I’m working on a piece in word right now, not for here but for another project. And I wrote a sentence about being asked how having a disability affects certain things. Basically it goes “when I was asked how disability affects this my first thought was that my CP…”
Apparently that sentence is passive and the grammar check thinks I should instead write “my CP does not affect my disability…”

I only ran the grammar check because I wasn’t sure if it should be affect or effect and it was easier than looking it up and I end up getting into the Social Model of Disability. I really do believe in the social model but that sentence did make me laugh which I needed. Because my CP is not what disables me but it what causes society to disable me. So cp does affect my disability.
And for those who don’t know:

The Social Model of Disability proposes that barriers and prejudice and exclusion by society (purposely or inadvertently) are the ultimate factors defining who is disabled and who is not in a particular society. It recognises that while some people have physical or psychological differences from a statistical norm, which may sometimes be impairments, these do not have to lead to disability unless society fails to accommodate and include them in the way it would those who are ‘normal’. [from wikipedia]

My sister is on the train home from Manchester right now and she just text me the following:

“Ooh Emma they just announced on the train about not leaving luggage in the wheelchair spaces and that it’s a legal requirement. lol. yay!”

Maybe, just maybe they are finally taking this access to trains thing seriously. Now if only all train operators did the same. But hey lets not take away from the fact that this is HUGE.

I think Virgin Trains may now be my official favourite train operator.