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    How do you travel on public transport?

    @ukxmrv oh my god, that sounds dreadful. I usually choose the newer train lines as they are less crowded. The older line that serves my area is impossible crowded. I'm not keen on a wheelchair as people here 1) hog lifts meant for wheelchair and pram users. They literally all rush into a lift...
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    How do you travel on public transport?

    I think awareness of this isn't even good where I am. And there's been incidents of people snapping photos of people who are visibly well for not giving up their seats, posting them on social media and starting an internet mob over it. As I often travel in my work uniform, I'm terribly afraid of...
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    How do you travel on public transport?

    I've just been diagnosed with fibromyalgia yesterday by a pain specialist after years of everyone tossing me into psychiatry whenever I complained about pain because my pain started with sensitivity to needle sticks and tactile defensiveness (I do have some sensory processing issues and a...