Nell Tyler

Sometimes, I have big thoughts

  • My response to the NDIS Bill 2026

    Reading through the NDIS Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026, as someone with a physical disability and Autism Spectrum Disorder, and with friends with various disabilities including intellectual and physical disability, I am not left feeling secure in my future, or theirs. Rather, it makes me feel intense unease and anxiety about…

  • Disability pride, shame and grief

    July is Disability Pride Month. Pride months and pride events are a curious phenomenon. If you’re not part of a minority and as such haven’t experienced a pride month from the inside, then it might be tricky to understand how it can feel. Even my own feelings, as someone who fits under the disability and…

  • So, you’ve become disabled – now what?

    What happens when you become disabled? How do you feel? How do you cope? How do you react? How do you respond to life when you realise you have no control? How do you respond to the train going off the tracks? How do you respond to the plan going into the bin? You’ve become…

  • Choosing my own path and purpose

    What do you do when the person you realise you’re becoming is so far away from everything you were raised to be? When you don’t feel like you were made to colour within the lines, it can take a lot of effort to force yourself to stay within them. You can spend your life trying…

  • Stop popping my balloon

    A podcast episode I made a while ago expressing the feeling of constantly having set-backs in life, like having a balloon constantly popping. How do you keep blowing the balloon back up when you know it will probably burst all over again? Do you keep going? Or do you just acknowledge that all the trying…

  • The leopards ate Caitlyn Jenner’s face

    An off-the-cuff discussion about a situation that occurred a couple of months ago. A transgender woman in the United States became very upset when the anti-transgender policies of the anti-transgender government affected her – despite her voting for them. She thought she would be an exception. She thought, surely they won’t put her in that…

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