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Supporting disabled adults and families through our online wellbeing community & programme and supporting professionals working with disabled people through training and supervision Spokz People provide psychological and emotional services for disabled people, their partners and families and training and support for health professionals working with disabled clients and families.

13/10/2026

For us disabled people, having a good carer or PA changes everything.

A good carer or PA makes the difference between existing and actually living.

They notice when you’re about to burn out before you do.
They know which doors you’ll struggle with, which days your energy will crash, and when to step in without taking over.
They turn “I can’t manage that alone” into “we can do this.”

The opposite, distracted, under-trained, or just not present carers can leave us isolated, exhausted, or in real danger.

So many disabled people have had to deal with a carer who shows up late or other issues that had to lead them to firing their carer or PA.

If you have any carer stories, feel free to share them with us.

🖼️ Image description : A young brown woman with dark brown curly hair held back by a black fabric headband is looking up at the sun on the left. Her lips are parted and her eyes are closed

She is wearing a long sleeved cream T-shirt and light blue jeans. She is enjoying the sun in her wheelchair.

Beside her is her carer. A young man with dark hair and round golden glasses is slightly smiling. He is sat on the ground on the right of the woman and is also enjoying the sun. He has a short-sleeved khaki shirt that is open, revealing a white T-shirt.

Behind them, we can see leafy green potted plants as a modern white home.
©️Home care & Assistance via Pinterest

07/10/2026

A lot of us in the disability community experience this low-level grief of watching non-disabled people take basic autonomy for granted.

Just the fact that they can decide on a whim to stay out late, change plans, walk somewhere new, or just exist in a space without calculating pain, access, or recovery time.

Some of us often carry an ongoing awareness of how much narrower our spontaneous choices are, and it rarely gets named because it doesn’t sound “inspirational” or in line with the "love yourself no matter what" narratives on social media

Like sure, we can love ourselves and value our lives and it’s not envy in a jealous sense.

But it’s a specific, ambient grief that builds up over years of watching other people move through the world with a freedom that isn’t available to us.

This doesn't get talked about much and that's why we set up Spokz People

🖼️ A brown woman who is a wheelchair user. She is in front of a white framed window and brick wall.

She has short curly hair that is dyed blue and purple. She has green eyes and has very distinctive 2016-like glam makeup with eyeliner and eyeshadow as well as bold dark brows. She is smiling as she looks at the camera. She is wearing a leather jacket that is open, revealing a black crop T-shirt decorated with 3 badges (one green, one yellow, one black).

She is wearing a black mini skirt and shiny black ankle boots.

Her wheelchair isn't customized.
©️bamkurtainbear13 via Pinterest.

30/09/2026

Do you know a disabled or chronically ill adult who would LOVE to meet a group of supportive peers they could talk to ? 💜

Does this person find traditional therapy limiting and inaccessible?

Does this person want to meet a therapist who has lived experience of being disabled??

Does this person want to find self-paced online modules to learn to self-regulate and self-soothe when faced with challenges we all experience as disabled individuals?

If so, look no further than Spokz People

Tag people who would LOVE to be part of our community.

As always, if you can't afford the £5/month, we are more than happy to find an arrangement 💜

🖼️ image description : Spokz People's QR code with our SP logo in the middle.

27/09/2026

One of the more unexpected things we’ve noticed on our social media is that some of the strongest pushback we ever got came from other disabled people.

There’s a particular kind of friction inside the community, where some disabled people just decide that other disabled people need to "adapt more", to "get over themselves" and feel like they have a right to tell others how to live or mange their disability.

It stings more than external ableism because you expect solidarity but instead you meet the same minimising, only this time from people who should understand.

A lot of this comes from internalised ableism. Most of us grew up absorbing the same messages as everyone else: that disability is tragic, that independence is the only measure of worth, that some conditions are more legitimate than others, and that resources and sympathy are limited.

When you’ve spent years fighting to be taken seriously, it can feel safe to police the boundaries of “proper” disability.

But that's not what our community is about. We meet every week on a safe online space to vent, validate each other and give each other tips.

If you want a supportive environment, look no further than Spokz People: https://spokzpeople.org.uk/

Image description 🖼️: A light purple background. On this purple background, we can see a purple 3D heart that says in purple lettering with some shadowing : " Your ableism is sad. My disability is not".

©️ Art from an unknown author, sourced on anti.capitalism art's Pinterest.

20/09/2026

Stop touching disabled people’s stuff without our permission !!!! 😡😡😡

Today someone moved my suitcase from the bottom rack to the top one on the train with zero warning. No “is this okay?”, no eye contact, nothing. I didn't even see them doing it.

They just decided they knew better.

This happens all the time. Bags, wheelchairs, crutches, shopping, mobility aids, random strangers feel entitled to grab, move, “help” or rearrange our things like we don’t exist, for their own convenience.

What feels like a favour to them can completely mess up our access, energy, or ability to manage our stuff independently.

The bottom rack was usable. The top one often isn’t. I was left dealing with a problem I didn’t create, in public, while already managing everything else that comes with disability.
Consent still applies when someone is disabled. If it’s not yours, don’t touch it unless you’re asked.

It’s not helpful, it’s just inconsiderate.

🖼️ Image description : We are in a neutral room. On our right, we can see a caucasian woman with a lovely purple, pink and white flower crown on her tied up brown hair. The woman is a wheelchair user and she is wearing a navy long sleeved T-shirt and navy jeans. She is facing the right and looks at us from the side. She is smiling. Behind her, we can see a navy travel backpack on the floor, a larger navy suitcase with it's handle out. We can read on its side in grey letters "Never stop exploring". Perched on it, we can see a large "The North Face" red travel bag.

©️ Marilyn McDowell via Pinterest.

17/09/2026

How do people respond to your chronic illness or pain?

Hi everyone Ashton is a chronically ill person and a researcher studying chronic illness.

Alex is looking for people to take part in a short study about invalidation, when other people dismiss, minimise, or don’t take your pain or illness seriously and how that affects both mental and physical health.

You can take part if you’ve had pain or a chronic illness (including ones that come and go, or are linked to bodily functions) for 3 months or more. This includes conditions like endometriosis, prostatitis, chronic back pain, fibromyalgia, arthritis, IBS, and many others.

Alex is especially keen to hear from men and non-binary people, as these experiences are often missing from existing research.
You don’t need to have experienced invalidation to join, all perspectives are valuable.

Alex is really passionate about this work and plans to publish the findings next year.

If you’d like to take part, just click the link below ⬇️

https://rmit.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_23GFbrH8DSVxTls

Thank you!

13/09/2026

There is nothing wrong with personalising, customising, bedazzling, decorating your mobility aid ! 💎

You're also allowed to possess useful things that look nice!!

🖼️ image description : Purple painted crutches with pearls on the top and along the crutches, ivory flowers with purple and white ruffles at the top and along the crutches.
The crutches are laying against a sage green wall and on a grey carpet.

08/09/2026

TRIGGER WARNING : ABLEISM !! ⚠️😡❌

The Telegraph’s latest piece on “sickfluencers” is a masterclass in ableism.

It treats people sharing the reality of chronic illness and disability as if they’re performing a trend just because some wear pastel graphics, use pink mobility aids and share “life update: I have a chronic illness” posts.

The article questions whether those conditions are even real enough to take seriously. Especially when the people talking about them are young women.

That’s ableism and it's misogyny.

It assumes disability only counts if it’s visible, severe, and conveniently quiet and if it's not a woman discussing it. It frames the act of finding community and language for conditions that doctors have dismissed for years as somehow suspicious or performative. And it completely skips over why people end up online in the first place: a benefits system that is hostile, assessments that don’t believe you, and a medical system that still gaslights a lot of patients.

Sharing your experience isn’t “making disability cool.” It’s people refusing to stay invisible while the systems that are supposed to support them keep failing. Calling that a problem says far more about the writer than it does about the people living it.

🖼️ Image description : A picture of deaf author and actress Samantha Baines. She is a Caucasian woman with short curly brown hair golden acorn-like earrings, a small silver nose ring. Her left arm is up. She has many bold silvery rings and she is holding a transparent cane with a white and pink 3D design inside.

Samantha is wearing a fuschia dress with a short-lived collar and sleeves and a mesh-like skirt featuring 3d circles.

She is sitting on a British train.

Over her, we can read screenshots of the Telegraph article : "The Telegraph" - "Young women, nicknamed "sickfluencers" are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity."

04/09/2026

Ever wondered who our therapists with lived experience were and what their personality is like?

For those of you who haven't joined Spokz People yet, meet Brigitte. 💗

Warm, comforting and great fun, Brigitte has been a fabulous addition to our team.

If you're a disabled or chronically ill adult who wants to join a weekly online peer support group hosted by a therapist who knows what's up, feel free to join us!!

Leave any questions to Brigitte in the comment section 💖

30/08/2026

Let's talk MONEY 💷

Disabled people in the UK are almost twice as likely to live in poverty as non-disabled people. For working-age adults it’s 33% versus 17% according to jrf.org.uk.

That gap isn’t some natural fact of life. It’s the result of extra costs that average £1,095 a month just to reach the same living standard (heating, equipment, transport, care) while benefits and wages rarely cover the difference.

We’ve got used to treating this as normal. It isn’t. A society that lets disability routinely push people into poverty is choosing that outcome. Higher bills, lower employment chances and inadequate support aren’t inevitable; they’re policy and priority failures.

We don’t have to accept it. Better support with the real extra costs of disability, proper access to work, and benefits that actually match reality would change the numbers. The alternative is quietly agreeing that some lives are allowed to cost more and be worth less.That’s not good enough.

Image description : An illustration shared by Vez. It shows a black woman with a green mullet wearing small gold hoops a long sleeved green T-shirt under a dark oversized T-shirt with a yellow butterfly in the center, plum baggy pants and green pumps. She is using plum-coloured crutches. On the green background, we can see in 2 separate black bubbles her saying " Being disabled shouldn't" - "equal being poor".

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Dale House, 64 Fink Hill, Leeds
Truro
LS184DH

Opening Hours

Tuesday	10am - 1pm
Thursday	10am - 4pm

Telephone

+441543399760

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http://www.spokzpeople.org.uk/

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