Disability and Me
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Gill Atkinson, Deputy High Commissioner to Abuja, British High Commission, Posted on:
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Gill Atkinson, Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, shares her inspiring account of living and successfully working with an invisible disability. I was recently asked in a FCDO survey, ‘Do you self-define as disabled?’ At a personal level, the question annoyed …