representationally-exempt

Marc| He/Him |19 | FTM | radial club hand, fibro, asd, gad, mdd

[representationally-exempt]

Hello!!!!

ok this is my intro post ig

hi my name is Marc, im an art student!!

I made this blog to bring my perspective on disability to the community in hopes it finds the right people!

im tired of seeing the same 3 disorders for every post on here (no hate to those with (more) commonly talked about conditions ily)

im really here for myself, to prove that im worthy of the space I take up in this world. if you relate, slay, if you don't, slay

I have chronic pain and autism as well as my birth defects but they aren't really related so I usually talk about them separately. (on separate posts)

a more rant/poetry based blog for now, im experimenting with words and expression (yippee alexithemia) but art may also appear from time to time

[writing2changetheworld]

Saw someone say a baby (who is 2 years old at the most) with a limb difference's patience was "an inspiration".

For people born physically disabled, the inspiration porn and people calling us an inspiration for EXISTING starts YOUNG.

[representationally-exempt]

i was not aware of my limb difference until i met other kids. was doing stuff hard? sure! it was my first time on earth! i found my own way to do things! humans are very adaptable creatures. i never learned to crawl, my wrist doesnt bend, so id scoot. its not inspirational, its just how it is.

[disabledfurry]

what if we stopped giving characters strabismus as a funny joke. what if we stopped? what if we stopped. what if we stopped

why the fuck do i even need to say this. "it's googly eyes" no, real people look like that. and you know they do. i know you know they do

ID: a graphic titled "strabismus (misaligned eyes) by Cleveland Clinic. there are 4 types of strabismus, each represented by a drawing of a person with it.

Hypotropia: eye points downward.

Exotropia: eye points outward.

Hypertropia: eye points upward.

Esotropia: eye points inward.

end ID

[queer-as-city-folk]

Trains

[nyancrimew]

[lektricfergus]

“face deformity” ≠ body horror. scars, burns, face differences, etc. are not body horror. sure the face the person in that drawing has might look “scary” to you but you really do have to get over it when it’s a face like the faces some actual people in real life have lmao. ugly laws were only fully repealed in 1974 and also the fact that they existed in the first place should really make you think about this. i thought we were all about weirdos and freaks on this website but people are just so so fucking bad about extending the love to people who look “weird” or “scary”. shut the fuck up and let disabled people exist without a trigger warning

[thedisablednaturalist]

How to not derail a physically disabled person's post -guide for abled neurodivergents

Hey this is a huge problem and a ton of my and other peoples posts about physical disabilities have been getting overrun with comments making it about mental illness and completely derailing the post.

Here's some things to think about before adding a comment/reply onto a physically disabled person's post:

Is the person talking about disabilities in general? Or are they only talking about physical disabilities?

Do they say specifically that neurodivergent people are welcome to comment? Or do they have a banner or tag that says DO NOT DERAIL

Check the comments and reblogs that are currently there. Are they already overrun with people making the same points you are? Are physically disabled voices getting drowned out?

Is the post tagged with cripplepunk only? (Aka not neuropunk or madpunk)

What is your addition adding to the conversation? How is it related to the original post? Is it shifting the conversation or generalizing it?

Did you actually read and internalize the post or did you only focus on adding your point of view.

Who is the intended audience for the post? Is it you? Are you listening or arguing?

Are you using their language for yourself?

Could the addition stand on its own as a separate post? (If so it probably should)

Think about how you would feel if someone did that to your post and everyone only talked about their problems and ignored your original statement. Think about how angry you'd be if they then said "you're not allowed to get mad cuz I said I wasn't derailing! I love you people!"

Also these questions can and should apply to other posts made by people who are frequently talked over (people of color, fat people, etc.) No your adhd autism does not count. There is a long history on this site of neurodivergent people talking over and taking over entire disability spaces and the problem persists today. This problem is why cripplepunk was created in the first place.

Yes mental illness deserves to be talked about. I'm proudly neurodivergent and often reblog posts from neurodivergent blogs. But you are able to make your own posts, you don't need to take over ours, especially when we are specifically pointing out how our physical disabilities differ from mental disabilities.

Also respect when someone asks you to please delete your addition. Mistakes happen what matters is how you respond to them. Learn from it and move on. Don't cry about the meanie cripples "censoring" you.

[googiekitsch-deactivated2024071]

hey artists just in case you feel despair at the rise of ai art please remember that the talking points of pro-ai people are as genuinely “ai art bad? but what if there was a PUCK girl who had Steampunk Tube Arm Prosthetic No Hand Syndrome that couldn’t draw because of no hands and you poured a biiiig vat of pencils in front of her really big and made her look at it sadddd style and she can’t just Pick Up Pencil and draw because No Hand ? what if that happened? then ai art… goood😃😄?”

[googiekitsch-deactivated2024071]

the most ironic thing about pro ai people being like “BUT IMAGINE IF THERE WAS A DISABLED PERSON WHO COULDNT DRAW?! AI ART WOULD BE SUCH A USEFUL TOOL TO DISABLED PEOPLE WHO ARE PHYSICALLY UNABLE TO DRAW!” is that by virtue of saying that they have outed themselves as knowing jack shit about the online art world because a huge majority of artists have carpal tunnel or some other pain condition in their hands like tremors that makes drawing Painful. like ohhh wow yeah ….it would be such a huge innovation if there was …. a tool that would make drawing easier….it’s not like every art program on earth comes with ….. oh i don’t know… a stabilizer that would completely alleviate this problem..??? yeah it would be really nice if that would happen. but yeah it’s such a miracle of technology that we disabled people FINALLY have a method of creating art! by creating something completely artificial and inauthentic !!! it’s SUCH a gift from god THANK you random person on the internet! do you want all the disabled people in the world to come to your house and throw a party? do you want a cake? do y

[forestfairyunicorn]

Not to mention that it's also Incredibly ignorant that disabled people can't draw.

Because there are people without limbs who can do amazing art with only their mouths as a guiding tool, such as Mariam Paré and Grant Sharman.

Pro AI art people just refuse to do the work

[niuniente]

Polish artist Mariusz Kędziersk, who is also self-taught and paints without hands.

Simon Ushakov painted this without hands in 1658

Natalie paints with her lips.

Artist Martin Sodoms from Capetown.

Chinese artist Guofu paints with mouth and feet.

All this in 5 minutes of googling. There are so many artists without hands creating art, all sorts of art, that AI "saving" disabled people is a horrible take.

And seriously speaking, does art need to be super awesome to be art? No. Draw a line. Great, you made art! Draw many lines with different colors. You made more art!

[autisticadvocacy]

This project has two parts. Part 1 is a series of videos. Part 2 is a discussion guide in plain language. Discussion Guide – PDFDiscussion G

NCIL has made a series of sex ed videos for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities!

https://www.ncil.org/sex-ed-for-individuals-with-i-dd

[ifihadmypickofwishes]

This is so important. People with ID are hardly ever taught sex ed.

[androdragynous]

as my own direct immediate list of game grievances i hate that stardew valley expects you to side against a wheelchair user who is upset that he was moved without his consent. i hate that the mass effect trilogy gives you visible scarring as a direct result of choosing mean dialogue and heals it if you're nice. i hate that the vampire the masquerade ttrpg has a monstrous player class that can appear as horrible vampiric monsters or as visibly disabled people and both of these appearances are mechanically the same. i hate that dark souls games have a difficulty level implemented in a way that cannot be adjusted for disability. i hate that i can play as a mermaid or a werewolf or a horse in the sims games but can't use a wheelchair. i hate that the ace attorney games have so much flashing and not all of the games can disable it. i hate that disability is constantly something that happens to teach a lesson, i hate that disability is something that happens as a punishment, i hate that disability is either compensated perfectly with no drawbacks or something that is endlessly sought to be cured. i hate that no character customization will ever include the mobility aids i use, that the player avatars that represent me will never look like me. i am so goddamn annoyed and so goddamn tired.

[nostalgia-is-a-bitch-ah]

I love you disabled and cripple trans men who decided not to have top surgery because you already had too many surgeries and the idea of your body going through hell again makes you throw up

Men have titties and broken bodies and missing limbs and vulvas

Maybe you'll change your mind, maybe you won't. It doesn't matter. You matter. I love you.

[ionlytalktodogs]

Disabled representation I personally would like to see:

-Ambulatory mobility aid users.

-Characters who’s disability DOES stop them. Characters who struggle with things because they’re disabled. Characters who learn to overcome those obstacles with accessibility, not with magically fixing their disability.

-Sporty disabled characters.

-Outgoing wheelchair users.

-Really cool looking mobility aids.

-Disabled characters who don’t get ‘fixed.’

-Young disabled characters.

-Disabled characters who are just…disabled. Like it’s not a huge plot point, it’s just kind of a side thing. She has to stop the sun from crashing into the earth! (Also she uses forearm crutches)

-Disabled characters who have negative traits. We need more disabled mean girls. I want to see a queen bee who uses a cane.

-Disabled characters who’s stories do have disability as a big plot point. Disability is important to disabled peoples’ lives and there’s nothing wrong with it being an important plot point in stories about us, if it’s written well and accurately!

-Disabled characters having unsupportive parents. I don’t mean evil parents who hate them, I mean flawed parents who push their kid too hard because they think that’s what they should do and they don’t realize that it’s hurting them. Flawed parents who continue to tell their kid that they “can do anything” when there are very real obstacles in their kid’s way due to disability.

-Disabled characters who see their mobility aids as freedom and love their mobility aids!

I just want complex disabled stories about complex disabled characters!

[satellites-halo]

yeah you're "punk" but are you normal about deformed people?

[satellites-halo]

btw this includes people without eyes or noses. can you talk about these people without making jokes about them? can you see them in public without making a spectacle of their existence? do you consider their existence 'gore'?

[wheelie-sick]

hypermobility is not a limb difference

hypermobility is not a deformity

limb differences are not the same thing as party tricks that you can stop doing literally whenever you want to

deformities are not the same thing as party tricks that you can stop doing literally whenever you want to

I cannot turn off my limb difference and deformity I can't stop people from staring at it by changing the way I stand I can't wear braces to make it disappear

if people are grossed out by your party tricks you can simply decide not to do them. if people are grossed out by my legs being sideways I can do absolutely nothing to change that.

[representationally-exempt]

long time no post sorry y'all

hii I've been very busy with uni and such and its been taking all my energy but im still goin :3 if u want to support me check out my Etsy https://muimex.etsy.com

[polishwave]

Dotąd nieświadoma potrzeba.

[representationally-exempt]

we found it....the water closet

[claimhte]

"What about high support needs autistic people who use wheelchairs/have severe motor skill issues!"

What about them? Last I checked, you all treat them like shit and talk over them. Last I checked, half of you saying that kind of thing are still on your "autism actually makes me smarter and better than everyone else :)" schtick. In fact, are you normal about any and all stigmatized psychiatric conditions?

"Eyeglasses are mobility aids too, being mildly nearsighted makes you disabled"

Okay, and have you spoken At All about how people using white canes are treated or about genuinely any accessibility issue the blind/VI community faces? Have you talked about Any mobility aids, really?

"Psychiatric conditions are physical disabilities because it affects the brain"

Okay, and do you identify as physically disabled broadly or only when you're trying to be in cripplepunk? Have you aligned yourself with Any of Us beyond semantics arguing on the internet? Have you talked about any disability issues at all that aren't about your specific mental health diagnosis? How have you approached and reconciled the social, political, and legislative differences in how physically disabled people are treated versus mentally ill people?

Otherwise what it sounds like is you using other disabled people as tools and tokens in your arguments and that you don't actually give a shit about any of them.