Kathleen (KB)

Editor. Writer. Fact enthusiast. Disability stuff. Travel! Works @WorldKindLearn She/her.
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[Kathleen (KB) @WanderWound]

@ZThomson29302 You know this made my week, but... it really made my week <3

[Frances Ryan @DrFrancesRyan]

I love it when Tories say this, as if people on sickness benefits are out of work because they just didn’t realise they’d earn more in a job. “It would be better if I didn’t have Parkinson’s and could be a surgeon, you say? Genius! Thank goodness you’re here.”

[Kathleen (KB) @WanderWound]

@JeremyVineOn5 So, if things you need to stay alive cost money, and people who are sick to work shouldn't get money, then... what do you THINK happens next? Are you presenting this as a serious question for discussion?

[Kathleen (KB) @WanderWound]

@Douglas4Moray rather than a crucial reckoning on what needs aren't being met and what needs to change. We contribute (unpaid) because it affects our ability to stay alive, stay at home, and realise our potential in all sorts of ways. It's not a game.

[Kathleen (KB) @WanderWound]

@Douglas4Moray Your comments on the NCS are incredibly disrespectful to all of us disabled people and policy workers contributing to its development. This is one of the only places where lived experience of service users is even a question, and our major concern is that it's treated as partisan

[Kathleen (KB) @WanderWound]

@PeopleOfUK One of my favourite things when I used to regularly pick people up at Edinburgh Airport (2006-2014ish) was that the first sign you came to read "Welcome to Ratho Station" with the delightfully ominous "You'll never leave" graffitied below. So sad when they cleaned it.

[Kathleen (KB) @WanderWound]

@andrewhunterm Well, it's the best of all possible biscuits.

[Kathleen (KB) @WanderWound]

@GemmaEliza Argh. Not autistic (ADHDer) but had Selective Mutism and this never did anything but remind me I was unacceptable/didn't deserve to have basic needs met. Good parenting and security helped, though. Awful that this is advice the NHS is proud to have their logo on in 2023!

[Kathleen (KB) @WanderWound]

@RoseSchmits & it's not just to leave it up to the public to make decisions about bodies they don't understand. I got scared by that for a long time but I so appreciate you standing up for all women in incredibly trying times <3

[Kathleen (KB) @WanderWound]

@RoseSchmits Ah, the classic "We'll do the right thing only if it's popular". Well, this Scot is absolutely behind the changes, whatever he says about it, and being disabled, existing in a body that becomes a political battleground is no fun

[Kathleen (KB) @WanderWound]

@LauraRbnsn Always up for the Matthean geekery!!

[Kathleen (KB) @WanderWound]

@AngieBeatDown I have psoriasis and extremely dry/textured skin without doing anything. I got married last year and my wedding makeup artist recommended Curel intensive moisture (the imported stuff is, for some reason, better value). I'm only on my second tub and it's been a game-changer.

[Kathleen (KB) @WanderWound]

My baby Scout is 6!! She wasn't supposed to see 2 after being diagnosed with infiltrative lymphangioma at 1. Thanks to @TheDickVet for taking on her rare case, making a difference for any future patients, and looking out for her wellbeing at every turn.

#Fluffy

[Diversability® @Diversability]

Today, we mourn the passing of The Mother of Disability Rights, Judy Heumann. To say she left this world a better place is an understatement—Judy Heumann is the one who blazed the trail for disability rights. (1/?)

#RestInPower #JudyHeumann #DisabilityRights #DisabilityAdvocate

[Haben Girma👩🏿‍🦯 @HabenGirma]

Rest in power, Judy Heumann. We can’t thank you enough for your disability rights advocacy around the world. The mother of disability rights and a badass, too, so many of us are missing you. #JudyHeumann https://t.co/2L628Cgx3y

[Kathleen (KB) @WanderWound]

@CeliaRichards0n ...and I used to be able to get off the floor before I got sick. I'd be so interested to hear these people try to navigate explaining exactly why "disabled" is somehow an insult to the king and how all these "woke" liberal people don't like to tell it like it is...

[Kathleen (KB) @WanderWound]

@haydeniramay Thump out your complaint in Morse Code and when told that's disruptive tell them you're not aware of there being a problem and they're very rude to suggest that there is...

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

Something very weird is happening on twitter. I’m worried my tweets aren’t visible to people today.

Seems very weird that we’d launch such a serious and significant petition to a quarter of a million people and would only have 200 signatures so far… https://t.co/qPFafu31XK