shine little glow worm

Molly/Rad | 24 orbits | Any pronouns | Genderqueer | Aroace & in a qpr | Hearing impaired | Neurodivergent | This blog is about my experience as a disabled queer human being with hearing loss, cerebral palsy, and NVLD | Personal blog for @sprocketspark

[sprocketspark]

Welcome to my blog!

I've been on here for a while now but I'm making this post since there's a lot I can't fit in my description haha.

Name: Molly/Wally/Toby/Griffin (You can call me any of these)

Age: 21

Gender: Genderqueer because gender? I hardly know her!

Pronouns: She/her, he/him, they/them, ae/aer (Please don't just use she/her for me, mix it up! :D)

Orientation: Pan oriented aroace, my love doesn’t mean any less just because I don’t feel certain types of attraction!

My heart is taken by the amazing @loki-and-the-tesseract! ❤️

Hearing impaired, I wear hearing aids

Mild cerebral palsy (spastic diplegia)

Nonverbal learning disorder

I like to write, take photos, travel, perform and watch improv, and listen to music (Steam Powered Giraffe has taken over my playlist!)

I have also discovered the joys of playing the melodica, thanks to SPG!

My AO3 handle is the same as here (sprocketspark)

My blog is just a giant, unorganized mess of random posts so have fun lol

[rainbowgazes-archive]

may the 1th be with you lol

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may the 2th be with you lol

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may the 3st be with you lol

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cinco the mayo be with you lol

[caats]

[glowwormm]

NVLD is just several disabilities in a trenchcoat

[glowwormm]

hearing aid batteries last for longer than four days challenge

[theblackparadeisdead]

We have got to put an end to the taller younger sibling industrial complex

[beezlebutch]

"Pride month is over"

WRONG! Your pride month is over! Me and all the other disabled queers are having pride month two: disability edition

[jehandant]

Reblogging this again bc people in the notes are asking a lot of "Am I included? Am I disabled if I have x?" and I just wanted to add the flag here to show people who the pride month is for.

This is the new flag, the old one was more vivid and in a z shape, but it's been made more neutral to be inclusive of people with seizures or sensory issues.

Each stripe represents a different aspect of disability:

Red: Physical disabilities

Yellow: Cognitive & intellectual disabilities

White: (And this is the key one I think) Invisible AND undiagnosed disabilities

Blue: Mental illnesses

Green: Sensory disabilities

If you're autistic or have ADHD? this is your pride month. If you have a mental illness, it's your pride month. If you're hard of hearing, this is your pride month. If you have an autoimmune disorder, this is your pride month. If you are not diagnosed with anything but you know something is up with you: THIS IS STILL YOUR PRIDE MONTH.

[glowwormm]

getting so tired of seeing “disabled people aren’t asexual!” because what if i am asexual. what then.

[theadhdgoblin]

[oneawkwardcookie]

[Image description: speech bubble meme.

Speech bubble reads "haha yeah I haven't figured out exactly what I wanna do yet I'm just taking it easy", and the thought inside the head reads "I can't imagine a bearable life under capitalism"

/end ID]

[thetragicallynerdy]

Reminder from someone with actual literal brain damage from a brain injury to stop fucking using "brain damage" and "brain injuries" as a means of describing someone whose opinions you don't like or deem as stupid.

It's ableist and offensive as fuck, and for some reason a lot of leftist people think it's okay to use. I've seen posts replying to right wing racists calling them "brain damaged if you believe this" and "do you have a brain injury? do you not understand X?". Just now I saw a beautiful post about fat people throughout history that was absolutely ruined by opening with "How do we break it to boomers with actual brain damage and nostalgic brainrot, and the 'tradwife' thirsting Andrew Tate fans..." before continuing to say that fat people existed throughout history.

Brain damage does not make you racist. A brain injury doesn't make you stupid, or fatphobic, or unaware of history and politics. Stop fucking using my disability as a catch all to describe people you think are shitty. Y'all use it like it's a replacement for how people used to use the R-slur, which shows you learned absolutely nothing about why the R-slur was wrong to use and decided to throw in other disabilities instead. Fuck off and stop doing it.

(And don't do it with other disabilities either, because I know y'all do.)

I know a lot of people with brain injuries. They're smart, and funny, and compassionate. They learn about the world and care about social issues and wish they could go to protests if their disability won't allow them to. Are there right wing people with brain injuries? Sure, absolutely. But they are not right wing because they have a brain injury, and using any disability as an insult is still fucking ableist.

Tldr - stop using brain damage and brain injury as an insult. It's ableist and incredibly offensive.

Love, your local brain injured/brain damaged pal

[astrid-goes-for-a-spin]

Honestly, once you start removing ableist and sanist language from your vocabulary, it opens up a whole new awareness of just how despised those groups are. Disability justice — and especially IDD justice — is a huge missing piece from most leftists’ politics, but I promise, things will make a lot more sense once you incorporate it

[glowwormm]

when i google cerebral palsy and all the results are about children

[caesar-deactivated0044bce0315]

You guys are so mean

[glowwormm]

don’t talk to me, my son, or my one thousand sideblogs ever again

[identitty-dickruption]

hey, disabled person! do you feel tired all the time? do you feel like you’re working twice as hard as abled people for half the outcome? do you take longer to do every single little thing than an abled person would see as reasonable? well. I would like to introduce you to the concept of crip labour (I first came across this in Smilges, 2023 but I cannot verify whether he came up with the term)

crip labour is a term to describe all the extra work disabled people do on a day-to-day basis. it’s also a form of labour that is invisible to abled people, because they just don’t have to think about most of it. it includes:

the extra labour required to get ready to leave the house in the morning (e.g. the extra steps involved in getting dressed or having a shower)

the social labour required in order to communicate your needs to abled people

the labour involved in having to plan ahead (e.g. knowing where accessible toilets are, knowing where ramp access is, knowing which venues are safe for you to be in)

the administrative labour involved in gaining access to particular institutions (e.g. applying for disability welfare, applying for education access plans, etc)

having a term to describe all the labour involved in keeping yourself alive and happy helps to make that labour more visible. it gives us a way to point out that we are doing more and with less capacity, and it helps to explain why so many of us are so exhausted all the goddamn time

so I hope this is a helpful term for people to bring into their lives!

[glowwormm]

Tumblr PLEASE stop calling users my “crush”

[robertseanleonardthinker]

i see actually neurodivergent trending so i just wanna say shoutout to my fellow learning disability ppl bc disorders other than adhd and autism r often left out when talking abt neurodivergency on the internet. we r all so awesome and cool and hot and smart regardless of our learning disabilities and i am kissing u all on the forehead so gently

[aromantic-diaries]

AROMANTICISM AND ASEXUALITY ARE INHERENTLY QUEER AND DO NOT NEED TO BE PAIRED UP WITH ANOTHER LGBTQ IDENTITY TO BE RECOGNIZED AS SUCH AND YES THIS INCLUDES CISHET ASPECS