My experiences with therapies
I’ve experienced loads of different types of therapies throughout my life and as I’ve grown up, the types of therapies I’ve found useful...
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Superhuman ?
As you probably know, the Paralympics are coming up soon which is really exciting. I’ve always really enjoyed watching the Paralympics...
Disabled and proud?
July 1st marks the beginning of disability pride month. Being fairly new to the disability scene on social media until about two days ago...
A letter to my younger self
I am Melissa, I’m 15 and I have a very, very important message for you. I’m aware you’re just turning 4 years old and I know pretty soon...
Stigmas & Assumptions surrounding disability
I’ve always found it funny that every disability has it’s own set of stigmas, that the able bodied people of the world are so terrified...
The amazing life of Edith Cooper
In celebration of Pride month, I wanted to write about an important figure of disability history who was also LGBT. Edith Cooper was a...
5 ways that the world could be more accessible
Restaurants including metal straws as cutlery It sounds so simple, including metal straws in their usual cutlery drawers but this would...
Duke of Edinburgh: Initial thoughts
Welcome to a new series I’m starting on my blog. Recently I’ve signed up to do the Duke of Edinburgh and I think it would be interesting...
Accessibility Standards must change
This week has been difficult for me, for many reasons and I’d been struggling to put my finger on what keeps causing all these...
The medical model VS The social model of disability
The concept of the social and medical model of disability is one I’m fairly new to. I’ve recently been trying to challenge my own...
Did lockdown improve my education?
The title of this post might confuse a lot of people. Surely lockdown has made education a lot harder for the majority of people, however...
Accessibility in education
Today’s post is a little bit different from usual. I had written a completely different one and scheduled it to come out this morning but...
Disability representation in the BAFTAs
As many of you will have seen, the BAFTAs was on this week. Now I’m no film connoisseur but I enjoyed seeing what up coming films had...
Internalised ableism
Internalised ableism, this is an issue faced by many disabled people and something that most able bodied people wouldn’t be aware of....
Being an ambulatory wheelchair user
Tis week’s topic is one that I feel is important for both disabled people and able bodied people to learn about. I’m going to write about...
How the war changed perception of disability
The part of disability history I’m going to focus on today is pretty heavy, so I will do my best to keep this post as light as I can and...
What to look for in an assistant
Today I’m going to write about a topic I feel that I’ve had a lot of experience in, which is having PAs. Throughout my life I’ve had more...
“Special”
Depending on who you are, the word special will mean different things to you. Maybe it means a special day that’s particularly joyful or...
Why able bodied people are (sometimes) useless
Today I want to write about more of a light hearted topic which is why I’m going to write about why able bodied people are useless. Don’t...
The Crippled Suffragette
Welcome to the new segment of my blog where I will be shingling a light on inspirational disabled people throughout history and talking...
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