Disability blog round-up
The blogosphere has been demanding to know what's happened to Crippled Monkey's regular round-up of new blogs by disabled people out there on the interwebnet. With more and more 'crip-blogs' appearing every day, it's definitely time for a shout-out for those bloggers who sent me their details and asked for a plug!
First up is - wow, what a title! Peff is 21 years old and from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She's a female Aspie with two autistic brothers, and she created the blog so that she and her dyslexic boyfriend could write about their experiences and have a rant about Autistic Pride.
Next is which, as its writer Joy explains, is New Testament Greek for "I'm looking for a job". And yes, you guessed it, that's what this blog's about - a mental health'er searching "for a job that enables me to continue my self-indulgent dreaming about saving the world . . . and provides intelligent conversation, warm friendship and a decent cup of coffee". Mmm, coffee.
is the blog of a 24-year-old Ouch messageboarder with fibromyalgia. She seems to have a thing about rain, too: "I live in England where it tends to rain a lot. Actually, that's not entirely true; I used to live up North, where it rained all the time. Down South, it's not too bad". Blimey, hat's a lot of weather in one short paragraph.
I don't even know what the title of the next blog means, but is the site belonging to Caitlin. She describes herself as being "seventeen, going blind, suffering the many vagaries of teenager-dom / things". Ah, the teenage years. Crippled Monkey remembers his teens. Vaguely. They were a longtime ago, though.
Last, but by no means least - is it a blog? Is it a comic? Or is it a . Put together by a couple of familiar faces from the Ouch board - Lbarbs and jfsouthpaw - it's packed to bursting with expertly-drawn cartoons, each of which is accompanied by a transcript to make it totally accessible.
That's yer blog lot for now. Remember, if you've got a weblog that you think I should take a look at and feature here, drop a line to ouch@bbc.co.uk.
