The most useful sources of information about disability aren't always the obvious ones, are they?

For several years by now I've been filling in questionnaires for the UK MS Register. Mostly I do that in a public-spirited way, helping those good people with data about me. This time I noticed that the questionnaire 'Your medication' recognises ( Read more... )

Recently I've been part of discussions about how it feels to hide certain disabilities, because they're embarrassing. Too Much Information (TMI) about time spent in the toilet, about being unable to leave the house because of needing to rush to yet another toilet, about clothes suddenly becoming far too tight. Even naming Irritable Bowel Syndrome ( ( Read more... )