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I have a stomach ulcer… and my pain gets worse every day, like a fire is burning inside me and won't go away.

I'm constantly tired, and the pain wakes me up at night and stays with me all day… even the simplest things are exhausting.

The medication is available, but it costs around 500 euros, and I can't afford it.

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Guys, I’m telling you this with a broken heart… I have been diagnosed with severe malnutrition due to the lack of food in Gaza.

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necronatural

Compiled some basic information I know about drawing fat characters for beginners since I've been seeing more talk about absence of really basic traits in a lot of art lately.

Morpho Fat and Skin Folds on Archive.org (for free!)

rjalker

Reminded of how Kingdom Hearts equates dark skin with literally being evil. Literally the darker your skin in Kingdom hearts the more evil you are.

dailymanners

I am about going to gripe about something that's been really annoying me lately.

First let me start with a disclaimer that I am speaking generally here. Of course both the U.S. and Europe are both massive and diverse places containing hundreds of millions of people, and a lot of regional differences. Neither the U.S. or Europe are a monolith (although a lot of people on the internet speak of both places as a monolith, which I wish people would stop doing, since neither are).

I could be wrong about this, since I don't live in the U.S., and haven't visited everywhere in Europe. But between where I have visited in the U.S., and where I have visited / lived in Europe, and from what I know from my friends in the U.S. and friends in other European countries, I get the feeling that overall the U.S. has stricter disability access laws than a lot of places in Europe do, especially in regard to building codes.

Of course there are exceptions, I know New York city is abhorrently hostile in its design towards anyone elderly and/or disabled. Although when I visited New York city it really just felt on par with a lot of major European cities with how abhorrently inaccessible it was.

One example of this is that recently I saw a Reddit discussion where a USAmerican vacationing in France was surprised at how many staircases didn't have handrails, because according to this man handrails are required by law in the U.S.

The comments were all Europeans having an absolute field day with this. Pretty much all of the comments were some variation of "I can't believe Americans are too stupid and lazy to use the stairs without a handrail 🤣🤣🤣 what's wrong with you fat lazy stupid Americans that you can't even use stairs without a handrail 🤣🤣🤣 thank GOD I was born in Europe where I was just taught how to walk up and down the stairs on my own and don't need a handrail like a lazy fat stupid American 🤣🤣🤣"

A few people tried to gently point out that this was about accessibility for elderly and disabled people, and it's not cool to laugh at building codes that are about accessibility, but those commenters were usually shut down with some variation of "yeah well in MY European country if someone is disabled or becomes elderly we either move to a more accessible building or we modify our home to be more accessible, we don't sit around whining like a bunch of Americans that our building isn't already accessible 🙄"

Which is, such a cruel way to talk about accessibility. Why wouldn't disabled and elderly people deserve the same access to a building as anyone else? Are elderly and disabled people not allowed to visit friends and family? Anyone could get hit by a car today, and after that struggle with going up and down stairs without the use of a handrail for the next several months, years, possibly the rest of your life. It's so easy to feel smug when you can easily trot up and down the stairs without a handrail, but so cruel to be unwilling to consider anyone who struggles with stairs should maybe be allowed access to the same places as you.

Honestly when I go on vacation abroad with my elderly + disabled mother, it's often easier to go to the U.S. with her than other places in Europe, because the U.S. does tend to be more accessible (in my experience, and except for New York city ofc) making going around to different public places with my mom generally a lot easier than somewhere like France or the Netherlands.

Out of all the things you could clown on the U.S. about, why you gotta go for accessibility of all things? It's disgustingly ableist and ageist, and I have to wonder if these people actually just hate disabled people / accessible design, and are using the U.S. as an excuse to hate on disabled people and accessible design.

raincitygirl76

I’m a Canadian. Our disability access is probably better than much of Europe (although I haven’t visited a lot of different European countries). But it’s definitely worse than the USA.

The USA has something called the Americans With Disabilites Act (ADA), and apparently it works fairly well. An American in my WhatsApp group went to a figure skating championship in Toronto a while back and was stunned that the arena didn’t have wheelchair access for spectators. Because an American arena would have.

Not everything about the USA is awful. Not everything about Canada and Europe is great.

Also, I live in Vancouver. We didn’t have a subway system until 1986, that’s when the Skytrain was finally built. Several of the Skytrain stations were originally built with no elevators. People with wheelchairs were expected to enter or exit the system at a different station that did have wheelchair access. In 1986.

The system wasn’t built in 1896 or 1926, when wheelchairs were a newfangled idea. It was built in 1986. British Columbian Rick Hansen’s Man In Motion world wheelchair tour started in 1985 (in Vancouver).

Or well, the Skytrain was opened in 1986. Let’s say the plans for it were finalized by 1983, since it would’ve taken a few years to build. In 1983, there was already a substantial disability rights movement in Canada, but several Skytrain stations didn’t have elevators anyway, presumably because it was cheaper.

Naturally, it eventually became politically unacceptable to make wheelchair users (and people with strollers, and people with canes or walkers, and people with suitcases) skip a station because they hadn’t bothered to put an elevator in that station.

So those stations had to be retrofitted at vast expense to make them wheelchair-accessible. It probably would’ve been cheaper to just build them accessible from the start, in retrospect. But we didn’t have a Made In Canada version of the ADA, so it didn’t happen.

Also, wheelchair accessibility does not only help wheelchair users. It also helps people with babies or toddlers in strollers, people using walkers, crutches, or canes, travellers with heavy suitcases, elderly people, etc, etc. I take the Skytrain several days a week, and I see all those people taking the elevator instead of the stairs or escalators.

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lastoneout

You know I'm really not used to being grateful to live in the US especially now but uh. Huh. Jesus fucking christ.

penrosesun

Also, bluntly, clowning on the USA for having comparatively good disability rights is spitting in the face of all of the disabled activists who made that happen. The USA didn’t just wake up with the ADA one day, and we sure as fuck didn’t just up and decide to enact it become so many of our non-disabled citizens were lazy and fat.

The fight for the ADA was long, and bitter, and every single line of it is thanks to decades tireless activism work. Evangelical religious groups widely opposed the ADA because they believed that disability (and especially particularly disabling conditions, such as being HIV+) was God’s will, and wanted disabled people to be reliant on (religious) charity. Most large corporations and business interest groups opposed the ADA, because complying with accessibility requirements might hurt their bottom line. The US Chamber of Commerce came out swinging against it. The National Federation of Independent Business called it "a disaster for small business" and fear-mongered about it shutting down mom & pop shops and throwing hard-working American out of work. Greyhound Bus Lines literally testified before Congress that they were ~so concerned~ about the costs of requiring disability accommodations that they believed that passing the ADA would be tantamount to denying all rural people access to any buses, because apparently having to install a few fold-out ramps and fold-up seats would instantly bankrupt every extant bus company.

The bill was trapped in limbo for months. It looked hopeless. A lot of people thought it couldn’t happen – that the lobbies against disability rights and the disabled were simply too strong.

And in response, hundreds of disabled protesters showed up in Washington, DC and crawled up the steps of the Capitol.

Meet the protesters who crawled their way into history—and changed how all Americans live.

How dare anyone call the USA “lazy” for our disability rights laws. We had second graders with cerebral palsy drag themselves up 100 stone steps in order to win those rights. Get the word out “lazy” out of your fucking mouthes.

lanthir

Most of the pictures I have seen of the Capitol Crawl Protest are in black and white, which is bizarre because it happened in 1990. Here's a couple pics in full colour.

dailymanners

#really good info but also There's a HUGE hole here- shit in Europe is way older#some buildings are genuinely impossible to retrofit- a lot of people just dont wanna bother (NOT SAYING THIS IS OK)#i really noticed the abhorrent accessibility in Stratford-upon-Avon#but there was a distinct difference between the newly built areas and old stuff

That's not really a hole because I don't think the age difference is relevant to what I was talking about in the original post. Since this post has taken off and gained a lot of traction I get multiple notes a day pointing out the age difference between the buildings in Europe vs the U.S., but the age difference in the buildings was never really the point (at least in my original post, I can't control what others add on) the rancidly ableist / fatphobic / ageist attitudes of many Europeans was the point.

The point was that a U.S.American can't politely say "wow it sure is different not seeing so many staircases with handrails, guess you guys just have to be more careful over here haha 😊" without dozens of Europeans gleefully jumping at the opportunity to say "FAT!!! LAZY!!! STUPID!!!" and then when it's gently pointed out that handrails are for accessibility, not a fat/lazy/stupid thing, the very same Europeans will just dig their heels in and say "well Europeans don't need accessibility because we're not a bunch of whiny fat stupid Americans, we're too smart and fit to need accessibility over here! 😤" without bothering to stop and think how horrifically ableist they sound while asserting that.

I can't control what people add on, but that pervasive attitude of Europeans pointing and laughing at accessibility in the U.S. as a fat/lazy/stupid thing that Europeans are too smart and fit to need was all I was trying to talk about in my original post, and age difference between the buildings doesn't excuse that attitude.

Besides, Europe isn't a monolith, so the generalization that buildings in Europe are older doesn't apply to all of Europe. In Iceland most of our buildings are the same age or younger than most buildings in the U.S., before WWII our population was less than a third of what it is today, and most of that population was poor sheep farmers living in flimsy wooden farmhouses out in the countryside that often aren't still standing today. So like the U.S., most of our buildings are quite new, and despite this, our accessibility is often quite bad, because it's never really been a priority.

shower-thoughts-last-responder

I hate how inaccessible so many European cities are. My mam has arthritis in her hips, and she can't walk more than about 50m without needing to sit down for a minute which means so many things are completely inaccessible to her thanks to a combination of hostile architecture and ablist city planning. Everyone raves about how great it is that European cities are walkable, and don't get we wrong that is great, but I feel like it has come at the cost of those who can't walk. I understand the issues that car dependence causes in US cities but being able to access at the very least public transport hubs via car is a matter of accessibility.

Also, I don't buy the whole "our buildings ate older, we can't make them accessible" for the most part. It's not can't, it's won't; unless it's a building of particular historical significance (and even every effort should be made), the needs of the living are more important than preserving aging buildings. Buildings over a century old are a dime a dozen in most of Europe, it wouldn't kill anyone to add a fucking hand rail

chalilodimun

I live in Japan and the accessibility rules are very strict here. You're sure to have escalators and elevators at EVERY subway station (some JR line still don't have them though) and everything is built with accessibility in mind.

Places like the famous Kiyomizu Temple are fully accessible, but it wasn't when I came in 2018 for my studies IIRC. They work a lot on it.

And I've never seen as many people with disabilities/using wheelchairs than in Japan. And it's not all old people.

Inaccessibility makes it so difficult for people with disabilities to be independent and transportation is absolutely necessary.

I'm always reminded of it every time I come back in France and I have to go from the airport to Gare Montparnasse. You need to make a change at Denfert-Rochereau and this station still doesn't have a fucking elevator despite being direct to the airport with everyone having big suitcases. Having to drag a 23kg suitcase up so many stairs while being too small and so having to lift it as well always makes me so angry.

You know when Paris finally moved its butt to get one (1) wheelchair accessible subway? The Olympics! This is so shameful to have money moved only because an international event happens. And you know the cherry on the cake? I heard that it's not even wheelchair friendly because it's too quick in the opening and closing of the doors, because it's automatic with no drivers!

salvadorbonaparte

my mum has severe knee problems and needs a replacement. Today she was told she's too fat to be operated on and the knee specialist suggested she gets a gastric band - which also involves surgery. So my mum was like first of all you didn't read my file because it explains that I'm not fat because I eat too much second of all you said it's impossible for me to get surgery and then suggested I get a surgery about it? He then asked her her weight and height, didn't believe her answer, and made her prove it to him because she "looks fatter than that". So she was like so you also just entirely based this on looks instead of actual numbers?

undead-moth

My mom went through something similar. She needed a knee replacement and her doctor wouldn’t okay it until she lost weight, which was difficult given the whole knee problem preventing her from walking thing. He told her she was too dangerous to operate on and that there were just too many risks.

My mom tried to lose weight in vain for months before she finally gave into my begging her to get a second opinion. The first doctor she saw next scheduled her for surgery the same day she met him. When my mom asked about the risk of operating on her he told her that there was some minor risks for complication and that all she would need to do to alleviate the risk was spend an extra night in the hospital so that they could keep a look out for any complications.

There were zero. There were also zero complications when she had her other knee done, her hip replaced and her gallbladder removed.

Almost like the first doctor was entirely full of shit and just trying to coerce his patient to lose weight by scaring her for fucking nothing, even when she was living day to day in excruciating pain and desperately needed a surgery.

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Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

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Just had my spouse watch this for the first time and he was like “oh this film explains SO much about you”

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everyday u open the us news its like “leaked chats of ppl with political power calling every minority slurs and joking about hanging black people and openly making plans to rape minorities” and then u open tumblr and get sent reply after reply about racism being over and dead and how ur a whiney overreactor bc u asked ppl to maybe try listening to music genres they have unwarranted hatred towards and then u walk outside and get 2 make eye contact with a guy with multiple confederate flags on his car who whistles at you and follows u for three miles

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dead-mad

The lack of options for disabled people who can't live alone/fully alone is really scary. The options are residential facilities, supported living, aids, and other notoriously abusive and expensive things or family, friends, or a partner(s), who are also often abusive.

The risk of abuse when you're disabled and have to rely on others is very high and getting out of an abusive situation is already hard without being disabled. And if you do get out of it, then what? You're still disabled and still need that help.

subjectverb

the thing abt npd and the stigma around it is when people talk about a "narcissist" theyre often not using it as a nonclinical term or to refer to people with narc traits. theyre using it to signal some sort of boogeyman, some sort of inherently evil person that is to blame for everything bad ever. which . i dont think i should have to explain why thats bad right

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monidoll

natural empathy or whatever you wanna call that is basically worthless, people just turn that on and off at their convenience

monidoll

its all ingroup outgroup dynamics frankly. one has to try to understand other people deliberately and consistently for it to be any good

nourasbasha

The war in Gaza has finally paused

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Blessings to everyone who stood with us through these endless two years — thank you, truly. You’ve carried us with your love, your shares, and your words when the world was silent. We survived, but not the way people imagine. What remains of Gaza isn’t peace — it’s dust, broken schools, polluted water, and tents that barely stand.

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My wife and I are raising our four children, Layan (10), Sarah (8), Adam (5), and Amir, our baby boy born during the war. Amir has never known what a safe home feels like. For him, this is the first chance to live like any child, to breathe clean air, to drink clean water, to sleep without fear. Please, help us give him that chance.

nourasbasha

People say the crossing may open soon. We are praying this is true because this might be the only way for us to leave this camp, where even hope feels temporary. We’re very close to reaching our goal, only a few thousand remain. If you can, please donate or share. Even a single euro or reblog can change everything for my children.

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I thank God we survived the genocide, but I can’t call this survival “life.” We’re still stuck between ruins, waiting for the world to move. Please, help us cross, help us start again. You’ve stood with us for almost two years. Don’t let this moment pass us by.

gazavetters

He said it perfectly survival isn’t life. Please help them while there’s still time.

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A baby born in war deserves a real beginning. Please donate or share. Anything helps. 💔

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I'm reblogging this and hoping we can get them out of that camp. The crossing could open soon. I'd be extremely thankful to anyone who can help!

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Thank God I survived. Please support my 91% campaign by donating or sharing as much as you can. Even a single euro can make a difference. Your help will bring hope and safety to us. Let’s make it happen together.

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