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intro

hi, you can call me ghost! (i follow from a blog that starts with an M and posts nature pictures.)

i’m a 24 yr old physically disabled woman (she/her, cis) in the pnw and i get mad here about ableism (particularly in nightlife, more particularly in the hardcore music scene in my city), dating while disabled, being an unpalatable and bitter cripple, etc.

i am diagnosed with a few congenital and acquired physical disabilities, all of which impact my mobility, energy and cognition. i also have seizures, spasms, atrophy, and muscle weakness/numbness. i use a manual wheelchair, but can ambulate for a few feet (with the help of other aids, like a cane or crutches) if it’s not a bad spasm day, and can transfer. i won’t be listing my exact diagnoses here because it’s weirdly specific and i worry about my IRLs yk. also partially because i think everyone should get used to physically disabled people not sharing that aspect. that said, ive given info about one of my diagnoses right here. i’m passionate about rare disease advocacy.

i will share that i struggle with diagnosed PTSD, OCD and BPD. although i will not focus on mental illness here, i thought it was important to posit that i experience disability through a number of lenses.

please note: i believe in a free palestine, and i think the u.s. american empire should crumble expeditiously.

this blog is by and for physically disabled people, especially visibly physically disabled people.

do not derail.

i block:

- the usual groups of unsavory and bigoted individuals

- transid/radqueer/transabled

- “all disability is physical!!!”

- “cripple punk is for everyone!!”

- people who are unable to engage with discussion about physical disability without turning it into a discussion about mental illness

- honestly i block freely so probably others too

tags:

- #mean cripple yells and shakes fist at the sky (all of my original posts)

- #dating with disability (just what it says on the tin)

- #not disability related (nonsense vent posts, things experienced in my local hardcore scene and random reblogs generally)

fun facts under the cut 🩷

#mean cripple yells and shakes fist at the sky #max’s tag #dating with disability #not disability related #physical disability #visibly disabled #cripple punk

i never reach out to my mutuals because scary but if you’re my mutual, know this:

if you lived in my town i would take you to a show with me and we would get snacks after

#not disability related #mean cripple yells and shakes fist at the sky

briarpatch-kids

I love being able to talk to other disabled people online.

Do you like TLT? (The living tombstone)

I really like “cut the cord” from Him!

i know of them but they’re not super up my alley, i have a friend from back home who likes him tho! side note, was that the guy who made all the FNAF songs in the 2010s?

also seems like as good place as any to drop my top 5 most listened to bands of this month:

- wristmeetrazor

- orchid

- seeyouspacecowboy

- terrifying girls of high school

- biohazard

honorable mentions:

- madball

- for your health

#on a serious sasscore kick but tbh i do that every summer lol idk #asked and answered #not disability related #mean cripple yells and shakes fist at the sky

when you make a slightly risky joke to someone who hasn’t yet grasped that wheelchair users are capable of humor and silliness

so they look down at you like this

ID in alt

#mean cripple yells and shakes fist at the sky #physical disability #wheelchair user #visible disability #visibly disabled #cripplepunk

differentlylimbed

really don't enjoy the genre of post that's like "it's hard to accept that being physically disabled just inherently means never being able to do any of the activities you want to do or achieve any of your dreams and spending your entire life suffering. but that's how it is and that's okay 💕" like have you guys considered the possibility you are depressed

differentlylimbed

more thoughts on this... i've noticed these posts are often made by people newly struggling with chronic pain conditions and are often also struggling with the diagnostic process. and like i get it. pain makes you angry and bitter and terrified and makes everything feel like it'll last forever. and if doctors are telling you they can't find the answer or there's nothing wrong with you it can be easy to feel like this is your new reality. maybe posts like that provide some sense of control or comfort. but in saying this is just the inherent experience of being disabled you are 1. excluding a huge part of your community whose disabilities are a different way of experiencing the world and do not involve chronic pain (blindness, d/Deafness, limb difference), 2. telling those who've lived with high needs or chronic pain their entire lives, and in that time have learnt to live around it, that they're doomed to a life of misery, and 3. enforcing a horrible narrative upon others with a similar experience of new chronic pain and diagnostic frustration - that it doesn't get better, that their symptoms will always run their life and that they'd be better off just accepting that. if you're frustrated and want to vent then do your thing, but calling it "positivity" is so so harmful. people with all manner of disabilities lead fulfilling lives and achieve what they want to achieve. if you don't feel like that's possible for you then that's not "okay 💕". fucking fight for it

#re: your notes #i’m in progressive disease spaces and often they are significantly less doom-forward than on here #it is so true also that it’s largely ppl new to disability making those posts which can be more harmful bc #while disabled people who are established in their life are like ‘hmm. this person is depressed’#other newly disabled or diagnosed people might not have the personal context to look past that and start assuming there’s no point #this is why i try to talk about the fun things in my personal life on here as much as possible #bc i have fought REALLY fucking hard to have the life and experiences and friendships and hobbies that i have #now? i wouldn’t trade my life for anyone’s. and that doesn’t mean i don’t suffer every day both personally and systematically #it’s just that the world i’ve built for myself is so so so much more than that #EVERYONE READ MORE ALICE WONG NOW.#sorry for writing a novel in your tags op

the internet (and tumblr especially) is the only place where i feel like there’s a lot of wheelchair users… but we’re still not even the majority in wheelchair conversations on here lol

like i just saw a decent post about wheelchair specific ableism and like. it’s correct. but im not going to reblog it because OP isn’t a wheelchair user and im so fucking tired of their voices being centered even when its literally About Us. idk idk.

saltoncity

im not a girlblogger im an ADULT. im a WOMANblogger this is WOMANblogging

#not disability related

my new muscle relaxants do this cool thing where they don’t make my muscles relax

#mean cripple yells and shakes fist at the sky

differentlylimbed

disabled people especially disabled women need to be hornier. pleaaase no more disability discord servers with trigger lists longer than a cvs receipt and separate nsfw chats. disability blogs that only talk about disability itself like it has to be a sanitized topic kept seperate from the rest of the reality of adult life. posts about disabled sex that use medical terms and feel almost clinical. our sexuality has been taken from us for so long reclaiming and normalizing it has to be an integral part of our fight against ableism. please

#SAY ITTTTT #physically disabled women reclaim your sex drives

wristmeetrazor shirt or seeyouspacecowboy shirt… quite the dilemma for the modern woman

#jk i got the wmr shirt it was only $9 and the sysc shirt was $15. still i lust.#not disability related #mean cripple yells and shakes fist at the sky

cripples seeking love, repeat after me:

my disability does not make me a lesser partner. i am sexy, desirable and important as i am. i do not need to compensate for my physical condition. someone will love and appreciate all of me. and until then, i will be loving and appreciating myself. amen !

#dating with disability #mean cripple yells and shakes fist at the sky #cripplepunk #cripple punk #cpunk #physical disability #visible disability #visibly disabled

autisticadvocacy

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipi

The Trump administration wants to make a rule change that would decrease or end benefits for SSI recipients who live with their family. As many as 400,000 disabled people may have their benefits cut if this rule change occurs.

#i’m so tired. where are we supposed to live. ik the answer is that they just want us to die off and disappear but still man fuck

i love when you can tell that someone thinks that becoming (more) physically disabled is the end of the world and a hellish never ending nightmare to endure. and i love it when they make that my problem

#sarcasm #mean cripple yells and shakes fist at the sky #visible disability #visibly disabled #physical disability #physically disabled

told my therapist i wanna move to seattle on a whim and she fully supported me. um unexpected

#it’s 300 miles away and it’s all i think abt #not disability related #mean cripple yells and shakes fist at the sky

bebsi-cola

disabled people's privacy also extends to other disabled people. like you might also be disabled but asking a stranger who uses crutches why they use them isn't wildly different from an abled person asking that. commenting on someone's wheelchair can still be insensitive if you're also disabled. and sharing the fact that you're disabled and have health problems doesn't mean someone else has to reciprocate. sometimes disabled people don't want to be singled out for what immediately sets them apart from everyone else, no matter who is doing that or what their intentions are

#can i be honest and say some of the most invasive weird questions i get are from other disabled people lol #because it’s true! and generally they are not also wheelchair users.#i HATE talking about my disability at shows or whenever i’m just trying to Hang Out like im sorry i do not wanna commiserate rn Okay

phleb0tomist

if you’re disabled or chronically ill and need help from others in daily life, the world may shame you or make you feel like you’re weird, but i promise you are not. people need people; this has always been true throughout history. one of the earliest signs of civilisation is evidence that injured and disabled people were well taken care of. disabled people receiving long term care from others is a sign that human civilisation is functioning as it should. needing care is normal, sacred, and special.

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