Minister shows restraint

Recently there’s been a lot of concern about the use of force in psychiatric wards here in Denmark. Many stories of patients being restrained to their beds for weeks on end have rolled over the headlines, and the Council of Europe have expressed concern that there seems to be an overuse of patient restraints in [...]

It’s only Parkinson’s

I’ve been wanting to take a picture of something for a while. But since I seldom carry my camera with me I haven’t yet had the opportunity. If I do get a pic, I’ll post it, but for now I’ll just tell you about a man I’ve seen downtown many times. Or, rather it’s not [...]

My nation’s ableist shame

A man named Jens Holst recently took it upon himself to demonstrate just how crappy disability access is in Denmark. Of course, his focus is on wheelchair users as that’s the groups he’s part of, but suffice to say that’s plenty bad enough. Once we start taking into account accommodations for invisible disabilities it won’t [...]

Appearing normal

I’m probably an Aspie. Nothing’s certain yet, as the psychologist I had didn’t know jack-shit about it. Right now I’m waiting for a psychiatrist appointment in September – he’s reportedly a good one. But I can’t allow myself to hope too much, because if it falls through, and he turns out to not be as [...]

Accessibility

Inspired by this post over at Renee’s I felt the need to brag a little.
Not about anything I’ve accomplished, but about how my city has handled accessibility problems downtown. The “city centre” consists of some 6 streets that are only open to pedestrians and motorized vehicles are only allowed for PWD. Naturally, cars do go [...]

Psychiatry and power

As I’ve previously shared on here, I’ve been in touch with the public health care system for over a year now. I’ve been diagnosed with depression – and no one ever thought to find out if possibly there might be something more that might have caused the depression. Not until I found out myself, at [...]

Reading comprehension

Is not the big thing among bigots. See, I wrote this post about who’s angry, about Guy White and his complete ignorance on the study he referred to, his ignorane on evo psych, on biology, on sociology etc etc. He did not even allow a pingback to his post. Instead he posted a comment containing [...]

Who’s angry again?

WordPress has this lovely feature called tag surfer. I’ve found some wonderful blogs that way, and sometimes I find some less fantastic ones. A few days ago I found yet another post by an angry white male, who absolutely denies any white male anger to ever have existed. He’s not angry. Nope. Never. No, he [...]

Blogging Against Disablism: I started feeling safe

I know I’m a day late. The reason is simple. On April 30th I had a day so bad, due to my disability, that it infected May 1st also. But now I’m writing it down.
On Thursday, when the proverbial shit hit the fan, I told myself I’d write about it for BADD, Friday. But I [...]

News: Spam is not spam

Sometimes I get spam comments – I suppose we all do. The filter catches it and I can delete spammity comments at my leisure. Sometimes, though, one of them catches my eye. That happened just now, this spam comment was just precious.
The wording?
Yooo..
I kno it has nothing to do with what you wrote, but have [...]