These #disabled people tried to play by the rules. It cost them their #SSI benefits. https://bit.ly/4f9gLDn
Karen Williams got into trouble when she tried to do the responsible thing and bought a life insurance policy that would pay for her funeral. She had no idea that buying that insurance would get her caught up in an antiquated federal rule — an “asset limit” — that snares more than 100,000 of America’s poorest #disabled and elderly every year, often with dire consequences.

Some of us are able to keep swimming.
Many are too tired from treading water.
Some of us sink.
- emotional dysregulation
- mental exhaustion
- trauma
- #masking
- #neurotypical expectations
- #SensoryOverload
- social pressure
#WomenWithDisabilities #WomensMentalHealth #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityPolicy #neurodiversity

#SesamePlace adding new #HiddenDisability #accommodations https://bit.ly/4htPMnz
In a first-of-its-kind move, a popular theme park will offer a discrete way for visitors to alert staff throughout the park that they may need extra help even if their disability isn’t apparent.
Sesame Place Philadelphia said it will be the first theme park to participate in the Hidden #Disabilities #Sunflower program. Staff, known as “ambassadors,” will receive #accessibility training resources.

#Trauma doesn’t make people stronger.
It damages their nervous system.
It hijacks their digestive tract.
It keeps the person in a constant loop of hypervigilance.
To tell someone they are stronger because of trauma is to deny what it has cost them to survive.

Commodified Identity and #ableist representations in media: https://bit.ly/4hAAmxZ
#InspirationPorn
#Desperation Porn
Shaming as Activism
#Discrimination as Comedy
#disability #disabled

Confessions of living with an #InvisibleIllness:
- I don’t look sick
- I always feel guilty
- I’m always tired
- I feel like no one understands
- I get nervous for every doctor’s appointment
- I resent people who are healthy
- I am always in pain
- My #MentalHealth takes a toll
- I’ve tried so many different medications
- I never know how I’m going to feel day-to-day
#WomenWithDisabilities #WomensHealth #WomenWithDisabilities

A #woman died after being told it would be a “crime” to intervene in her #miscarriage at a #Texas hospital https://bit.ly/40q0Cox
Josseli Barnica is one of at least two #pregnant Texas #women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the fetal heartbeat stopped.
#pregnancy #abortion #VAW #VAWG #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveRights

The reasons I was ghosted:
- I shared I was #disabled
- I asked for #accessiblity
- I asked for an adjustment
- I asked for flexibility
- I couldn’t keep eye contact
- I was #fidgeting
- I had gaps on my #CV
- I couldn’t #WorkOvertime
- I asked to #WorkRemotely
- I requested a quiet workspace
- They doubted my ability
- I had limited work history
#WorkFromHome #disability

#Walmart said it would excuse worker’s absences for #seizures, then fired her https://bit.ly/3YSKcTp
The employee’s mother told the supervisor about her daughter’s #epilepsy & gave her a doctor’s note. The mom said her daughter would occasionally need to miss work while recovering from a #seizure, according to the filing.
The supervisor said Walmart doesn’t accept doctor’s notes, but the worker’s absences would be excused as long as the mother notified the supervisor about the reason.

A #deaf 9 year old is angry after being unable to go to school because her council couldn’t find her a specialist #interpreter. Maisie attended the same school since nursery and has always had a one-to-one sign interpreter.
"I feel angry and frustrated. I want to see my friends. I miss my school friends.". https://bit.ly/4elT2ic
Maisie, who is temporarily being educated at home in #Broseley, will now have to travel 32km to start at a new deaf resource base school in Wolverhampton.
#DeafRights