Hello everyone! This is the first post in the newly made Disability and accesibility community. Feel free to post anything health, chronic illness, disability or accesibility related. If you need a space for support or sharing your experiences regarding all of the above topics, this is the right place as well :)
Hey everyone! I’m happy to be here. I have ME/CFS and recently got in to see a rheumatologist for the first time. Suspected Sjogren’s (I have many of the symptoms), but my first tests came back negative. Apparently it takes 8 years, on average, to get a diagnosis. For now, loading up on my eye drops / nasal spray / dry-mouth everything at all times.
Hi all! I’m here on behalf of my partner of 26 years, who was dx’d with Alzheimer’s (plus a big serving of depression and anxiety). She’s been a longterm disability rights advocate (seizures, hard enough of hearing that she signs—or used to, has been socially withdrawing, and memory + Alzheimer’s… well, you know). When she got the official dx, I joked to her, “well, you were always proud of being Disabled—now you’ve got the Great Mother of all disabilities.”
Hi everyone! I am a person with mental disorders, Asthma, prediabetes, and the developing of thyroid issues who has been put on disability benefits due to my inability to find and or maintain work. If anyone ever has any questions about Ontario’s disability support program, feel free to ask me and I’ll try my best to help out. I am not a social worker but I have had to grudgingly read a lot of those horrible, horrible documents and rules relating to ODSP in my experience with them.
By the way, just a reminder to my fellow Canadians that there’s supposed to be a federal-wide disability benefit program being introduced one day in the distant future. It’s not happening now, but it received “yes” from pretty much everyone and finished it’s third reading back in May. I am sadly not as politically knowledgeable as most people, so I don’t know “wtf does that even mean”, but it’s apparently good news! Yeah!
I just want to say, “Hi.”
My interest in this community stems from having a stutter, depression, and social anxiety. I also work in web development and am always interested in learning more about web accessibility. For the most part, my conditions don’t affect my ability to use the web, so I always feel like there’s lots of room to grow there. (Too bad the folks at Reddit don’t care much about that. Looking forward to the blackout.)
Hi everyone! I’m an autistic person, I have ADHD, along with a couple of other ones I generally don’t talk about online for various resons.
