hi, we're the chirality system! (after months, I'm finally making an intro)
we help run an endo-friendly plural community discord server -> (ecosystems)
( ↓ about us / our tags / other blogs )
--- about us:
we're an adult-bodied system. we consider our body to be disabled (physically and mentally), intersex, jewish, and sex-repulsed. we don't label our system origins (or gender, or sexuality) and don't care what other people label themselves as (or not) either. if that kind of thing bothers you, go ahead and block us or something
we don't really care about tumblr discourse or who follows us either, but if you're fakeclaiming people, trying to start shit, spamming, or posting nsfw, we're gonna block you.
we're not gonna introduce every single headmate here and now. you can go through our tags to get to know us, or join the server and say hi
also, biology is our biggest special interest. we love fish and bugs and evolution and chemistry and science. if you follow us be prepared for random pictures of creatures
--- tags we use:
#@(headmate) - things that remind us of (insert headmate here), i.e., #@merit for their stuff
#(headmate) rb - who reblogged a thing, mostly for our own information
#kyle talks - host posting stuff occasionally
#lee posting - cohost posting stuff occasionally
#our art - hopefully self explanatory. we draw sometimes
#good art - others' art we like
#danny tag - our weird cat & stuff that reminds us of him
#rob tag - stuff our brother would think is funny
#saved for later - stuff we should probably look back through at some point
--- our blogs:
#disorder stuff - CDD resources, experiences etc
#intersex stuff - same but for intersexuality
this one - plurality, disability, queer stuff, bugs, fish, misc
honest to god we've got to start naming the elderly as a vulnerable group & calling their disabilities, disabilities. we sugarcoat and distance these things by only calling them "elderly," "old & frail," etc. most of them are disabled.
too many people completely separate disability from themselves in their mind. it's something that happens to other people. other sad people i don't want to think about. are they really even people, it's too much to bear thinking about that happening to a person... those background characters over there. it would never be me, i can't cope with thinking about that possibility.
this mass denialism of the fragility of the human body (YOUR human body) has created a whole category separate from the disabled - the "elderly." since anyone can join it if they live long enough.. no they can't be disabled. that's scary, and worse it's political. so they are just "old." so what they lost their hearing, their mobility, their heart function? that's just how it goes for old people. as if that's not a person as real as you. as if you wouldn't be devastated if that happened to you today (and it can btw). as if you won't be when it's your turn to be old, and disabled.
simultaneously the disabled are dehumanized as not people, and the elderly are dehumanized as not disabled. so the illusion of disability as separate can be upheld.
My grandparents lived to 98 and 103. Read that again— 98 and 103. My grandmother died 5 months ago and was born in 1923.
She was extremely wealthy. My grandfather left her millions. She paid about 13,000 a month for her care.
And her nurses abused her. She could do nothing. She could not speak for herself, feed herself, clothe herself, and the humiliation they made her endure was disgusting. When she tried to express discomfort, they gave her drugs to “keep her calm” (keep their shift easy). We fought like HELL to hold that fucking place accountable. The only reason we were aware is because we hired a private nurse on her behalf, too.
The elderly are a massive, extremely vulnerable, and disabled group. You cannot leave them out of your advocacy, you cannot leave them out of the conversation. “They’re loud, they smell, they’re opinionated, they’re rude, they make me uncomfortable”. I don’t care. I don’t care! They need your advocacy too! I want you to think, if my grandmother— who was in the best retirement home she could afford, with a personally hired third-party nurse to step in where the other carers failed, had such abhorrent care… what about everyone else? What about all the elderly who don’t have a support system?
Brother (increasingly frantic): Yeah but I’m, I don’t wanna fuck it up. Is it— what does that mean you said she/they and then you said “oh wait no use they/she,” which one do I use?
Person filming: They- they more than she.
Brother: Oh god
[laughter from the person filming]
Brother: Okay, like, how- how much more though? Is it like if- do I- am I being an asshole if I say, like, they maybe like 4 times and she 2 times?
also shoutout to my really tired old white guy gynecologist who when i said "i want a hysterectomy" did not push back at all and instead sighed, and without looking up at me from his tablet went "We'll have to do a bunch of stuff for insurance because it's a scam and otherwise they won't approve it" and then after laying out the plan walked me out and i dont know if we made eye contact once after shaking hands, which is exactly the kind of medical care i want in this day and age.
sitting outside saw a dude in a dark blue jacket and black pants jog past my house nd a few minutes later a woman wearing the same exact outfit and same hair color comes back from that direction jogging past again #trasngener ?
if someone says its pronouns are it/its, remember that means its pronouns are it/its!! respect your local it/its user today and get its pronouns right!!
This is actually why I identify as a human therian too. I am a wild animal but that doesn’t mean I’m not human too, some of my animalistic instincts and thoughts don’t come from other species— but my own.
Human society as we all know it now hasn’t existed for very long, this isn’t our nature.
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