I broke my brain

I remembered and then I forgot. TBI and brain tumor survivor, eternally tired. Disabled, chronically ill, HoH and a whole lot of other things I can't remember. Minors DNI. She/her.

[fibro-memes]

[yujateaandpi]

Was driving with my grandmother and in broken English she says “no eyes… no nose… no face. Don’t trust.” To which I looked around wildly in search of this omen of ill portend.

Cybertruck. It was a cybertruck.

[dailycatsblog]

[fibro-memes]

[cowsabungus]

Pride month!

Pride needs to be accessible, and that's more than a ramp and a disabled loo.

ID in Alt Text

[flowercrowncrip]

hey, if it’s ok could you tell us more about your specialist rehab chair? I’ve not heard of that before.

A specialist rehab chair is an indoor chair designed for comfort for people who can’t use a standard recliner usually due to having complex postural needs when seated. Like custom power chairs, they’re very individual to the user, and the features vary based on the postural needs of the person using them.

IDs: four photos of different specialist rehab chairs. They are all medical looking armchairs on small wheels that resemble those on a hospital bed or shopping trolley. The first chair is side on and shows a tilt-in-space feature. The second chair has a highly adjustable vertebrae-like backrest which can accommodate an asymmetric posture, the third has a waterfall style back for comfort and pressure relief, the fourth has a horseshoe shaped cushion to support the head and shoulders as well as lateral supports. / end IDs

They’re usually on wheels and can be pushed by a carer to facilitate transfers or moving between rooms indoors. But they are difficult to push even indoors and can’t be used as a wheelchair for mobility.

The one I have has powered tilt-in-space and my carers can manually adjust the angle of the backrest. It is fitted with a specialist pillow to support my head, neck and shoulders, a chest harness, lateral trunk support, and a padded tray for postural support and to allow me to do activities and have meals. It’s also adjusted so that the armrests also keep my legs in alignment. It provides a high level of pressure relief for both the backrest and cushion.

For me it’s much more comfortable than my powerchair, and allows me to do more than I can do while propped up in bed.

[anxietyproblem]

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

[official-lucifers-child]

so make it

Cunt

[andrikq]

I feel like this is something @theshitpostcalligrapher would write.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

no no this one is a @carpe-aurore, I do chunkier scripts and she does a copperplate that would slay this

[carpe-aurore]

:3

[thirdity]

“Life occasionally made me belong, as if to give me the measure of what I have lost by not belonging. And then I realized: to belong is to live. I felt this with the thirst of someone lost in the desert, gulping down the last drops of water in a canteen. And then the thirst returns, and I’m walking through the same desert.”

— Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life

[pinkbowsandstripedsocks]

[edwardspoonhands]

Honestly, Tvyek is pretty miraculous. It’s permeable to water vapor but not to water, it’s nearly impossible to tear, but can be easily cut. It’s cheap and made entirely without binding chemicals. In addition to being used for wristbands, it’s used to wrap construction sites to keep out water during construction, for tear-resistant envelopes at Fed-Ex, coveralls for mechanics, and my wallet, actually.

Fun tip, though it looks like paper, Tyvek is plastic, and cannot be recycled with paper.

[fairypsychicarchive]

[andromedafalls]

holy fuc

[piisbetterthanpie]

I didn’t even know it had a name

[only-tiktoks]

[britney-j-christ]

[softservecanine]

You’re completely correct. Out of my way, able-bodied losers. Fuck you.

[rebelculture]

[jurassicpeanut]

No bond stronger than a disabled girl and her disabled cat

[catmat]

"The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is." Marcel Proust

[stvrgirl3636]

[catmat]

Tw: sexual harrassment/assault ?

A week ago, I went to physio for help better my balance from brain tumor surgery last year. I've been going there for a few months but this time, something happened.

As I was waiting for my appointment in the large open waiting room, an older man in a wheelchair came up to me and we started talking. He said I look too young and healthy to need physio but I told him I actually have a brain tumor and need help with my balance. He apologized for assuming I was fine, and that was ok with me. We started talking about being disabled and I thought to myself, "this is great. I finally get to speak with someone irl who understands what it's like living with a disability". He gave me a friendly pat on the arm once but it was fine, nothing nefarious and it didn't bother me.

All was good and the conversation was polite but then, because I was wearing a mask, he said leaning in close to me, "why don't you take that mask off so I can see that pretty little face of yours" and he began stroking my shoulder and my upper arm slowly. Now, I'm terrible in situations like this because I'm polite and don't want to provoke things further or cause things to escalate so I said, "I'm recovering from an illness and wouldn't want to pass it onto you". He then kept touching me and said, "I'll take my chances, it's worth it to see your beautiful face". His groping didn't stop. I told him that I was going to keep it on and eventually he backed away and luckily I was called in for my appointment.

I know i should have handled this situation differently but I froze. I was also really disappointed as there was another man a few feet away from me who witnessed it all and didn't say anything, plus a female receptionist. I'm also sad because I don't get out much and when I finally got to speak with someone who I could relate to, this happened.

It's just disappointing on a lot of levels and men seem to be being really gross around me within the past few months (I don't know why) and it just really sucks.

[windows-in-art]

Portrait Of An Enemy.

Lucia Heffernan

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

Okay, can we talk about Lucia Heffernan though?

[tzikeh]

Okay but they’re referencing Triple-Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell