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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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Oh, Yeah, I Forgot to Tell You...

DE @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...

ophthalmologist

vision testing

disability

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Welcome back to me

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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I do not know if this would work for you

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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Phone calls done for the day

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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Working or Retired or Something in Between?

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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Look Mum! No hands!

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...

mouth and foot painters

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Pet or emotional support animal?

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,...

pet

emotional support animal

disability

travel

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Love, People, Transcending Borders

Kandase @Kandae11 (57233) 3 Mar 22

This Russian, Ukraine conflict has certainly brought out quite forcefully the bad side of people ,and the very good side. I was reading an AP report concerning 200 Ukrainian orphans.- most of them children with serious mental...

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She Had No Idea

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...

she had no idea

disability

friends

neuromuscular disorder

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How should our society treat a person with disabilities?

Asmit kumar pandey @ASMIT95 (122) 26 Jul 21

People in our society are becoming more educated than ever but still their thinking about a person with disabilities is still ill... What should be the proper way to treat a person with such a difficult problem.... Your time...

person

disability

treat

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Cerebral Palsy accessories

AmyahRealChillGang @Mayabee21 (326) 10 Apr 21

I personally like to use Assitivetouch for an easy access to the screenshot button, volume and the home button. I want to know what kind of headphones you use for being independent and easy to put headphones on yourself . I use...

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Back when I had some good Abalone

Nate @NateB11 (816) • United States 3 Apr 21

A long time ago I used to take care of a guy in a wheelchair; his Dad had a nice place in the woods along the coast and we'd go out there every summer and have fun; it had a deck and a gas barbecue and a nice big yard where we'd...

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Artist above all.

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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Done with that...

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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~This is Abilty!~

Sam Ech @Sambriel (2251) 11 Sep 20

Hello everyone! How are y'all doing this morning ,afternoon or evening whatever your time zone . Thank God it's Friday !! Yeyy!!! "Sammy dear,you know i have got no hands to hold, when i eventually...

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But You Don’t Look Disabled

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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Poem of the Day: You See Me, But Do You Really

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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I want to be... Just me. A poem wrote by me years ago for children

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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Special shopping hours in Perth, Western Australia, for those with disability and pension cards

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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