Myrian's going back to her roots - making the invisible visible.
Myrian P is raising money for Meningitis Now
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Living in the Grey: life is not black or white, nor are you….(let our true colours shine through)
Thank you for visiting my fundraising page. I'm raising money for several charities that have helped me over recent years and continue to support me and Meningitis Now is one of them.
As someone with unseen disabilities - an acquired brain injury due to viral meningitis and encephalitis and more recently Crohns disease, I face a daily challenge of managing not just at home but out in the world. I am aware that life with unseen disabilities isn't black and/or white and you aren't just your disability... life with unseen disabilities is about living in the grey in so many ways.
The aim of the LITG challenge is to raise awareness of hidden disabilities and hopefully some money for charities and organisations that support those with hidden disabilities.
Come join me on the Living in the Grey Challenge (LITG).
The LITG challenge is about you RevEALing to the world something that you hide away...a talent or skill, or maybe like me, your natural hair colour whilst at the same time raising money for your chosen charity that supports those with hidden disabilities.
Personally, I am doing this by going back to my roots. I have decided to stop dying my hair and let my very grey hair grow out...yikes.
I’ll be charting my progress along the way on social media (yikes again) until my hair is completely its natural colour - grey (and lots of pepper too!).
And thus (“Living in the Grey” should now hopefully make sense) making the invisible (grey hair usually covered by dye), visible....a metaphor for, well, unseen disabilities… and hopefully raising awareness and money along the way for the charities that have helped me and continue to help me.
I'll post regular photos and updates of my journey on Twitter @millionflowers1, Instagram @millionflowersUK and Facebook (Living in the Grey - raising awareness).So please tag me, follow me, join me and share your LITG via social media.Lets jump start a national discourse on unseen disabilities together. If enough people do this, we have created a national campaign all out of one action. Who knows?! Im just taking one little step, so come walk along side me...
Our voices are louder together let's shout!
Maybe united we will be heard and a difference will be made.
The ultimate goal of the Living in the Grey campaign is: to raise awareness of unseen/invisible disabilities nationwide and to work towards having a universally recognised symbol that those with unseen/invisible disabilities can choose to wear so that they may also be understood in public. Not have to explain themselves or be judged.
"You are not just your disability...you are more, what is your more?”
This page is for Meningitis Now, the only charity dedicated to fighting meningitis in the UK and the first of its kind in the world. It has invested over £12 million over 30 years in early stage research. By donating to Meningitis Now you will be aiding research into this unseen disability and improving the lives of the millions affected by it.
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