The Agliophobe

Okay so, a little about me... I'm 20 years old, at uni, a bookworm, a nerd, a feminist, loves to crochet, and I have Seropositve RA, Hyermobility Syndrome, and Fibromyalgia

[theagliophobe]

Search for Interviewees: Disability and Work

I am currently searching for interviewees for my MSc Human Resource Management Thesis. The aim of my research is to discuss employer practices, attitudes and accommodations affecting the job satisfaction of disabled employees.

Do you fit the following criteria?

·        Have a physical, auditory, visual disability, or long standing illness (Disabilities with visible effects resulting in disclosure of disability to your employer)

·        Are currently working (full time, part time, volunteering, or casual contract)

Interviews will take place in July, via face-to-face, telephone or skype interviews at your convenience. At no point will your employers name be identified, and all interviewees will remain completely anonymous.

If you feel that you fit these criteria, and would like to take part in this research, please email [email protected] for further details. If you think you know someone who fits this criteria and would be interested, please share this information via social media or send them my contact information.

Thank you for your time.

[chronicallyillblonde]

“Good news! Your lab results look great. Everything appears to be normal; you are the picture of health!”

(via chronicallyillblonde)

[deannathespoonie-deactivated201]

Treatment does not automatically mean “cure”. Stop assuming that I’ll be cured because I’m going through treatment. Sometimes treatment is just a bandaid.

[illness-adnauseum]

Sometimes treatment only has temporary effects and stops working after a while

Sometimes treatment makes you worse

Sometimes treatment does nothing

Sometimes treatment makes you worse in some ways and better in others

Sometimes treatment is too expensive to be continued even if it works

Sometimes treatment works a little but not enough to be worth the cost

Sometimes treatment helps intermittently with benefits coming and going

Sometimes treatment is meant to only be temporary and is not good for long term use

Sometimes treatment helps quite a bit and allows you to start living a semi-normal life, and stops working when you start pushing yourself to do more than before

There’s dozens of possibilities for the outcome of a treatment, and being virtually cured is rarely one of them.

[brownhairedmaiden]

All of this.

[duskpunkzebra]

Sometimes the same treatment that worked for a long time now hurts or harms you.

[yarnoodles]

Thank you for responding to my Master's survey. I am looking specifically for disabled workers (volunteering, part time or full time) to ask about their employer's practices regarding disability. Your answers will be kept strictly confidential, and you will not be asked to give the name of yourelf or your employer at any point.

Hello everyone!

I am currently doing an MSc in Human Resource Management, and my dissertation will be linked to my interests as a disabled worker. My dissertation currently has the workign title of ‘Disability and Work: The Effect of Empoyer Practices on Job Satisfaction’.  Overall my research is aiming to view correlations between disabled employee perceptions of employer practices regarding disabilities and the individual’s job satisfaction. This will be structured in a way that can be sent to employers to basically tell them which practices boosts morale an djob satisfaction of their disabled employees.

In order to gather data I have a survey, and I am looking for disabled workers, either in voluntary, casual, part time or full time positions to fill in this survey to help me with my Masters research. Disability in this survey includes visual, intellectual, auditory, mobility, long standing medical conditions, and mental illness. This survey will be kept completely confidential, as your names and the name of your employer will not be asked at any time. There is an oppotunity to give your email at the end for further discussion, however this is entirely optional. I am hoping to get as many responses as possible, so once you have completed the survey, please send or share the link on!

[theagliophobe]

From my other blog- my masters research needs survey responses! If you are a disabled worker, I want to know your opinion! All responses, and feedback on my survey, are welcome!

[theagliophobe]

Surviving the Holidays when You’re Chronically Ill

Four suggestions for making the holidays as stress-free as possible

[spoonie-isms]

You might be a Spoonie if...

You’re tired of trying to explain to people that a four hour shift at work isn’t actually just four hours.

It’s the time to get ready, the travel time, then the work, then traveling home, and then the time it takes your body to recover.

So yes, maybe you CAN have a part time job, but it will be a full time commitment.

[hangthecode]

[twooforjoy]

ive waited all year to be able to reblog this

[disabilityhealth]

What is it like to have a body that works properly? One that doesn’t fail you when you most need it? What is it like to feel strong?

[floppy-unicorn]

Fellow chronically ill person,

Even though we have much in common, I know that your experience has been unique to you. Your pain has been your pain.

So I promise to never be the kind of asshole who would presume to tell you how you should live your life. Sometimes we’ll make different decisions, and that’s okay.

It’s your life. So live it in a way that makes you happy. No one has the right to judge you for that.

[sottise1-blog]

You know you're a spoonie when...

A day spent doing fun things makes you flare up and unable to function the day after thus making you rethink doing those “fun things” again…

[disabilityhealth]

When someone tells me they don’t think of me as disabled

[Gif of a child in a red polkadot bowtie face palming.]

[problematicfeminist-deactivated]

“I, as a man, consider myself to be a proud feminist.” 

“I, as a man, consider myself to be a proud feminist.” 

“I, as a man, consider myself to be a proud feminist.” 

“I, as a man, consider myself to be a proud feminist.” 

“I, as a man, consider myself to be a proud feminist.” 

“I, as a man, consider myself to be a proud feminist.” 

[diebythedrop-deactivated2017022]

Here’s your fucking breast cancer awareness.

[diebythedrop-deactivated2017022]

This was during my 35 day radiation treatment back in 2013. Breast cancer isn’t sexy. It’s not about saving the boobies. It’s not about no bra day, which is really just an excuse for women to post sexy pics of their nipples pressing through their clothes. It’s scars, nausea, pain, bald heads, burnt skin, and broken hearts.

If this doesn’t make you “aware” then I don’t know what will. 

Does it make you uncomfortable? It should. 

[swallowthatshit]

Thank you for sharing this because I’ve literally never seen this side of it

[kelela-living-life]

THIS.

[mybigfatfitlife-deactivated2018]

This makes me super uncomfortable but this is why I am sharing it. 

We need to see the real story.

Huge hugs to you.

[erubescence-deactivated20190421]

From one cancer survivor to the other, all my love and hugs. People NEED to see the other side of cancer. The other side of everything being fucking pink, the other side of all the faux-awareness campaigns: the painful side.

[6-couture-deactivated20171109]

THANK YOU I’m sick of seeing this “i love boobies” shit. its fuckin gross. literally sexualizing CANCER!!!!!!!! 

[gothicstripper]

My grandmother is a breast cancer survivor, she was diagnosed and went through chemo & radiation around the time those I love boobies bracelets became popular. She absolutely hated them and it took me years to truly understand why.

[incidentalcomics]

Good Morning

I wrote this comic while it was raining. 

[micdotcom]

Amandla Stenberg is showing a generation of black kids how to shut down racist trolls 

While the racist reaction to her casting in The Hunger Games is perhaps what Amandla Stenberg is still most publicly associated with, in the mere three years since, she’s become a bold, outspoken, feminist role model. “That’s the least I can do, is try to start a conversation, try to get people thinking about a certain topic,” she told Mic.

We sat down with Stenberg to talk about her feminist awakening, using her celebrity for good and how her goal in life will help black girls everywhere.

[sparkitors]

The BRILLIANT thelatestkate illustrated 10 instant confidence boosters for us, and WE ARE OBSESSED WITH THEM. seriously, we just want to spend the rest of our lives eating froyo and staring at this slideshow. IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK?!

[gloamglozerglam-deactivated2022]

You know what’s a major pet peeve for me when it comes to arguments against raising the minimum wage? All the references to food service workers as “burger flippers”. Burger flippers are not a thing. You’re never going to see a restaurant post a sign that says “help wanted: hiring burger flippers.” “Burger flipper” is a term used pretty much exclusively to condescend to food service workers and downplay the real work and stress that goes into food service. It makes out like minimum wage workers are lazy people who are literally just standing at a grill, occasionally moving a spatula, all day, mindlessly, and that is their one and only responsibility, which anyone who has ever worked in food service can tell you is not what that job entails. It’s rhetoric used solely to designate them inferior. It doesn’t reflect the reality of minimum wage food service work. It’s annoying.