Tag: accommodations

• Mico scrapbook page, and thoughts on “universal design” / “aging in place”

  

  With Aisling currently at board and train so I can try and survive for a minute, I’ve been trying to take some time to do things I just haven’t been able to lately. Most of that is continuing to work on my home, the bakery, the garden, etc. because I def have a big problem…

  Dani

  May 27, 2024

  all topics, disability, mental health, chronic illness, & neurodiversity, ehlers danlos & the trifecta, grief, harm reduction, medical grief, medical trauma, medical updates

  accessibility, accommodations, disability, grief, medical grief processing

• Small work – inspired by @appleturnover

  

  In a world of all-or-nothing, black and white thinking, I was taught that if you cannot do something perfectly, completely, then it isn’t worth doing at all. This kind of thinking was what kept me locked in place for a lifetime.

  Dani

  June 24, 2023

  all topics, disability, mental health, chronic illness, & neurodiversity, garden & farmwork, kitchenwork, nest building

  accessibility, accommodations, disability, gardening, kitchenwork

• ARFID, Cultural Impacts, and Self-Directed Safe-Foods Expansion

  

  Being a “picky eater” is a woefully inadequate description of ARFID (which stands for “Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder”). Most of the time, it didn’t even have to do with disliking certain foods. A food could look good, smell good, even taste good to me, but my body physically wouldn’t let me swallow it. It…

  Dani

  March 1, 2023

  all topics, ARFID, disability, mental health, chronic illness, & neurodiversity, eating disorders, food, kitchenwork, main works, published works

  accessibility, accommodations, ARFID, autistic, disability, eating disorders, kitchenwork, neurodiversity, sensory processing

• Accessible Kitchen Hacks

  

  Over time I have developed not only the skills to create food, but the skills to accommodate my disabilities in the kitchen. It has been a work in progress, and always will be, as my condition progresses and I go through new struggles in the future. But, for now, I would like to share the…

  Dani

  October 5, 2022

  all topics, disability, mental health, chronic illness, & neurodiversity, kitchenwork, main works, published works

  accessibility, accommodations, autistic, chronic illness, disability, kitchenwork, neurodiversity