I was having ‘that’ conversation at work the other day. You know the one where a person who is curious or has a particular view of you wants to validate what their attitudes towards disability/restricted growth. It usually starts with ‘I don’t mean this to sound like it does, but I just see you as …
Category: Disability
You’re Small – Get Over It!
Hmmm! This one always manages to hit a raw nerve and lets just say that it had the desired effect by the person saying it on making me feel incredibly angry and upset. Did I take the person to task? Hell no, the people around me told me not to indulge them and to rise …
Katie Price and the Bully Boy Frankie Boyle
The ‘comedian’ Frankie Boyle’s been at it again, and I say comedian in the loosest sense of the term, because really, this guy seriously isn’t funny. Not content with picking on kids with Down Syndrome, he’s now picking on a specific disabled kid. Good on Katie Price for sticking up for her son Harvey and …
Pain Day, Make That Pain Week
Pfft! I’ve been a right grouch-bag over the last week. Why? I’m in pain. I get aches and pains on a daily basis which oddly move around my body. I think this happens when I rely on one section of my body to compensate for the pain elsewhere, but I digress. This week’s pain has …
You Have To Be 110% Better Than Every One Else
This was what was said to me awhile back when I was seeking advice on going for a job. The person was impressed with my CV and tapped into something that I’ve thought about often when trying to establish myself in an interview situation and in a workplace. Whilst I think that it’s got easier …
Someone Tried To Video Me On Their Phone
I was walking down the street with a friend who also has restricted growth, we were quite happily talking away when my friend went quiet. She’d clocked that a young man was taking too long to pass us and our small strides. We turned around and sure enough, he was fiddling with his phone. We …
End Of Week Blues
It’s Friday and I feel seriously depleted in the energy stakes. It’s like this every week and what is is caused by? Working, in my attempt to be a good citizen and pay taxes. I’ve spoken to other people with restricted about this and it’s a mix bag. Some people don’t suffer in the stamina …
One To Watch – BBC Three Small Teen, Big World
For those of you with Freeview, tune your TV’s to BBC 3 on Tuesday 27th July at 9.00pm ladies and gents! BBC Three’s Adult Season is returning to our screens! The series explores the pressures on young people growing up quickly. On 27th July episode Small Teen, Big World with Jazz that tell the relationship …
Update On New Medical Tests For DLA Recipients
Here’s an update from the Disability Alliance Website regarding the proposed medical assessments in the ConDem Emergency Budget 2010 for people receiving Disability Allowance: Disability Alliance: New medical test for DLA: more news »
DLA To Be Cut From 2013
I’m saddened to hear the announcement in the ConDems emergency budget that the DLA forms are to be replaced with a medical assessment and there are to be overall cuts. Whilst I get the ideology behind the reasons that every part of society needs to feel the brunt of the deficit, I’m a bit bewildered …