"If you can work, you don't need extra money from other people who also work."

This is the kind of statement that sounds intuitive until you actually stop and think about it for more than four seconds.

Let me break it down for you like you're five:
People with disabilities — physical, neurological, or psychological — don't get free money because they're lazy. They get support because the playing field isn't level. Just because someone can work doesn't mean their life isn't stacked with additional barriers, costs, limitations, and vulnerabilities that the average person never has to think about.

You're conflating capacity for labour with equality of circumstance, which is like saying someone with one leg should run the same race, in the same time, with no prosthetic, and still be disqualified if they don’t keep up. The system you’re defending punishes people not for being unwilling, but for needing help.

Most people with additional needs — autistic adults, chronically ill folks, those with PTSD, ADHD, dyspraxia, chronic pain, sensory overload, or any combo of the above — face daily friction that the average worker simply doesn't. That friction has real-world costs: from therapy and assistive tech to transport and adapted housing. And guess what? That stuff isn’t subsidised by most jobs — even if you’re working full-time. In many cases, you’d need a middle-class salary just to break even.