disability
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LindaOH
@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
14 May
I'm interested in knowing who is still working and who has retired or maybe you never worked. If you're still working, in what field are you working? What has been your career path? If you retired, when did you retire? Was it...
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
1 Mar
... about our last appointment with the ophthalmologist. I kept telling Pretty that he just wanted to do surgery on my eyelids but she kept telling me I was wrong and he wanted what was best for me.
At this...
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clrumfelt
@clrumfelt (5597)
• Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee
26 Jan
I've missed all my MyLot buds for many months now. I had total knee replacement on my right knee last August, and the past few months have been all about pain management and becoming able to do things for myself again. I am nearly...
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Heather Echola
@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
26 Sep
My little kiddo that I am working with this year is on Facebook. I do not see that the profile is private. I did follow it. There are almost four hundred followers. Not bad for our little community.
It has been so helpful for me...
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Stacey
@xstitcher (38999)
• Petaluma, California
20 Oct 23
At least business ones. I called one place, who transferred me to another place, and when I was done with them transferred me back to the first place. I couldn't get the conversation with the last person completed, so they are...
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LindaOH
@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
29 Sep 23
I lost my job as an Accounting Office Manager on Christmas Eve 2009. The company I had worked for for 15 years went bankrupt so that they could be bought out by another company. There I was, 61 years old, with no job prospects....
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381741)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 May 23
For quite some years, a pack of cards would arrive unsolicited from the Mouth and Foot Painting Artists association. They have got our address from somewhere and around Christmas, there would be a pack of cards in the mail. I...
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Fleur
@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
23 Sep 22
It has long been known that taking care of an animal can be a great way to improve your mental health. Having an animal that depends on you and loves you unconditionally gives a person a reason to get out of bed in the morning,...
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Michelle Renee Kidwell
@Michellekidwell (29953)
• Sonora, California
30 Jan 22
I don't make my disability a secret, but it's not something I bring up in everyday conversation either, because I don't want to dwell on the things that slow down, but when I was talking to.my friend Rosis, I came to the...
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DINNERLADY
@lazydaizee (6732)
• United Kingdom
18 Feb 21
When I brought this book from a charity shop I thought it was just another art book. However I was in for a surprise when I looked at it properly because it features the work of some very special people.
These people are all...
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Stacey
@xstitcher (38999)
• Petaluma, California
3 Feb 21
I finally got through to the lady they call the "Patient Navigator" at the Health center, and she helped me fill out the online form for temporary disability that my docror wanted me to go on.
I gave the "navigator" the receipt...
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Michelle Renee Kidwell
@Michellekidwell (29953)
• Sonora, California
10 Jun 20
But you don’t look disabled...
Probably one of the most annoying things I’ve heard.
Am I supposed to wear a sign, stating I have a disability!
Sorry that’s not the way the world works lol.
You can’t exactly see muscles...
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Michelle Renee Kidwell
@Michellekidwell (29953)
• Sonora, California
8 Jun 20
I’m disabled
So I know what it’s like to be looked at like
I’m less or not at all
You see me
But do you really?
I’m blind
I’m deaf
I’m mute.
I’m in a wheelchair
I’m an amputee
I’m one of many
Looked at far
To often
With little...
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Eve Fasham
@eveeexpress (87)
• United Kingdom
7 May 20
Why should I be, anyone else
Just because people say?
Why should I change to a person I'm not?
I'm still me at the end of the day
Grown-ups will ask me, what do I want
to be when I grow up like them.
What job will I do? Will I be...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381741)
• Rockingham, Australia
15 Mar 20
The photo has nothing to do with the discussion but was taken at a horse breed show we attended recently.
I don’t know if any country other than Australia has IGA supermarkets. The individual stores are independently owned but...
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