Miss Cripple

A disabled girl (formally known as little-miss-sickly) who is fed up with the government pretending disabled people don't exist.

[youngchronicpain]

chronic pain

body: hurts

brain: yelling

bladder: full

spoons: gone 

[youngchronicpain]

me pushing my body further and further into a flare: *singing through gritted teeth* happy holidaysss, 

[misscripple-blog]

Maybe I’m reading too far into this, but….

I kind of feel like Dancing With The Stars Juniors is lowkey making fun of Honey BooBoo.

The first song she danced to was “Don’t Ya” by the Pussycat Dolls. The only fat kid, dancing to “don’t you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?”. Ok, maybe it was a self-esteem boost. “You can dance to anything. Don’t let haters get to you.” I can see that.

Her next song was “Are you gonna be my girl?”. Alright. Generic fast-paced love song.

Tonight she’s dancing to Beauty and the Beast. Are you telling me that not a SINGLE person who was assigning songs thought “which one’s the beauty and which one’s the beast, am I right?” Not a single person thought “will viewers think that? Are we setting her up for bullying?”.

If they wanted body positivity, why not give her Moana? Jasmine? Emperor’s new groove? Toy Story? Mary Poppins? Finding Nemo? Lion King? Anything else? Why “Don’t Ya” and Beauty and the Beast?

Best part: her song was “Something There”. Not the Tale as old as Time. She was in a full length winter dress.

Having a fat person in your cast doesn’t mean you aren’t still fat shaming.

[thedancekids]

I think you’re the only one thinking those things. The song was clearly the right choice for her personality. Because she’s overweight she can’t be hot? Why not Beauty and the Beast? In that scene, Belle wore a very similar dress. It’s pretty clear who the beauty and who the beast is. For all we know, they’re dressing her in what she feels the most secure in. I questioned why she had basically the same fringe dress in different colors the first two nights, but she was working that fringe.

[misscripple-blog]

That didn’t take long to find…..

[thedancekids]

What I mean by you’re the only one thinking those things is you’re the only one who is thinking you factor that into the song choice. With Don’t Ya I honestly feel like they probably just tried to pick the songs from those years that would be most recognizable to anyone regardless of the genre of music they typically listen to. Like you said, Don’t Ya could also be empowering. To see an overweight teen strutting across the stage and completely owning every second of it could help to give young girls like her a confidence boost. As far as the dress goes, you can literally look at the scene in the movie on YouTube and see they replicated what Belle had on. They gave both Mackenzie and Alana more mature songs. As far as Mandla, I really haven’t watched Coco to comment on the maturity level. If they had switched Alana with any of the younger kids, the themes would be too immature. The only switch I could imagine working for her age is maybe Moana or Pocahontas. They could have made her Ursula instead of Sophia. Now THAT would be fat shaming. All the themes were more current (besides lilo and stitch) than stuff like Emperor’s New Groove. There was just a live action version of Beauty and the Beast out, a live action Aladdin is in the works as well as a live action Little Mermaid, Moana just came out in the past few years and is still extremely popular, and Coco is also pretty popular and just came out like a year or two ago. Oh and Alana never danced to are you gonna be my girl. That was Kenzie and Sage. I think you are right that they should have taken the negatives into consideration, but I don’t think they had negative intentions when assigning her songs.

[misscripple-blog]

So, why not give Alana Mary Poppins? That’s current and mature. She could have pulled off Stepping Time in a shin length circle skirt. What about Lion King? He Lives In You, Hakuna Matata, let her go evil with Be Prepared. Why couldn’t she have been Jasmine? Why did they pick the only movie that handed assholes jokes on a silver platter? Either they knew what they were doing or they seriously didn’t think it through. They should ABSOLUTELY be factoring in how people could twist things when children are involved. Whether they did it intentionally or accidentally, they set her up for “which one’s the Beauty, which one’s the beast?” jokes. Which are all over twitter, now. She gets enough hate and abuse as it is. They should have thought this through.

Also, I already acknowledged that I got the third song wrong. For the life of me, I can’t remember it. I tried googling it, which gave me “are you gonna be my girl”, which was wrong. I also tried asking what the song was that I’m forgetting, but that didn’t get me very far, either.

[thedancekids]

The third song was Something There. You’re missing her first song, which was Conga. I didn’t say it was right or wrong or that they should or shouldn’t factor it in. I just said I think you’re the only one who thought to because I didn’t think of that when I watched it. I think they definitely should be more cognizant of both the negative and positive things that could be said about her. I’m not disagreeing with you. I’m just saying I don’t think they intended for people to fat shame her when they picked the song. People are gonna fat shame her regardless because people are just cruel, so maybe they decided to just go for it? Again, not saying that’s the correct approach.

I honestly couldn’t imagine a lion king number on her. I think of more Ariana and Artyon’s age for that. I know older kids play those roles on Broadway, but idk I just can’t see it in my mind. Mary Poppins could have been cute. I think that would have been a good character for her as well. As far as Aladdin, just basing it off of the song that Miles did, I think it would have been too pro heavy. A Whole New World could have been great. They probably wouldn’t have put her in the typical two piece and I can imagine viewers making snide remarks about that. Like I said before, people will fat shame her no matter what she’s wearing or what she’s dancing to. I bet you they’d fine evil jokes to crack about any of the movies you listed as alternatives. Fat shamers fat shame. It’s just what they do.

[misscripple-blog]

It just blows my mind that no one in DWTS thought that through. I've been built like Alana my whole life and that's the first thing I thought about. It's a really common joke that they should have known about. That's why I'm saying whether they did it on purpose or by accident, the sin is the same. I find it really hard to believe that not a single person who was part of the decision making process, anyone on Alana's team, anyone in costuming or production, not a single one of them thought it? Or thought someone more cruel might say it? That's a whole lot of people not thinking very much about the feelings of a child who's already been bullied most of her life. It's just so hard to believe that no one thought or said anything. Which is why I'm suspicious it was lowkey done on purpose. Maybe not "you know what would be funny? Giving the fat kid Beauty and the Beast!" but if someone brought it up ahead of time and production shrugged it off and kept going, that's lowkey on purpose. I'd love to believe that all of the people involved just don't think about these things, but at the same time, that's the thought process that creates accidentally racist ads and products. Maybe they don't need fat-shaming experts specifically, but bullying experts when kids are involved would be nice. Bullies are going to bully, but handing them jokes on a silver platter should have been caught by someone.

Also, you brought up jasmine. Jasmine was played by one of the professional dancers. Oddly enough, her outfit wasn't anywhere close to accurate to the movie. She should gave been fully covered in pauper clothes, but she was in a one piece version of her princess outfit. They've shown midriff on the kids, but Jasmine didn't have any. Or, if she did, the costume was big enough to hide it most of the dance. Not arguing anything here, but to your point early about how Alana's outfit was true to the scene in the movie, why wasn't Jasmine's? Why did jasmine get to be dressed as a princess when she shouldn't have been? Why NOT put her in the full coverage, but still easily danceable dress? Fat kids old and new think about this stuff constantly.

[misscripple-blog]

Maybe I’m reading too far into this, but….

I kind of feel like Dancing With The Stars Juniors is lowkey making fun of Honey BooBoo.

The first song she danced to was “Don’t Ya” by the Pussycat Dolls. The only fat kid, dancing to “don’t you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?”. Ok, maybe it was a self-esteem boost. “You can dance to anything. Don’t let haters get to you.” I can see that.

Her next song was “Are you gonna be my girl?”. Alright. Generic fast-paced love song.

Tonight she’s dancing to Beauty and the Beast. Are you telling me that not a SINGLE person who was assigning songs thought “which one’s the beauty and which one’s the beast, am I right?” Not a single person thought “will viewers think that? Are we setting her up for bullying?”.

If they wanted body positivity, why not give her Moana? Jasmine? Emperor’s new groove? Toy Story? Mary Poppins? Finding Nemo? Lion King? Anything else? Why “Don’t Ya” and Beauty and the Beast?

Best part: her song was “Something There”. Not the Tale as old as Time. She was in a full length winter dress.

Having a fat person in your cast doesn’t mean you aren’t still fat shaming.

[thedancekids]

I think you’re the only one thinking those things. The song was clearly the right choice for her personality. Because she’s overweight she can’t be hot? Why not Beauty and the Beast? In that scene, Belle wore a very similar dress. It’s pretty clear who the beauty and who the beast is. For all we know, they’re dressing her in what she feels the most secure in. I questioned why she had basically the same fringe dress in different colors the first two nights, but she was working that fringe.

[misscripple-blog]

That didn’t take long to find…..

[thedancekids]

What I mean by you’re the only one thinking those things is you’re the only one who is thinking you factor that into the song choice. With Don’t Ya I honestly feel like they probably just tried to pick the songs from those years that would be most recognizable to anyone regardless of the genre of music they typically listen to. Like you said, Don’t Ya could also be empowering. To see an overweight teen strutting across the stage and completely owning every second of it could help to give young girls like her a confidence boost. As far as the dress goes, you can literally look at the scene in the movie on YouTube and see they replicated what Belle had on. They gave both Mackenzie and Alana more mature songs. As far as Mandla, I really haven’t watched Coco to comment on the maturity level. If they had switched Alana with any of the younger kids, the themes would be too immature. The only switch I could imagine working for her age is maybe Moana or Pocahontas. They could have made her Ursula instead of Sophia. Now THAT would be fat shaming. All the themes were more current (besides lilo and stitch) than stuff like Emperor’s New Groove. There was just a live action version of Beauty and the Beast out, a live action Aladdin is in the works as well as a live action Little Mermaid, Moana just came out in the past few years and is still extremely popular, and Coco is also pretty popular and just came out like a year or two ago. Oh and Alana never danced to are you gonna be my girl. That was Kenzie and Sage. I think you are right that they should have taken the negatives into consideration, but I don’t think they had negative intentions when assigning her songs.

[oblongmollykong]

This is wild. Is op saying that it’s rude to cast a an overweight girl as belle because other people will think she is a beast because of her weight??? Wtf??? Beauty and the beast is one of the most iconic princess Disney movies ever made and something there is the best song in the whole thing AND she is wearing the exact outfit from that scene. Will have to say I agree with tdk on this

[misscripple-blog]

Not at all what I said. What I'm saying is the round table of decision makers should have realized Alana could be bullied the exact way she was. They could have given her any other movie. Make her Moana, Jasmine, Jessy, anything. They picked the one movie that could be turned against her by assholes on twitter and that's exactly what happened.

As a woman with a similar body type to Alana, I would look suspiciously at the decision making process. Why was she given the one movie that could be turned against her when there are so many other options? As much as everyone would love to say "anyone can dance to anything", they carefully avoided all of the potentially racist combos they could have bumped into because "what will the masses say?". Why not take the exact same precautions with the heavy girl? Why risk even more abuse online? Twitter did exactly what I said they would. "Which one's the Beauty, which one's the beast?" because twitter LOVES tearing people apart. Why would it be ok to purposely or accidentally put a little girl in that position? Why are we not taking the kids' mental health and confidence into consideration?

Listen, if I want to put myself out there in connection with Beauty and the Beast, I'd EXPECT those comments. The kids didn't pick their songs or costumes. Someone made that decision specifically for Alana and now she's being attacked on twitter. Someone should have seen this coming. That's all I'm saying.

[misscripple-blog]

Maybe I’m reading too far into this, but….

I kind of feel like Dancing With The Stars Juniors is lowkey making fun of Honey BooBoo.

The first song she danced to was “Don’t Ya” by the Pussycat Dolls. The only fat kid, dancing to “don’t you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?”. Ok, maybe it was a self-esteem boost. “You can dance to anything. Don’t let haters get to you.” I can see that.

Her next song was “Are you gonna be my girl?”. Alright. Generic fast-paced love song.

Tonight she’s dancing to Beauty and the Beast. Are you telling me that not a SINGLE person who was assigning songs thought “which one’s the beauty and which one’s the beast, am I right?” Not a single person thought “will viewers think that? Are we setting her up for bullying?”.

If they wanted body positivity, why not give her Moana? Jasmine? Emperor’s new groove? Toy Story? Mary Poppins? Finding Nemo? Lion King? Anything else? Why “Don’t Ya” and Beauty and the Beast?

Best part: her song was “Something There”. Not the Tale as old as Time. She was in a full length winter dress.

Having a fat person in your cast doesn’t mean you aren’t still fat shaming.

[thedancekids]

I think you’re the only one thinking those things. The song was clearly the right choice for her personality. Because she’s overweight she can’t be hot? Why not Beauty and the Beast? In that scene, Belle wore a very similar dress. It’s pretty clear who the beauty and who the beast is. For all we know, they’re dressing her in what she feels the most secure in. I questioned why she had basically the same fringe dress in different colors the first two nights, but she was working that fringe.

[misscripple-blog]

That didn’t take long to find…..

[thedancekids]

What I mean by you’re the only one thinking those things is you’re the only one who is thinking you factor that into the song choice. With Don’t Ya I honestly feel like they probably just tried to pick the songs from those years that would be most recognizable to anyone regardless of the genre of music they typically listen to. Like you said, Don’t Ya could also be empowering. To see an overweight teen strutting across the stage and completely owning every second of it could help to give young girls like her a confidence boost. As far as the dress goes, you can literally look at the scene in the movie on YouTube and see they replicated what Belle had on. They gave both Mackenzie and Alana more mature songs. As far as Mandla, I really haven’t watched Coco to comment on the maturity level. If they had switched Alana with any of the younger kids, the themes would be too immature. The only switch I could imagine working for her age is maybe Moana or Pocahontas. They could have made her Ursula instead of Sophia. Now THAT would be fat shaming. All the themes were more current (besides lilo and stitch) than stuff like Emperor’s New Groove. There was just a live action version of Beauty and the Beast out, a live action Aladdin is in the works as well as a live action Little Mermaid, Moana just came out in the past few years and is still extremely popular, and Coco is also pretty popular and just came out like a year or two ago. Oh and Alana never danced to are you gonna be my girl. That was Kenzie and Sage. I think you are right that they should have taken the negatives into consideration, but I don’t think they had negative intentions when assigning her songs.

[misscripple-blog]

So, why not give Alana Mary Poppins? That's current and mature. She could have pulled off Stepping Time in a shin length circle skirt. What about Lion King? He Lives In You, Hakuna Matata, let her go evil with Be Prepared. Why couldn't she have been Jasmine? Why did they pick the only movie that handed assholes jokes on a silver platter? Either they knew what they were doing or they seriously didn't think it through. They should ABSOLUTELY be factoring in how people could twist things when children are involved. Whether they did it intentionally or accidentally, they set her up for "which one's the Beauty, which one's the beast?" jokes. Which are all over twitter, now. She gets enough hate and abuse as it is. They should have thought this through.

Also, I already acknowledged that I got the third song wrong. For the life of me, I can't remember it. I tried googling it, which gave me "are you gonna be my girl", which was wrong. I also tried asking what the song was that I'm forgetting, but that didn't get me very far, either.

[misscripple-blog]

Maybe I’m reading too far into this, but….

I kind of feel like Dancing With The Stars Juniors is lowkey making fun of Honey BooBoo.

The first song she danced to was “Don’t Ya” by the Pussycat Dolls. The only fat kid, dancing to “don’t you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?”. Ok, maybe it was a self-esteem boost. “You can dance to anything. Don’t let haters get to you.” I can see that.

Her next song was “Are you gonna be my girl?”. Alright. Generic fast-paced love song.

Tonight she’s dancing to Beauty and the Beast. Are you telling me that not a SINGLE person who was assigning songs thought “which one’s the beauty and which one’s the beast, am I right?” Not a single person thought “will viewers think that? Are we setting her up for bullying?”.

If they wanted body positivity, why not give her Moana? Jasmine? Emperor’s new groove? Toy Story? Mary Poppins? Finding Nemo? Lion King? Anything else? Why “Don’t Ya” and Beauty and the Beast?

Best part: her song was “Something There”. Not the Tale as old as Time. She was in a full length winter dress.

Having a fat person in your cast doesn’t mean you aren’t still fat shaming.

[thedancekids]

I think you’re the only one thinking those things. The song was clearly the right choice for her personality. Because she’s overweight she can’t be hot? Why not Beauty and the Beast? In that scene, Belle wore a very similar dress. It’s pretty clear who the beauty and who the beast is. For all we know, they’re dressing her in what she feels the most secure in. I questioned why she had basically the same fringe dress in different colors the first two nights, but she was working that fringe.

[misscripple-blog]

That didn't take long to find.....

[misscripple-blog]

Maybe I'm reading too far into this, but....

I kind of feel like Dancing With The Stars Juniors is lowkey making fun of Honey BooBoo.

The first song she danced to was "Don't Ya" by the Pussycat Dolls. The only fat kid, dancing to "don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?". Ok, maybe it was a self-esteem boost. "You can dance to anything. Don't let haters get to you." I can see that.

Her next song was "Are you gonna be my girl?". Alright. Generic fast-paced love song.

Tonight she's dancing to Beauty and the Beast. Are you telling me that not a SINGLE person who was assigning songs thought "which one's the beauty and which one's the beast, am I right?" Not a single person thought "will viewers think that? Are we setting her up for bullying?".

If they wanted body positivity, why not give her Moana? Jasmine? Emperor's new groove? Toy Story? Mary Poppins? Finding Nemo? Lion King? Anything else? Why "Don't Ya" and Beauty and the Beast?

Best part: her song was "Something There". Not the Tale as old as Time. She was in a full length winter dress.

Having a fat person in your cast doesn't mean you aren't still fat shaming.

[misscripple-blog]

This is how ass backwards this bullshit opioid epidemic is. This is my xtampza prescription. The extended release medication that I take exactly every 12 hours, no wiggle room. Even better, xtampza is tamper resistant. I was literally put on it because it makes me look better on paper. The tamper resistant medication that is taken every 12 hours got the warning sticker.

My instant release dilaudid did not get this sticker. The non-tamper resistant medication that's taken "as needed" did not get this warning. So, the medication that people are given for acute pain and told to take when in a lot of pain (which tends to lead to people taking it more often than they should) does not have the addiction and overdose warning, but the "every 12 hours, no exceptions" drug did.

Whoever is making these decisions has no fucking clue how opioids work or why people get addicted. How the fuck can people in charge be this stupid?

[myrecoveryisworthit-deactivated]

Your disability/illness/disorder is NOT “an excuse”, it’s a reality. Having limitations does not make you lazy. You should never feel guilty because you have limitations.

[cat-lover-1001]

18 Cats That Look Like Something Else 😁

[thisismalaika]

Awww shucks

@mostlycatsmostly

@catsofinstagram

[just-shower-thoughts]

The person who proof read Hitlers speeches was a grammar Natzi

[just-shower-thoughts]

If you had a portal gun, hypothetically you still wouldn’t be able to fuck yourself because you’d always be thrusting away from you.

[just-shower-thoughts]

Checking the delivery tracking code for a package is the adult version of asking “are we there yet?”

[1spoonatatime]

No one ever teaches you how to mourn your health. You just realize one day that it’s gone, and you are not the same as you were before. Most days, it’s all right, but then something happens: you can’t go to dinner with your family because you’re nauseous, you can’t go hiking because fatigue and pain. You can’t you can’t you can’t, and then it hits you: you are irreversibly changed.

[lev-2022]

I’ve been struggling to find these words for a long time now.

[howilearnedtocope]

I think a realizing that it is a loss and giving yourself permission to mourn it is a good first step. It’s easy to exist in a kind of fog of grief without fully understanding why you are so upset or what is going on. Radical acceptance might help too

[acommonanomaly]

My cat Maglor is a shiny fluffy nerd pass it on

[confessionsofadiabetic]

You know what absolutely boggles my mind? That healthy people exist. Genuinely healthy people. No mental illness, no physical illness, no chronic illness. Just healthy. What a life that must be. 

[geekandmisandry]

This fucks with my head though. There are people who get up and feel… Awake, and then they go and just… Do their adult responsibilities without feeling anxious or upset? They just return phonecalls? Answer calls from unknown numbers? Don’t procrastinate doing important things until is a huge problem that makes you cry??

That sounds fake.

[cripples-r-us]

They are real, just watch how they fall apart when they have sprained an ankle or have a mild cold.