happily disabled

congenital myasthenic syndrome DOK7♿

[guildenstern]

i feel like most people don't realize that disability benefits in the us depend almost entirely on how long a person was healthy before becoming disabled, and how wealthy they already were. like if you become disabled as an older person who previously had a decent paying job you can recieve literally four times as much money every month as the maximum amount that someone who has been disabled since childhood will. this is seen as legally justified because people who've worked longer and earned more money have "paid into the system" for longer and in greater amounts and are thus seen as more deserving of assistance.

[disablednotdisposable]

Imagine making your child stand in the corner as punishment and yelling/hitting them when they can't stand for long enough only for them to need a wheelchair for a rare genetic disease 2 years later

Couldn't be my parents

Oh wait 🤣😭

[i-need-to-remake-my-blog]

abled people are so self-centered that they project themselves onto disabled people, and it's so fucking obvious.

'that's so sad that you're confined to a wheelchair' bitch maybe for you that would be confining bc you are abled-bodied, but for wheelchair users that's FREEDOM. that's mobility and movement and joy. why can't you see that.

'wow it must suck having to take all that medication, i could never do that, it's not natural' well hey you don't actually need the medication, for those of us who do it can vastly improve our quality of life. or keep us alive!

'why don't you work full time? it must be nice to work part-time and have so much free time' some of us can only work part-time because of our disabilities, and it's not a luxury. many of our 'off' days are actually days spent recovering from work days, or bedbound, or unable to do much of anything.

and i could go on. it's honestly infuriating the way ableds center themselves even when it makes no logical sense.

[didebauchery]

Dude I wish I were faking my disorders, do you know how annoying it is to live like this? Lmao.

[darklesmylove]

me, with debilitating chronic pain: please can i just have some time to rest and not have to work 40 hours a week to survive

capitalism: wHaT a LaZy fUcK LoOkiNg fOr hAndOuts

[myalgicencephalomyelitiscfstom]

[myalgicencephalomyelitiscfstom]

[chutzpadik-moved-deactivated201]

if your disability activism doesn’t support belligerent disabled people, disabled people who refuse meds or therapy, disabled people who don’t trust the system that’s fucked them over too many times to count—if your disability activisim depends on disabled people being nice or respectable or willing to be made into inspiration porn—it is not good disability activism.

[ionlytalktodogs]

Ppl are always like “it would be so much easier to be disabled if society wasn’t ableist” and in a general sense they’re very very correct but it would also drastically improve my life if my immediate family was just like…ten percent less ableist. Like that’s all I’m really asking for. Maybe just! Don’t make a disgusted face when I use mobility aids! That’s it that’s literally all I’m asking for.

[punkrorschach]

This kicks ass. Disabled activists are protesting for their rights in South Korea by literally just riding the train during rush hour.

[punkrorschach]

full article

[randomishnickname]

Wheelchair Users Block the Seoul Subway as the Right Takes Power

The hostility of the conservative party has pushed the disability-rights movement to the center of a larger fight for minority groups in Sou

Image description: Clippings from a newspaper article, reading:

"Wheelchair Users Block the Seoul Subway as the Right Takes Power.

The hostility of the conservative party has pushed the disability-rights movement to the center of a larger fight for minority groups in South Korea. By Lee Hyun Choi, April 20, 2022.

Disability rights activists, many of them in wheelchairs, have been staging subway protests to demand accommodations on public transit. And on this day the demonstrators chained themselves to each other and to a portable ladder, reenacting a 2001 protest where activists chained themselves to the subway tracks. Now they shouted, “Pass a budget for disabled citizens! No rights without a budget!” They boarded trains in groups, which requires transit workers to install and uninstall wheelchair ramps, thus causing delays. A few of the activists had recently shaved their heads in public, a monkish ritual of sacrifice. Lee Hyoung-sook, who leads a local advocacy group, was among those with her head shaved. At Gyeongbokgung station, she tried to board the train en route to Hyehwa station. Subway workers brought out a ramp so her wheels wouldn’t get stuck in the large gap between the platform and the car. Four more wheelchair users waited their turn to board in other sections of the train. While workers moved their one ramp around to get every wheelchair activist on board, the subway doors kept closing in on them. “Fellow citizens, we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience,” Lee told her fellow passengers. [...] “We are waiting to hear back from President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s transition committee by April 20 on how they plan to ensure our basic human rights,” she explained. (April 20 is Korea’s National Day to Abolish Disability Discrimination.) “We hope to hear that the new government will do the bare minimum to safeguard our rights. But if we don’t, disabled citizens will resume boarding rush-hour trains again.” End image description.

@queeranarchism @hater-of-terfs @anarchistmemecollective

[disablednotdisposable]

The doctors ordered my first wheelchair in 2nd grade but i had to leave it outside in the literal rain and just crawl on my knees for 15 years(or never go anywhere in the house) because nobody wanted to change their lives for a disability😅 so now I'm learning how to actually be in a wheelchair at 27 after all this ableist shame has been taught to me and it's frickin hard help

Also hella knee problems that could have been avoided but whatever l digress

[traumasurvivorshelpingsurvivors]

It's okay to dislike being touched. It does not matter if they're your parents, siblings, friends, caretakers, family members, or anyone else. You are allowed to uphold your boundaries.

[disablednotdisposable]

[ionlytalktodogs]

Daily reminder that disability is not a punishment, no matter what. Anyone can become disabled at any time and that includes you, it is not retribution for doing bad things, it’s just a fact of life.

[opalsiren]

being chronically ill is just. the world hates me. i have found such great community through people with similar experiences to me. i am never going to get better. i want to get better. the world wants me dead. someone showed me one iota of compassion and the world is beautiful again. my symptoms are flaring up and i wish i was never born. ha ha funny chronic illness meme. no one will ever know my body like i do. i love my body. i hate my body. i forgive my body. i wish my body belonged to someone else. no one understands. a stranger online thousands of miles away understands deeply.

[disablednotdisposable]

It's that easy. 🥺❤️

[disablednotdisposable]

Yep, I got them at the same time and people were way cooler with the glasses thing 😂