Luxury
My Dyspraxia Diagnosis
My childhood and teen years became a catalyst for self hatred. At school, I was punished for my forgetfulness and my hyper-sensitivity. Why couldn’t I cope as well as everybody else?!
Be the Change
‘Be the change you want to see in the world’ ...but in order for that change to be enacted, people have to see you so they can copy you. In order to influence others, you must have some kind of audience. To be the change, you need a platform! It is unfortunately not as simple as being. To be the change you want to see, you have to be seen.
Attendance Record for Life
My pain is not temporary, it’s chronic. That means it doesn’t end, it just becomes different. Worse, maybe. Quieter, hopefully. Gone, never.
My Red Hoodie
The pocket became a home for my guinea pigs, a safe place to store my DSi on road trips and holidays. The hood hid…
Monsters are Real
Monsters are real: Anxiety. Isolation. Fear. Illness. Loss.
I didn’t Know I was Disabled
It was only easy to call myself a liar rather than disabled, because it was easier for other people to ignore my needs rather than to help me.
NHS Staff Deserve Better
Acknowledging that the healthcare system needs reform should not be controversial- and it is long overdue.
Medical Sexism
As women, we are dismissed all too often, considered hysterical rather than concerned, oversensitive rather than justified, dismissed rather than taken seriously. This happens to women everywhere but I want to specifically talk about sexism in the healthcare system.
22
As I cut the cake and made my wish, it occurred to me that what I wished for is something that most people wouldn’t even think of.
The Sea Gets It
Is chronic pain like the sea? Such a shock at first but you get used to it once you're in it…
The Cliff Edge
As a child, I used to think there was a 'right' and 'wrong' answer to every question, that adults know what they are doing, and that love is always enough. These things are nice concepts, and entirely untrue.
The Cliff Edge (Poem)
The endless cycle of chronic pain
My Endometriosis Diagnosis
I Belong in Lockdown
Food shopping is not the triumph I thought it would be. I hadn’t been in a supermarket for almost two years…
Voting with an Invisible Disability
Walk carefully. Look a bit sad. Prove you are in as much pain as you feel….
Pain & Joy
This is the face of someone who has just been discharged from hospital and narrowly avoided an operation. This is…
Public Transport excludes almost 1/4 of the Public
We don’t notice how uneven the pavement is, how high curbs are, how narrow so many doorways are, no we really don’t notice half of our surroundings until we try to navigate the world in a wheelchair…
2020
2020 has not been kind... but I don’t think it’s her fault.
Society is Dependent on Diversity
Ken Robinson made me think about a perspective that is all too common right now- the concept that disabled people are disposable. Worth less. That dying from covid if you are vulnerable is simply natural selection. Survival of the fittest. Recently, eugenics…
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