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Trying to share good info on Disability. Tweets chiefly by @mhdtim Previously on-air (Technical Difficulties) Wear your scars with pride

[#cripcast ♿ 📻 🗺️ #ownvoices @lightchronic]

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[#cripcast ♿ 📻 🗺️ #ownvoices @lightchronic]

A valuable thread.

[TheDisabilityEnthusiast @twitchyspoonie]

It really is and it's unacceptable. Being hurt by the slur isn't the same thing as misinformation, especially erasing Black touretters like me in ways that put us in greater danger than white people. It is literally racist to say Black people don't experience the same kinds...

[Sue Marsh @suey2y]

Today's Post "A Tale of Two Ombudsman"
The Parliamentary and Health Ombudsman is meant to be our last rung of #justice. Instead, it's a hollow shell.
https://t.co/HSCUQLzSgU
Pls RT and subscribe, this is so important.

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

📻👄 Guess who’s on the radio? I’m in the latest episode of Radiolab on voice

https://t.co/ou56AXVeai

[DPAC @Dis_PPL_Protest]

#ReformUK
To the 29% of disabled people who are planning to vote for reform suggest you read this

Farage finally confirms: A Reform UK government would slash spending on disability benefits

https://t.co/Pfy8CzvFBW via @johnpringdns

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

There is a lot for disabled people to be enraged about. I partnered with artist Finnegan Shannon on #DisabledRage public art. All graphics are downloadable & feel free to share and wheatpaste all over your community https://t.co/RbjpBTvGYP

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

Devastated

The Late Patty Berne Was a Visionary Leader in the Disability Justice Movement

https://t.co/N89G8blRHv

[#cripcast ♿ 📻 🗺️ #ownvoices @lightchronic]

Good question. I'd say stenosis, but maybe Hydrocephalus.

[Candace D. @DiaryofaSickGrl]

What’s the rarest diagnosis you have? (Or have had)

[Mik Scarlet @MikScarlet]

I went out last night. Took a bus across north London. Today I'm paying for it but I also was shocked at the hostility I felt while on the bus journey. The recent rhetoric around disabled people & benefits are really impacting society's attitudes.

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

Labour ministers are considering whether to start means-testing personal independence payment, which is likely to cut billions of pounds a year more from benefits spending, new information secured from #DWP has revealed.
#WelfareNotWarfare #PIP
https://t.co/oQQebDmlVP

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

When I was in my 20s, I was repeatedly denied a medically necessary hysterectomy because I might “meet a man who wants kids”

I was left disabled, forced to undergo six surgeries, multiple blood & iron transfusions to preserve a diseased uterus for a HYPOTHETICAL child.

🧵

[#cripcast ♿ 📻 🗺️ #ownvoices @lightchronic]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! It was called Twitter at the time!

15 years of this project!!

Wear your scars with pride.

#MyXAnniversary

[Tanni Grey-Thompson @Tanni_GT]

This is really scary.

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

A local council, police and NHS have helped cover up the failures that led to a disabled woman’s body being found in her flat months after her benefits had been removed, Disability News Service has discovered.
https://t.co/4tWiMFFY0V

[Ash J @AshAgony]

17-year-old #VictorPerez was autistic, nonverbal, had cerebral palsy, & walked with a staggered gait. He was lying in his yard with a knife when cops arrived. Cops shot him after he stood up & stumbled towards them.

None of the cops' names have even been released!

[Tess Falor, Ph.D. | Renegade Research @tessfalor]

I'm hiring: #MECFS or #LongCovid patients who

1) know how to run an ELISA reader
2) are phlebotomists
Or
3) are good at keeping on schedule (could keep the team on a strict hourly schedule for a week. 😆)

[Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15]

The American Association of Immunologists: Long COVID: An Often Invisible Disability

'On February 26, 2025, at AAI’s first ever congressional briefing, Lisa McCorkell shed light on the reality of Long COVID as an often invisible and episodic disability'

https://t.co/bOZWbq7Hwc

[Candace D. @DiaryofaSickGrl]

What’s the weirdest unsolicited advice you’ve ever received for your health?