"No one with any understanding of ME – and how decades of systemic gaslighting, prejudice, and negligence has affected people living with it – would even consider using the language Oxford NHS did."

More here:

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2023/08/23/oxford-nhs-me-job-advert-response/

#MECFS #ChronicIllness #Disabilty #BelievePatients

#SocialSecurity adds 12 new conditions to the list of 278 Compassionate Allowances conditions.

Persons with one of these conditions are approved almost immediately once a diagnosis is verified, bypassing the long wait for #disabilty determination

Always important to include a #medical diagnosis record when applying or personally sending it to #SSA asap after applying. Don't rely on docs sending it.

#ssdi #ssi

🔗Compassionate Allowances Website Home Page

https://www.ssa.gov/compassionateallowances/

@oblomov @passenger @deilann It’s not just about the cost of the commute. It’s the fact that some people aren’t physically capable of making the commute, but are capable of WFH. really interesting discussion on profit motives vs other reasons for back to the office. #WFH #Disabilty

It's such a relief that I can just fully crash now that the worst of the excitement of the past week's emergency is over. I'm impressed that I was able to do as much as I did, even though I was an exhausted, wobbly mess by the end of each day.

I had just come out of a crash when my vacation time started, due to an insurance issue with my sleep meds. Of course, all hell broke loose two days into starting to feel more resilient... But everybody's going to be okay, so I can start recuperating again.

#MECFS #PWME #disabilty

Today's #soundtrack comes from the experimental and emotional #KensukeUshio. His double album A Shape of Light is the #OST for #asilentvoice, a beautiful #anime #movie about #bullying, #poverty, #mentalhealh, #disabilty, #redemption, #bodyimage, and #acceptance.

It was one of the best movies released in 2016 and yet few people appear to have seen it. The OST is the icing on a very delicate cake. I do enjoy the diagese.

I was shocked when I heard about someone wanting to go the route of assisted suicide because our disability support is so bad, but now it's just 'normal'. I'm on ODSP myself but it's 1/3 the cost of living. it's not even enough to rent a 1 bedroom let alone pay for food. and the disabled tend to have extra expenses. The government is letting people in need choose suicide over care. just like with the homeless population

#ChronicPain #ChronicIllness #Disabilty #FordSucks

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rose-finlay-medically-assisted-dying-odsp-1.6868917

Giocattoli “intelligenti”, robot e algoritmi in aiuto ai bimbi con disabilità
https://www.giovannicupidi.it/giocattoli-robot-algoritmi-bambini-disabili/
#blog #blogger #blogging #disabilità #disabilty #toys #kids

Please try to get this to disabled.social, any users who are jornos, activists, orgs and whatever instances have journalists please.

#KeepMasksInHealthcare #Covid #Covid #LongCovid #Healthcare #PublicHealth #Activism #Protest #Disabilty #Disabled

Got to wonder what’s the point of automatic refills on prescriptions when they routinely don’t have the drug in stock in time for the scheduled refill.

It should have been filled on 4/29, still isn’t available. How hard would it be to check inventory prior to the date it’s scheduled to be dispensed?

#disabilty

#DiscussionMonday is a tad late but it is back! Attractive is different from sexy right?
https://ducttapeanddaddyissues.blogspot.com/?zx=bda20bb72de8c9cb
#NSFW #SexBlog #disabilty

And looking away is that much easier because chronic illnesses like long COVID are more likely to affect #women—“who are more likely to have their symptoms attributed to psychological problems,” Mauldin said—and because the #American emphasis on work ethic devalues people who can’t work as much or as hard as their peers.

https://apple.news/AfTpsmG4XSDq8LqKJkPW04A

#LongCovid #disabilty #chronicillness #CovidIsNotOver #covid19 #SarsCoV2 #health #SocialSecurityDisability

This is not ‘The Onion’…I do not get political and this post is not meant to be political in the slightest. My intent here is simply……WTF? How on earth could nobody consider this in advance??

Paralyzed councilman asked to climb out of wheelchair onto debate stage - The Washington Post https://apple.news/Az5mYZIZ-RcmR4wgWaFHUMQ

#wtf #disabilty #priorplanning #notpolitical #planning #access

Doctor wants to schedule an mri for the lipoma on my neck. Not that it’s dangerous, but that it could be putting unnecessary pressure against my occipital nerve which I’m already having a tough time with. #medical #disabilty #ClusterHeadaches

My back: hello, I am flaring, do your PT stretches and stay upright for a while or there will be consequences

My neurological bullshit: hello, I am flaring, get out of bed if you want a concussion

Me: can you assholes please work out a schedule

Them: oh, we did 🙂

#disabilty is very annoying sometimes

Did anyone else catch the promotion of "policies that can intelligently and humanely reduce human populations everywhere" in one of VTdigger's recent commentaries? And the additional audacity to refer to it as #degrowth and "indigenous wisdom"- unbelievable. #eugenics #disabilty

Birdability: help crowdsource accessible birding trails, learn how to be an inclusive birder so birding can be for every body

https://www.birdability.org/

#birding #disabilty #accessibility #a11y

CMV symptoms: Mother who passed cold-like virus onto her daughter was told she’d never walk or talk | The Independent

Courtney Farnell caught common cytomegalovirus (CMV), a virus that causes cold-like symptoms, eight weeks into her pregnancy
#pregnancy
#CMV
#Cytomegalovirus
#Disabilty
#Hygiene

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/cmv-virus-symptoms-cytomegalovirus-b2260952.html

NIH is seeking people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) or people close to patients for a working group to develop a roadmap for ME/CFS research. Commitment appears to be for a year with several online meetings.

Nominate yourself on this page.

#MEcfs #NIH #chronicillness #disabilty

https://www.ninds.nih.gov/about-ninds/who-we-are/advisory-council/nandsc-mecfs-research-roadmap-working-group

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PLS RT

#Powerchair #wheelchair #disabilty #Kent #London https://twitter.com/IamSarahJayJay2/status/1608938717884059651

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/IamSarahJayJay2/status/1608938843482492928

"At the end of the day, the uniting #decolonial ideology for #PanAfricanism must be #AntiImperialist, #AntiPatriarchal and #AntiMilitarist. It must jealously safeguard the interests of those who suffer from #intersectional #oppression on the basis of their #gender, social status, #ethnic and cultural origin, #sexuality, #disabilty, #age and other grounds." - Sylvia Tamale