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Intro post:
My account was @aspaceforspacesblog - I lost the details
Hi, I’m Sid, I’m 24 and use They/them.
I’m bedbound with severe me/cfs. I’m unreliable and sometimes can’t use screens for weeks at a time. I have a laundry list of other diagnoses but that’s most important.
I care a lot about ecology, politics and social justice stuff. I enjoy the moomin books. I was planning a career in environmental policy.
I’m autistic and sometimes I misunderstand stuff. I’m trying my best :))
so much of life is needing to pee. enough already
money is such an underrated accessibility option.
like people want to think any disabled person who is after money is morally suspect some way, because they're not asking for "treatments" or "accommodations" like a lot of our issues can be fixed way more easily with money. can't drive? paying for a taxi is often one of the more accessible alternatives. can't cook? you can pay more to have prepared food delivered to you. food restrictions? that food straight up costs more money. can't clean? you can pay for someone to do that. house inaccessible? having (lots) of money can help with that, you get the gist.
having money won't make us abled. it also won't stop our symptoms from being distressing, painful, or debilitating. but there's a huge gap in experience between the average poor disabled person and someone who's actually wealthy. you can buy your way out of some of the difficult situations most disabled people are left to rot in. wanting money, needing money, asking for money is pretty natural when it's such a useful tool. why get so weird about disabled people wanting money like i'm pretty sure everyone wants money anyway
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before I got laid off, I was paid enough to be able to do a lot of meal delivery, rideshare, and other services that I now recognize were directly related to my disability
I'm surviving and figuring out new ways to live now, but it's extremely obvious how much money is the best way to pay the disability tax in this ableist world 🥲
As someone in and around their 30’s it has been INSANE to see feminism in popular media descend through
Women can wear pants and play sports and that’s equality. Women don’t just belong inside the house. This woman has a career
This woman can be a mechanic just like a man could. She’s probably still a lesbian, though, which is basically the closest to a man a woman can *be*, and explains everything. But she’s still a person!
If a woman superhero CHOOSES to wear stilettos to fight crime, that’s girl power! This comic character written and designed by men wears a bikini and has a waist size of 12 inches because it makes her FEEL POWERFUL! Girls don’t HAVE to dress boyish to be strong! She can make you a sandwich AND be a feminist! Girl power!
What, are you saying women HAVE to do boy things to be taken seriously? Who are you to tell a woman what to do? Maybe some women NEED to get their hair and nails done twice a month to feel powerful! Maybe a lot of women WANT to be stay-at-home moms!
What I don’t think you understand is that women have an inherent feminine spirituality which guides them towards maternal and nurturing paths. Women need to honour their divine female aura to keep their. Their fuckin. Their chakras together or some shit. You should put quartz up your hooha and huff wheatgrass. Leaving manual labour and science and technology to men is natural and good for you spiritually
Uh she can’t do that, that’s a blue job, she’s a pink job girly. Food? Yeah, she’s having #girl dinner, which is a handful of almonds. Time for our 15 step skincare routine, which is empowering. Hashtag #girlboss. Ew no, touching dirt? She’s just a girl. You can’t expect a girl to do that. Haha #girl logic
7. She’s literally on her luteal phase, which means she can’t think rationally. Girlypop is out here fighting for her life in the supermarket. She’s just a girl. You can’t expect her to use her brain today because her uterus has taken over. It’s biology.
this is the vibe i bring to the party actually
It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.
Time for the annual Pride Month reblog of Freddie Mercury and his fabulous cats!
People like me.
I realized recently that when I describe ‘people like me’ in terms of the way I process information, being highly sensing, and other things like that, people might assume I’m only talking about some subgroup of other autistic people. But that wouldn’t be true.
There are autistic people I relate to very strongly. And they come from every diagnostic category and every functioning label, because nobody has come up with an official category that defines my sort of autism.
But there’s other people I relate to very strongly as well.
There’s some people with intellectual disabilities, who are not autistic, but have similar processing issues to me. They often are labeled as having a severe or profound intellectual disability, but some are labeled as having a mild or moderate one too.
There’s some people with epilepsy that is severe enough that they seize every few seconds. This interrupts their sensory processing and cognitive abilities in a way that can resemble my sensory and cognitive processing issues.
There are people whose only diagnosis is various sensory processing disorders, whose experiences can resemble mine, although this seems to be a bit rarer.
There are people who have had strokes or brain injuries or dementia who have very similar processing styles to my own, even if they didn’t before the onset of their condition.
So basically, when I talk about ‘people like me’ in terms of sensory and cognitive processing, I’m not just describing a group of other autistic people. I’m describing a wide and diverse group of people with disabilities, that have somehow led their brain to process things in a manner extremely familiar to me.
When we meet, we often click instantly. I have had conversations across the room with strangers who were 'like me’, while staff looked on and saw no communication at all, because they didn’t know how to recognize non-standard communication. And those moments of communication with total strangers, undetected by staff, sustained me for a long time when I was quite lonely. The strangers were not always autistic, but they did always have a cognitive disability of some kind. Some of them could speak and others couldn’t, but all of us could converse without speech, in ways that were instinctive rather than learned.
grounding techniques, ok 5 things i can see. ugly man. shitty palm tree. clear evidence of air pollution. conservative bumper stickers. roadkill. why do i feel worse
My cat sleeps in positions that remind me of the grotesque plaster casts of people and animals that died in agony in Pompeii. My cat sleeps like a wilted and dying spider that has just been sprayed with Raid.
I wish people were as scared of getting into a car accident as they are of being true crime'd. Maybe then they wouldn't be on their phones while driving.
"I'd die/kill for my kids" if you keep driving like that it's way more likely you'll kill yourself and the kids.
you have to be kinder to people with memory issues.
you have to be kinder to people who are slow processors.
you have to be kinder to people who don't understand your jokes.
you have to be kinder to people who forget important dates.
you have to be kinder to people with cognitive decline.
you have to be kinder to people who were always this way, too.
you have to be kind. you have to be kind.
If you’re pining you need to stop and pick a different tree. You know, spruce it up a little
I’m still proud of this post. It’s evergreen
just saw a deactivated mutual's post on my dash. that's my dead wife's corpse you're all dragging around
I also reblog this guys dead wife.
have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.
they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.
their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.
longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years
toxic flesh
has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.
lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion
largest genome of any shark
eats everything including moose and polar bears
ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you
this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard
just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !
Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!
Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir
I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks
what 'cyberpunk dystopia already exists for disabled people' looks like for high tech aac users:
(here using 'voice' to mean both an aac program and an aac device.)
Your voice used to be free but now is behind a paywall. Your voice only runs on a subscription payment model and doesn't offer outright purchasing. The cost of outright purchasing your voice is several hundred dollars. Your voice runs ads. Your voice has planned obsolescence. Your voice ran out of funding and is no longer being updated. Your voice is free but requires coding knowledge to create. Your voice can only be used and accessed with a wifi connection. The people most trained to help you with your voice are expensive or unavailable specialists. You require additional aids to use your voice that are difficult to get and/or expensive.
Feel free to add on your own experiences. We listen to and look out for each other.
health isn't a virtue.
people still go around acting like they've done something good in order to be able bodied and healthy. that they worked for it, that it's due to their moral fibre or good upbringing or self control. they genuinely, on some level, believe that they are a good person solely based on the strength of their physical abilities. they will resist the fact that it is largely down to chance that they were able to maintain such health. whatever they think they've built from scratch, the building blocks were already handed to them. not because they're more worthy of it, just by luck. and they really think they're worth more based on that sheer luck. i've met disabled people worth a hundred of the healthiest ableds alive.
Ignoring luck is dumb, but claiming that health is entirely based on sheer luck is an extremely corrosive worldview. There are dozens of choices you make every day, every week, every month that contribute to your overall health and functioning. It's good to be healthy and it's good to make healthy choices and you do in fact have a lot of control over whether you are able bodied.
All good until someone who never smokes or drinks suddenly develops lung or liver cancer. Very good that a runner in peak health drops from a heart attack because of a hidden condition that didn’t trigger until their thirties, but they were born with it the whole time and didn’t know until that moment that it existed. By “health is luck” do you REALLY think we believe “wow there is nothing anyone can do to prevent some illness or disability!!! There is just no way to help take care of our bodies!”
I did everything I was supposed to do. And got Covid once, after wearing a mask, washing my hands, being fully vaccinated my entire life. And now I’m severely disabled. I took all the steps, and I’m still here. Now what? And I may not be the majority, but people like me aren’t being listened to daily. Case and point by your response.
It’s *luck* that I didn’t die. It’s luck that I recovered to this point. And it’s luck that someone who has multiple infections is walking around just fine instead of being in my position. Because in this case, the people who didn’t mask and didn’t take care the way I did, who didn’t get sick have much different luck than the person who got sick from doing “everything right”.
There’s always steps you can take. You can do everything “right” and for some, try to pray it away if it makes you feel better. You are not immune from accident, injury, illness, infection, or anything else.
snuddies from a while ago!!!
