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  1. Trish
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    Huff Post: 'I Sometimes Feel Defeated By My Disability – And That's Okay', 2019, Pippa Stacey

    Excellent article in Huff Post by a woman with ME who was told to exercise, and suffered as a result. I Sometimes Feel Defeated By My Disability...
    Thread by: Trish, Oct 1, 2019, 3 replies, in forum: General ME/CFS News
  2. Sly Saint
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    US - The Sleepy Girl Guide to Social Security Disability

    For people in US This guide is designed for anyone who is homebound and for people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Lyme...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Jun 23, 2019, 1 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  3. WillowJ
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    Community participation and inclusion: people with disabilities defining their place. Milner, Kelly

    Paul Milner & Berni Kelly (2009) Community participation and inclusion: people with disabilities defining their place, Disability & Society, 24:1,...
    Thread by: WillowJ, Apr 24, 2019, 9 replies, in forum: General disability topics and advocacy
  4. ladycatlover
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    BBC1 Doctors 17 April 2019 Storyline about PIP (UK benefit)

    Warning - this may be a programme that is upsetting for PIP claimants, or those awaiting a PIP assessment. On the other hand, it at least shows...
    Thread by: ladycatlover, Apr 17, 2019, 1 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  5. Andy
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    UK: The APPG for Disability are looking for stories of issues with PIP

    Twitter post from them [MEDIA] Email that can be used: Appgsecretariat@disabilityrightsuk.org
    Thread by: Andy, Jan 19, 2019, 0 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  6. Andy
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    Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time by Ellen Samuels

    Abstract In this creative nonfiction essay, the author reflects on how 'crip time' has operated in their life, not only as a form of liberation,...
    Thread by: Andy, Dec 14, 2018, 0 replies, in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
  7. Webdog
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    Brain volume loss is present in Japanese multiple sclerosis patients with no evidence of disease activity (2018) Yokote et al.

    Brain volume loss in Multiple Sclerosis patients with no evidence of disease activity predicts future disability. Brain atrophy has recently been...
    Thread by: Webdog, Jul 6, 2018, 2 replies, in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
  8. Andy
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    Emerge Australia submission to the Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme

    Emerge Australia submission to the Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Last week Emerge Australia made a...
    Thread by: Andy, Mar 5, 2018, 0 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  9. ahimsa
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    PacificStandard: How Disabled People Care for Each Other When Doctors Can't

    [Note to moderators: I think this belongs in general news - please move if this is the wrong forum] New article by David M. Perry (twitter handle...
    Thread by: ahimsa, Jan 16, 2018, 1 replies, in forum: General ME/CFS News
  10. Andy
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    Guardian: "People accept that I’m gay, but not that I’m disabled"

    ....... I don’t think my family expected me to be one way or the other, so being an out lesbian was probably the least interesting part of my...
    Thread by: Andy, Jan 13, 2018, 7 replies, in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
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