Hypermobility

The pain.The hope.

[painandcats]

hatred of disabled people doesn’t have to be blatant:

complaining about “people who walk slowly”

calling people with specific dietary restrictions needy/fakers/high-maintenance/etc.

insinuating someone isn’t responsible if they’re “living in their parents’ basement”/some variation thereof

insinuating that students with disabilities are actually “cashing in on special treatment”

praising what are basically snuff films about disabled characters

defending the casting of abled people for disabled roles

defending paying us lower wages

[volaee]

-being invasive about our private lives and our disability -casually dismissing our concerns & objections to ableism as unimportant -attempting to compare and contrast disabled people against each other (whether they have the same disability/ies or not) for the purposes of inspiration or shaming us for how we choose to live our lives -along the lines of the last one - presuming that any two people experience the same or similar disability in the same way -pretending to know our own needs and capacities better than we do even when you don’t know us at all -becoming angry and exerting your power over us when we point out how your actions and/or words were harming us to start, but then claiming your behavior is induced because of other reasons (gaslighting)

[bodyfallingapart]

“Seasons In the Abyss:” by Gabriel Headington

"The depressingly, enragingly usual arguments around austerity measures and historical epidemiological failures perfectly describe this phenomenon but a solution can’t be approached until we change the way we think about disabled and chronically ill people"

A very reflective article of what's wrong in the disability circles.

[liquor-n-love-lost]

Natsuki Dancing – Gabriel Headington – Medium

Doki Doki Literature Club’s Aftertaste in the Era of A 1 in 5 Suicide Rate.

“…, a suicide being linked to a Visual Novel I braced for impact as more than one unlettered news outlet tried to justify how a single set of images and sounds accounted for an entire case study of depression and it’s suicidal extreme, with only clinical deference to the affected party. Rather this time the link between the game and the death was made by a forensic coroner eschewing the clinical aspect of what they do to send out a broader warning about the death’s circumstances. Not the first time this has happened but the first time it’s ever concerned a literature club full of cute two dimensional girls.“

[zebra1997eds-blog]

I need your help!!!

I’m in microbiology and we get to decorate an icosahedron (20 sides) I wanted to make it all about EDS. So please comment your best comments on EDS that you feel like people should know.

[flo-writing]

Reblog if you’re chronically ill, support chronically ill people, or you fell over putting pants on this morning

[chronicallyliv]

You know you’re a Spoonie if…

you dread weather changes.

[vegquaker-deactivated20180725]

Current mood

[this-isnt-my-bra]

Once my friend Henry was accused of wearing wireless headphones by a substitute so she said for him to hand them over so he took them off and handed them to her. Then later on she asked him a question and he didn’t respond so she said it louder and he still didn’t respond. She asked why he was not responding and he said “I can’t understand you ma'am, you took my hearing aids.”

[lolodapsycho-deactivated2017030]

HOLY SHIT

[mamoru]

one time we had a sub that was handing back papers and called my name. I asked if someone could grab it for me and she started mocking me for not even standing up. taunting me asking why I was not walking up to the front to get the paper myself.

my classmates went dead silent and after the sub’s laughter ended someone informed her that the wheelchair parked nearby belonged to me

[silver-rayn123-deactivated20181]

I had a sub in English once, on presentation day. And everyone goes up and does their thing, and then its my turn. The whole time im stuttering and mixing up my words, having to stop and re-say my sentences. The rest of the class is used to this and claps. However, by the time its over, the teacher is 100% done.

Starts saying horrible thing about how im going to have to get over my ‘fear of public speaking’ and how she’s heard 8 year olds give better presentations (plus worse things but I don’t really member them). By then im in tears and on the brink of a panic attack, and then she starts telling me off for crying The rest of the class is horrified. Then this boy stands up. He never been my friend and we never really got along, but he’d never bullied me. He told her in a pissed off, cold voice that in freshmen year I got a concussion and that I never really recovered from it, so all that was medical related and I couldn’t help it. Then he starts telling her off and the rest of the class joins him.   The teacher is mortified and tries to cover her ass, but the whole class walked out and that boy took me by the shoulders and we all walked to the principles office and told him what had happened. Lets just say she isn’t teaching anymore. Also, turns out that boy had a sister like me, who couldn’t really speak. We’ve been best friends for 8 years and i’ll be his best woman at his wedding next year.  The moral is that Teachers, even subs, and adults shouldn’t scold kids before knowing the whole story, because shit like that can fuck up kids self-esteem for the rest of their life. 

[quixylvre]

When I was thirteen, I had to have spinal surgery. When my doctor said I was allowed to attend school again, he said I had to use a wheelchair when on school grounds. My first day back at school, my special-ed teacher had put up a banner in her classroom that read, “There is no elevator to success. You must take the stairs.” I asked what that meant regarding my wheelchair, and she gave me detention for “disrespecting her authority”. The next week she gave us a homework assignment to design a poster that could potentially be used as a Public Service Advertisement. On the due-date, I handed this in.

My special-ed teacher was fucking OUTRAGED. She wanted me expelled for ridiculing her authority in front of the other students. The principal proclaimed my work to be “a masterpiece of satirical genius” and vetoed the special-ed teacher’s attempt to expel me.

[chaotic-carnifex]

Reblogging this post yet again, this time for the masterpiece of satirical genius. Hope the teacher got in trouble.

[honeyvoicedfem]

quietly from under a pile of pillows: im very tired

[chronicallyrebellious]

How about we don’t make disabled people feel guilty for things they can’t control

“It’s such a waste to get you food cause you’re not gonna finish it anyways.”

“You should be grateful I’m willing to mow the lawn since you don’t do it ever.”

“Don’t be pissed off at me, I was just pointing out how I constantly help you; be grateful, DAMMIT.”

Believe me, if it was up to me, I wouldn’t ask for a damn thing from you.

[crpl-pnk]

for some disabled ppl their disability is a gift that they feel they’re a better person for having & they wouldn’t change it for the world for some disabled ppl their disability is the worst thing that ever happened to them & they’d give anything not to have it for most disabled ppl their disability is neither or both. their feelings are somewhere inbetween or all over the map. completely neutral or shifting between the extremes all of these are perfectly valid relationships to have w/ your disability. none of them are wrong or right or inherently healthy or unhealthy. they just are what they are. if you wanna improve your relationship w/ your disability that’s fine. if you don’t that’s fine too. the only thing that’s not fine is telling someone that their relationship w/ their own disability is wrong

[liebebee]

I! Am! So! Uncomfortable! In! My! Body! Right! Now!

[bodyfallingapart]

[mychronicthoughts]

“Why do you lay under all those blankets and wear so many layers it’s like ten zillion degrees outside wa wa waaaa……” 

mY bODY doEsn’T regUlAte itS oWN teMpERatuRE 

[bodyfallingapart]

Stomach: *raging hunger, includes pain and headache*

Stomach: *loud obnoxious noises, grunts and similar*

Stomach: *raging puke desire, more pain*

Me: Just another normal day.

[crpl-pnk]

it is ok to mourn the life your disability didn’t allow you to have. it is ok grieve for the experiences you will never get. it doesn’t make you a bad anti-ableist. i promise

[crpl-pnk]

feeling this post from the earliest days of cripple punk in my soul right now

[ciaocasper]

I am not a "fussy eater". I have special dietary requirements due to my illness. Thanks.

This has been a PSA.

[whatsuprubberduck]

When I Wake Up & Realise I’m Still In Pain...