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