• Question: what is your disability's if you have them? : )

    Asked by I..live..in..a..drawer on 16 Jan 2020.
    • Photo: Samantha Durbin

      Samantha Durbin answered on 16 Jan 2020:

      I don’t consider myself disabled but I do have a long-term condition – migraines. Unfortunately if I get a migraine I usually have to stop everything I’m doing and go home to bed, and it can take me a few days to recover. I can’t read properly or look at screens during that time, so there’s not much I can do. I’m on medication to try to help prevent them, so I only have them every 3-4 weeks at the moment, but earlier in the year I was getting them every couple of days – it makes it very hard to function as a human.

    • Photo: Fiona Macfarlane

      Fiona Macfarlane answered on 16 Jan 2020:

      I don’t consider myself disabled.

      When I was younger I did have to have several operations on my eyes as one was weaker than the other which led to me seeing double. This affected my depth perception and still does

    • Photo: Sreejita Ghosh

      Sreejita Ghosh answered on 17 Jan 2020:

      I am prone to panic and anxiety attacks. I consult my psychiatrist periodically about this when these become frequent and sort of ‘unbearable’. Also I have a nice support system in my colleagues and friends who I can open up to about this when I need to :).

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