind.

PART (3)

THE BIG QUESTION

Can you tell the difference between A) and B) ?

A)Helpless individuals who are disabled either mentally, physically or both. People who have given all they have to give and are tired and emotionally drained from constant worry about how they will survive when their benefits are cut. People who have endured and still enduring physical pain caused by accidents or neurological illnesses. People who are struggling with the realisation that no matter what they do, their life is not going to get any better. All they can see is a long tortuous road towards old age and finally death. People who not complain to others about their hardship.

B)Able and fit benefit cheats who are so pathetic that they want to deprive those who are entitled to help. People with absolutely no morals who think the UK Government owes them something!!

Strangely the UK Government cannot tell the difference so they persecute the disabled!!

                     

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