Tag: disability

• July 6th, 2023 – 5am

  

  5am and I’m already working in the garden. I struggle to balance work and rest. I think it’s a struggle most neurodivergent folks are familiar with. Now with my illness reaching a life-limiting point, I find it hard to not constantly be working on projects, since I don’t know when I’ll be unable to, possibly…

  Dani

  July 6, 2023

  all topics, disability, mental health, chronic illness, & neurodiversity, ehlers danlos & the trifecta, garden & farmwork, mini posts

  chronic illness, disability, gardening, medical grief processing, mini posts

• 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

• My Body My Box – why some people may gravitate towards “labels”(and some may not!)

  

  “…my full diagnosis list is a relatively lengthy 30+ conditions that have been diagnosed by healthcare providers. It looks daunting, even more so if you want to get nit-picky and split every symptom that could be its own condition from its correlated diagnosis. Even when I try to pare it down as best I can,…

  Dani

  June 13, 2023

  all topics, ARFID, disability, mental health, chronic illness, & neurodiversity, eating disorders, ehlers danlos & the trifecta, main works, medical trauma, published works

  chronic illness, disability, Ehlers Danlos, medical trauma, neurodiversity, the trifecta

• 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