£15,000 is derisory for being experimented on without consent with lifelong or life ending consequences

Quote post with a picture of you from the 80s

Due to the nature of the facilities at the swimming event at the weekend I suspect I'm going to end up 'coming out' about having a colostomy to a lot of people. I'm both apprehensive and chilled about it at the same time - v odd

That thing where what happened at your school was so bad the public inquiry report has a whole chapter about it

A great swim after work. I buggered up my shoulder last summer and could only swim 150m at a time. Today got back up to 500m. Plan is 2km by end of September

I've got a school reunion coming up, the first since I've been out. I'm looking forward to going to it as the real me but also nervous as hell

Being disabled definitely gives you a very complicated relationship with your body

Just seen my first bats of the year flitting about

Thinking about when I wanted to get a Saturday job while in 6th form and school wouldn't let me because we had 'education for life' lessons on a Saturday morning. The joy of going to an ordinary 6th form college while living at a boarding school for disabled kids.

Head is all over the place this morning. Yesterday I found out the school I was at had received financial incentives for enrolling a subset of pupils in medical trials without they or their parents' consent and that my best friend from my time there has died