If you want to be as healthy as possible and lessen the likelihood of diseases it is so important that you do what it takes to be as healthy as possible and practice healthy habits. It is hard to improve your health and sometimes we have to do things that we know are good for, … Continue reading Things I Don’t Like Doing But I Do Anyway
February is National Heart Month! Dating apps have made it very easy for people to find their soul mates and over fifty percent of people find their life-long partners online. I am not against people using dating apps and think they can be a great option for a vast majority of non-disabled people but because … Continue reading Why I Don’t Use Dating Apps To Find Love
When you are in pain and go to the doctor it is likely that you have been shown the pain scale and asked to rank your pain from zero to ten. As a disabled person who has had many very painful surgeries, I am very familiar with the pain scale and have had to rank … Continue reading How I Feel About The Pain Scale
If you are disabled it is likely that you have been cornered in a store by a non-disabled person who insisted that you need prayer. Most of the time, this happens to people with visible disabilities because people can see you are disabled, but it can happen to any disabled person. As a disabled Christian, … Continue reading Can I Pray For You?
When you are disabled or chronically ill sometimes you have to go to the doctor or hospital more often than non-disabled people to manage your health. Some disabled people spend a lot of time at the hospital but not everyone with a disability has a lot of hospitalization and it depends on what disability you … Continue reading What Is In My Hospital Bag?
If you are disabled, it is likely that you have been approached by a non-disabled person and have been given some kind of unsolicited health advice. Disabled people with more visible disabilities often will be given more health advice than someone with an invisible disability, because we don't have the privilege of being able to … Continue reading Why I Don’t Like Unsolicited Health Advice
Disabled people sometimes struggle to accept their disability because we live in a society where people think that disabled people need to be fixed. Disability acceptance isn't just for disabled people, and sometimes families struggle to accept their loved one's disability more than the disabled person who is affected by it. Parents of disabled children … Continue reading How Parents Can Feel Less Guilty About Their Child’s Disability
Accessibility is important for disabled people because we can't function without it, but non-disabled people often think that it's an inconvenience and is something we can do if we want to. Everyone should care about accessibility, and it hurts disabled people when you say that accessibility is not important to you because it tells me … Continue reading Why Should You Care About Accessibility?
When you have a physical disability, simple tasks that come easily to most people can be more challenging when you don't have as much stability as everyone else. It is frustrating to have a visible physical disability because when people see your disability a lot of the time it is assumed you are incapable and … Continue reading What People With Physical Disabilities Wish Their Friends Understood
Disabled people sometimes need to see more doctors than non-disabled people because a lot of the time we have very complex medical issues that require more specialized training than your primary care doctor can give you. When you have Spina Bifida, sometimes you have to see multiple doctors because you can have multiple muscle groups … Continue reading Specialists That I See As A Disabled Person
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