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“You’re obviously not as happy with your body as you make out”

I was going to tweet about this, but realised it would be far too long to fit into even a series of tweets. In a…

If you follow me on Twitter then you’ll have seen this already. There is a hashtag about Ableist speech and attitudes, it’s full of quotes…

Let me start by saying, so many trigger warnings for this post. I realised I have written, briefly, about this before, but it is a…

This tweet popped up on my timeline, I was busy at the time, so I didn’t see the context or know about any twitter storm.…

Some of you may be thinking I’m a little bit early, some more of you may be thinking, “what on earth is Samhain?” I best…

I went to see a counsellor a few years back, it was about 6 or so months after my health problems had started. I took…

I have to admit, this is a post about a specific conversation. But it got me thinking, and it got me thinking about something that…

Sorry to be repetitive, but I’ve been reading more on the #DropThePlus campaign and it got me thinking. Lovely as Ajay is, I’m sorry to…

I don’t get on with my body very much. In fact that’s quite an understatement. And today that self loathing hit me like a sledgehammer.…

Have had a less than positive experience recently with a local hospital, which is a shame because on the whole we’ve always had a lot…

Very short post as I know there are others out there who can make these points much more eloquently than I can, but this has…

About a year ago I put a post up on Mumsnet asking what the worst thing people had heard said related to illness or disability.…