Do support your disabled friends and community, but for example, if an artist is doing a commission for you, listen to them very specifically about how the payments are going to work.
The USA’s policy toward disabled people, like many people, is best described as “eugenics… but make it a little less obvious”, so the government will stop providing benefits to someone via Supplemental Security Income (SSI) if they have more than $2,000 in “assets”, or $3,000 as a married couple. Hence, many disabled people can’t afford to get married, but also they need to stay always on the razor’s edge of extreme poverty, and you paying them $500 for a commissioned artwork all at once might mess that up.
If you are an abled, whatever you think disabled people get from the state is wrong. They get less, and it’s worse than you think.
TST sued us from April 2020 to September 2024, and we are still here.