Disability Forums

foxxymynx

I thought it would be good to have a list of disability forums? I personally didn't find one until some time after becoming disabled and the forums have helped me no end.


General Disability Forums
www.uhad2bthere.co.uk (website and forum) www.uhad2bthere.co.uk/swap-it/
https://www.mobilityfriends.co.uk
http://happyjackforum.co.uk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch (click message boards for forum)
http://www.ablemagazine.co.uk/
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk
www.disabled-entrepreneurs.net (for setting up yur own business)
www.bbact.org.uk (This is the Blind Business Association)

Specific Conditions Support Forums
Asperger and ASD http://www.asd-forum.org.uk/forum/index.php? and http://www.wrongplanet.net/forums.html
Autistic Spectrum Disorders (Children) www.jelibean.com/
Arthritis www.arthritiscare.org.uk
The Bipolar Organisation (MDF) http://www.mdf.org.uk/
Birmingham Focus on Blindness www.birminghamfocus.org.uk
Cancer (MacMillan) http://share.macmillan.org.uk/Share/Forums/?category=49
cerabal palsey and hemi-plegua (children) www.hemihelp.org.uk
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome/Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy http://www.fightingrsd.com
Deafness http://www.rnid.org.uk/ http://www.tuneouttinnitus.org.uk/ http://www.rnid-typetalk.org.uk/
Diabetes http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-forum/viewforum.php?f=12
Fibromyalgia http://www.fibromyalgia-support.org/forum/index.php
International Glaucoma Association www.iga.org.uk
Lupus http://www.lupus.org.uk/
Marfan Association http://www.marfan-association.org.uk/
M.E. www.ayme.org.uk <-Association of Young People with M.E. http://www.afme.org.uk/ Brainfog http://www.brainfog.org/phpBB2/index .Foggy Friends http://www.foggyfriends.org/forum/ adults only forum - http://www.islandoffog.org/forum/index.php
Mental Health www.mind.org.uk www.mentalhealth-world.org.uk www.rethink.org
Motor Neurone Disease www.mnda.co.uk
MS Society www.mssociety.co.uk
Multiple Sclerosis Resource Centre's Message Boards at http://msrcsharing.yuku.com/
Muscular Dystrophy www.muscular-dystrophy.org and www.actionduchenne.org (duchenne being the most common and severe type of MD)
Ostomyland http://ostomyland.com/mainsite/ Forum and information for people with ostomies
The pituitary foundation. http://www.pituitary.org.uk/
Raynauds Disease http://www.raynauds.org/
Renal:- http://www.britishrenal.org/
http://www.thetransplanttrust.org.uk/
http://www.kidneypatientguide.org.uk/site/contents.php
http://www.kidneyresearchuk.org/
http://www.livelifethengivelife.co.uk/index.php
http://www.kidney.org/patients/
http://www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/
http://www.britishkidney-pa.co.uk/
http://www.transplantsupportnetwork.org.uk/about.htm
http://www.transplantbuddies.org/
RNIB http://www.rnib.org.uk/messageboard/
Spinal Injuries http://www.spinal.co.uk/e-00.aspx includes weekly chat and helpline
Syncope Trust and reflex Anoxic Seizures www.stars.org.uk
Uvetis www.uveitis.net

Other Useful Links
Cerebra. http://www.cerebra.org.uk/ and http://www.specialkidsintheuk.org/ (see post #25)
East ussex Disability Forum www.esda.org.uk
Employment Advice http://www.opportunities.org.uk/ and http://www.shaw-trust.org.uk/page/5/
Benefits http://www.dwp.gov.uk/
The Spoon Theory (see post #28) http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/
Information on disabled access etc http://www.directenquiries.com
I'm sure there's loads more...

kevsam65

Thank you foxxy..... as I've said in previous posts , I'm newly " disabled" , and I've got to say , its only through disabled friends and peeps on here that I'm beginning to find out all these things I can get help with!! :T

I've bookmarked those links , and I will most definately be having a good nose later on!!:D

sam.x

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Thanks for the links, I'll have a look!

I use this forum a lot http://www.asd-forum.org.uk/forum/index.php?

foxxymynx

I was thinking, maybe we should have all the links in the first post so that we don't have to trawl the thread to get all the links? I'll copy and paste them into the first post if everyone is ok with that?

Savvy_Sue

I think that's an excellent idea, foxxy.

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Another one for ASD/Aspergers is http://www.wrongplanet.net/forums.html

Horace

Thanks foxy - I can think of a few, when I have found them I will let you know.

Horace

Foxy please can you add these to your list? They are for people with visual impairments:

https://www.iga.org.uk (International Glaucoma Association)

https://www.birminghamfocus.org.uk (this is Birmingham Focus on Blindness - a great organistion who have a shop too and give loads of useful advice etc.).

amanda40

One I use frequntly is www.arthritiscare.org.uk They have a few different forums, including working life, and one for young people with arthritis.

bails

Great idea and great thread, thankyou!

Miss_Dior_x

Great thread.
Perhaps you could add this one to the list.
https://www.ayme.org.uk
association of young people with M.E.