By Guest on 24 December, 2010
Eliot Renard is a genderqueer, feminist, socialist Chicagoan who enjoys making math and science accessible and fun for students through various online tutoring programs. Ze also has a health blog, personal blog and tumblr, because compartmentalizing is fun. This is the second post of a short series; part one, “Rocky Beginnings,” can be read here. [...]
Posted in guest post | Tagged chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic pain, chronic pain conditions, depression, family, family dynamics, fibromyalgia, guest post, personal, personal stories, social attitudes
By s.e. smith on 18 December, 2010
Dear Imprudence’s recent reader livechat featured a question that made me go ‘oooh, ouch, been there,’ from a reader writing on behalf of a daughter hounded by family members, specifically her grandmother, about her weight. Q. Grandmother’s Obsession With Weight: My daughter is a recent grad of a top 3 in the country school. She’s [...]
Posted in Dear Imprudence | Tagged Dear Imprudence, Emily Yoffe, family, fat
By s.e. smith on 17 December, 2010
A whole lot of people are celebrating holidays right now, and it seems like the holiday season is a source of stress for many of those people, particularly people with disabilities. Stress about attending family events and dealing with judginess or inaccessible houses. Stress about being required to go to holiday parties for work. Stress [...]
Posted in life changes, normality, othering | Tagged family, holidays, stress
By Guest on 16 December, 2010
Eliot Renard is a genderqueer, feminist, socialist Chicagoan who enjoys making math and science accessible and fun for students through various online tutoring programs. Ze also has a health blog, personal blog and tumblr, because compartmentalizing is fun. I began experiencing the symptoms of what I now know to be depression, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue [...]
Posted in guest post | Tagged childhood illness, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic pain conditions, depression, family, family dynamics, fibromyalgia, guest post, mental health, personal, social attitudes
By Ouyang Dan on 16 October, 2010
I read a post at Crazy Mermaid’s Blog recently that neatly summarized some things that I have been struggling with lately. Friends and loved ones of those with a mental illness have a hard time understanding noncompliance with medication. Why, they reason, if the drug helps control the symptoms of the mental illness, doesn’t the [...]
Posted in intersectionality, introspective, life changes, relationships | Tagged choices, disability, family, intersectionality, mental health, personal, side effects
By s.e. smith on 25 July, 2010
Today on Dear Abby, a reader wrote in with a problem that some of us have been on the other side of: Dear Abby: My oldest granddaughter, “Allie,” is a psychiatrist. I have always loved her, been proud of her accomplishments and have had a warm relationship with her. Her mother—my daughter—got drunk and made [...]
Posted in Dear Imprudence | Tagged Abigail Van Buren, abuse, Dear Abby, family, Jeanne Phillips, relationships
By s.e. smith on 23 July, 2010
Oh, Ask Amy. You’re still on my shit list for your rape apologism, and yet, I keep reading your column. I admit it, I mainly do it so that I can find particularly awful pieces of advice to feature here. This week, a high school student writes about a problem she’s experiencing at home: Dear [...]
Posted in Dear Imprudence, relationships | Tagged abuse, Amy Dickinson, Ask Amy, family, verbal abuse, words mean things
By Ouyang Dan on 27 June, 2010
A concerned family member writes to Miss Manners: Dear Miss Manners: My brother served in Iraq a couple of years ago. He suffers from PTSD and was wounded. The physical wound is not one you can see, but people (family especially) will still ask him what it was like to fight in the war and [...]
Posted in Dear Imprudence, intersectionality, life changes, mental health, military | Tagged family, invisible disability, Iraq war, Korean War, military, Miss Manners, PTSD, social treatment, things people say, war, war injuries
By Ouyang Dan on 27 April, 2010
Reflecting on the extremely thought provoking post by abbyjean earlier, I was walking to breakfast with The Guy (caution, try not to walk while lost in thought, OYD) on a day when I was low on sleep, high on pain, and therefore using my cane. (edit: I just saw my typo! I had a funny [...]
Posted in accessibility, bodies, feminism, introspective | Tagged accommodations, barriers to access, conflicting needs, drugs are bad mmm'kay, family, health care, pain management, personal
By Anna on 5 April, 2010
But children are very aware of the pressure to be normal. And when people like Jenny McCarthy and her ilk push “cures” for disability out there, not only are parents asked why they aren’t administering these cures, children are, either directly or indirectly, asked why they aren’t cured, too.
Posted in bodies, normality, social attitudes | Tagged family, family dynamics
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