I had an amazing experience as a disabled person at school in the 70s. Since then, discrimination has got far worse | Mik Scarlet
Toxic narratives around ‘benefit scrounging’, fed by successive governments, have become embedded in the national psycheAs a disabled person, you’re forced to repeatedly explain your medical history – but for this article, I think it’s important. I was born with a very rare type of cancer called a neuroblastoma. In 1965, it was pretty much a death sentence. Luckily, I took part in a clinical trial and, with only days to live, I had major surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy with…
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