This is a conversation between Charlene, who has experience of the My Sighted Guide service run by Guide Dogs, and Ally from The LUNA Project. Charlene has been blind from birth. Her experiences with education started way back when she went to boarding school for visually impaired people to learn braille when she had just …
Updated: May 24 What I wish I knew from a young age and what I wish others knew by River (they/them) Autistic people may not want to communicate by use of speech or may be unable. This can be due to being in shutdown, being in an overwhelming situation or just being unable to speak, …
by Regan Kelly (she/her) “the quality of being easily reached, entered, or used by people who have a disability” My name is Regan I’m 21 and would like to talk about the importance of accessibility to me on my journey living with Multiple Sclerosis. To me, accessibility means independence, it means freedom. Initially, when I …
By Ally, Beth, and Ross A note in June 2021: The need for accessibility is a common undercurrent in the lives of disabled people and something that never leaves conversations surrounding disability. Two of our earliest blog posts (published October 2019) were on this very topic, and much of what we talked about then still …
By Ayah Wafi (she/her) Hey, I’m Ayah Wafi, I am 23 years old and consider myself a British Iraqi. Iraqis come from various ethnic and religious groups such as Arab, Kurds, Turkmens, Assyrians, Armenians and many more who are from Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Yazidi, Mandaean, and many more religious backgrounds. I come from a majority …
By Saadiya (she/her) @theinvisiblecrisispod + @saadiyayu A major part of living with a chronic illness is learning how to advocate for your health. This can be a daunting and exhausting experience, especially when dealing with healthcare professionals with years of medical knowledge behind them. However, there are still many instances of doctors not taking patients’ …
By Sukhjeen Kaur (she/her) (@chronicallybrown) From outside the South Asian community, many are not aware of the stigmas and stereotypes the disabled South Asian community face. Ableism is present everywhere but is, unfortunately, heighten within my community, with many South Asians dealing with ableism in their own home. This is often due to South Asians …
By Ayesha Khan (she/her) My name is Ayesha I am from South Wales and I am 24 years old. I am an art and design student, I go to college 4 days a week but during the middle, I give my time to those in need. I do this by linking up with charities and …
By Jess Speller Off goes the first alarm. I sit up to switch it off and the “computer says no” meme immediately comes to mind, clearly today my body is not feeling it. That might be fine at the weekend or a day off, I can turn off the alarm, lie back down and regroup …
By Hannah Fost (@chronicallyhanclimbs) CW: Discussion of eating disorders —– Being a recovered anorexic, my relationship with my body is complicated. When starting to recover, I compensated for eating by overexercising. That is until I couldn’t anymore due to an energy limiting condition. I fought it for a while, went to the gym through excruciating …