Lauren Frankland

Before starting working as an advocate, I had spent more than 2 years unemployed. This was due to a combination of factors, but it mostly boiled down to ill health...

The narcolepsy community has long used this phrase. This is because, unfortunately, a lot of people still think of sleepiness this way. So many of us are shamed for our...

According to England and Wales-based disability equality charity, Scope, The (social) model says that people are disabled by barriers in society, not by their impairment or difference. Barriers can be physical, like...

In part one of this series, I looked into microaggressions and the things that people commonly say to me regarding my narcolepsy that can have an ableist sting to them...

Having narcolepsy is a daily struggle. One of the less often spoken-about difficulties can come in the form of ableist microaggressions. A microaggression is a “subtle, often unintentional, form of...