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Parking with Parkinson’s: When I Was Confronted for Using a Disability Parking Permit

The other day, I was sitting in the passenger seat of our car, which was parked in a disability parking spot. My permit placard was displayed as required near ...

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Stop Excluding Disability from Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives

It is exciting that businesses are embracing the ever-growing conversations about Diversity and Inclusion. However, one of the largest marginalized groups of ...

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Telling My Friends About My Depression Saved My Life

Ask anyone living with a mental illness and they will agree with you on this: Talking about your illness isn’t easy. And if you live with major depressive ...

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Parenting with Chronic Fatigue: 11 Ways to Support Your Kids (and Yourself)

Parenting can be a rollercoaster of emotions and leave you worn out. Add a chronic illness to that, and you can find yourself one very stressed and exhausted ...

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4 Nonvisual Shopping Tips for Blind and Low Vision People

If you're a blind person or have low vision, these nonvisual shopping tips can make finding holiday gifts or daily essentials easier. It’s that time of year ...

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How to Create Realistic Media Portrayals of People with Bipolar Disorder

Often conflated with dissociative identity disorder, bipolar disorder (BD), or manic depression, is one of the most widely misunderstood and wrongly portrayed ...

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4 Tips That Help Me Cope with Shoulder Limitations

I have been thinking lately about how far I have come in six years of living with shoulder limitations.  Six years ago, I had just stepped down from the ...

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15 Shops Making Glamorous & Stylish Medical Aids

Bored with beige? Seeking fashionable stoma covers, catheter covers, tube tape, and crutch pads? These stylish medical aids can help you manage your health ...

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7 Ways You Can Support Someone Who Has Schizoaffective Disorder

Do you have a friend or family member with a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder? To begin, I want to explain what schizoaffective disorder is. ...

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The Struggle to Balance Work and Managing My Chronic Disease

Sometimes I wake up and it hurts. Sometimes it’s OK. Sometimes, it’s OK for a very long time but then, the pain comes back full force. Sometimes, I wake up ...

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