If you use a wheelchair or any other equipment for your disability, how do you feel if somebody says you're 'normalising your disability'? If that person calls it an 'achievement' to leave the equipment behind? If that person writes to your doctor with per judgement about you? If that person is a professional employed by the main support ( Read more... )

Just thought I'd share my experience of my new wrist braces. They are ossur exoform wrist supports. They are replacing the salmon NHS supports that have aluminium rods in. I wear them at night as my wrists flop causing nerve compression. This causes loss of sensation which wakes me up. I also use them with my crutches and when I play the piano for ( Read more... )

This is in the news. Given what's happening to disability benefits now, and the way disabled people are getting talked about (scroungers, fakers etc) it strikes me that this murder is being reported as though every right-thinking person would be horrified by what these lowlifes did. Yes indeed it's horrifying. But do we deserve sympathy only after ( Read more... )

Recently, I got "A Talking To" by a woman that was APPPAAAALLLLEEEED that I, a Disabled Person made a snide comment about another Disabled Person. I didn't say anything to her because she wouldn't recognise a "Clue" if it picked her up in a bar and slept over, but ( Read more... )

I can claim crip privileges if I know they're available. You don't get a brochure so it's a case of being open to things that people say, in person or online, and open to asking what you want to know ( Read more... )

Hi, I hope people don't mind me promoting another group here, but this is something that matters deeply to a good friend of mine. She is feeling a tad isolated at the moment, and has set up a facebook group to see if she can find any other people who are lesbains and also experience neurological disabilities. if you know of anyone it would be ( Read more... )

I would like to ask for assistance with a project I am planning on undertaking, which is to conduct a small scale report on undiagnosed illnesses.

Related to this, I would like to get in touch with people who have

a)      Symptoms causing some level of disability or distress in their daily lives, and either

b)      Do not currently have a ( Read more... )