Celebrating any and all mobility aids and other assistive tools for the freedom and autonomy they give us! Challenging the ideas that mobility aids equal giving up and that mobility aids are ugly. Submissions welcome. Send a message or tag this blog if you see a post that belongs here. **This blog is not run by a medical professional and does not give out medical advice; this blog is simply here to shine a positive light on disability aids** Likes will come from @fibromyalgicaf. [profile pic ID: a heart in the disability flag colours on a grey background. /end ID] [Header ID: Six photos side by side (only four on mobile) showing different aids in use. From left to right: (a man walking with a white cane), a person doing a wheelie in their manual wheelchair, a woman standing with her forearm crutches, a person taking a mirror selfie while standing with their rollator, a person sitting in manual wheelchair, (another person doing a wheelie in their manual wheelchair). /end ID]
Hi! Welcome! This blog is all about celebrating mobility aids, prosthetics, and other assistive tools for the freedom and autonomy they give us! Mobility aids don't ruin the fit. Mobility aids don't need to be ugly. Using aids and assistive tools isn't giving up. Aids, prosthetics, and assistive tools give us independence and support us as we interact with a world that is not built for us.
What counts as an aid?
For the purposes of this blog, anything that assists you, accommodates you, helps you overcome a barrier caused by a disability or chronic illness, or helps treat a symptom. Disability aids are more than just mobility aids, toileting aids, and adaptive cutlery. This blog considers AAC and medication to be aids, as well as things like therapy putty, food coloring and beanies/hats. Service dogs are also celebrated here. Handbikes count. If you have a disability (which includes chronic illnesses) and something helps or supports you, it counts!
Below the cut, you will find info about:
blog header 🩷 gif project 💛 submissions 🩵 asks 💚 the team
About the blog header
This blog's header features real people and their mobility aids. I'd still like to get a greater diversity so if you would like to be featured, submit your pics via an ask...
Open to all mobility aids, prosthetics, braces, and assistive tools.
If your photo shows your face or any identifying features, please make sure you're ok with that being publicly visible.
Please only send photos with a decent resolution.
Please don't send more than 5 photos.
Submitting a photo doesn't guarantee it will be featured
Gif Project (#DAP gif project)
I've noticed there's not many gifs of mobility aids available so I'd like to make some...
If you have video of your mobility aid (doesn't have to show you) that you would be happy to make public, please send it via an ask or DM and I can turn it into a gif! MP4 is the best format to submit your material in for this project.
Submissions
Submissions are welcome; show off your aids, share a story of how aids improve your life, share a recommendation, or anything else that is a celebration of mobility aids, assistive tools, and prosthetics.
Asks
Asks are always open (including anon). I can't guarantee I can answer all questions but I will do my best to direct you to resources when I can't give a direct answer. Sometimes I will just post your question so that other followers can answer.
When I answer asks, I tag them as #DAP asks
The team behind the scenes
This blog is owned by and posts are coordinated by @fibromyalgicaf (you can call me Jay)
Hi! I'm a 30-something person (they/them) living with fibromyalgia and a few other chronic illnesses which have removed me from the workforce so this blog is one of the ways I keep myself somewhat busy. I am a mobility aid user myself; I use a self-propelled wheelchair and a cane. I am not an expert in mobility aids or anything disability related (I'm fairly new to the disability community and still learning a lot). I'm simply here to spread awareness, and encourage positivity and pride about disability aids.
Helpers
As of September 2025, this blog is no longer a one-person initiative; Jay now has two fabulous helpers writing image and video descriptions! At this point, they've chosen to stay anonymous but they deserve a shout out because they're making this blog better!
If you'd like to join the team as an image describer, video describer, transcriber, or if you think you can help in another way, please send a DM ✌️
Anon with the cute ankle braces here! These are what I have
I love the color and pattern, they're like really cute fun socks!! They're from a website called bibipins. They've been really useful for me!!
Ooooh I love these! Thank you for sharing a photo!
[ID: Photo of a person wearing compression ankle braces over plain white socks. They have one foot up on the other knee. The braces are lavender color with yellow moons, clouds, and stars. /end ID]
Spring loaded scissors! I struggle to close my hand straight because of a coordination disorder, which makes normal scissors difficult to use. Spring loaded scissors open up a world of crafting possibilities for me!
I can’t send in a photo sorry, but for the decorating-aids-for-pride-thing I wove thread around my headphones in a rainbow and put a rainbow sticker on them! I wear them pretty much all the time when I am out of the house so it’s nice to be able to show pride while wearing them 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
That's a great idea (although it sounds like something that would take ages to do)! Thank you for sharing and happy pride! 🏳️🌈
[ID: a drawing of a wheelchair user with light brown skin & brightly colored clothing. a banner over their head reads “pride is for everyone,” and next to them is a small progress flag. the background is pink and decorated with drawings of various flowers, hearts, insects, and stars.]
To every LGBTQIA+ person, I hope you have a wonderful month celebrating and remembering those who came before. For the disabled rainbow folx, I hope you manage to find a little extra energy this month so you can celebrate too! Sending you good vibes ✌️
hey i was wondering if anyone (you or fellow followers) knew about a good back brace for arthritis? i don't know what form of arthritis it is but im having issues Every Time i sit without back support and even then im really bad about not leaning against it. Its getting me alot when im trying to sit with my birds or sit and read.
Company/website recommendations, specifications to pay attention to, and specific products are all welcome answers.
It's almost summer and I am thinking already about Halloween costumes.
Last year I couldn't dress-up as Ghost face because I didn't know how to put the long arms without putting me on danger while rolling on the wheelchair. This year I will do it right!
I'm exited about wear my costumes in my wheelchair ! Hope that I will get some good photos then.
I can't be ashamed of wearing costumes in the wheelchair because I love costumes and characterization
Wow you're thinking a long way ahead! Are you going to have a go at doing the ghost or something else?
Looking forward to seeing your pics! (if you feel comfortable sharing, of course)
I wanted to know about positive things about foldable lightweight power wheelchairs, because I don't seen any on the internet. I own a fodable lightweight chair btw
Thanks for advance ♿⚡
Community, do your thing! Share some positivity about lightweight foldable power chairs (asks and submissions are open, or tag this blog in your own post) ✌️
Lightweight foldable power wheelchairs can have some positive as mobility aids?
Yes I'm sure they do!
Not sure if you were wanting some ideas on what the positives are or something else so I'll leave it up to the community to respond to more, and I'll dub you 'foldable power chairs positive anon' in case you wanna send more anon asks ✌️
I don’t know if this counts, so feel free to delete if not!!
I love voice to text, specifically on Microsoft Word. I have ADHD and it used to take me about 8 hours to write a 1k word essay, but since I’ve started using speech to text, I can do it in less than two hours sometimes! I think I legitimately wouldn’t be able to do my (writing-heavy) major without this tool.
Yass! Voice-to-text is so helpful! (and yes, it definitely counts)
I personally use it when my hands hurt too much to type or sometimes when my brain fog seems to get in the way of converting thoughts to typing but I can still speak my thoughts fairly cohesively.
Thank you for sharing! And good luck for the rest of your study!
Are you decorating your aids or devices for pride month? Send in a photo via ask or submission (or tag this blog in one of your posts) for us to share!
(please include an image description if you are able to)
my cane!! I don't need it so often now (tho have a bad knee today), but it really helped me through bad time when almost whole right side of my body was in pain, so I decided it deserves some recognition
Mobility aids are awesome no matter how often they're needed!
Love all the stickers on this one!
[ID: Two photos of a shiny blue cane covered in stickers (including a Vegvísir, wolf, planets, a star, and one that says "space explorer") being held so it stands on the floor between the photo-taker's legs while they're sitting. /end ID]
Super specific thing I wanted to express appreciation for: I love that I never slide out of my wheelchair. Other seats, I can sit on fine but I tend to tense up and slide down in them after a bit. Not my wheelchair and its dump and comfy cushion :) thank you wheelchair!
