disability

  1. ahimsa

    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 @Lollardfish) talking about the film Unrest. https://psmag.com/social-justice/how-disabled-people-care-for-each-other-when-doctors-cant
  2. M

    WaPo: For some receiving disability benefits, the desire to work will never cease

    A very sympathetic piece towards living with a disability, featuring amongst other a patient with ME and calling it myalgic encephalomyelitis. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/local/2018/01/10/for-some-receiving-disability-benefits-the-desire-to-work-will-never-cease/?utm_term=.3c33bec6f9ab
  3. Andy

    Guardian: "People accept that I’m gay, but not that I’m disabled"

    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jan/13/people-accept-that-im-gay-but-not-that-im-disabled
  4. Sly Saint

    A Disabled Community Abandoned: The ME/CFS Public Health Crisis In Britain

    This blog/ article has a few red flags..........maybe the writer should have done a bit more research or is it deliberate? Starts off OK ish..... "British people suffering from Myalgic Encephalitis otherwise known as ME or Chronic Fatigue syndrome (CFS) have suffered from over 30 years of...
  5. M

    Advocate for Disabled Workers; CNN Hero of the Year

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/17/world/amy-wright-2017-cnn-hero-of-the-year/index.html Amy Wright is 2017 CNN Hero of the Year Wright advocates for people with disabilities She employs dozens of people with physical and intellectual challenges at her coffee shop “My children are not broken," Amy...
  6. Andy

    Article: Not everyone with a disability wants a cure – nor should we expect them to

    Author has ME/CFS. http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellbeing/not-everyone-with-a-disability-wants-a-cure--nor-should-we-expect-them-to-20171201-gzx8ys.html
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