PurpleMist 👩🏼‍🦽‍➡️

Disabled parent of three. Gamer, crafter, cat lover. Living life in pain but staying positive. APS/FVL/hEDS/epilepsy

[PurpleMist 👩🏼‍🦽‍➡️ @walden_em]

@KingTunde_SZN Hope

[♡⃝ @wine_x13]

There’s a mom at our school drop-off. Messy bun, always three minutes late, kids usually eating dry cereal out of a Ziploc. The "Pinterest moms" always whispered about her. I honestly felt a little bad for her.

Then one day at the playground, my neurodivergent son had a massive, violent sensory meltdown. I’m sitting in the dirt, crying, totally paralyzed.

The "perfect" moms just stared and pulled their kids away.
Suddenly, she’s there. The messy mom.

She drops her giant bag, sits right in the dirt next to us, pulls a heavy sensory toy out of her purse, and calmly shields my son from the crowd. No panic. No judgment. He regulated in three minutes. I was speechless.

We had coffee after. She told me her house is a disaster and she has severe ADHD, but she knows exactly what a nervous system collapse looks like.

I asked her how she deals with the judgmental stares from the other moms.

She took a sip of her cold coffee and said: "Perfect moms know how to bake organic muffins. Chaotic moms know how to survive the trenches."

Every time I see her running late now, I just smile. Girls, be like the messy mom. Stop apologizing for your chaos.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

UK IS CUTTING DISABLED BENEFITS AND HOPING YOU DON'T NOTICE

Next week, 730,000 severely ill and disabled people lose half their financial support.

Not people currently claiming. Future claimants. Which means the delivery driver who hasn't had his accident yet. The teacher who hasn't got her diagnosis yet. The nurse who hasn't developed long Covid yet.

You.

The government's own numbers confirm this. By 2029-30, 730,000 people who don't yet know they'll need this benefit will get £3,000 less per year than someone who claimed this week.

Charities are already warning this leads to eviction, hunger, and loss of care.

Meanwhile the standard allowance, the part healthy working people receive, goes up.

The message couldn't be clearer about who counts.

Most people won't follow this story. Disability cuts feel like someone else's problem until the moment they aren't.

That's exactly what governments count on.

Source: @DrFrancesRyan , @guardian, 2 April 2026

[PurpleMist 👩🏼‍🦽‍➡️ @walden_em]

@Rainmaker1973 "constant shadowing" for my boy means he has become my bodyguard and trip hazard all in one 😼

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

Something the Government want you to forget...

[PurpleMist 👩🏼‍🦽‍➡️ @walden_em]

@AngelaHaggerty Thank you for speaking up against all the misinformation being spread about benefits!

[Erin @Molly2323232323]

@Keir_Starmer Except you're replacing GPs with unqualified, untrained, unregulated, unsafe non-doctors*

*advanced clinical practitioners
advanced nursing practitioners
advanced practitioners
physician assistants
paramedic practitioners
pharmacist practitioners
physio practitioners..

[la scapigliata @lascapigliata8]

@Keir_Starmer Moronic nonsense. I’m sorry but as a doctor and a patient, I can’t find a more fitting word to describe this idiocy. Humans are flesh. Our flesh bodies need to be seen and asessed. All this is doing is lying to patients and diverting MORE funds away from employing enough doctors.

[PurpleMist 👩🏼‍🦽‍➡️ @walden_em]

This may be the simplest way to show you what you'll lose if we lose the ECHR. It's a scary thought.

Check out Lawesome's video! #TikTok https://t.co/KEMaXOSaHN

[Dan White : Disability Campaigner / Author / ♿️ @Danwhite1972]

@KemiBadenoch @Conservatives We have the lowest benefits in Europe. Living on benefits is not an option, especially if you have a disability that DOES prevent you from working. Stop scapegoating the vulnerable, stop inciting anger towards people living on the edge, stop belittling mental health. Stop.

[Erin Ekins (she/her) @QueerlyAutistic]

It's always wild that I see so many people going 'I saw a [very expensive car] with a blue badge!' because blue badges literally have nothing to do with money or finances? You could be a trillionaire and still need a blue badge because you physically can't walk very far.

[Jules @JuliaDa43398612]

@Helen_Whately Why don't you make an application for PIP and put acne on as your only condition. Let's see how far you get. I will tell you now you would not meet the descriptors to get the enhanced rate of the moblity element of PIP. Go on Helen take up the challenge and report back.

[PurpleMist 👩🏼‍🦽‍➡️ @walden_em]

@Caesarnots96696 @gimmingham @therealmissjo only diagnose from an econsult form, rather than face to face contact. This has been happening since before Covid. Something needs to change! Patient care needs to come first. Not the business plan of the gp service.

[PurpleMist 👩🏼‍🦽‍➡️ @walden_em]

@Caesarnots96696 @gimmingham @therealmissjo They expect patients to attend any of the sites, rather than their local. This blocks appointment availability then for those only able to get to their local site. Receptionists can no longer help like they used to. Patients get frustrated. Docs are misdiagnosing patients as they

[Dmdav @Dmdav1]

If we can’t afford to support the most vulnerable in society we cannot afford to support MPs expenses and perks Subsidised food, drink, living expenses all need to be reevaluated
As do donations they receive in cash or kind.
Also 2nd jobs that impact on their time spent as MP’s

[PurpleMist 👩🏼‍🦽‍➡️ @walden_em]

@snowleopardess Ah, but stating the facts wouldn't sound at all demonising, so lies it is then. Either she doesn't know how benefits work or doesn't care.

I've said it before, all MPs should earn only the living wage, no expense account. Live in the real world with the rest of us!

[Katie @LuxMeaMundiAM]

Ffs Rachel Reeves is so incompetent it’s unreal 🤦🏼‍♀️

Labour: “Let’s bully people back into working jobs that don’t exist or starve them!”

Also Labour: “but let’s also take away their means to drive to a job, meaning they DEFINITELY won’t be able to work”

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Disabled people are not expendable.

The chronically ill are not “less than.”

Our worth should never be tied to our ability to produce for capitalism.

The only people who benefit from that kind of ableism are the elite.

Almost everyone ends up disabled eventually.