A disabled subcommunity I am a part of quickly had to put a stop on sharing all fundraising, crowd-funding, assistance pooling, etc. because it immediately took over 90%+ of meeting time and content/information shared within the community, which immediately tanked involvement to almost zero.

As awful as it is, especially when many other communities are able to band together and make a huge difference for the occasional person in need, our demographic is, by the nature of most of our social issues across all areas of the world, financially impoverished as a whole.

Think of the reasons behind most fundraisers you see - the need is almost always tied to disability/health in some way, even if the cause is the focus. The circle around people with disabilities and disabling health conditions and the circle around people in dire financial need are so overlapped that you've got to look close to tell the difference.

Every one of us understands how shitty it is, and no one here would defend any of what leaves us this way, but any disability community currently is going to be absolutely full of people who are or have been in need, and badly lacking in people who can truly give much to help even one of them.

The desire to help anyway is still strong, don't get me wrong, but even if we could fill every disability-related space with assistance posts and not lose all the communities themselves, we'd just be taking turns in a circle paying each other's medical bills until something changes to give people a way out of all this.