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Author: Vanessa Smith
The Second Time Podcast Episode 13 – An example of inclusion gone wrong
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The Second Time Podcast Episode 12 – Inclusion Policies
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Please follow instructions
If I have selected “leave at door” then please leave my items at the door. I wouldn’t think this is a controversial statement but it seems quite difficult to get people to actually do this. I know people thinking handing them to me personally or phoning to me to ask if is “good […]
You’re the problem
It never ceases to amaze me that when someone raises an issue, people attack them just for raising it. No matter now “nicely” it’s raised. I can think of so many difference cases of this happening in so many different contexts. I could tell so many different stories on this. Equating the person […]
The Second Time Podcast Episode 11 – The Other Stuff
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It’s about how we bounce back
File this post under “technically true, but not useful”. Ages ago I saw a quote about how things are not about how we fail, but how we bounce back. And I don’t disagree. Technically. The thing is, when you have something like ME/CFS where your body doesn’t make/use energy properly, you […]
Form 18-B-Epsilon
She sighed, looking at the form on the app. Wanting to feel fresh air once again. It was time to face the gauntlet for permission. Reason for request: 10 minutes at the beach. … the computer takes some time to connect …. “Request denied” flashes up on the screen. … the […]
Inclusive Communities Fund Consultation
You can find full details of the Inclusive Communities Fund Consultation here. Or you can fill out a survey being run by PWDA (I have no affiliation with them, I just like easy data collection and they do it better than other organisations at the moment.) You can email your submission to InclusiveCommunitiesFund@health.gov.au by […]
Othering
I often feel MECFS is othered within disability because there’s basically nothing that can be done to support us to fake being non disabled. Then my realisation went further as my weird corner of being moderate-severe but being an employee makes me feel doubly othered because people are obsessed with scales that say work […]