by Missy O | Sep 21, 2022 | Broken But Good, Personal Updates
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Living with a disability that involves possible seizures, paralysis, and tremors forced me to become conscientious about the records I keep as figuring out my triggers, keeping track of my medication, and keeping track of my seizures have required me to spend a lot of time keeping good records. Through spending a lot of time on YouTube, exploring the bullet journal community, and reading many books over the past year have led me to use my current planner system. Living with ADHD, I find I need to change it up every few months. Today, I want to share with you how I use my planner (which you can check out here) to make my life easier while still keeping track of all the aspects of my health that help me be able to do more with my life.
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by Missy O | Sep 14, 2022 | Broken But Good, Personal Updates
After spending a whole post about how it’s okay to label yourself as disabled, I feel like it’s only fair to give you a glimpse into my life as a disabled writer. This week, I’m going to give you a glimpse into how a typical day goes and ways I’m working to protect my health every day. I want to do this to show the power that allowing yourself to identify as disabled can have and to help others who live with disabilities feel less alone in measures they need to take to take care of themselves.
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by Missy O | Sep 7, 2022 | Advocacy, Broken But Good, Challenging Beliefs, Community
This morning I woke up to find Twitter abuzz with excerpts of JK Rowling’s latest book, The Ink Black Heart. In this book she makes harmful and sweeping generalizations not only about trans people but also about disabled people. Some of that is existing in Britain where access to healthcare is more available than it is to the average American but some of it was blatantly harmful views being spewed from a highly revered platform. I wanted to take a bit of time to use this platform, not to signal boost her hateful rhetoric but to provide you real talk from an actual disabled person about the power of accepting that you are disabled and what allowing yourself to accept that label can unlock in your life.
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