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he/they | creaky knees | queer

[chasing-asterion]

This didn’t turn out so well but I’m trying to work on “relax and just paint” rather than “perfect.”

[gleamsocial]

A reminder to myself and others: It’s important to let yourself rest when you need it 💙

[crps-chronicpain-ptsd]

#Truth

#chronicpainproblems

[autistic--rory-blog]

autism is not a tragedy

[femcassidy]

i want you all to know that there is an artist (carmen papalia) who, after he started using a white cane, assembled a 12 foot long white cane and began using it in downtown vancouver. the length of the cane made it functionally useless as a device and the only purpose it served was making him an obstacle for sighted people. dare i say… 2019 goals

[femcassidy]

therapist to sighted patient: long cane isnt real and it cant hurt you

carmen papalia:

[id: a dimly lit photo of carmen papalia using his 12 foot “long cane” piece. he walks casually behind it. the cane takes up the majority of both the photograph and the sidewalk.]

[thevioletsunflower]

Okay I went to a conference where this guy was a keynote and he’s so fucking cool. He’s done a ton of art around disability rights. The twelve-foot cane is really cool, but here are some of my other favourites:

From the series on replacing his cane, this is one where he replaced his cane with a megaphone and would stand at intersections repeating “I can’t see” until somebody would stop and help him cross the street

Another cane replacement, this time replacing it with a high school marching band who would change the music depending on if there was something in the way or not.

A museum intervention where he got people at the MET to go through the museum with their eyes closed and experiencing touching things he’d gotten permission to touch (the floor in this image) and just exploring a visual art museum blind.

The Blind Field Shuffle, in which he has dozens of people form a conga line behind him with their eyes closed and leads them on a blind tour of the city - literally the blind leading the blind.

Wish I could find a better photo, but this is a museum gallery he curated where the works are almost at floor height, making them accessible to children, little people, and people in wheelchairs, but requiring abled people to bend down or sit on the floor in order to see them properly.

In short, this man is amazing and I love his work.

[captainlordauditor]

……okay, that last one is my absolute favorite

[fierce-pussy-deactivated2023121]

@wispqueen

[griffinmcelroyspisskink-remade]

I think more people need to add /s and /j into their online vocabulary and this isnt a joke whatsoever

/j stands for /joke and if u put it at the end of ur sentence that means ur joking

/s stands for /sarcasm and if u put it at the end of ur sentence that means ur being sarcastic

a lotta autistic people (and other neurodivergent ppl tbh) have trouble reading tones in peoples sentences so if you add /j or /s it doesnt like... distract from the sentence but it makes it clear that youre joking/being sarcastic, so people who wouldnt have necessarily read the correct tone will now know what tone its supposed to be conveying

Anyways. Use /s and /j

[autistic--rory-blog]

autism does not end at 18

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

Things Ableds have happily thrown disabled people under the bus for:

Empty boxes

A rack of mugs

A dish cart

One more parking spot

A few more cards

10’ less far to walk

Advertising

Inventory

Shopping carts

Remember folks, the Ableds do not care about you! Literally any excuse will do. :D

[gwydionmisha]

My bank uses disabled parking to store their dumpster.

Just Saying

[lesbian-thespians]

I was in a clothes shop a few days ago where they leave folded piles of clothes on the floor when there’s not enough space on the tables (I use a white cane and I nearly fell over them a few times) it wasn’t even the customers being lazy and leaving clothes on the floor it was intentionally set up like that

[just-over-it-all-deactivated202]

Locking your wheelchair lift and requiring disabled people to find an employee to unlock AND OPERATE it is a direct violation of the ADA.

“The [ADA] Standards require ‘unassisted’ entry and exit from lifts (§410.1). Situations in which platform lifts are locked and require users to request or retrieve a key for operation will not satisfy this requirement for independent operation.”

“Attendant operation, although recognized by the ASME A18.1 Standard, is expressly prohibited by the ADA Standards. Platform lifts must provide ‘unassisted entry and exit from the lift’ (§410.1).”

(Source)

Smells like a lawsuit waiting to happen…

[quadraxic-expression-deactivate]

This is not great, but it’s likely because people are fucking stupid and will screw around with it if it’s not locked up.

[just-over-it-all-deactivated202]

[ID: @gavrielabrahams “It’s probably because people were peeing in it.”]

You think people were peeing. In an open wheelchair lift. In the middle of a museum. With public toilets around the corner.

I think not.

But even if people had been peeing in it or otherwise misusing the lift… It. Doesn’t. Matter. It’s not just “not great.” It’s ILLEGAL. It is just as illegal to lock off a wheelchair lift as it is to not provide one to begin with. 

The correct response to people peeing in an elevator is never to lock the elevator. It is to provide a toilet. If you think the correct response to any problem is to violate the civil rights of an entire group of people by denying them access, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.

Disability rights are civil rights.

[just-over-it-all-deactivated202]

You want to know exactly how this went down? Let me tell you a tale.

I was visiting the museum with friends. They went on around the corner while I finished looking at the previous exhibit. I then followed them around the corner only to find I couldn’t get up to the exhibit because the museum AS PART OF THEIR POLICY had illegally locked the lift. My friends didn’t know the lift was locked (why would the lift be locked?) and had no idea that I couldn’t get to them.

Now I, the disabled person, am forced to travel halfway around the building to the front desk to find someone to unlock the lift for me, wait for them to finish what they’re doing, and then travel all the way back to the lift. This was bad enough in a wheelchair. Who else uses lifts? Oh yes. People who struggle to walk. Can you imagine, as a person who struggles to walk, being forced to walk halfway around a building, and then back again, just to access an exhibit? You wouldn’t do it. You’d skip the exhibit. You’ve just been completely denied access.

So finally the museum employee unlocks the lift and then operates it (because yes, they’ve made it so I can’t operate it myself, which is also illegal). I finally get to the top probably ten minutes later, only to find that my friends have finished looking at the exhibit and are heading down again, wondering what has happened to me. 

After I’ve gone to all the trouble to get up there, fuck it if I’m not going to look at the damn exhibit. So I look at it, then head back to the lift to go back down, only to find they’ve locked the lift with me at the top and gone back to the front desk.

If one of my friends hadn’t stayed up there with me, I’d probably still be up there. As it was, my friend had to go down the stairs, back around to the front, find an employee, and get them to come back and let me down. Leaving me sitting up there. Alone. For another five minutes.

Now imagine if I had gone to the the museum by myself. Or what if there had been an emergency? You think if there was a fire some museum employee who couldn’t be assed to leave the damn lift unlocked until I had come back down would really have run back into the building to unlock the lift so I could get down? I think not.

Locking an accessibility feature is never the right solution. It is denying access to an entire class of people. Which is ILLEGAL and a CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATION.

Disability law is civil rights law.

[lymmea]

When I worked at our local public library, we had some asshole vandal who’d go into our public bathrooms and smear shit all over the walls. Regularly. We eventually had to get the police in to catch them. Funnily enough, we never locked down the bathroom so that patrons couldn’t use it. It’s almost like public accommodations that people require for everyday function…need to be publicly accessible…no matter what kind of assholes misuse it… And that fact doesn’t change just because a smaller percentage of the public needs that particular public accommodation. If you think “well, how often are people really gonna need it???”, that’s your inner ableist asshole talking. (Don’t feel bad. Everyone has one, myself included. The trick is to know when to tell it to shut the fuck up.) Consider whether it’s fair to ask disabled people to jump through MORE hoops than an abled person has to for basic accessibility when it’s completely unnecessary. Like, the fact that the accommodations for them are RIGHT THERE and then PURPOSELY LOCKED OFF is beyond insulting. (By the way, you know how you can tell this shit is blatantly unfair? THE FACT THAT IT’S DOWNRIGHT ILLEGAL. You don’t even need to use your own common sense here, the law lays it out in writing for you.)

[chronicallylio]

“Can you imagine, as a person who struggles to walk, being forced to walk halfway around a building, and then back again, just to access an exhibit?”

[kendallandherstuff]

Shout out to the young disabled people

Shout out to other teens who can’t walk for too long because of pain.

Shout out to the teens in wheelchairs who feel like they dont need to use a chair.

Shout out to the kids with service dogs. You don’t have to let your class mates pet them.

Shout out to the deaf and blind kids who get told “i couldnt live like that” prove them wrong.

Shout out to the autistic/ aspies who get glares when they stim in public.

Shout out to the psychotics who only see themselves portrayed as monsters.

Shout out to the amputee teens and when someone does a double take, give them one right back.

Shout out to everyone with down syndrome or cerebral palsy, any one who calls you re**rded can fuck off.

Should out to every kid or teen with a rare condition. I know you feel alone, but you will find someone who understands.

Shout out to all my physically disabled or mentally disabled kids. Dont let people make fun of you.

Shout out to the neurodivergents who get told that theyre faking.

Shout out to YOU for fighting a fight so many people fear. You live with this condition and you rock. So put stickers on your mobility aid, stim in public, cry when you need to. The world is harsh and cold, but you, just for being able to live your life, is so much more powerful. We shouldn’t let our disablities put us down, but also know your limits. Be safe out there and make sure to drink plenty of water. You will get looks, but its just because theyre jealous of how awesome we are.

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

Gee do you think maybe there would be more experienced disabled actors if you hired more disabled actors so they could gain experience.

[systemgender]

USE UR MOBILITY AIDS, YOU DESERVE IT

[smoldragonborn]

your body positivity doesn’t mean shit if it doesn’t include disabled people

[sydrave]

And this means not just celebrating the ‘disabled’ parts of their bodies bodies, but celebrating their atrophied bodies, their limping bodies, their fat bodies, their malnourished bodies, their pale bodies, hairy bodies, twitching and flinching and cursing bodies, unhealthy bodies, hurting bodies, black bodies, brown bodies, trans bodies, medicated bodies, sexy bodies, bodies that can’t diet or exercise, tired bodies, resting bodies, mobility aids, pouches, pockets, tubes, needles, monitors, and everything else that comes with it.

Disabled people’s bodies will be different, not just in reference to their specific impairment, but because of many other factors resulting from it and other identities that intersect. Our bodies deserve some love too 💛

[petitegoose]

[spoonie-humour]

“You’re too young to be so sick!”

“You’re too young to be using a mobility aid!”

“Why do you rest so much? You’re so young!”

[gif: Hades from Disney’s Hercules saying “I know! I know. I know. I got it. I get the concept” while his hair flares from blue to red]

[dronta-deactivated20200104]

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

I’m not vagueblogging anyone, but I think it really needs to be said that healthy, abled people literally cannot understand the level of fatigue that chronically ill people have to live with.

I know this because my mom has had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome essentially my entire life, but I couldn’t understand her fatigue until I got sick myself.

I know this twice over because when I got extremely ill with Lyme Disease, she couldn’t understand my fatigue. Twenty years of CFS and she would chastise me for not doing some things she thought I should be doing, even when I said I was too tired. A few years later, her condition worsened and she apologized to me, saying that it was only then that she got it.

So please, don’t think that the tiredness you’ve dealt with is comparable to what a chronically ill person has to fight, every minute of every day, to try and scrape by an existence. In fact, don’t even try to understand, because you can’t. 

Just believe them when they tell you how bad their fatigue is.

[al-ways-ti-red]

hello yes so everything hurts and I feel like

d e a t h ™️