Figuring It Out

[ Icon ID: A capybara sniffing Bob Belcher next to a happy cruise captain. End ID ] Multiply disabled (hEDS & Co. + others) OCD CPTSD. Mobility aid user. 26. They/them.

[cripinpain]

when i say that i can’t do something due to my disabilities, like the dishes or mop the floors, the thing i hate most is hearing other disabled people go “well i can’t do it either but i don’t have a choice so i do it anyways” because like, there are those of us who can’t do a thing under no circumstances. it doesn’t matter if i don’t have a choice or if im forced to do it, i still can’t.

my entire apartment looks like shit, it’s very dusty, there’s dirt all over the floors, i have no clean dishes & im tuning out of bowls/plates & cutlery. and i can’t do anything about it. like literally.

for some of us, “i can’t do it” very literally means I CANT DO IT.

[this is MAINLY about physical disability, but people who can ACTUALLY relate to this even if it’s not because of physical disability can reblog & share their thoughts etc.]

[wizardarchetypes]

i think you should be able to emoji react to MyChart lab results

[neenarchive]

me: you literally have a disorder. this is symptoms

me: no perhaps my soul is rotten

[000l]

girlhood is touching your necklace whenever you feel nervous

[uncomfortablecliche]

me when im absolutely not corrupted by the amulet

[koobiie]

i feel strongly about this

[giraffe-showbiz]

They ordered my wheelchair on sparkly black instead of matte black and I know it’s small but it makes me pretty upset

[giraffe-showbiz]

I’m holding everyone’s hand who is having a hard time looking at their past year. It’s okay if it’s too hard to acknowledge everything right now. We can rest for a moment here.

[cannibalchicken]

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

*displays textbook symptomatic behavior of my own disorder that I am well educated on* what’s my deal why am I like this

[giraffe-showbiz]

Everyone at Christmas was talking about their jobs and career paths and it’s not fair that I don’t get to talk about my treatments and my health journey because that’s all I’ve been able to do the path year. I get that it’s different, but it’s the feeling I feel. I always have to talk about my old job and it makes me feel so worthless and like I’ve accomplished nothing in comparison to my family. Makes me feel like all the work I put in isn’t worth the same as their work because I’m still “lesser” than I was when I was able to work.

[schizoaffectively]

You are well within your right to be angry about the help you didn't get and should have gotten.

You are well within your right to be angry about having your needs neglected.

You are well within your right to be angry.

[giraffe-showbiz]

I’m trialing a new medication which is very brave of me

[nightmaretour]

Not resilient like an inspiration, resilient like a cockroach. You're gonna have to try a hell of a lot harder than that if you want to kill me

[porterr-robinson]

[succ-my-pandas-dick]

I have so many questions

[homopower]

In the name of everything decent in this world, you have got to turn the sound on.

[blueberryflavoredfeelings]

sometimes being upright is simply too much to ask of a girl

[briarpatch-kids]

Not enough fantasy and scifi says "you are enough, just as you are" to physically disabled people. We always gotta have some kinda magic hi tech enhancements instead of like... a regular wheelchair or sight cane or whatever. Let us just Be, you know? Quit trying to make us "better" and say "disabled people can have adventures too" instead.

[knees-of-the-bee]

Are we saying no to magically fixing disability or to better accommodations?

[briarpatch-kids]

I'm saying it's frustrating when every wheelchair user in fantasy has a magic wheelchair that can go over any obstacles and that a regular wheelchair or even off-road wheelchair isn't good enough. People always feel the need to make someone's disability irrelevant to the story and unless it's someone who also uses a wheelchair doing their own wish fulfillment it kinda smacks of erasure.

[stuffieautism]

if you didn’t realize, ableism is actually bigotry and systemic ableism and inaccessibility are really oppression and it’s not something disabled people brought on ourselves by having bodies&minds that you think are inferior and therefore not worth fighting for. disabled people’s lives and wellbeing matter. we don’t have to earn our worthiness by doing “enough” to deserve a good life. nobody does.