My friend Riki set up this fundraiser for my mum, Dawn, and I. I’m Paige. I have an unfair number of illnesses: fibromyalgia, severe ME/CFS, bipolar disorder, endometriosis, autism, and possible mitochondrial disease. I know, wow. ME/CFS and fibro leave me mostly couch-bound, and I use a cane and wheelchair. I’m in constant pain. I am in the long, stressful disability application process. I lost my last 10/hour a week job because I was too fatigued and in pain to do my job well, and I failed at selling jewelry on Etsy. I cannot work. I was recently in hospital for my bipolar disorder, and am trying to stabilise my mental health as well.
My mother is on SSDI due to severe osteoarthritis and losing four fingers on her left hand, both of which make nursing impossible. She supports us both on $1200 a month, which is simply not enough. I get food stamps and Medicaid, she has neither. We are behind on heating, electrical, and medical bills. Charities only have given food, some of which I can’t eat due to Celiac disease and autism problems. Dawn’s church have declined helping us further with bills. We only get by with donations.
Whether it’s $1, $5, or $100; old clothes or extra toiletries, we are grateful for any donation. Please, if you can donate or not, reblog. It means so much to us. ❤
Please reblog! Help mum and daughter with clothes and coat.
Looking for clothes for my mum and I, and a coat for mum. Both of us are disabled; mum has fibromyalgia and arthritis, and I have ME/CFS, fibro, endometriosis, possibly mitochondrial disease, and bipolar disorder. I’m in the process of applying for disability and mum is supporting us both on her small SSDI pension. We are dirt poor. I just went from 98 pounds to 110+ (our scale is broken) and need clothes that fit. My mum has almost no clothes, and no winter coat. She wears this horrible olive drab coat with a hoodie, and she’s so embarrassed by it. It gets cold here in Detroit, and she should have a proper coat.
If you find you have things in these sizes, please let me know. We’d be so appreciative. You can also help us by donating to our fundraiser – https://goo.gl/dkoSTW, or PayPal: hansonp@uwindsor.ca – so we can get clothes at a resale shop or thrift store. Please share, and thanks for any help!❤
Mum: Size 16/18 or 1X in tops, the same in coats. Size 15 in junior’s jeans.
Me: Size medium or large in junior’s tops. Probably a small or medium in women’s. Size 1 or 2 in junior’s jeans. Like I said, I’m about 110-115 pounds and five foot six.
Me trying to explain to Northern and coastal liberals that bigotry is not a regional phenomenon:
notes on this post are a fucking mess
“ I hate the South! Everyone is a bigot! I’m going to move to New York where EVERYONE is progressive like me!”
Having come from Upstate NY myself…No. No they’re not. People in rural NYS are just as bigoted as rural Southerners. The really annoying part is they’re four times as rude about it.
People in NYC can be just as racist as rural Southerners too
NYC white liberals fought against desegregation. The Harlem 9 emerged because of it. Bedstuy’s taxation without Sanitation happened right here in Brooklyn. I’ve seen more racist housing practices here in NYC than I ever did in Atlanta. Systematic racism isn’t regional. It’s white.
NYC is chronically listed as one of the most segregated cities in the country.
New Jersey is a hotbed of white nationalists
The rest of the Northeast is pocked with racist libertarians (hi New Hampshire), may-as-well-be sundown states (how’s it hanging Maine), and colorblind racism (what’s good VT?). Rhode Island habitually votes against removing the term “plantation” from the official state name, Connecticut is…it’s basically NYS, but whiter.
Should I branch out to PA and the mid Atlantic or nah?
I see this very differently than the professor who wrote this. She wants to pay her back about how she acted with a disabled student, but I’ve been in the student’s position more times than I would have liked to. Here’s what most likely happened.
The student takes this letter to the professor and asks to meet with her privately. She does it privately because other students have made a big deal about her accommodations before and it’s embarrassing.
The professor seems friendly, so she disclosed exactly what she needs. Then the professor sits the letter aside and questions her about how often this actually happens, and tells her how big a problem it would be if it happened in this course. This is a threat. The professor is now making her uncomfortable asking for help when she needs it. In my experience, when you have a professor act like this, they’ll often shoot you down when you do ask for help later. The student has probably experienced just this.
After the professor blows off her needs, the student sits in the back of the class and never speaks to the professor again. She obviously no longer trusts the professor anymore. She never used her accommodation that semester. That could be because she never had a panic attack, but more likely, she had several and felt threatened that she’d be kept from graduating if she showed any weakness and asked for help. She may have done well in the course, but it was likely at a huge cost to her health in some way.
Because this student felt so alienated, the professor thinks they did a good job. I’ve lived through this dozens of times. The professor failed this student. She had to work much harder than other students without disabilities to go the same distance. It’s not fucking fair.
It sickens me to see a professor acting like this and thinking they’re the hero of all disabled students. I really wish I could say it’s unique, but it’s fucking not. Not even close.
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