#Disability

Nome

NomeDaBarbarian

Taken from another conversation:Having #ADHD is having constant, hard to explain anger at a system for changing the rules that I thought I understood.It's playing poker when suddenly MTG cards

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surlaplanche_

since it’s M.E awareness month I’m going to add a post each day starting with this to explain what the name of it actually means. I don’t like using the

Alex Baguette

AlexDesignsIt

For anyone wondering what waking up is like with chronic illness and a dysfunctional nervous system: a thread.#neisvoid 8:30am: smart light turns on, bedside fans turn off. First alarm presumably

Susan Griffiths

SusanGriffiths5

Personal Thread on COVID-19, Masks and Deafness #deaf #masks #NHS #OTs @elly_chapple @Claire_R123 @GeorgiaVineOT @OT_Expert 1. I am a hearing aid user & lip reader. I need both to be

King’s College London Labour

KCLLabour

NOMINATE YOURSELF NOW! @KCLLabour are pleased to announce that today nominations for our 2020/2021 committee open. This thread contains all of the positions available on the committee. Due to Covid-19,

Dean Burnett

garwboy

Had several replies to this where people are very pleased to have been introduced to the concept of Toxic PositivityIt's not my phrase, it's been around a while, but here's

Sasha (she/her/hers)

StatuesqueSasha

Thinking about Chadwick....reading through the tl.....Thinking about the nuance between glorifying/inspiration porn and intention to direct focus...this might make no sense....maybe I’ll write something to break it down. Ok just

kerima Cevik (On partial health hiatus)

kerima_cevik

#AutisticWhileBlack to answer @lilririah 's question about black autistic acceptance and priorities : I can't speak for all of us because we are not a monolithic group 1/ What I

Tygerwolfe🌻|BLM✊🏼

tygerwulfe

Friends, my wife will die without her anti-stroke meds & she takes her last dose at 11a tomorrow. Her meds cost $175/week or $700/month. We have no income at all

Health and Social Care Committee

CommonsHealth

Lord Forsyth, Chair @LordsEconCom, is thanked by Health and Social Care Committee Chair @Jeremy_hunt for his evidence on #socialcare this morning. We will now hear from Sir Andrew Dilnot and

Tygerwolfe🌻|BLM✊🏼

tygerwulfe

Dear friends, my wife will die without her anti-stroke meds & she takes her last dose at 1pm tomorrow. Her meds cost $175/week or $700/month. We have no income at

Sanchita Hosali

sfhosali

THREAD Today the CQC has published “Out of sight – who cares? A review of restraint, seclusion and segregation for autistic people, and people with a learning disability and/or mental

the tetrapod

pancake_puns

so, like, obviously Hatt Maig is not particularly useful apart from maybe a first step for people who've literally never thought about mental illness before (and even then, hardly) but

Rhys McKavanagh

RhysMcKavanagh

Psychological narcissistic abuse, a thread: when you set up boundaries between yourself and toxic people, you'll find that the mere act of doing so will get you labelled "abusive" very

1 dyke. 1 bike. You do the math.

SharpDressdDyke

Grew frustrated with yet more "why do people who regret or detransition seek out anti-trans groups all the time?" crap where the person didn't want to hear the answer: those

Cal Montgomery

Cal__Montgomery

@JoeBiden 's answer to @AdyBarkan here falls short in 2 ways, but before I get to that, I want to talk about the enormous power of what he is saying