Still trying to enjoy the world despite being one of the many JAWs (just about walkings) in a world they're making more difficult for us. #pwME
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Just another JAWS retweeted
29 Jul 2025
“I wish I can finally forgive myself for all the things I am not.”
I don’t think people talk enough about the grief of becoming someone you never planned to be...especially when that shift comes through illness.
I never imagined I’d be this body. This bed. This version of me that can’t always show up, chase dreams, or even stand... I grieve the girl I was meant to be. The one who travelled light, who said yes to everything. And I carry shame...deep, strange shame for not becoming her.
Maybe the real bravery isn’t in fighting to be who you were. Maybe it’s in gently, fiercely learning to forgive yourself for the things you’re not… and learning to honour the quiet, aching beauty of who you are.
For anyone carrying the weight of an un-lived life:
You’re still here
You’re still worthy.
Even when you’re not everything you imagined...and especially then. 🖤
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Just another JAWS retweeted
14 Aug 2025
UNIVERSAL CREDIT MISINFORMATION -
We’re all being switched from legacy benefits to UC, hence the higher numbers.
The rise in pension age also means those on UC will remain there for longer.
Bare minimum research might help you come across as less of a corrupt clown show! 👍🏻
12 Aug 2025
🚨NEW: The number of people on Universal Credit welfare payments has risen to 8 million people, the highest level on record, data released today reveals
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Just another JAWS retweeted
21 Aug 2025
For every retweet of this post, I will donate £1 to the @VC_and_GC_Assoc up to £50,000.
Time is running out following @I_W_M’s decision to close the Lord Ashcroft Gallery.
Visit while you still can, to honour the bravery of those who risked so much to protect our great nation.
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Just another JAWS retweeted
7 May 2025
ME/CFS is not rare. It’s ignored.
Every May, we raise our voices for the millions who can’t.
From 2020 to 2025, nothing has changed fast enough.
We’re still here. Still missing. Still fighting.
#MillionsMissing #MECFS #InvisibleIllness #MEAwarenessMonth
Repost it for awareness !!
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Just another JAWS retweeted
12 May 2025
12th May is International ME Awareness Day. On this day, we support the millions affected by ME & other chronic diseases including Fibromyalgia, Gulf War Syndrome, & Multiple Chemical Sensitivity tinyurl.com/3wcnnzdx
#MECFS #MEAwareness #FibromyalgiaAwareness #IMEAD2025
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Just another JAWS retweeted
25 Jan 2025
Absolutely sickened by @RachelReevesMP comments that it's 'perverse' for disabled people to be able to claim more welfare benefits than non-disabled people 'looking for work'. Disgusted by her abhorrent towards the most vulnerable. Stop inciting hate Rachel. Just stop.
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Just another JAWS retweeted
11 Jan 2025
NO CUTS TO DISABILITY BENEFITS
NO MORE AUSTERITY
NO MORE BENEFIT RELATED DEATHS 💀
NO MORE POVERTY
@RachelReevesMP @Keir_Starmer @UKLabour
This is what will happen if you cut benefits for disabled people
Increase it or leave it alone!!!
#disabledpeopledemand
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Just another JAWS retweeted
11 Jan 2025
Message to Labour: if you take away people’s disability benefits they will not be able to work but they will still be disabled.
Starmer’s government has had a compassion by-pass.
#TaxWealth fix Britain.
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Just another JAWS retweeted
11 Jan 2025
First, Labour went after children by refusing to lift the Tories’ 2-child benefit cap
Then, Labour went after pensioners by revoking their Winter Fuel Payments
Now, Labour is coming for sick and disabled people
This is the changed Labour Party that Sir Keir Starmer is proud of
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Just another JAWS retweeted
23 Jul 2024
40 million callers 2023/24 to @DWP collectively left on hold for 753 years, report from @ONS says. Six million of these calls were abandoned.
Also: only 52% of PIP claims processed within the target of 75 working days.
news.sky.com/story/callers-t…
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Just another JAWS retweeted
12 May 2024
Today millions of us are missing. We need funding for tests and research now. Here is a prime example youtu.be/yLRateIQdzc?si=wyC-…
#MECFS & #LongCovid stops us working.
#pwME #dontforgetME #Meawarenessday #ME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis
#MECFSawareness
@BBC @BBCNews @BBCNewsnight
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Just another JAWS retweeted
12 May 2024
Millions of us are missing. You won’t see most of us. You won’t hear most of us. Could you imagine if you caught a virus and never recovered? Drs dismissed you are could offer no help. Family and friends couldn’t understand why you weren’t the old you any longer.
#MEAwarenessDay
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Just another JAWS retweeted
25 Jan 2024
A cash-starved council is proposing disabled people be interned in care homes if their social care is “too costly”. This is a story of savage public funding cuts but also of which people society deems to matter.
My col. in today’s @guardian theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Just another JAWS retweeted
24 Jan 2024
NEW: More than a hundred suicide and self-harm incidents have been recorded at Jobcentres and other DWP providers since 2014.
The figures, revealed by FOI requests, will reinforce fears over the effect of punitive welfare policies
By me, for The Mirror👇
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/s…
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On Day 16 of our 12 Days of Christmas solidarity programme we’re sending £250 to @ANPI_Scuola preserving the memory & legacy of the Italian Partisan resistance who fought Fascism & the Nazi occupation during World War II.
You can support them here⬇️
anpibrescia.it/commissione-s…
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We usually try to help smaller more locally focused causes but on Day 14 of our 12 Days of Christmas solidarity programme we’re sending £250 to @UNICEF’s Children in Gaza Crisis Appeal. They need every penny they can get.
You can support them here⬇️
unicef.org.uk/donate/childre…
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On Day 13 (yep 13) of TUFAC’s 12 Days of Christmas solidarity project we’re sending £250 to Latimer Community Art Therapy @LCATW114DH providing mental health support through art.
Support them or find out more here⬇️
lcat.org.uk/
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On Day 12 of our 12 Days of Christmas solidarity programme we’re sending £250 to Bristol Refugee Rights @BristolRefugeeR supporting people seeking sanctuary in the Bristol area.
You can support them here⬇️
bristolrefugeerights.org/
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On Day 11 of our 12 Days of Christmas solidarity programme we’re sending £250 to @electricbrolly changing the world for disabled people through interactive music experiences.
You can support them here⬇️
electricumbrella.co.uk/
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