New blog post with an essay about healing, disability, and art by our EIC Hanna Nielson thebelfastreview.wixsite.com/home/post/no...
Since we started The Belfast Review just over a year ago, we've had the pleasure to showcase many new voices and works from Northern Ireland and beyond. Our readership has grown by leaps and bounds, a...
"Just Move"rs are an instablock. But, if you say it, you're offeeing to provide adequate housing, employment, schooling at an equal or superior level to what they have, disability accommodations, to relocate dependent family members, and to assume the packing/moving labor and costs, too, right.
I keep thinking to myself “What do I need to prepare for my SSA disability interview?” The answer is nothing Katy. You’re not there to show how competent you are, quite the opposite. My Gifted Child Syndrome-ass just needs to add my case manager to the call 30 minutes in.
If only there were a word to describe the level of foolishness they put on display... Maybe the Germans have something for this?
I’m on short-term disability until at least late October, attending physical therapy twice a week, and doing at-home hand exercises 3-4 times a day. All things considered, I’m doing surprisingly well! No more pain aside from minor expected stuff during my PT.
I'm bemused. Going down this line, presumably we shouldn't use working adults tax to pay for ... checks list ... education, healthcare, pensions, sickness, maternity, prisons, disability support ... ... ...
Like "you aren't even fully qualified to sneer at my disability and wtf happened to queer solidarity?" 🤣
It felt like an extra kick in the metaphorical nuts to have a non-binary PA sneer at my disability somehow.
7. Nzuzi has an intellectual disability. His schooling was very sparse (really only from ages like 6-11, and he was often neglected in school anyway because he was 'special needs' already), people often assume he's just undereducated. But he also struggles w/ simple concepts like multiplication, etc
random creeps in DMs really need to improve their game. "doing anything fun this week?" is absolutely the conversion starter for someone whose bio mentions bed-tethered disability. real people would comment on one of the 3 most recent posts - a geography game, Stevie Nicks, or romance novels