So, I had this old Google Blogger account and I started posting stuff on there in about 2013 as a way of expanding on Twitter posts.
“I wanted to somehow keep the old posts that going by the feedback seemed to help others”
Around about that time I was struggling with the long term effects of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident in 1979. I was also acutely aware of how the UK’s coalition government (elected in 2010) were hacking away the support that many thousands of disabled people depended upon just to live a basic, meagre and frugal existence.
Having been officially declared ‘disabled’ in 1979, I felt great empathy for those much worse than me who the Tory/LibDem government were hounding, removing vital social security, and worst of all vilifying as a “Look at those scroungers” political distraction, aided by sensational headlines perpetrated by their friends in the right wing press.
Anyway, my twitter account (Also BaffledApe) became very political, and a place to rally support and highlight the outrageous attack on some of the most vulnerable people in society by the Cameron/Duncan-Smith government and their “Yellow Tory” LibDem enablers.
I found that with around 1,300 followers, some of my posts particularly the personal ones about Chronic Pain, PTSD and the long term mental health issues related to major injury, had quite a reach and the positive feedback more than justified my ‘baring all’ as a form of personal therapy.
However, the twitter account is no more. Deleted in 2020 in despair at what twitter had become! Google tell me they will be taking their ‘Blogger’ platform down at some point, so I have been resurfacing here. I wanted to somehow keep the old posts that going by the feedback seemed to help others, and that is why they are appearing here.
Update: February 2021 – I’ve dipped my toe back into Twitter, how long for, we shall have to see.
If you made it this far, thanks for reading.
In this group of archive posts;
Added 26th May 2021 – 5 Years! RIP Dad – A Truly Great Father
Irrational Fears: Meditation And Fear of MRI Scans …
Baffled Ape 