More than invalidation, people with sensitivities are being caused moral injury...for witnessing what's happening to self and others, and for witnessing the criminal negligence that allows preventable harm to be caused to clients by service providers in various sectors.

Scent free policies in Canada are protected by human rights law...

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Bernardino Ramazzini (1633–1714) was the first physician to document idiosyncratic reactions to exposures. Called the father of occupational medicine, Ramazzini systematized environmental susceptibility by noting how individuals reacted differently to workplace exposures, dust and chemicals.

Here's some of the observations of a 1985 Ontario study. open.substack.com/pub/humanrig...

Why do people who claim to want to help us pretend they are alone? Sometimes it seems they do more to isolate us than does any opposition.

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Medicalization of disability is always a mistake. MCS advocates need to understand this and learn from the cross disability movement, or from other marginalized groups who have had to assert the legitimacy of their own experience while being subjected to a reverse onus.

I've started a Substack journal about human rights and persons with sensitivities, including allergies. It will focus on the abuse of people whose psychosocial problems are caused or exacerbated by psych sequelae of sensitivities. Here's my first entry:

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I agree. The process is cumbersome and the Commissions subject us to a reverse onus by medicalizing our human rights. Regulatory bodies and relevant federal and provincial ministries have been approached repeatedly for four decades, repeatedly take on the issue and then abandon it.

Human rights legislation should ensure such accommodation, but providers are ignoring their responsibilities under federal and provincial laws. Ontario and federal human rights commissions turn a blind eye.

Poor people put any money we have back into the economy. Overall, much better for businesses than rich people.