Disability Pride month UK embracing difference

Hi everyone, I hope that life is treating you fairly. Next month in the UK is Disability Pride month. I was alerted about this through my email so I know. I am diagnosed with autism and have had experience of an eating disorder and being in treatment for anorexia nervosa in the past. Today I am doing much better with my physical health.

Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition, but in the UK it is also defined as a disability. I see it as also as being a blessing in my life, although it can have difficulties as well. My conditions I do not let them define me as a person or limit me, but I just work around what is helpful to me and try and avoid when I can what is not helpful for me. Galatians tells us to revel in the good attributes of a condition (Galatians 4:13) for some of us who experience some degree of infirmity. This means allowing God's glory to be magnified and displayed through our weaknesses and we supporting others as well through our uniqueness. Gold is the colour of disability for autism in the disability pride flag.

I sent a letter of feedback to London Transport regarding noise and tied it in with Disability Pride month and made a short video of a journey as well. What I wrote about is not an isolated feedback issue and they do at times try and make the problem less offensive in London

Dear London Transport
Hello my name is Rachel and I am diagnosed with a neurodiversity. I am diagnosed with Autism. I have severe to moderate sensory issues with hypersensivity and hyposensivity. I also have other disabilities. I also suffer from a condition called pulsatile tinnitus in the ears.

I do like to try to go out at least every now and then.

I live in London and am on the Central line. I find the line between Leyton and Mile End station extremely loud which does harm to my ear canals and my hypersensitivity with Autism and the loudness can make me hypersensitive.

Other tracks on this line between stations on this line are also extremely loud. I have seen other autistic people struggling with the loudness on trains. This can put me of from travelling as much as I would like to because of the sensory issues.

This month is Disability Pride month in the UK. if possible make a change and review this in the spirit of equality and that it is disability pride month and reduce the noise between stations. These are very old let's look at this again.

Restoring justice

Let's make a change

I have filmed an example to show how loud it is.

Please reply to me when ready how we can move this forward

Rachel