🚨Recap: A VERY disappointing outcome. The @NIMHD committee admitted to NOT include anyone with a disclosed disability, yet made a significant decision on behalf of our community - they did not recommend the 'health disparity designation' be given to people with disabilities.
📢Disability community: Happening today! At 1:45 PM ET the @NIH@NIMHD Advisory Committee is giving updates from a working group considering designating people with disabilities as a 'health disparity population'. This has HUGE implications! nimhd.nih.gov/docs/advisory-…
How about for every negative story you run about ADHD brains, you run a positive one, too? This alone will send brains spiraling—into happiness. #adhd2023
AAPD is proud to have @SenFettermanPA speak at our #ADA33 anniversary celebration. Sen. Fetterman has emerged as a national voice and a powerful leader within the disabled community. To learn more about John’s journey check out the article below.
ALT Blue and purple gradient background with a white AAPD logo at the top. Text reads: 2023 ADA Anniversary, U.S. Senator John Fetterman. John Fetterman is pictured. He is a white man, who is bald. He is wearing a gray blazer with a white shirt and light blue tie.
It's just not right that older workers have a higher burden to prove they've been discriminated against. We need to level the playing field and that's why I introduced the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act.
Working overtime to create the appearance of having it all together, even when we’re struggling.
This is the essence of masking, and it doesn’t prevent burnout— it exacerbates it.
How often it is that a young person’s pain (self-harm; eating problems) is a desperate attack, via the self, on a dysfunctional family, idea, school or wider system; a plea for systemic change. But we rarely see it like that - instead we pathologise them & treat *their* disorder.
‘Neurodiversity - A New Paradigm’☂️ 16th June Liverpool St George’s Hall 550 Delegates: Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Executives & Public Sector leaders from Education, Health & Justice adhdfoundation.org.uk/events… @EmmaWeaver1606 @tonylloyd50 @colinfoley75993 ☂️
Third, we have an understanding of most common #LongCovid symptoms, and which symptoms are more useful to identifying LC.
Overall, most common symptoms:
Post-exertional malaise
Fatigue
Brain fog
Dizziness
GI issues
Palpitations
Hearing issues
5/
ALT Postexertional malaise (87%), fatigue (85%), brain fog (66%)
Over the next several months, we will be co-hosting a three-part webinar series with @docswith, @AACNursing & @JHUDisability on barriers and belief systems when it comes to nurses with disabilities in HPE. More details to come!
"Disability Inspo" (translation): something makes others feel good while completely ignoring the fact that we [people with #disability] want to be treated like people first.
Thanks to Ms. Denise Brodey for highlighting such a sappy egoistic habit. @dbrodey 👈🏻
WeYeah! Team
@Accenture, in partnership w/@DisabilityIN & @AAPD, quantifies the "Disability Inclusion Advantage." Read more in this article by @Forbes contributor Denise Brodey. bit.ly/2JHQ5f0
Why @BBCPanorama did you choose to tell only half the story? Why did you ignore the historic, systemic inequity & inequality of access to NHS for 1 in 20 tax paying UK citizens living with ADHD? Is it any wonder desperate people were exploited? adhdfoundation.org.uk/wp-con…@DHSCgovuk