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Barbies and Warriors: How the CMTA Sells CMT
“CMT Barbie,” “CMT warriors,” a CBD sponsor, an Amazon store with a commission, and an unproven oxygen therapy that can cost thousands. An exposé of how the US-based CMTA markets CMT, in its own words.
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How the CMTA Mishandles Moderation and Its Facebook Community
A CMTA Facebook moderator I’d blocked got me removed from the group, with no appeal. Years later, the CMTA still emails me after promising in writing to delete my records. Here’s the story, and what Canadian and US anti-spam and privacy laws say about it.
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CMT, Depression, and Anxiety
It’s not surprising to learn from another study, more detailed than others I’ve seen (summarized at CMT News), that people with CMT were more likely than controls to screen positive for depression, especially with more severe versions of the disease, and many go “untreated.” “Untreated” in this case means “unmedicated,” and there is a lot…
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What does it mean to consider yourself disabled?
Many of us can say both yes and no, feeling both as true and false.
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The Healthy Creative Balance: Between Unreason and Overthinking
“It seems that the key to creative cognition is opening up the floodgates and letting in as much information as possible.”
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Crip Time
What would a calendar look like that prioritized and protected caregiving? What about one that understood … different types of relationships and the soft but consistent focus they demand? That understood creativity, and children, or grief? What would a family calendar look like that made its primary steward and their needs as visible as others?
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CMTA Toronto Upcoming Events • CMT Awareness Month • Learning to slow down and attend to your needs • Existential anxiety
Archived: this event has passed. The CMTA no longer lists a Toronto chapter; its branch directory now lists Eastern Canada and Western Canada branches. The Toronto chapter of the CMTA has regular meetings and events that can be joined remotely with Zoom. On Saturday, September 24 from 1-3pm EDT their guest speaker will be Shannon…
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Asking for the ADA Suite
The hotel receptionist said there was a generator running near my room. In fact there was a giant truck with a generator and air conditioning system running 24/7 right outside the ADA room’s door to cool the whole building I’d be in. He said go check it out a few minutes and come back if…
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How long can you afford to hide it?
It’s too much trouble and humiliation to explain and ask for a little help or tolerance when hiding a disability and lumping it is how you’ve learned to cope best. That’s not a good psychological place to be in, long-term, and I can see how it’s not going to serve well post-40s.
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Late Diagnoses
In the past the norm was we didn’t get a diagnosis, so family and friends just shrugged it off and called us “clumsy” or pretended nothing was wrong. I hope this is an outlier experience, but I was pushed into sports, like track and cross country, in high school when my feet and ankles became…
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Dining in the Dark
Blind dining means you enter a restaurant that is completely pitch dark from beginning to end, and you are served by a waitstaff who are literally blind.
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Reading (and Writing) about Disability
Over at Electric Literature, Robert Kingett recently reviewed a bunch of literary anthologies written by, for, and about disabled people. These are essays and fictional works from the young adult genre to dystopian science fiction.
Disability
Living with CMT as a disability: identity, access, accommodation and how other people see disabled bodies.