lol one of my friends is sick of the campus estates page not being accurate about broken lifts on campus so they've made an instagram page where people can report broken/fixed lifts to them instead

If you are eligible for the mobility component of PIP, you can spend *your own money* topping that up to have a great accessible car. Critics should ask: Why are you against this? What it is about disabled people that makes you believe it’s wrong to have nice things they paid for themselves?

The answer is 2 weeks in theory, but if I wasn't willing/able to go to Selby for the initial appointment it would have been 6 😅 god bless the NHS and all that

it's so funny doing a sport none of my close friends do, because they ask how basketball was and i say "i finally mastered the three man weave!" and it doesn't mean a goddamn thing to them (they're happy anyway)

They should invent a school sports hall that isn't freezing

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Does anyone know the timeline on NHS post injury physio these days? Saw ortho a week ago and they said they'd refer and I'm not sure when to expect it and/or start chasing? Completely forgot to ask in the appointment

Zack Polanski has the opportunity to do the funniest possible thing here

Just accidentally typed "hisstorians" instead of "historians" and now I'm sat here thinking about a bunch of snakes debating historiography hisstoriography, if you will

something I did not expect about adopting quite young cats as a lesbian couple is that they've become frightened of men purely by accident, because we barely know any

First day back on court and I was the first to score in lay ups 🥳🥳 very happy

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

Successfully cleared to take my sling off and go back to using my shoulder 🥳 consultant was very impressed with me, I feel like I got a good grade in shoulder today

I understand why they've put these in on campus but I still think they're ruining my fun

Actually wild how it only takes one productive afternoon to make a degree feel doable again

This is a thought I have neither the capacity nor the skills to action but I would love to do a Wikipedia edit-a-thon for disabled people

Letting agent sent someone to fix our broken gate but he didn't say he was there or anything, he just turned up and silently started faffing with the gate?? I'm so confused by this interaction

mum come pick me up the group chat is debating whether the social model can be applied to everyone's individual experiences of disability again

it's my first time having cats at this time of year and i have never been more anti fireworks in my entire life

Happy Halloween, we're making cupcakes and we're weirdly sad the cats can't have them so we're making them fun dinner in cupcake cases purely for our own enjoyment

There are many unexpected perks to being a wheelchair user and one of these is that I just got my third pity setlist at a concert in 12 months 😎

Disabled community is the best for many reasons, but today because one of my friends has spent their evening practicing toilet transfers from weird angles to show another of my friends it'll be possible in her bathroom once she's discharged from hospital They don't know each other. At all

it is only natural that when 3 autistic people go on a work trip together there should be a false fire alarm at 1am

HE folk - is anyone else seeing an increase in students being told they can't charge wheelchair front attachments in their rooms in uni-managed accommodation because of fire risk? I've had a couple of friends have this issue and not sure if it's an isolated thing or not?

had an essay tutorial earlier and my tutor said "this would be a really good PhD" two or three times and i was once again chanting "academia is ableist and you have unmedicated ADHD" like a mantra in my head

Honestly impressed I've already reached the part of being off court with an injury that I miss lay ups, when normally I complain every time we do them

I would love it if I didn't leave every Ortho appointment having been told completely different things about timelines/what I'm supposed to be doing/what not to do, like that would be really novel and fun

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing. if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

"How's your decolonising memory module going Sophie?" Today I legitimately answered a question in a seminar with "he's a rich white man" and that was the correct answer

was working on a group presentation with some of the new postgrads today, they asked me what my diss is about and when I told them they actually said "woah" out loud, so that's my ego sorted for the foreseeable

So hypothetically, if a university pays for a disabled student to have an ergonomic assessment for a specialist desk chair to be used on campus (labs etc), and what the assessor recommends is more expensive than they'd like (for good reasons), can the university refuse to pay for it? (for a friend)

I am having the most overwhelming 24 hours and I am politely asking for pet pics please

Did some accessibility room audits with the SU today and most of what I've learnt is that everything which is officially classed as accessible isn't, and everything which isn't officially accessible is. So it's going well, I would say

Just an appreciation post for all the university staff who go above and beyond for their disabled students. My seminar tutor has been outstanding the last few weeks and I could not be more grateful

Paige Thomas, 37, began collecting co-morbidities in her early twenties and has since curated an incredible list of ailments, injuries and illnesses.

day 5 in a sling with a fractured shoulder, teaching myself to write with my other hand because i miss my journal that much

Long story short I currently have a fractured shoulder so have opened Dragon for the first time in years. It won't recognise ANYTHING I say even after calibration. What am I doing wrong, does anyone know?

Autistic people are valuable, as people are rightly saying on here. They are also the kindest, most empathetic and generous community I've ever been privileged enough to be part of. Funny fuckers to the last one. Find yourselves some autistic friends. Apropos of nothing obv.

My shower stool has well and truly broken so tonight we're playing a fun game of "are NHS-issued perching stools waterproof?" I don't even like it as a kitchen aid so I have no skin in this game

I accidentally found an autistic hairdresser and now I fear I can go to a neurotypical one ever again

Successful Gradcon presentation about A Kind of Spark and critical fabulation 👍 My supervisor walked up to me unprompted at the drinks reception and just said "you look exhausted" with no preamble 👍 chronic illness truly contains multitudes

I'm listening to a history audiobook, and every time the narrator is quoting someone, she imitates their accent?? This feels so silly??

Great that they’re doing this project but this stuff should not be volunteer work. Pay people. “But we don’t have money!” Yeah I know, us either, tax the rich

I FINALLY convinced myself to put all my diss references on Zotero and then my university changed which edition of Chicago we use

Went to a queer wedding yesterday where the couple are both chronically ill and they changed the vows from "in sickness and in health" to "in sickness and probably more sickness" and I just think that's absolutely fantastic

Me planning my Gradcon presentation: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me realising I'm so passionate about my Gradcon presentation there is a non-zero chance I will cry on stage: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

On today's edition of being a wheelchair user in public: two people who opened doors for me and then stood in the doorway, meaning I couldn't get past them, and one cyclist who hit my leg at speed (I am fine but very bruised already)

Lol my local Amnesty Bookshop has The Salt Path shelved under fiction

Now what is the point of having staff in train stations and on trains to preserve disabled people's right to turn up and go (like everyone else!!!) if the train staff don't put the ramp down and the station staff are only trained to book assistance via Passenger Assist anyway

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