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I wondered if I “should” keep sharing experiences like this. “It’s in the past!” … “It’s no longer an issue for you!” … that’s what I fear people would say. Two things made me decide to keep posting: Firstly, if it has happened to me it has happened to someone else. Lots of the memories I share are stories of when my very very easy to accomodate needs were dismissed as optional and not necessary. This is an approach to disability, neurodivergence, and chronic illness that exists broadly in many workplaces and harms those who can and want to work. Secondly, I feel very hurt from a distance by what I see going on in the UK right now. (I’m a dual citizen who has lived and worked in both UK and Australia.) The UK government are introducing policies of threatening to remove peoples access to medication if they don’t have a job. In short, they are threatening to kill disabled people – if people don’t die of lack of medication then people will damage their health by working excessive and/or inappropriate jobs. Not everyone can work and your worth is not your work – people do not deserve to die because they cannot work. The government there is pretending it’s easy to get a work from home job. If you followed me in early to mid 2023 you KNOW that “it’s easy to get a work from home job” is a lie. And that is why I am going to keep sharing. People learn from experience. People learn from examples. I can share my experience and examples (my lived experience) and contribute in my own small way to changing minds. #DisabilityRights #DisabilityInclusion #WorkplaceAccomodations #DEI #DEIStrategy #DEILeaders #DEITraining #Neurodivergence #ChronicIllness