I’m newly 18, I’m immunocompromised, and I am angry. I am angry at the government. I am angry with select family members. I am angry with friends. And, truthfully, I’m furious with the world.
Category: Advocacy
A Disabled Teen’s Short, Early Review of the iOS 16 Medication App
Native medication tracking is a feature I've been looking at and hoping for since I switched to iOS a few years ago. Yeah, third-party apps are great, but I've always wanted it natively, and now I have it in iOS 16 and I LOVE it. It had a DIFFERENT notification noise and it's so simple… Continue reading A Disabled Teen’s Short, Early Review of the iOS 16 Medication App
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How I Knew I Had Arthritis, Not “Just Cerebral Palsy”
So, I just threw together a pretty detailed thread answering a few questions posed by someone early on the autoimmunity journey and I wanted to share those here, as well as my response to them! Questions: What do you have? How did you know it wasn't "just" CP? How did you get a doctor to… Continue reading How I Knew I Had Arthritis, Not “Just Cerebral Palsy”
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Vocational Rehabilitation Centers are Useful, Hidden Gems in Disability Support
Vocational rehabilitation (sometimes referred to in the shorthand VR or voc rehab) is a division of social support services for disabled people to get and maintain employment, as well as provide support to remain living in the community. And, they're unfortunately hard to know or find out about unless you know exactly where to look… Continue reading Vocational Rehabilitation Centers are Useful, Hidden Gems in Disability Support
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CDC FOIA Update #3
Well, this is a long-overdue update that I'm gonna break into two parts and back-date. This is the second part of that two-part update. The first part can be found here. For reference and transparency, it's September 2, 2022 as I write this update about events that happened on August 17, 2022. So, I got… Continue reading CDC FOIA Update #3
Derek I. Schmitz 
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