Diary of a Goldfish

An A&E nurse friend described with despair the sharp increase in elderly people being admitted to the Casualty Ward around the third wee...

I haven't finished with the Disability Hierarchy , but this came up. In this post I'm going to show you a distressing image and dis...

By far the most popular international symbol for disability is a wheelchair user. Proper disabled people are wheelchair-users. When anyone...

My cousin had a friend who was entering into his second heterosexual marriage. His first wife had died suddenly when they were both very yo...

Seldom went such grotesqueness with such woe; I never saw a brute I hated so; He must be wicked to deserve such pain. - Robert Browning, Chi...

People with congenital impairments occupy a strange space in the disability hierarchy. On the one hand, people born with physical impairmen...

I've touched on the disability hierarchy many times before, but there have been so many things lately that have got me thinking about th...