someone commented on my video yesterday to tell me a brand told them that they don’t use disabled models because disability distracts from their products,
another made me aware that a brand told them that disability didn’t ‘fit their aesthetics’

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Ig @ luuudaw I remembered being told that booking disabled models would be ‘too risky’.

There have definitely been increases in the use of disabled people in the media over the years,

The London coffee festival hashtag on tiktok looks pretty :) vm.tiktok.com/ZMRW9myV2/

Linking my vids for anyone who wants a spoken version of the story - captions should be auto generated. X

Hi buds. London coffee festival messaged me apologising on Instagram I’ll text back in 3 days I think I’m tired atm lol no offence and only a bit bitter and all that but feeling the damage is done currently. Always room for progress and time for improvement but I am a bit drained with it now

Cropped the name cos it was very quickly deleted but. My parents ‘ALLOWED’ me to be sectioned for 3 months because neither one of them is a doctor. And they trusted what the doctors told them, why wouldn’t they? Isn’t that a doctors job? Don’t ever question my family’s actions. My parents drove an hour every day to visit me and stayed in that psychiatric ward waiting room in despair for days in a row when I refused to see them and didn’t know who they were. They watched me dying in front of their eyes completely helpless. My parents did nothing wrong

Ok talk time. I went to London coffee festival today. The brochure said ‘all levels are wheelchair accessible’. I was sent up stairs to enter (I have a paralysed lower leg and use mobility aids - I can just about manage stairs). Once inside I was in pain and needed to use a lift - I couldn’t manage any more stairs. I am DISABLED and require accessibility. I asked 4 different people where the lift was. All of them passed me on to the next person. The final security guard laughed at me, pointed to the stairs and said

Today is the most important day of my year, #WorldEncephalitisDay 2021. #Red4WED
Encephalitis is the rare brain disease I had age 20, which was misdiagnosed as being a mental breakdown, left to worsen for 3 months in a psychiatric ward and ultimately led to me becoming (1/9) permanently disabled, both visibly and invisibly.

It may be hard to imagine if you are a newer follower that there was a time just a few years ago that I couldn’t walk, talk, read or write – and by just looking at my pictures on Instagram, you’d probably have no idea that(2/9)

lol someone just replied to the pic of my burn scar on my bum with this and I oopidoopidooooo. Why do some men? Hey by the way. Scars aren’t ugly at all. They just aren’t. And also, if you think my scar is ugly then I am so sorry for having a brain disease and a big seizure and burning my bum on a radiator pipe I WAS CATATONIC SORRY silly ME