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Sammy,
London
After being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, I shed a tear, picked myself up, and got on with life. I applied for my first promotion soon after and was told that my application could not be accepted. When I asked why, the answer was 'because you have MS'.
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Being naive I thought 'forget this', then managed to get a double promotion in another school. As my career went from strength to strength my health began to decline, without me being aware. Eventually I suffered 'neurological collapse', caught in a downward spiral of fatigue and stress, caused by me pushing myself too far.
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Six years later, I find myself establishing a social enterprise to help deal with the inequality that exists in society.
However bad you feel, however hard it gets, there is always something positive that can come from it.
'Just keep swimming'
- Dorey (finding Nemo)
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Mark,
London
After being told that he should become a politician or work within the charity sector, Mark decided to go for the latter.
Mark has held numerous high level posts within the world of Equality. including CEO of Disability Solutions Worldwide, Fee-paid Disability Member of the First-tier Tribunal, Disability Equality Specialist for DRUK and Deputy CEO of RADAR.
He is continuing his work out in Malta, and catching some sun!
Adrienne,
Chesterfield
From the day I received my diagnosis my life changed drastically. I went from being a fit active young woman to losing most of my friends, I no longer held a social life and I was made redundant. I was the outgoing, bubbly, happy-go-lucky, soul searching, life of the party who had fallen on very dark times faced alone.
Many no longer believed that I had gone from the wild child to the recluse individual who was physically and mentally incapable of keeping up with my friends.
For months I was in denial and found it merely impossible to come to terms with my diagnosis of Fibromyalgia. It took me a very long time to accept that this was how life was going to be and from then on I got on with it.
My mobility had become a daily struggle and I was re-homed in a Bungalow with daily support from the carers.
Lauren,
Brighton
Having an invisible disability in a world that ignores people with more visible disabilities is hard. I have ME. I sleep a lot. People do not get it because they cannot see it. Sometimes I wish my disabilities were more visible. Although being an ambulatory wheelchair user, (someone who uses a wheelchair but can walk,) I have learnt the British public are very quick to avoid eye contact & walk in the other direction.