boyfailurr

minor / disabled / schizophrenic / cancerous, fear me

[crippled-peeper]

“but ALL mental illness is stigmatized!!!!” man shut the fuck up lol what planet do you live on where adult diagnosis ADHDers get violently abused the way institutionalized schizophrenics are . you are a disgrace

[cripinpain]

“well you wouldn’t say x to a wheelchair user???”

wrong, they absolutely would. stop saying this shit while trying to raise awareness for neurodivergence and mental health.

[siffrin-enthusiast-deactivated2]

i wish every engineer a “try going around your building in a wheelchair”

[cccat-in-a-meat-sack]

I'M SORRY WHO WAS GOING TO TELL ME THAT THESE WERE THE PAIN, FATIGUE, AND MENTAL HEALTH SCALES???

Pain Scale transcription:

10 - I am in bed and I can’t move due to my pain. I need someone to take me to the emergency room because of my pain.

9 - My pain is all that I can think about. I can barely move or talk because of my pain.

8 - My pain is so severe that it is difficult to think of anything else. Talking and listening are difficult.

7 - I am in pain all the time. It keeps me from doing most activities.

6 - I think about my pain all of the time. I give up many activities because of my pain.

5 - I think about my pain most of the time. I cannot do some of the activities I need to do each day because of the pain.

4 - I am constantly aware of my pain but can continue most activities.

3 - My pain bothers me but I can ignore it most of the time.

2 - I have a low level of pain. I am aware of my pain only when I pay attention to it.

1 - My pain is hardly noticeable.

0 - I have no pain.

Fatigue scale transcription:

10: can barely move; can’t talk

9: can barely move; can talk

8: can move, but can’t do much more than watch TV

7: can watch TV and play a game on my phone simultaneously

6: can do work on my computer lying in bed

5: can get around the house, but definitely couldn’t go out

4: can run a light errand

3: can get in my 10,000 steps, making my fitbit happy

2: can do three or more activities in a single day

1: going clubbing!

Mental Health Pain Scale transcription:

MILD

1 - Everything is a-okay! There is absolutely nothing wrong. You’re probably cuddling a fluffy kitten right now. Enjoy!

2 - You’re a bit frustrated or disappointed, but you’re easily distracted and cheered up with a little effort.

3 - Things are bothering you, but you’re coping. You might be overtired or hungry. The emotional equivalent of a headache.

MODERATE

4 - Today is a bad day (or a few bad days). You still have the skills to get through it, but be gentle with yourself. Use self-care strategies.

5 - Your mental health is starting to impact on your everyday life. Easy things are becoming difficult. You should talk to your doctor.

6 - You can’t do things the way you usually do them due to your mental health. Impulsive and compulsive thoughts may be hard to cope with.

SEVERE

7 - You’re avoiding things that make you more distressed, but that will make it worse. You should definitely seek help. This is serious.

8 - You can’t hide your struggles any more. You may have issues sleeping, eating, having fun, socialising, and work/study. Your mental health is affecting almost all parts of your life.

9 - You’re at a critical point. You aren’t functioning any more. You need urgent help. You may be a risk to yourself or others if left untreated.

10 - The worst mental and emotional distress possible. You can no longer care for yourself. You can’t imagine things getting any worse. Contact a crisis line immediately.

Tag yourself I'm 4, 6, and somewhere between 1 and 10 depending on when I've last seen a chicken

[boyfailurr]

im so sick of fucking trying to open the dumb fucking doors . i’m in my dumb fucking wheelchair and can someone open the fucking doors

[boyfailurr]

im in pain again lol

[bonelessenthusiast]

if you block the curb cut with your car, have the day you deserve

[fleetstreetpies]

Hey fellow disabled people? Please drink some water and some apple or orange juice if you can. Have some potato chips or something to eat. Take a nap. Take your meds. Take a bath or shower if you have the spoons.

The world is pretty much rigged against us, but we deserve to live too. We deserve love and connection and respect and compassion and support.

You are not alone. You are loved and cared for. I care. I wish I could do more than this to support you, but at least I can be here and hopefully help you feel a little less alone and feel a little more comfortable in your own existence by standing with you (although I currently cannot physically stand /lh).

[ahyenabro]

It's amazing how differently people treat you based on what mobility aid you're using. When I'm using my cane I get funny looks from people because I'm a young person and "do you really need that?". Almost nobody holds the door for for me and when I drop something almost nobody helps me pick it up.

When I'm using my forearm crutches people are a little nicer but not by much. I get less funny looks and more people hold the door for me, but still hardly anyone helps me pick up stuff I drop. And if I'm out alone shopping or something, nobody helps me reach stuff on high shelves unless I ask. I get not wanting to come off as ableist by offering to help, but if you see someone clearly struggling you might want to step in.

Now when I'm using my wheelchair, that's a whole different ballgame. Almost everyone is holding doors, helping me pick up stuff, helping me with high shelves, and being really nice to me. But people often infantilize me when I'm using a wheelchair. They always smile at me, which sounds nice, but it's usually in a way you would smile at a little kid out in public. If I'm with someone then people will talk to them instead of me, and if I'm alone people will talk slowly to me or in a high pitched voice.

It's literally not that hard to be normal around disabled people I just don't get it.

[duality-disability-deactivated2]

ah yes, daydreaming of owning a good quality manual wheelchair so i dont have to worry about my legs giving out from under me. A normal, ablebodied daily activity

[love-me-love-my-weirdness]

Something that really sucks about being disabled is places say that they’re accessible but they aren’t.

I’ve been to places that claim to be accessible where

the ramp’s too steep

there are steps they didn’t mention because “it’s only two or three”

the doorways are too small

there aren’t any elevators to the top floor

the floor is too rough to easily push on

exhibits are displayed in ways that are impossible to see from a wheelchair

the doors don’t have a push button

tables/exhibits are put way too close together

the surrounding paths have no curbs

Without those things, it isn’t accessible. You can’t put a sloped piece of metal on your doorway and call that wheelchair friendly.

[muttren]

perfect representation of what it’s like to be bed bound because of chronic illness /disability.

[love-me-love-my-weirdness]

Shout out to the ten year old who just got diagnosed. Shout out to the housebound fourteen year old. Shout out to the eighteen year old who can’t go to the university they wanted. Shout out to the twenty two year old who can’t get a job. Shout out to the twenty six year old with a caretaker. Shout out to the thirty year old who can’t buy their own house.

Shout out to young disabled people. We exist.

[mybodychoseviolence]

hi god this body is fucked and i would like to exchange it for a new one. no i don’t have the receipt can’t you just look me up in your system. i want to speak to your manager

[bloodanddiscoballs]

The thing about the r slur is that people who are using it again are indeed using it as a slur. This isn't a word that is being reclaimed. This is a word that is once again being used 100% as a slur. You're being a bigot if you're using it against others. Straight up. There isn't another argument to be made. Knock it tf off.

[bloodanddiscoballs]

I know some of you want to be all negative and stuff, but we actually did drop this slur in the MAJORITY of the population for a number of years. There were whole campaigns about how cruel the slur is and that it IS a slur. Mental R*tardation stopped being used as a diagnosis term. Movies and shows stopped using it. Believe it or not, but there was actually a period of time in the early 2000's where there was legitimate social progress being made with regards to lots of the language we were using that spanned many different areas and many different groups of people. We have swung wildly the other way, as history shows tends to happen, but I do believe it will swing back the opposite way before settling to a reasonable respect between groups of people. That's how it works.

Which is why it is important you call out bigotry when you hear it and when you see it. Don't let this kinda thing gain traction again. Care about those around you even when they piss you off. Don't be a bigot. Do better.

[darkskywishes]

I just have to say that one of the most annoying parts of being a wheelchair user is how random strangers will automatically start pushing you without your consent. Who taught people this was okay? Apparently the fact that it is wrong to do this is not common knowledge, so I will lay it out:

If you see a wheelchair user, please do not automatically assume they need your help.

If you’re genuinely concerned they need your help, please ask them first.

If they tell you they’re okay on their own, please respect that.

If they do need help being pushed, please do not assume you know where they need to go.

If a wheelchair user is in the way of where you need to go, it is still not okay to push them without their consent. Make them aware that they are blocking your path, and they will move out of the way on their own.

It can be genuinely frightening to have someone you don’t even know come up behind you and start moving you around. It can also cause injury to the wheelchair user, if their hands get caught up between their wheels and the pushrims because they weren’t expecting their chair to suddenly move.

I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to ask before pushing someone’s wheelchair. Treat their wheelchair like an extension of their body; you wouldn’t simply pick up an able-bodied person and place them where you want them to be, would you?

[crippled-peeper]

“POTS is when you get dizzy when you stand up” and scoliosis is just bad posture. and endometriosis is just bad periods. and -