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Adding #ActuallyAutistic so the post hits the autistic feed since ultimately it's about neurodivergent self diagnosis...

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Self diagnosis is often the first step to professional diagnosis. People may think they broke a bone because the symptoms match that diagnosis. They go to the Dr to make sure. Same with ADHD, autism, chronic illness, disability and most other conditions. SELF DIAGNOSIS PRECEDES DIAGNOSIS

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

Join us and the brilliant Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk for our free online training session on 13 March! This session will explore creative methods for delivering #PublicEngagement activities. Free! Book here: https://buff.ly/438uoiS

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Disability and spoonie friends... My new house has taps that are destroying my hypermobile and painful fingers. I found some tap turner accessibility thing but was wondering if anyone has used them before. I'm worried the taps need something stronger than plastic since they are really stiff.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Curtains

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Turns out I'm having a rare-ish reaction to Botox. Diarrhea and flu-like symptoms... Been absolutely exhausted and on the loo quite a bit today. #MigraineChat

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I had Botox today to help with migraines. 31 injections and feeling pretty sore at the back of my head/neck. Anyone had experience with this and want to share? #MigraineChat #disability

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

It's only after listening to @socialistdogmom.bsky.social podcast do I actually understand the reason they named the character in The Boys 'StormFront'. Was it meant to be super obvious and I was uninformed or was it a bit more nuanced than that?

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

We have the chance to make an actual secret room/lair in our new house. Suggestions for implementation please Looks like I can't upload a video yet. But it's very cool.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

First therapy session since moving. Therapy is now 26 miles away so we have to drive there. It's really messed up our routine

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

We made up a lovely little room for Gizmo to enjoy as he gets used to the new house. Nah. Under our bed is fine

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

This new effort to end Section 504 for equal access for disabled people to gov funded spaces is vile, but nondisabled people need to understand this is not the 1st step in trying to kill us: Ever since you were told “only the vulnerable” need to worry about Covid, so you stopped— you paved the way.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

The real MeToo “cancel culture” was what happened to the women and other victims who came forward. They were retraumatized, harassed, humiliated, sued, fired, and blacklisted. Then they were the subject of a revisionist history that MeToo went “too far” and deserved a reactionary backlash

submitted 17 days ago • 72 comments

Moving day. Goodbye laurel that refused to grow Goodbye grass we hate to mow Goodbye room too cold to use Goodbye stairbox that loves to bruise (my legs) Goodbye kitchen with no drawers

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Something is annoyingly wrong with my feed because I'm not seeing any news on the UK assisted dying bill becoming less stringent before it passes. ... ... ... How do I find /that/ discourse?

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

“There are plenty of remote jobs disabled people could be doing” On the dwp Find a Job site (which replaced the jobcentre site) there’s 122k jobs. fully remote 877 + in NE England - 30 in my city - 6 + disability confident ZERO The most interesting part? They're all pip assessor jobs.

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

Been trying to pace last week since we are moving house this week. But also not doing amazing at that. Boo

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

People with a mental illness diagnosis or any disabled person end up punished for being in work p/t or f/t when needing support ie adjustments, supports and heaven forbid UC to help with rent or PIP. Employment is used against disabled claimants and by MH services

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Disabled people working p/t enabled by PIP, have had assessors say they can't have the problems they state - because they work p/t

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

To all my trans friends in the US. I'm sorry your president doesn't understand that sports, especially non-elite sports are not about winning or fairness. They are about fun and exercise and movement. No single body is the same, competing in sports is always unfair, it doesn't mean we ban people.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

autistic meltdowns are not tantrums that doesn't mean that autistic people can't throw tantrums

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

People don’t develop eating disorders on purpose. We have predispositions, trauma, difficultly coping with emotions, certain personality types. No eating disorder is a choice.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Of course people getting weight loss injections from random websites is going to cause massive health problems. Of course our society that pursues and values thinness at the cost of health is going to lead to this kind of thing. If you make me believe my worth is my size, the outcomes are on you.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

The reason that trump seems to not want to impose tariffs on the UK is not something for us to celebrate. It's cause to reflect on what we have done so wrong in our society that we are seen as an ally.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

A disabled person can burn out without being in paid employment. Just managing our health conditions can (often does) become totally overwhelming, takes nearly all our time, and burns us out. Issue is we can’t have time off to recover.

submitted 26 days ago • 12 comments