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Topic:random  Nigel  October 6th,2011What did I do to deserve this? It’s not fair! Why was I born with so many problems? It’s not fair! Why wasn’t I born better looking,healthier,stronger? It’s not fair! Life hurts. I’m too old/young. I was born at the wrong time for a person like me. I don’t know the right people. [...]       Topic:writing and publishing Nigel September 20th,2011Adam has cerebral palsy and Nigel has chronic depression,so we’re both disabled. But apart from that similarity: Adam is 26 and Nigel is coming up 62. Adam has a degree in politics,but Nigel’s is in Maths (and Adam hated Maths). Adam is Jewish (kind of) and Nigel is Christian. Adam works for a [...] Topic:wet super computer Nigel July 6th,2011A week ago I visited a place called Spacious Places in Leeds (UK) to chat with Graham Fell who is one of the leaders. They take people who genuinely want to break some form of addiction that is destroying them,typically a drug (often Heroin,Cocaine,or Alcohol) but sometimes less obvious addictions such as [...] Topic:random Nigel January 10th,2011The Doctor has typed it into her computer as post-viral fatigue,partly so that if any fresh symptom appears and I see some other Doctor they won’t just pass it off as ME-related. Maybe it has been ME,which stands for Myalgic Encephalopathy,and is also called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. There’s more information on this [...] Topic:wet super computer Nigel September 30th,2009Labelling someone can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. We need to understand traditional disabilities much more flexibly. [...] Topic:wet super computer Nigel September 28th,2009Does it make sense to describe stuff like Asperger’s Syndrome as a problem that cannot be cured? [...] | |||||
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