"Woman told exhaustion was just ‘A-level stress’ overcomes debilitating diagnosis: Elizabeth Hope, who was diagnosed with ME, has since overcome her adversity to become an award-winning wheelchair dancer"
I'm considering going to this protest, "“Scrap The Green Paper” coalition calls on the Department of Social Protection to "Scrap the Green Paper" on Disability Reforms." outside Leinster House on Thur, Dec 7.
Disability At Home:
"This website documents the ingenuity and creativity that caregivers and disabled people, including those with chronic illnesses, use every day to make home accessible..."
"My doctor signed it without question. I still was not comfortable with the term “disabled” then and I was still trying to pretend I could physically do what I was longer able to do. “Passing” as able-bodied was significantly easier than trying to live with disability (or so I thought at the time), and I was coasting on denial as long as I could."
"But I was wrong. I was and am disabled. I got the [parking] placard and ended up using it every day because it was a life saver. I wished I had gotten it sooner when I needed it, long before I finally talked to my doctor about it."
"an OCR investigation revealed a State denied a
prospective parent with #ChronicFatigueSyndrome & other disabilities the opportunity to become a foster parent"