Stephen Hawking is not on welfare. Neither was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was wheelchair bound due to having had polio.<p>Having a handicap does not mean I am some worthless piece of shit with nothing of value to offer. Furthermore, I had food stamps for a time. Someone dropped the ball and they were not renewed in January. I reapplied. Someone else dropped the ball and I was told I would need to reapply again. I decided not to, in part because going to the welfare office makes me so ill, in part for other reasons that I don&#x27;t care to go into both because it is not actually anyone&#x27;s business and because I am currently under time pressure to try to make enough money this month. My expenses were higher than usual at the start of the month and I am fond of eating every day.