Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜
@adamfare1996
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Trying to muddle my way through life. Equity, Bowel Disease, EDS, Stomas, AuDHD, Disability, Mental illness, and Eating Disorders. Ace 🖤🤍💜 (He/Him)
North West, England
Joined March 2013
There are several reasons I can’t work, I’m going to list some of them here… not for justification, but for awareness of what it’s really like to have multiple co-occurring conditions… 1/🧵.
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Not everyone is suitable for every job. You can’t just say “Put unemployed people in care homes” as they might not be the right type of person to actually care for others. It would be a huge safeguarding and wellbeing risk to both the worker and those they’re meant to care for.
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But remember… it’s the bank accounts of disabled people which need to be spied on….
HMRC 'doesn't know' how many billionaires pay tax in the UK . Read more 👉
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Also meant I was out on medication I should never have been on, which damaged my connective tissue to the extent where my bowel condition and mobility went from “just about manageable” to “I can’t walk and can no longer work” overnight.
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Spending years being told it’s all in my head… my parents taking me all over the country to no avail. My prolapses having to be self-diagnosed. My stoma operation having to be paid for out of my savings. People telling me it was all just an eating disorder. So many years lost.
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Whenever speaking to a clinician who understands hEDS, they’re amazed it wasn’t picked up sooner. For a young man to have one bowel prolapse is rare… two is almost unheard of. Yet it’s taken another 8 years to get to hEDS being considered… only because I considered it.
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Her dad is exploiting her, and allowing/enabling disgusting grifters to do the same. These are the real dangers to children.
A GoFundMe for a 12-year-old girl, who was unable to 'celebrate her British identity at school' while wearing a Union Jack dress, has been set up by a convicted fraudster from Wales 👇
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The only "gender critical" people I have ever met in real life have all been men. And they have only ever talked about trans women. Usually based on misogynistic ideas of "femininity".
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This is the thing really, we are realistic, we don’t expect miracles, I don’t expect things to get so much better that I’d be able to work again. But a small improvement in managing one side of things can be hugely beneficial. And a clinician who LISTENS is what we need.
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… he just wants to work with me to see if we can tweak things and manage symptoms in the best way possible to improve quality of life. It’s clear my bowels are never going to get better, and there’s nothing we can do about that… but even a 1% improvement would be something.
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Just had my first appointment with a new gastroenterologist, and he has actually worked with people with EDS before…!! And he has specialties in that and working with neurodivergent people… super positive as he doesn’t try to “cure” when it’s not possible….
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Reasonable adjustments aren't about giving disabled people and "advantage". They're about trying to reduce the disadvantages and barriers that disabled people face. Ableds often don't like it because to them, equity feels like oppression.
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People with mental illnesses are a far bigger danger to themselves than they are to anyone else. And no, people who say or do horrible things shouldn't automatically be labelled as mentally ill. That just adds to the stigma.
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"Make work pay" should mean raising wages. Not cutting benefits. It should mean forcing employers to be inclusive and pay fair wages. But it should also recognise that those who can't work, still "work" just to survive. And that unpaid carers do so much and deserve more.
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If someone is unable to work, no amount of "job matching" will change that. And it still doesn't guarantee an employer will hire them. And the "space and time" comment is ridiculous when the "insurance" would be time-limited.
DWP Permanent Secretary answers whether "Unemployment Insurance" claimant would be forced, via threat of sanctions, to accept any job rather than one suited to their skill set. Apparently work coaches do try to allow space & time to accommodate for appropriate job matching 👇
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“We know what a woman is”. “LARGE GAMETES”. Way to reduce people to their body parts… real “feminist” of you. These are the same ones who hate women being referred to as “people”… because they are misogynists who dehumanise.
Labour are probably correct that trans women can't be on women only shortlists & probably wrong that they can't be women's officers because being a woman's officer isn't a positive action measure & conveys no advantage. Their position IMO goes beyond what the SC ruling requires.
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So much harm is rooted in ableism. Certain people believing they’re “superior” to others.
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The definition of disability (per the UN and Equality Act) is not about a diagnosis. It is about how a condition (diagnosed or not) affects someone’s life. The actual name or existence of a diagnosis for the condition is not relevant.
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She is 100% right. Cutting disability benefits kills disabled people… both directly and indirectly.
Suspended Labour MP @RachaelMaskell tells Sky's @JonCraig why she rebelled against the government over its welfare reforms. She says there was "strong" evidence that the changes could lead to some disabled people taking their own lives.
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This is the reality of disability that people don’t see. This is the stuff we have to do just to “function”. Yet we then put a smile on for others and they think we’re “fine”.
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Spending several hours each day rolling around on the floor, massaging, trying to get my bowels to move… really does get monotonous and degrading…. Something that you really don’t want to do, hate doing, and that is super draining… but have no choice….
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