Welcome to the LAMN Community Blog

This is your space for all things community at Laughing At My Nightmare (LAMN). Here, we share stories, updates, and voices from across the disability community including posts from our Board Chair, Tye Martin, and contributions from YOU, our amazing supporters and followers.

From personal essays and life updates to highlights of the impact your support makes possible, this blog is where humor meets honesty, and community meets action.

Check out our ongoing series “Tye’d and True” for a behind-the-scenes look at Tye’s journey and keep an eye out for features from fellow community members who are laughing through the chaos right alongside us.

Have a story to share? We want to hear it. This is your blog. Your voice matters here.

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A Remix of Episode 1 of My Podcast

Hi! I'm Mandi, the Queer Christian Disabled host of Beyond Beautiful: Disability, Liberation, Love. Beyond Beautiful is my space to share stories, truths, and tools that help us reimagine and build a world where disability, justice and love are at the center. People who have followed my journey for some time may remember when I first started podcasting, I created a podcast called Find Your Beautiful: Life through the Eyes of a Christian Disabled Woman. At the time, that title

Mandi

Jan 273 min read

Sometimes the greatest act of courage is simply being yourself.

Sometimes the greatest act of courage is simply being yourself. People will always question who you are, or worse, make assumptions based on their own reality or their ignorance. Never feel obligated to build your home on someone else’s toxic land. Those who truly love you will never need an explanation. Those committed to misunderstanding you were never looking for one. For many of us, especially those of us in the disability community, the world teaches us early to shrink,

Jeffrey

Jan 231 min read

Dwayne’s Pompe story

Hi everyone, my name is Dwayne; I will be 58 years old in March. I was diagnosed with Late Onset Pompe disease (LOPD) in November 2018 when I was 50. I live in Southern California in the City of Irvine with my wife and mother-in-law. I am a father to four sons, in which our oldest son passed from a brain tumor at age 22 about 7 months before my diagnosis. I am a grandpa and have 2 granddaughters, ages 3 and 5, and a new grandson born last Nov. My passion is to connect with ot

Dwayne

Jan 216 min read

No Matter How You Get There: Finding My Way Back to the Woods

How the Woods Pulled Me Back — and Why I Want Everyone to Get There. Life doesn’t always go the way you plan. One minute I’m a kid who grew up loving hunting and the outdoors in PA, the next I’m lying in a hospital bed because a dive into a lake in 1999 left me with a spinal cord injury that changed everything. I broke my neck at the C4-C5 level and suddenly I was living life from a wheelchair — quadriplegic. Doctors told me I’d never walk again. I wouldn’t have the same str

Greg

Jan 203 min read

It’s Okay Not to Be Joyful When Life Hurts

Why it's OK not to be joyful when things suck. It’s been a strange new season of packing up, unpacking and going through memories as we've moved into a new home. Some of this has been very emotional, packing away memories we have made and some of it is just fatigue from my energy being next to nil. One of the things that is super important to the hubby is finding a decent church to plug into. For me, I want kind people that understand that I don’t have the spoons to run progr

Amy

Jan 163 min read