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Category: Discrimination

02/05/201622/04/20172016, Archive, Chronic disease, Disability, Discrimination, Family, MS, Multiple Sclerosis, Neurological disease, Stories

This is what I want you to know (and didn’t say on TV)

This We Don’t Talk About story was originally published in shortened form as ‘I Feel Sorry For The Person Who Left Me This Note. They Clearly Don’t Understand Disability’ by The Huffington […]

02/05/201622/04/20172016, Archive, Chronic disease, Disability, Discrimination, Family, MS, Multiple Sclerosis, Neurological disease, Stories

I Feel Sorry For The Person Who Left Me This Note. They Clearly Don’t Understand Disability

This We Don’t Talk About story was originally published by The Huffington Post on 2 May 2016. You can read it here. A longer, more complete version of Justine’s story is published […]

Bek Paroz for We Don't Talk About
21/01/201622/04/20172016, Archive, Chronic disease, Depression, Disability, Discrimination, Employment, Family, Lupus, Medication, Medication side effects, Rheumatoid arthritis, Stories, Suicide

Working through the pain: A life with Rheumatoid arthritis

Becky ParozRedland City, QueenslandBecky is 41. She grew up in a dysfunctional family environment, exposed to alcohol-fuelled violence from an early age. At 18, when she was already living away […]

25/11/201522/04/20172015, ALS, Archive, Chronic disease, Disability, Discrimination, Interviewer, MND, Motor Neuron Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Neurological disease, Parkinson's disease, Stories

We Don’t Talk About featured on Channel Ten News in Sydney

Channel Ten News in Sydney featured the We Don’t Talk About project on Saturday 22 November 2015. Thanks go to Frank Lyons, who previously shared his story living with Motor […]

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