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Campaign starts TODAY: #AllowAACinTherapy. It's aimed at doctors, psychologists and other clinical professionals, and at the institutions that empower them to disempower disabled people. I have seriously had enough of this nonsense from them.
Doctors do this regularly to one of my friends who is mostly nonspeaking.
A psychologist did it to me when I at a time that I lost speech frequently.
Professionals should #AllowAACinTherapy. #CommunicationFIRST, not 'speech first'. They must stop violating the #CRPD.
A psychologist did it to me when I at a time that I lost speech frequently.
Professionals should #AllowAACinTherapy. #CommunicationFIRST, not 'speech first'. They must stop violating the #CRPD.
People with communication disabilities should not be expected to make appointments using a telephone. You should not have to register as a Deaf person to be allowed to use AAC.
#AllowAACinTherapy
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#AllowAACinTherapy
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Meeting materials have been posted online for Oregon’s OHA’s opioid taper taskforce. Please take a look. If you want to send comment deadline is the 19th! oregon.gov/oha/PH/PREVENT… 
My name is Lelena.
I am a #ChronicPain patient.
I am required to pee in a cup monthly to show #compliance to my #LowDose #opioid regimen.
I am painted as despicable, helpless, & #unclean by the powers that be.
I am a modern-day #Leper.
#EndStigma #PainLeper
I am a #ChronicPain patient.
I am required to pee in a cup monthly to show #compliance to my #LowDose #opioid regimen.
I am painted as despicable, helpless, & #unclean by the powers that be.
I am a modern-day #Leper.
#EndStigma #PainLeper
Newsflash, America:
I'm not JUST a #ChronicPain patient.
I am not helpless.
I am not #unclean.
I am not #despicable.
I don't just use #pills to overcome my #SeverePain.
I refuse all #stigma, misconceptions, assumptions, and #labels.
I am an #Overcomer.
I'm not JUST a #ChronicPain patient.
I am not helpless.
I am not #unclean.
I am not #despicable.
I don't just use #pills to overcome my #SeverePain.
I refuse all #stigma, misconceptions, assumptions, and #labels.
I am an #Overcomer.
I will be criticized for calling myself a #ChronicPain patient.
People will say: she wallows in illness. She enjoys it! She IDENTIFIES with her pain.
Wrong. It is part of my reality. I must face it & battle it daily.
And I do. Despite all the negativity I face from others.
People will say: she wallows in illness. She enjoys it! She IDENTIFIES with her pain.
Wrong. It is part of my reality. I must face it & battle it daily.
And I do. Despite all the negativity I face from others.
