There is too little information out on the net about invisible disabilities. When Themestream still existed I decided to write a column, to be published every week or 10 days, focussing on issues relavant to people with invisible disabilities. This includes people with invisible chronic illnesses, and semi-visible disabilities, and sometimes-visible disabilities and well as completely invisible disabilities. I'm trying to be inclusive of people rather than exclusive. If you feel like you might belong, then welcome!
- Column 0 - Introducing your host
- Who's writing all this stuff? What qualifications do I have to tell you about invisible disabilities anyway?
- Column 1 - What is an invisible disability?
- What is an invisible disability anyway?
- Column 2 - What's So Special About Invisible Disabilities?
- How is an invisible disability different from other disabilities? What extra issues do people with invisible disabilities face?
- Column 3 - Crossing The Street
- A personal experience of living with an invisible disability.
- Column 4 - What's an Invisible Chronic Illness?
- What's an Invisible Chronic Illness and how is it different from an invisible disability?
- Column 5 - Writing about Invisible Disabilities
- Why it's important to talk and write about invisible disabilities as much as we can.
- Column 6 - Believing In Yourself - 4 March 2001
- Dealing with not believing in your own invisible disabilities.
- Column 7 - Invisible Disability Explanation Fatigue
- Dealing with that feeling you get when the 500th person asks the same silly questions about your invisible disabilities.
- Column 8 - Being A Disability
- How to not just be your disability, being yourself first.
- Column 9 - Practical Invvisible Disability Activism - 26 March 2001
- Standing up for your rights as a disabled person.
- Column 10 - Invisible Guilt
- Invisible Guilt is picking up society's idea that invisible means less bad. How to get around this guilt.
- Column 11 - "How Are You?"
- Answers to this eternal questions when you're never, "Fine, thanks."
- Column 12 - Internet ID Resources
- Where to look on the Internet about further resources for people with Invisible Disabilities.
- Column 13 - Simulating IDs - 1 June 2001
- Contrasting how to simulate paraplegia and CFS. Amusing description of simulating CFS in there too.
- Column 14 - Disabilities that can be both Invisible and Visible - 10 June 2001
- Describing disabilities which can be both visible and invisible - but still just as debilitating in both states. And what links disabilites like this to invisible disabilities.
- Column 15 - A Rant - 17 June 2001
- About proposed Australian government reforms which could turn out to be very bad for people with invisible disabilities.
- Column 16 - Invisible Disability Stigma - 25 June 2001
- Looking "perfectly healthy" like people with IDs do, but being disabled, is a very easy way to get stigmatized.
