Betterment and Praxis

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The community for cool things you've done out in the real world, or are doing in the real world!

Covers things like volunteer work, community gardens, political activism, organizing clubs and communities in your public circles, and all the information surrounding how to do that stuff. Also covers self-help and betterment, because to help your community it helps to help yourself!

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time banking, a concept based on everyone's time having equal value and something I would like to start in my community (www.nzherald.co.nz)

submitted 1 year ago by Wigglet to c/betterment

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It's such a neat concept that can make certain expensive services like lawyers or therapists more accessible. I could trade a few hours gardening, sewing, cleaning, or baking, for someone else to give me a hand building a larger project. It's a beautiful way to connect a community through acts of service 🥰

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[–] asap 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm interested to know what would prevent someone with a disability from being able to offer an hour of their time for a service which is within their skillset?

The single parent is a great example of being time-poor, but an example of something they could more easily offer is an hour of babysitting/playdate.

[–] lwaxana_katana 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me, my disability is MS and my most disabling symptom is fatigue and double vision that develops from fatigue (also heat and cold sensitivity...). I spend all my energy raising my daughter, and still don't have enough energy always to do that the way that I would like to. Honestly I am not sure where you're going with this question, but it feels like asking pwd to satisfy you that we have different capacities and it doesn't feel great.

[–] asap 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Honestly I am not sure where you’re going with this question

Trying to gain knowledge, and you've provided something new which I didn't know about, so I thank you.

but it feels like asking pwd to satisfy you that we have different capacities and it doesn’t feel great.

If I may be honest, this struck me as a very strange part of your response. How can people learn or understand if they can't ask for help to learn?

[–] lwaxana_katana 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How can people learn or understand if they can’t ask for help to learn?

There are actually lots of resources about this on the internet that you can look at rather than asking pwd directly to educate you, because it is exhausting and I get that lots of people have these questions, but also -- again -- there are many resources about it on the internet. It is both draining and isolating feeling as if you need to be constantly educating people around you and convincing them that you're not just trying to weasel out of working or whatever.

[–] asap 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmmm... I don't think there are resources online for requesting a clarification on your original comment, other than asking you.

[–] lwaxana_katana 1 points 1 year ago

It's clear you haven't looked at all. It is not the job of pwd to educate people without disability, and I have tried to be polite about this.