30-sth Brit, Unitarian, disabled, bendy, writer/bibliophile/web+graphic designer/musician, cat person, gamer (pref. JRPGs), handcrafter, polyfannish, femromantic polyamorous asexual, pronouns she/her/ze/hir/them... any more, ask.
30-sth Brit, Unitarian, disabled, bendy, writer/bibliophile/web+graphic designer/musician, cat person, gamer (pref. JRPGs), handcrafter, polyfannish, femromantic polyamorous asexual, pronouns she/her/ze/hir/them... any more, ask.
Girl's. Seanan's a woman, though I admit the name's a bit confusing. Closest pronunciation, Shawn-ann, she says.
Agreed. I'm 27 and have up to a dozen joint dislocations per hour, per day. Because people can't see it, they treat me like dirt...
> secondhand powerchair (my area NHS has bad conditions on electrics), curtains for the new flat, & paying off debts. It didn't last long.
Also: I have a year-old laptop I bought with part of a 5k compensation payment I got for my flat's demolition. The rest went on carpets, a >
>delightful government (looking at you David Cameron...), half the country think I'm a lazy, malingering criminal who deserves nothing.
>fibromyalgia, dysautonomia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, IBS, PCOS, some others. I'm on enough daily morphine to kill people. & thx to my >
> when he didn't know me at all or know I was claiming; just because I'm young & look able-bodied. I have severe Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, >
>- & just 18 months ago (when using a cane) I was beaten up on a bus by an OAP who assumed I was committing disability benefit fraud. This >
> from a genetic illness my family didn't even know my dad had until I was dx'd with it, then my younger sister. I'm 27 & a wheelchair user>
Yeah. *sighs* I know this only too well. Thought I'd escape the grinding poverty I grew up in, til I ended up fully disabled by age 22 >