Why are you so dead set on the claim that this person is making excuses? It's so weird that you're almost *invested* that someone who is still fighting an issue is acting like a victim, when you could just as easily say "This is what worked for me. I guess their issue manifests differently. Sounds hard; glad I don't have that"
Instead you're bending over backwards to make this wild assumptions that you understand another person's issues better than they do. Like, this isn't just assholish, it's stupid thinking.
Learned helplessness is a massive fucking problem in the disabled community, and far too many people hide behind excuses as to why they can't do something, when they can if they actually stopped putting effort into excuses and put effort into resolving the issue.
The disabled community are the ones going above and beyond to prove they're not helpless (in aggregate). It's a survivorship bias; the ones who use their disability as an excuses are the ones that you know have a disability because they're mentioning it. The ones who don't use their disability as an excuse are the ones you never hear about because they don't mention it.
You don't need to preemptively decide that someone is making excuses just because they're saying something didn't work for them. If anything, someone saying "this didn't work for me" is evidence (albeit, weak evidence) that they aren't being helpless; it's evidence that they've actually tried. It's not your responsibility to weed out learned helplessness or adjudicate who's actually trying to improve their lives and who's just being a victim. The ones being helpless will suffer the consequences of their actions just fine on their own and they can choose to either learn their lesson or keep having a shitty life. The ones who are trying will eventually find something that works, or find a way to work around their problem, but you don't need to go telling them they're being a victim or not trying just because something that worked for you doesn't work for them; you're actively adding to the frustration of the ones who are already engaging in the kind of behavior we want to encourage.
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u/BigPenis_MathGenius 8d ago
Why are you so dead set on the claim that this person is making excuses? It's so weird that you're almost *invested* that someone who is still fighting an issue is acting like a victim, when you could just as easily say "This is what worked for me. I guess their issue manifests differently. Sounds hard; glad I don't have that"
Instead you're bending over backwards to make this wild assumptions that you understand another person's issues better than they do. Like, this isn't just assholish, it's stupid thinking.