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Well ouchers there is something you probably don’t know about me, come to think of it I’m not even sure all my friends no about this, guess they do now. In addition to having twisted mangled bones I have a hidden disability yes ouchers I am one of the 121 million people thought the world with depression and no I am not the sad (like the pun there?) kind of individual that spends there days looking up disability related statistics. I know that because I read this article by Emma Bowler. Now I'm not going to tell you too much about this article because I think you should read it yourself.

One of the interesting thought provoking sections of the article suggests that mental health disorders such as depression and often more debilitating that many physical disabilities, and I would have to agree with that particular statement. But then the question arises if its so debilitating and having it combined with a physical disability is supposed to make the situation a whole lot worse, then why cant I get CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) on the NHS? (Don’t you just love the postcode lottery?)

In other news , is back on! It was cancelled last year witch was annoying but its happening we are descending on the Purbeck hills this Thursday, I will of course give you a full and detailed report of events from a crips point of view probably involving lots of falling over. I’m all ready for action; I even have new walking boots. Yes shocking stuff I managed to find walking boots that fit my crippled feet, and even better there actually really comfy and had £20 off there RRP.

Also on my first day back at collage last Monday, in my very first lesion, with a brand new class of people and a new teacher, what happens? My video magnifier breaks. Lots of beeping and flashing colours, It couldn’t have happened at a worse time, what’s even more shocking is that its only about 6 months old, and that no one has touched it since I last used it well over 2 months ago, it broke completely on its own. This is truly pants as I use it in literally every lesson to read things like textbooks, and it even has a really clever feature that allows me to quickly flick the camera round and read off the white board. This also means that the poor learning support unit (I actually feel sorry for them the amount of stuff there trying to do) are franticly having to type up bits of textbooks and attempt to scribe bits of power point presentations and information off the white board simultaneously.

In other news I’m still loving a piece of technology by a Canadian company called , the provide free internet based screen magnification soft where and even better than that is that its really easy to use, has an online support forum and can be used on any computer anywhere by anyone (with the exception being of course the one place I could use it most…. But that’s a whole other issue I best not go in to, encase I get sued) they are also trying to develop and give it the ability to have basic screen reader properties. It has lots of different options for magnification levels, contrast settings and you can even change the size colour and shape of the mouse pointer, if your VI it’s worth a download.

Finally in the most tragic of news, I have spent 4 days trying to write this blog entry. my computer had been seriously rubbish and keeps crashing every time I try and use a certain piece of document processing soft where and I lose everything every time it does, so apologise if this entry is a bit error filled, I’m trying to do it quickly before my computer can crash again, and of course stopping to save after pretty much every word. This could make this collage year very interesting…

STOP PRESS!

I have just read a really interesting headline witch confirms , what great news for the Fins.

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