Thank you so much! :) Just got some, really appreciate this!

finally found an adult orthopaedic team for cerebral palsy (basically unheard of, so I was very lucky!) and will be having an operation ASAP, but the recovery will complicate ME/fibromyalgia symptoms. 2025 so far has made me reflect a lot on disability + society which I’m hoping to speak about.

hopefully will be around more soon :) excited to be able to spend much more of my time engaging in the things i care about!

I know this has been done before, and is by no means a new topic, but I think using real life situations and examples is really important. Also listening to ND people with higher support needs who are expressing their struggles and actively including them in this is necessary right now.

I think this may be one of the reasons why some ND people disagree with the neurodiversity paradigm; under current systems it’s hard for some to see literally *how* distress & disablement can be listened to and addressed without the pathology paradigm & deficit models. I’m trying to write this up :)

I think something that can hold me back in academic spaces is my struggle to fully understand conceptual theories without literal examples. I’m also still learning a lot of new stuff and I struggle to fill in the blanks. I need processing time still!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/all-the-ra....

also attending the Too Mad to be True conference in a couple weeks as my partner (philosophy PhD candidate) was also really interested! Feels like a nice way to have a break, do something interesting and take a break from job applications/stress lol

today's company whilst reading in bed (first CFS flair up for a while... eep)

currently writing a fairly informal proposal & doing the reading for it; it's taking its time as im trying to balance health, work, and other academic interests (marxist feminism, queer & crip theory!)

im a self-identified autistic (mwaha) w/ cerebral palsy + CFS. hoping to have autism dx this year