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Dorothy T
12 May 2021
I'm quite lucky because I know you had moved on just two years ago so I have a large from garden with real ins and I have a good back garden with a swing set for my daughter and my son and the weather last year was brilliant...
🏢 Housing
💛 Health + disability
🧒 Children
Meg T
05 October 2020
Hi. In short the new rules have had no impact on me or fifteen-year-old whatsoever...
💛 Health + disability
😷 Covid-19
🕰 Lockdown, rules, and social distancing
Meg T
08 November 2020
Ordinarily the lockdown hasn't had much impact on me apart from the fact that I can't go out when I want to but being disabled that's not an issue. Anyway, the main issue for me with the lockdown now is the fact that I was due to spinal cord surgery last Monday and because of the spiking curses Leeds General infirmary, even though my operation is urgent...
🕰 Lockdown, rules, and social distancing
💛 Health + disability
Meg T
21 July 2021
I felt organised but then I remarried a second time &sold my home to move in with my partner, which proved to be a poor decision on my part; my family structure collapsed due to the impact of Domestic Violence - 17 years ago...
👦 Single parenting
🚧 Work
💛 Health + disability
Meg T
21 July 2021
Today my Covid reality is that whilst in the midst of a heatwave, it is Day three of isolation for me and my 16 year old son. He has developed Covid 19 - his symptoms of a tickly cough started on Saturday afternoon...
😷 Covid-19
😷 Testing and vaccines
💛 Health + disability
🕰 Lockdown, rules, and social distancing
Children's wellbeing
Dot P
13 July 2021
I had my first face to face appointment at the job centre today. Being exempt from wearing a mask I was a little nervous as to how I would be received...
🕰 Lockdown, rules, and social distancing
🗳 Benefits
💛 Health + disability
Nellie K
08 July 2021
As an autistic person, online communication is absolutely preferable. Using the phone is hugely disorientating, overwhelming, and likely to trigger a meltdown...
💛 Health + disability
🗳 Benefits
Meg T
07 July 2021
I live on the outskirts of the small town of approximately 70,000 people. I live on a housing estate made up of privately-owned and socially rented homes as determined by the colour of your front door; white for private, black for socially rented...
💛 Health + disability
🏢 Housing
🕰 Lockdown, rules, and social distancing
Meg T
07 July 2021
Hi James. This is actually an interesting question...
🗳 Benefits
💛 Health + disability
🌦 Politics & stigma
Charlotte P
03 July 2021
My winds father is torturing me with his research and his ideas and all his media quotes about vaccinations etc. I completely respect everyone’s own decision but to force their opinions on me isn’t nice or respectful...
💛 Health + disability
😷 Testing and vaccines
😷 Covid-19
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