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Disabled. Living with severe M.E. Watching the world from the window while bedbound. Excuse typos etc, sometimes the cognitive bits don’t work. Also posting on endometriosis and a little on mental illness too 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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lifeatthewindow.bsky.social @lifeatthewindow.bsky.social · Nov 23

Living on your own with severe M.E. is really scary a lot of the time. Just lying there, staring at the wall wondering if you’ll gather just enough ability to make the simple cup of tea you’re desperate for, or eat. The sheer lack of capacity is unrelentingly shocking to me.
#pwME #MECFS

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lifeatthewindow.bsky.social @lifeatthewindow.bsky.social · May 18

I hope the peak summer difficulties calm the heck down for you 🫂 It’s a very early, climate change summer in Scotland already! I’ve been missing your poetry posts here btw.

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lifeatthewindow.bsky.social @lifeatthewindow.bsky.social · May 15

Hey 🥰 thank you! I’ve just been overwhelmed on this platform. Struggling to take care of my mental wellbeing here. Missing folk here though ❤️ How are you?

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lifeatthewindow.bsky.social @lifeatthewindow.bsky.social · May 4

I’m so glad you’re in Scotland too. Really crossing fingers so much that Scotland thinks beyond the media and algorithms and doesn’t elect Farage’s lot. I’m hearing so much casual racism, and that’s as a bedbound, housebound person. Scares me so much.

lifeatthewindow.bsky.social @lifeatthewindow.bsky.social · May 4

I get all of this. I’m a former journalist and I’d never go back to it even if I had a choice. But I just can’t excuse people. They’re making an ‘easy choice’ and they’re very likely doing it because anti migrant, anti SEND, transphobic rhetoric suits them.

lifeatthewindow.bsky.social @lifeatthewindow.bsky.social · May 4

I agree totally with your main point. But why didn’t everyone then go vote for Greens or Lib Dem’s or independents, I wonder, rather than the hateful Reform party? They had other options.

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lifeatthewindow.bsky.social @lifeatthewindow.bsky.social · May 4

The rise of fascism in the UK isn’t a surprise. It’s because people actually like racist, homphobic, transphobic, eugenic policies.

#Fascism

lifeatthewindow.bsky.social @lifeatthewindow.bsky.social · May 4

I don’t think we’re sleepwalking. I think lots of people have their racist eyes wide open and are happily choosing it, sadly.

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lifeatthewindow.bsky.social @lifeatthewindow.bsky.social · May 4

I don’t think we’re sleepwalking. I think lots of people have their racist eyes wide open and are happily choosing it, sadly.

lifeatthewindow.bsky.social @lifeatthewindow.bsky.social · Apr 28

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lifeatthewindow.bsky.social @lifeatthewindow.bsky.social · Apr 28

I hear you, I want off it too. This is a horrific time for the human race. Hey, at least we all got each other to commiserate with!

lifeatthewindow.bsky.social @lifeatthewindow.bsky.social · Apr 27

You know I agree with you…100 per cent!

lifeatthewindow.bsky.social @lifeatthewindow.bsky.social · Apr 27

Correcting myself to say ‘young autistic people’. Apologies. Rough day and major brain fog.

lifeatthewindow.bsky.social @lifeatthewindow.bsky.social · Apr 27

I was a news producer, so was in constant contact with the graphics dept. We could have been colleagues in another life ☺️

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lifeatthewindow.bsky.social @lifeatthewindow.bsky.social · Apr 27

Absolutely heinous!

Funny how they can magically find autism testing services when for years young people with autism have been parked on waiting lists, desperate for help.

I’m gonna actually throw up with indignation.

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Apr 27

FUCK OFF YOU ARSEHOLES.
There is only so much professionalism, particular as a non-binary, autistic, individual, I can muster at the moment. Stop treating us as if we are "broken" as if we are "wrong". How hard is it to accept us as us? I want to cry at the way we are talked about.

NHS to test all 'trans' children for autism

Every child referred to a gender clinic will be screened under new guidance following Cass Review

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The NHS will test all children who believe they are transgender for autism under new plans seen by The Telegraph.

Every child referred to a gender clinic will be "screened for neurodevelopmental conditions" such as autism and ADHD under new guidance, to be introduced in the wake of the Cass review.

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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · Apr 26

A digital graphic with a light blue background and bold white text. The title reads: “It’s not about illness. It’s about prejudice.” Below, the text explains that bowel cancer rates are soaring in young people due to changes in the environment, but no one accuses them of being suggestible, faking, or attention-seeking. In contrast, when it’s autism, ADHD, or mental health struggles, old slurs return. The graphic concludes that it was never about “too much illness,” but about who society chooses to care for — and who it still chooses to blame. The quote is signed “Dr Jay Watts” with the hashtag “#WelfareNotWarfare.

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · Apr 25

The term “skilled labor” is weaponized by the ruling class to divide the working class and separate people into a category where poverty wages are justified.

The idea that someone who works shouldn’t make a living wage because they’re “unskilled” is ridiculous,

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lifeatthewindow.bsky.social @lifeatthewindow.bsky.social · Apr 25

It looks ace! I love the colour too. Last week, I had my pre-homebound hairdresser kindly come around and give me a buzz cut! I bloody love it! I feel so good and so myself. I didn’t expect to be quite so happy with it.

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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · Apr 25

The right to social security is outlined in Article 9 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), ratified by the UK in 1976.

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lifeatthewindow.bsky.social @lifeatthewindow.bsky.social · Apr 25

Chaotic. From one day to the next I’m not sure how it’ll go.

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Melissa @mcochrane13.bsky.social · Apr 25

Currently the Labour government are getting away with whatever they want by using the chaos of the US to hide behind. They know that people are distracted - the best time to push through bills and policy.

Thank you for writing about this bill giving it the coverage it needs.

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lifeatthewindow.bsky.social @lifeatthewindow.bsky.social · Apr 25

JFC. Labour might as well take a goddamn torch to everything that was good or better before they got into power.

They’re burning us all, and our environment, down, in favour of a gilded ‘growth’. Growth that really equals ruin.

I feel sick, sick, sick and devastated.

#LabourDisaster

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Apr 25

1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot

The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · Apr 25

New “The process feels like you are on trial for murder, they act like they are trying to catch you out and that you are begging". Excellent and much needed Amnesty report on the welfare system which pushes so many into barely liveable lives. tinyurl.com/4w9rfaar

DWP claimants give verdict on welfare system - 'You're not treated as human'

Amnesty International's new research, which involves interviews with hundreds of people on benefits, claims the current welfare system is 'consciously cruel' and ruining lives

tinyurl.com

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lifeatthewindow.bsky.social @lifeatthewindow.bsky.social · Apr 25

I worked in TV too! 🙌🏼

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lifeatthewindow.bsky.social @lifeatthewindow.bsky.social · Apr 23

I know, right?! I’m sure if I legally challenged the policy, I’d get somewhere. But it’d take years, and as if folk in our position have the energy or resource to do this. It truly is wrong.

lifeatthewindow.bsky.social @lifeatthewindow.bsky.social · Apr 23

The best new housing options for my move have been scrapped as a possibility as I’m under 55.

Because I’m younger and disabled there is no, zero, zilch fully accessible housing open to me.

They tried to put me up a high rise 🤯

I’m worried.

#pwME #MECFS #DisabilityHousing #Accessibility

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lifeatthewindow.bsky.social @lifeatthewindow.bsky.social · Apr 23

It’s totally unjust ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹🫂