Category: disability issues
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Thankful I’m Not in an Institution
Dear readers, While I understand that some people with real fragility and medical issues need daily care, I want to highlight what all of us disabled people should at least be thinking about. Imagine not having Thanksgiving with your loved ones this year. Imagine you can’t have visitors, can’t even eat good food, and I’m…
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Why Consistency is Highly Important in the Medical Profession
Dear readers, I’d like to address a couple of things, but mostly want to address the history I’ve dealt with since I moved to Denver, Colorado in 2010. LEt’s just begin with a history of me in the medical professional system in Denver, beginning with the place now known as “Well Power.” First off, I…
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Consistency Consistency Consistency
Dear readers, Imagine going to all your special doctor appointments and seeing a different doctor every single time. Imagine having a therapist you liked for a few months and then, suddenly, you’re handed over to another therapist for some time you don’t particularly care for, then handed over to a so so therapist, and so…
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What Will Happen to Our Country Under Another Trump Administration?
Dear readers, It is with some concern that I write this post. Donald J. Trump wants to write himself in the history books and come back to the White House. Well, not after a bunch of suspected White Supremacists took over the capitol building in Washington D.C. those times last year in order to disrupt…
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Letter to My Unborn Daughter
Author’s Note: The following came as a result of a major crying spell. It’s been a week since I’ve been heartbroken over a myriad of things, but a vision of a little girl with reddish blone hair and blue eyes appeared in my mind, invading my thoughts. I thought I’d write her a letter here,…
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The Sins of Who?: Plain Communities Under the Microscope for Sexual Misconduct By Males
Dear readers, Has anyone heard of the Amish? Okay, has anyone even seen the Amish at work? Behind the picturesque horses and buggies, the farmers working the land, there is a deep dark pit of evil and despair lurking. What is this evil we speak of? You’ll find it in a recent Peacock original docuseries…
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A World without SSI and Food Stamps: Don’t Breathe but Imagine It
Dear readers, I was given a scenario to ponder, especially from a Pakistani immigrant from Karachi, family support and all. HE said the following, “I’d love to drop Beth off in a country where there is no SSI and food stamps.” Well, here’s what would happen if the U.S. had none of these safety nets…
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Why a Waiting List for Disabled Young Adults is Sabotaging Our Human Right to Shelter
Dear readers, I know this sounds wrong, I know this might come off to some of you as entitlement, but imagine yourself a senior 62 years or older. How many places and things do you qualify for? Now, go blind and be in your young years, like 18-60, just below the senior line. How many…
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Tribute to Ray Khan
Author’s Note: The following contains some references to drugs and rehab, mental health issues, sometimes even guardianship abuse. Reader discretion is advised. Also, this is a sort of tributary note to Raymond Khan, a young man I knew from way back in 2006, both of us were jailed, sort of, in rehab. LaAmistad should be…