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@giraffeautism
gee i wish people wouldn’t use medical terms for real mental illnesses as insults.
here’s your daily reminder not to use “psycho/sociopath” or any other psychotic disorder or mental illness as an insult or a “smart sounding” replacement buzzword when ‘asshole’ or ‘jackass’ would be infinitely more applicable and accurate without being an ableist dickweed.
Reminder to not use “schizo” (literal slur as far as I’m concerned) as synonyms with “weird/obsurd/aggressive… ect ect” for the love of hell
“I never let my chronic illness stop me from doing things!”
That’s nice, I do. Not listening to my body is part of what got me this bad. Sometimes you have to balance taking care of yourself and achieving your ultimate goals.
Your parents can love you and misgender you. Your parents can love you and deny/refuse to understand your neurodivergency and mental illness. Your parents can love you and make it difficult for you to talk about suicide because they always talk about it leading to hell or its equivalent because of it. Your parents can love you and refuse to engage in the things you love because it's not worth their time. Your parents can love you and tell you more than once growing up that homosexuality is a disease.
Having parents that love you does not equal to a healthy environment nor a support system.
So living with them doesn't offer those either.
what abled ppl think is a massive problem for disabled folks: 13 year old on the internet faking something
what is actually a massive problem for disabled folks: "well you don't LOOK disabled, are you sure you're not faking? I'm not giving you accommodations until you PROVE you're not faking. Please give me, a stranger, your medical info and explain your condition to me in detail so I know you're not faking and only then will I respect or take you seriously"
weird how abled people don't want you to have supports because it may Annoy Them. no, you can't have a shower chair, it'll get in my way. no, you can't put subtitles on, im here to watch a movie not read. because the needs of the disabled are somehow lesser than the wants of the abled.
There's a somewhat-unstated division in social progressive circles that goes "being socially inept for autism reasons is fine, but being socially inept for regular reasons is bad and mockable." And then in practice everyone assumes it's for regular reasons when it comes up
Hey. You. I think you should make your character’s pupils a bit misaligned. The stress of having the eyes look the same is lying to you. Give them misaligned eyes. For me
i feel like a lot of people aren't ready to have a disabled partner. not even if you really really really like us, or if you think we're hot, or even if you're disabled yourself.
some of us are never going to improve, and a lot of us will get worse. you have to accept that before getting into a relationship with us because if you don't it's so easy to put us in the position of performing normalcy to not make you sad to be around us.
some of us may need you to help with the things we either have difficulty doing without injury, or cannot do at all. some of us won't remember things, or get confused easily, or have trouble hearing you. unfortunately we can't just get over our disabilities when you're having a hard day, or you're mad at us. and it would be nice if we lived in a world where all disabled people who need carers could have them to make dating (and more importantly, life) easier but very few of us have the ability to get that care.
we're also our own people, and we deserve to have boundaries, desires, and needs. a lot of able bodied people do not see us as fully realized humans with our own internal and external worlds, and you carry that into your relationships with us. this results in either you ignoring our wants out of life because we should be overjoyed we have a life with you at all, or ignoring our boundaries because we really don't know ourselves as well as someone with an outside perspective does.
and to follow the obvious segway; sex. sex can be incredibly complicated when you're disabled. either it being difficult to physically manuever without help. it can be incredibly painful if done incorrectly, or for some incredibly painful no matter what. and for a lot of us, we've faced sexual assault because our assaulters know it's hard for us to fight back, or hard for us to be believed after it happens. some of us can't have sex at all, or don't want to.
also a lot of us cost more money to survive than you do. from specific diets, to medical appointments over and over and over again, to expensive medication and replacable disability devices. hell, a good chunk of us cannot have jobs! or in a lot of places jobs will hire us and pay us a lower minimum wage because society sees us as worth less than you. and we're often under enough stress keeping out heads above water without you also expecting us to be as financially able to do things as you are. and plenty of us are kept trapped in relationships we can't leave because of our limited funds.
please, before you date us actually do even the smallest amount of studying about disability rights, disabled people's lives, and bodily autonomy in general. think of the intersections we exist at as well, disabled people can be black, gay, trans, poor, and any other marginalized group you can think of.
i can recall so many stories of disabled people abused mentally, physically, sexually and financially by people who don't think they're even doing that to us. people who really really really love us, or think we're hot, or are also disabled themselves.
for so many of us our relationships feel like ticking time bombs. we deserve better.
please be better to us.
For a city to be walkable. It must also be sittable.
#every time I read this phrase the same thing happens#I read it as shittable and go wait that can't be right#oh right they were talking about public benches that makes more sense#but public bathrooms available without fees should also be a thing tho#cities should definitely be shittable#it happens EVERY SINGLE TIME
it must also be shittable
which oomfs want to do this together?
Fanart of Them:
(Smugly after failing at a task) and they said it could be done.
sorry to everyone tagging this "malicious helplessness" "learned incompetence" "some straight girl's bf who sucks at doing the dishes on purpose" etc etc etc but this post was actually about disability.
Image ID: A drawing of a small blob person looking up. They are blushing and look like they're going to cry.
the thing about self-diagnosis is that to have an official diagnosis you HAVE to self-diagnose yourself first and write down all your symptoms and then present them to the psychiatrist like you are defending it on trial otherwise if you go to psychiatrist unprepared and just say you feel miserable all the time and don't know why they will say "ummmm uhhhhh you probably have anxiety. probably just stress from your work lol"
No boss I don't come back to the old hyperfixation the hyperfixation gets tired of being ignored and decides to Get my sorry ass like so
what abled ppl think is a massive problem for disabled folks: 13 year old on the internet faking something
what is actually a massive problem for disabled folks: "well you don't LOOK disabled, are you sure you're not faking? I'm not giving you accommodations until you PROVE you're not faking. Please give me, a stranger, your medical info and explain your condition to me in detail so I know you're not faking and only then will I respect or take you seriously"
Today I woke up at 2 AM. Instead of falling back asleep my brain decided to conjure up these images which haunted my mind palace until properly expelled
People talking abt autism like its a set of quirky silly traits and not an often debilitating neurological disorder genuinely drives me up a wall, especially as someone who's support needs are higher.
"I want a gf with autism :3" ok are you prepared to help them with hygiene tasks? Are you gonna help them with laundry and cleaning their room? Are you gonna be patient with them when they're using AAC? Will you comfort them through meltdowns? Or do you just want a gf who talks to you about dinosaurs and has a cute "neurodivergent aesthetic"?
The minimization of autistic struggles to just "socially awkward sometimes" ends up making higher support needs autistics feel real isolated, because it's obvious that when you romanticize neurodivergence, you're not talking about us.
when a child with chronic or terminal illness or a disability/their sibling is well informed about the condition strangers love to say "no child should have to know that 😢" yeah well i think the world would be significantly better if more children knew about that actually. teach your healthy kids about illness teach your abled kids about disability Please !
and people will say this about the stupidest shit of all time. a diabetic child is like "this is my glucose monitor! these are my ketone test strips!" and people are aghast "no baby should have to know about this!!!!" okay so youd rather his mom just poked and tested him and injected insulin and collected his urine without explanation? you genuinely would prefer this child live in fear and ignorance about the daily routines of his life? because like no amount of pouty faces and prayers and condescending instagram comments are going to remove the illness from the child's life so our options are being informed about our bodies or being confused/frightened by them.
frr me and both my siblings are disabled and we honestly love it when curious kids come up and ask questions. sometimes a kid will stare and their parents will be all 'im sorry, dont stare sweetie!' and we always use that as an opportunity try to talk to the kuds about our conditions, e.g. 'my legs arent as strong as other people's so i use this special chair to get around when im too tired to walk!' or 'my brother doesnt speak as much as other people so he uses this tablet to tell us what he wants!' or 'sometimes my body twitches and ticks when theyres too much energy inside it, i sometimes even make funny noises and say random things. isnt that interesting?'
9 times out of 10, the kids are super interested and full of questions, and they leave the interaction knowing a bit more about different types of people. the only time we're upset by attention from kids is when their parents act horrified at our existence and pull them away like we're something terrible that a child should never see. which that child will go on to internalise and grow up to be weird around disabled people, and the cycle continues.
your kids are going to learn about people with disabilities/illnesses one day, so why not teach them while theyre young not to be weird about us?
