'The victimisation was horrible': why are so many disabled lawyers treated badly?

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A new study says that more than half of disabled lawyers have experienced bullying or discrimination at work

When Isobel Rogers, 29, who has chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), was offered her first job at a law firm she was “thrilled and really optimistic”. But it wasn’t long before the bullying started. Rogers told her new employer about her disability and asked for reasonable adjustments, which included a request to occasionally leave the office before 7pm. “After that [my managers] would deliberately schedule meetings at 6.55pm,” she says. “When I did leave the office earlier, as agreed, I’d get texts saying I had to go back. I’d be in pain, fatigued, and alarmed by the way the situation was escalating, but I’d have to go.”

https://www.theguardian.com/law/202...hy-are-so-many-disabled-lawyers-treated-badly

Of course we know why, for the most part this discrimination stems from medicine misunderstanding and misrepresenting the reality of chronic health problems, promoting a mantra that the only disability is a bad attitude. And of course The Guardian played its role in this first example, adding another layer to the why. Medicine itself doesn't even do accomodations outside of physical injury so it's hard to imagine why anyone would bother doing so when medicine is in the process of selling the idea that attitude adjustment is all that's needed.

Truth is that most disabled people get treated badly, for the same reasons, but even more so in discriminated diseases where medicine essentially, and for all practical matters, encourages to treat people badly, as they (mostly) do themselves. Mostly unwittingly and out of ignorance but the outcome is just the same. There are consequences to promoting ideology and playing politics with people's lives, this is one of many such consequences.

(Wasn't sure where to post, it's often hard to properly place news coverage about ME, maybe there should be a section for that?)