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Why I didn't sleep last night part 2

 As I write this, I’m feeling a bit tired but reflecting on how I slept reasonably well last night after attending an event. This experience reinforces my belief that staying up later helps me sleep better, and I’ve discussed this with a manager of my housing facility who agrees and will address the concerns of those who are worried about my late-night schedule. I actually managed to sleep through the night, only waking up a couple of times for a quick snack and to adjust the temperature with my electric blanket. Though I’m still dealing with some pain, being tired seems to make it less noticeable. I started writing this before a support shift and am curious about how I’ll sleep tonight, as my week has a basic structure, but my day-to-day life varies significantly based on what I need to accomplish or where I need to go. I did have some coffee in the afternoon because I was tired, and I’m interested to see if pushing myself to the point of exhaustion might help me sleep better. Ton...

a life more ordinary what does it mean lets unpack disability jargon

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 This is the first thing we need to know is what is an ordinary life as we have content creators and YouTubers as a legitimate career option these days, we are also seeing that lives are mostly lived online and people who choose to on their weekends go hiking, canoeing or fishing are called extreme, I know that there is such a thing as extreme hiking where you go long distances with very little prep and the city version is to go urban exploring ( generally at night or in abandoned palaces to find interesting things. In Australia we don’t have much scope for extreme hiking due to the heat and cold but long distance is definitely a thing, but we then get to what is an ordinary life when it comes to disability and this is straight from the NDIS website, about life more ordinary,  and how they use it to decide support’s and this then goes into we need to know what is a disability. “An ordinary life is a life where you have the same opportunities as people without a disability....