🎁 What you get, free
✍️ The wording for nine different situations. This is the page people come back to. Find the row closest to yours, standing, heat, delayed payback after exertion, bad mornings, commuting, unreliable focus, open-plan noise, scented products, needing water and salt at your desk. Each one gives you the sentence to write and two or three adjustments to ask for. None of them name a condition.
⏱️ Ten minutes instead of three weeks of dread. The letter is already written. You fill in the blanks and press send.
🔒 Your diagnosis stays yours. The wording describes what you can't reliably do, not what you have, so nobody gets your medical history as the price of a chair.
📅 A record that outlives your manager. A dated written request survives reorganisations, new bosses and "I don't remember agreeing to that."
✅ A request people can actually say yes to. Vague asks get vague answers. This one is specific enough to be approved on the spot.
🇺🇸🇬🇧 The right words for your country. Two complete letters: reasonable accommodation under the ADA for the US, reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 for the UK. The terms are not interchangeable, and the wrong one sends your request to the wrong desk.
📋 A checklist for before you send, and what to do after. Twelve things to run through first, then what to do if nobody replies, if the answer is no, or if you get "let's see how it goes".
🗣️ Why asking out loud rarely works
You mention it in a corridor. Your manager nods. Nothing changes, and six months later there's a new manager who has never heard of it.
Writing it down changes the outcome, not just the paperwork. It lands in a real process. It forces the specific ask. And you get to write it once, calmly, instead of explaining a fluctuating illness out loud while exhausted.
⚠️ The mistake that costs people the yes
They describe the diagnosis instead of the limitation.
It feels like the honest thing to do. In practice it moves the conversation onto your medical history, where you keep justifying yourself, instead of onto the adjustment, where someone can simply approve it.
The kit hands you the wording that works:
💬 Standing for extended periods brings on symptoms that make it unsafe for me to continue the task.
💬 I am reliably able to work later in the day, and unreliable in the early morning.
In most situations you are not required to name your condition at all. If you decide to, that's your call, later, and on your terms.
🔢 Two or three requests, not nine
This is the other thing the kit is firm about. A letter with three specific requests reads as a plan and can be answered. A letter with nine reads as a complaint, and it invites negotiation on things you never needed to raise.
The same goes for what you offer in return. Don't propose making up hours in the evening if evenings are when you are finished. An adjustment you can't sustain is worse than no adjustment at all.
👤 Who it's for
Anyone working with a long-term health condition who needs something to change and doesn't know how to ask. Written with POTS, hypermobile EDS and MCAS in mind, but nothing in it is condition-specific, so it works for any fluctuating illness.
📬 Send me the free kit
It arrives in your inbox straight away as a printable PDF, with both A4 and US Letter in the same file. Over the following weeks you'll also get the wording for the hardest line, what to do when nobody replies, and how to plan around what a working day actually costs you.
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❓ Questions
💸 Is it really free?
Yes, completely free, no card, no trial. You give an email address, you get the kit. Unsubscribe whenever you like and the kit stays yours.
🩺 Do I have to tell my employer my diagnosis?
In most cases, no. Your employer generally needs to understand the functional limitation and what adjustment would help, not your full medical history. The whole kit is built around describing the limitation rather than the condition. Rules vary by country and employer, so check your local framework.
⚖️ Is this legal advice?
No. It's a starting structure and general information about a workplace process. If your request has already been refused, if the situation is contested, or if anything about your job feels at risk, speak to an employment adviser, a union representative or a lawyer before you send anything.
🌍 I'm not in the US or the UK, is it still useful?
The structure is. Most countries have some equivalent process, and the six parts of the letter are the same everywhere: that it is a formal request, who you are, what you can't reliably do, what you're asking for, why it works, and what happens next. Look up your national framework and your employer's internal policy before sending.
📄 What is actually in it?
Five pages. Page 1 sets out the six parts of a letter that works and what to leave out. Page 2 is the wording table, nine situations with the sentence to write and the adjustments to ask for. Page 3 is the US letter and page 4 is the UK letter, each on its own sheet so you can print just the one you need. Page 5 is the pre-send checklist and what to do after you send. The file contains both A4 and US Letter, A4 first. If you'd rather type into it, any PDF app lets you fill it in on screen.
📮 What if nobody replies?
Follow up in writing after ten working days. One line is enough. It puts the request back on someone's desk and it extends the written record, which is the part that matters later. Page 5 covers this, along with what to do if the answer is no or if you are offered a trial.