#Disability

Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD

Nicole_Lee_Sch

Tomorrow is #MCAS Awareness Day. As a patient with #MCAS it's really important to me that those around me know how to use epi pens. I can go into idiopathic

Jessalyn Elliott Small

JessalynSmall

The difference between something like glasses & many other disability aids is access. Glasses are normalized, a lot more than a mobility aid or another tool like a colostomy bag

Lydia X. Z. Brown

autistichoya

I'm autistic and a Chinese transracial, transnational adoptee. This fucking disgusts me. It also lays bare what many of us already know - the adoption industry is fueled by global

Alex Haagaard (they/them)

alexhaagaard

Been thinking a lot lately about the construction of disability along lines of in/visibility to the medical gaze and I figure I may as well compile these fragmentary thoughts into

een een

edenbyte

alternatives for crazy/insane:- ridiculous- absurd- wild- thrilling- exciting- unreal- unbelievable- surreal- silly alternatives for lame: - boring- uninteresting- monotonous- weak- sad alternatives for psycho/psychopath:- scary- out of con

kayle hill ♿️

kaylejh

Joe Biden's Disability Policy Briefing will be starting any minute now. I will be live-tweeting the critical points (but i may not get everything sorry!). I'll do my best, and

Minorities in STEM

MinoritySTEM

I’ve received a lot of questions about how I coped with my #mentalhealth in academia. Here’s a thread of things that helped me:#PhD #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek2020 #STEM#WomenInSTEM 1. CBT - Cognitive

Liz Crash

AsFarce

the main reason it's so hard to get on the Disability Support Pension in Australia is that your condition must be "fully diagnosed, treated, and stabilised". which means if you

Gregg Beratan

GreggBeratan

Like everyone else I was heartened to hear @JoeBiden mention our community in his victory speech, but while it is an optimistic sign let us not forget that Biden was

Aaron Akpu Philip (MSPH)

AaronAkpuPhilip

𝘾𝙊𝙍𝙊𝙉𝘼𝙑𝙄𝙍𝙐𝙎 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝘿𝙄𝙎𝘼𝘽𝙄𝙇𝙄𝙏𝙔: 𝙈𝙊𝙍𝙀 𝙏𝙃𝘼𝙉 𝘼 𝙋𝘼𝙉𝘿𝙀𝙈𝙄𝘾-A threadIn 2011, the World Bank and the World Health Organisation (WHO) teamed up to produce the "World Report on Disability". This was the

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disporaboy

this post-opiate brain fog is real af. it takes me 10x as long to read and understand dense literature I could read once and tell ya all about itwithdrawal fully

Cal Montgomery

Cal__Montgomery

Okay, so let's take this one apart.https://twitter.com/johnrobison/status/1296822547829456896 First, what does "independent" mean? John is ignoring the extensive history of the use of "independent" within disability

ɱairéad, returns

TheWriterMAB

the fact that people assume you can “fake” disabilities for welfare and disability programs really goes to show people don’t know how any of it works, much less how difficult

Nicola Jeffery

NicolaCJeffery

#PatientsAreNotFakingHmm ok..., where to begin with this...? Maybe as a child when my "growing pains" & Alopecia was put down to being "jealous of my brother's" by my GP or

Emily Lloyd-Jones

em_llojo

I’m in a take-no-prisoners kind of mood, so let’s talk about OwnVoices disability rep in books. “We need more OwnVoices representation for disability,” is a thing I have heard many,

Melissa Ngo

melissango

A someone who is involved in creating family education materials for #healthcare, my role is constantly about finding, learning & sharing information in the most accessible way I can.We are