CarMeL

28🙋🏻‍♀️Autistic🧠 Aries♈️ Queer (she/they)🌈 on Kaurna Land🖤 Disabled w/hEDS, ME/CFS & co♿️🥄 Vegan🌱Buddhist🌝 International Devt Grad🧑🏻‍🎓Creative🎨 I will block bullies/trolls etc ✌🏼

[aroaceofthesea]

i made a uquiz anyone wanna take it?

Idk what am i doing with my life (also this is my first uquiz so be prepared for me to get it very wrong) - a trumpet

[beggars-opera]

[catchymemes]

[palmer]

Gay people I summon thee

[catboybreeder]

Oh boy, I sure do love being gay! I just hope no one summons m-

[the-lincyclopedia]

This maybe sounds mean, but I think we should be able to send doctors “hey, you were wrong” letters.

I was misdiagnosed with asthma when I was 12 and took asthma meds daily for seven years, and then it turned out I hadn’t had asthma in the first place; I actually have a different breathing problem. I don’t think the doctor who told me I had asthma (my pediatrician, who I was no longer seeing by that point) ever found out she’d been wrong. (This is one of at least four misdiagnoses in my life, from a variety of doctors, that I can think of off the top of my head.) Similarly, my first therapist told me she didn’t think I was autistic because I wasn’t obsessed with trains. I don’t think she ever found out that I am, in fact, autistic, because I wasn’t seeing her by the time I was diagnosed.

I get that it might be demoralizing to have someone contact you specifically to tell you that you messed up, but I think it would be useful for doctors to have data on how often they misdiagnose patients, especially since some doctors tend to think the patient is generally wrong when attempting self-diagnosis. It would be useful for my former therapist to move me from the mental column of “people who erroneously think they’re autistic” to “people whose autism I did not notice when they were right in front of me.” It would be useful for my pediatrician to realize she needed to look more closely and listen to kids when their breathing symptoms weren’t the classic asthma ones.

Doctors can get on their high horse and refuse to believe patients a lot of the time, and the power dynamic makes that dangerous in plenty of situations. I think it would be helpful to have a way to at least alert doctors when we have proof they messed up.

[olkarrion-deactivated20250108]

i was talking to my coworker about my disability/chronic pain and she said "well im glad you didnt let it make you mean and cynical" which, we all know what she meant was "im glad you aren't like the other mean, scary, cripples" which is fucking ridiculous, because i am. and it did.

i am mean. im fucking pissed. im tired of existing in a world that was made to exploit and kill people like me, and im sick of able-bodied bitches acting like they have any fucking idea what its like.

the amount of pain i experience every day is enough to make most people consider suicide, so pardon me and my crippled friends if we seem a little bitchy.

i shouldnt have to kiss abled ass to be considered "one of the good cripples". fuck you.

[givemearmstopraywith]

“why are you so tired all the time” God is killing me! thanks for asking

[just-shower-thoughts]

The picture for your funeral program may have already been taken.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

My best friend died and turned into Shrek while being buried.

[itsanotherhateblog-deactivated2]

Support giant clunky loud mobility aid users!! I see a ton of positivity for cane users, which is good cause y’all rock, but people who use bigger ones that don’t really come in easily hideable/foldable options rock too!! Fuck the part of your brain that tells you that if you’re not discrete as possible then you’re doing something wrong!! Be big and loud!! Be indiscrete!! Take up a much space as humanly possible!! If people don’t like it then they’re more than welcome to send their concerns to the trash!! 

[positiveautistic-deactivated202]

if u are reading this, i’m sending u lots and lots of love, stay safe

[tokyomanjihoe]

me forcing myself to do things that make me feel better

[queerzebra]

me in hospital rn

[toastbutteregg]

[redrobin-detective]

After careful consideration and going over multiple options I think the best choice is stay warm and cozy in bed forever.

[theconcealedweapon]

[mycroftrh]

I can’t begin to express the difference it makes just that I’m able to wear exclusively t-shirts, baggy shorts, and flip-flops. And the thing is, right. What you notice is that I’m wearing something slightly odd for the weather. What you don’t notice is that I’m not curled up with my hands clamped over my ears because socks make the clinking plates in the restaurant too loud.

[kamlo]

please stop treating the word neurodivergent like it means the overlap between autism and adhd

[kamlo]

i dont know how to articulate this well but some of you act like neurodiversity starts with adhd and ends with autism. you talk about "the neurodivergent experience" and everytime you mean "the overlapping experience of adhd and autism."

please remember us when talking about neurodiversity. ocd, dyslexia, dyscaculia, personality disorders, tourettes, intellectual disabilities, schizo-spec disorders, etc. all fall under neurodiversity.

please stop saying neurodivergent when you mean "autism and adhd."

this post is okay to reblog but do not clown on it

[queerzebra]

Just here to say, IV potassium is my mortal enemy, and I’ve had two bags this evening 😑