Happy Halloween! Today, people will be dressing up in their favorite costumes to go to Halloween parties, and parents will be taking their children around to different houses trick-or treating to get some candy. If you are a last-minute kind of person and don't have a costume, you might think that sitting in a wheelchair … Continue reading Is Dressing Up As A Disabled Person For Halloween A Good Idea?
Halloween is tomorrow which means a lot of kids are going out trick or treating and getting more chocolate than they know what to do with. Most kids will get a stomachache when they eat too much chocolate but when you have a disability that makes you more prone to constipation it can be difficult … Continue reading How To Survive Halloween When You Struggle With Constipation
Diet culture is everywhere and can be harmful to anyone because it convinces you that unhealthy habits are healthy and makes people have unnecessary fear around food. It can be even more harmful for people with medical conditions who can't follow a restrictive diet because they have certain dietary restrictions. Diet culture affects everyone and … Continue reading How Diet Culture Affects People With Medical Conditions
If you want to make money from your blog, it takes a lot of time and effort before your blog starts to get a lot of traffic and get noticed. Bloggers have to work a lot to build their brands, and we sometimes will spend as much time creating create as you do at your … Continue reading Five Things I Do When I Am Not Blogging
Disability acceptance is difficult because disability is not accepted by society and is often seen as something bad that needs to be cured. Stoma acceptance can be even more difficult because most people don't see the good in a stoma and are horrified when you tell them you have a hole on your body that … Continue reading How I Learned To Accept My Stoma
When you start a blog, the first thing that every blogger has to think about is whether or not you are going to tell your family about your blog, because not all bloggers do, and a lot of people don't. Blogging about disability can be stressful because people who blog about health get more trolls … Continue reading Why I Told My Family About My Blog
When you have Spina Bifida, it is common for your bladder and bowel function to not work properly because when something affects your spine, it doesn't just give you back problems and other muscle groups can also be impacted. Chronic constipation will always be a part of my life because my bowels have never worked … Continue reading What I Wish People Understood About Living With Bowels That Don’t Work
Disabled people often have a harder time finding employment than non-disabled people because we face discrimination in job interviews that you would not experience without having a disability. The unemployment rate is higher amongst disabled people because non-disabled people often assume things that are not true and will hire a non-disabled applicant. I looked for … Continue reading Myths People Often Believe When Hiring Disabled People
Exercise is important for your physical health, and anyone who is able to exercise should make it part of their routine because a lifestyle that is too sedentary puts you at a higher risk for some health issues. Most people have occasionally done a workout to prepare for a big event, but not everyone is … Continue reading How To Motivate Yourself To Exercise When You Really Don’t Want To
When it comes to disability there are a lot of terms that disabled people can use to identify and there is no term that I can tell you that I think everyone should be using because everyone has different preferences and even though I use certain language when referring to my disability that doesn't mean … Continue reading Disability Terminology That Can Have A Negative Impact On Disabled People
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