Learning disability branch editor, Rebecca, was shocked to find that individuals close to her were unaware that a disability does not change a person's desire and right to be in a relationship
A Middlesbrough care home has been placed in special measures over concerns its residents had suffered from neglect.
A national charity has called for more training for cab drivers after a Leicester taxi driver refused to pick up a blind couple with a guide dog.
As three of the disabled people and the parent of a fourth who in 2013 and 2014 brought legal challenges to the decisions by Conservative ministers to close the UK-wide Independent Living Fund, we are concerned by the developments in the Labour Party over the weekend and the threat to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.
What has happened to this country? What is going on? We really do seem to be becoming a nation full of some very nasty people and I don't like it. All I am seeing at the moment is story after story, report after report, news item after news item, on social and in mainstream media, of racist and xenophobic attacks and mind-boggling hatred towards our fellow man and woman. It's horrible. Even though it's now been a week since the Referendum, since we voted to leave the European Union, it's going on and on and on. The hatred and racism is not abating in any way that I can see, if anything, it's getting worse. According to newspapers and the news bulletins I've seen, read and heard just today, racist hate-crime has increased fivefold in the last week. A truly terrifying statistic and not a Britain I want any part of. People are being abused just because of where they were born, because of the colour of their skin and it has to stop.
An EDSer friend shared this with me, and in honor of EDS Awareness Month I wanted to pass it along. The original author is unknown, but it is a perfect way to describe our lives to those without EDS. Perhaps, you might want to send it to some of your friends and family, as well. I know in my circle, I have a few people that I think really should read it. I don't know if they will, but it is worth a shot. Good luck friends, zebras, spoonies - we are just just part of one big family on Mother Earth, one big family with really messed up collagen. ;)
