Have you seen JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy recently on TV? The character called Colin Wall (Simon McBurney) who was portrayed as a weak, over-stressed weirdo who had asthma and was always puffing on his inhaler, made my blood boil. Why is every odd character given a 'weak' condition like asthma, allergies, eczema etc. suggesting that these conditions are just a symptom of … [Read more...]
Are serious life threatening allergies, severe eczema and asthma a disability?
Now here's an idea for you all. Should people with life threatening allergies, severe eczema and asthma and coeliac disease be claiming disability allowance? This isn't something that I would ever have considered before but someone suggested that I should be claiming disability allowance recently. I didn't agree. Why should I? I'm completely alright, I live a very fulfilled … [Read more...]