Fibromyalgia and Academic Identity

The Social Course of Fibromyalgia: Resisting Processes of Marginalisation mdpi.com/1427176 #mdpiijerph via @IJERPH_MDPI

Excited to share my @MDPIOpenAccess article "The Social Course of #Fibromyalgia: Resisting Processes of #Marginalisation" published in the Int. J. Environ. Res. Public #Health special issue #ChronicDisease, #Disability, and #CommunityCare mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/1…

@globetrotteri @foghornNat And having dental work done….

@foghornNat @FibroIdentity I felt that way too until I asked here and realized it wasn't just me. I discovered a lot of #fibromyalgia and #MECFS patients suffer from this and it was SO validating. This article gets a lot of traffic. I wonder why it's not mentioned more, tbh! Take good care! #NEISvoid

Question for #MECFS and #Fibromyalgia patients: How many of you experience crashes or a massive flare-up of symptoms after a blood draw? What do you experience?

Pls help. Created a new installation to represent #fatigue and tiredness when walking. Not sure what to call it though. Any suggestions? #Untitled #InMyShoes #WalkWithMe

What special opportunity today to present from my PhD and the fibromyalgia study that was the starting point for my @AbleismAcademia work and @UCLpress @policypress books: nicole-brown.co.uk/fibromyalgia-e…

What special opportunity today to present from my PhD and the fibromyalgia study that started it all: nicole-brown.co.uk/fibromyalgia-e…

Very excited to have opened my parcel containing the @policypress book #LivedExperiencesOfAbleismInAcademia Thank you to all contributors!

In a new BERA Blog, @ncjbrown & @DrSchniff explain why academia is frequently ableist, excluding those w/ invisible disabilities & chronic illnesses – and why the Covid-19 pandemic has opened new doors to them. bera.ac.uk/blog/invisible… @FibroIdentity @AbleismAcademia @suprachem.

Research journal competition!! #WritingCommunity #AcademicTwitter #phdchat #phdlife Tag me as you share pictures of your research journal and you may become named feature & contributor in @policypress @BrisUniPress book “How to make most of your research journal”. Pls RT!!

So... it's December? This month I'll reflect on some of our 2020 Conference Inference highlights & share our top 10 viewed posts this year. First up is @ncjbrown's fab post. @AbleismAcademia @FibroIdentity @AcademicChatter @EmilyFrascatore conferenceinference.wordpress.com/2020/07/13/con…

This poem resonates so strongly with how I feel on a daily basis. Thank you @DivyaSnape for sharing your words #Fibromyalgia #academiclife

"Much of what people experience around disability in academia is hidden for fear of stigma and the perception of not being able to ‘keep up’." says @erg42 in her chapter of the @UCLpress book #AbleismInAcademia. Free to download from here: uclpress.co.uk/products/123203 #ChronAcCOVID19

"Two key issues relating to having a chronic illness as an invisible disability within an abled-normative educational environment: invisibility and fluctuation" say @CarlaFinesilver @drschniff @ncjbrown in @UCLpress book #AbleismInAcademia uclpress.co.uk/products/123203 #ChronAcCOVID19

"The decision about whether to disclose or to hide a condition is an act of self-preservation, information control and impression management – thus it is identity work" says @ncjbrown in the #AbleismInAcademia book #ChronAcCOVID19. Download from here: uclpress.co.uk/products/123203

"What hurts more is that people who don’t have a clue". In her poem Fibromyalgia and me @DivyaSnape highlights the experiences of an invisible condition. The @UCLpress book #AbleismInAcademia containing the poem is free: uclpress.co.uk/products/123203 #ChronAcCOVID19

"It’s what I need to cope in this place that wasn’t built for me." The poem "A little bit extra" by @ellenspaeth embodies the lived experience of disabled academics. The @UCLpress book #AbleismInAcademia containing El's poem to download: uclpress.co.uk/products/123203 #ChronAcCOVID19

Read of the Day: "Ableism in Academia: Theorising experiences of disabilities and chronic illnesses in higher education" by IOE's @ncjbrown aka @AbleismAcademia & @UniKent's @DrSchniff, freely available on @UCLpress uclpress.co.uk/products/123203 @FibroIdentity #ableism #openaccess

@melissanpj @UCLpress @ucl_discovery Thank you! This is greatly appreciated!

@FibroIdentity @UCLpress @ucl_discovery Going to read this right now! Thank you for sharing.

“Disclosure in academia: a sensitive issue” is Chapter 3 in the @UCLpress book #AbleismInAcademia and is based on #Fibromyalgia research @ucl_discovery pls RT? jstor.org/stable/pdf/j.c…