Cane using Crip

brain damaged and owning it

[thedudeleftthebuilding-deactiva]

[anxietyproblem]

Follow us @anxietyproblem​

[so-over-ableism]

if you don’t know what your illness is yet…

that doesn’t mean you’re not sick

you will find answers

i believe that you’re sick

you will get through this tough time

you don’t owe anyone an explanation

you will get the necessary accommodations

those who truly care about you will help you

i love you

I believe in you

im here for you

[yumedigi]

plant babies

[citizenshipandsocialjustice]

[deim-carpe]

Does anyone know any safe seizure/epilepsy tags? Sooooo many posts in tags like #epilepsy, #epilepsywarrior, #seizuredisorder have strobe triggers so I can’t look at them. Also There are a lot of spoonie blogs but I’ve yet to find one that posts about living with seizures 😔 If anyone knows of any chronic illness blogs that posts about seizures/epilepsy (preferably on the more humorous side of things) please please let me know. It’s terrible that people with epilepsy can’t even look at their own tag on tumblr without being at risk. 😡 TL;DR: Safe epilepsy/seizure disorder tags? Spoonie blogs that include epilepsy and seizure disorders? (Image credit to spacecadetsharky)

[alpine-air]

[neon-mooni]

“You can’t expect people to accommodate your disability everywhere you go”. Actually I can, because it’s kind of illegal not to.

[brightlotusmoon]

(Business Card via Andro Hays on Facebook)

[potsiepie-deactivated20190616]

me: hello doctor i am getting worse help me pls

doctor: have u tried not getting worse

[spoonsforsale]

Chronic illness is like trying to live on 5% battery for the rest of your life

[ranger-truth]

REBLOG IF YOU THINK WE SHOULD NORMALIZE WEARING SURGICAL MASKS FOR SEASONAL ALLERGIES.

I’m in Japan, and having the time of my life viewing flowers without feeling like I’m dying from the pollen (until the mask is off for me to eat). Everybody here wears masks for being sick, avoiding illness, or for allergies, and it’s honestly great to have the choice without judgement. If you can stand the judgement, start wearing masks (it really helps in avoiding getting sick, too). If not, just reblog.

Please, let’s normalize wearing masks everywhere. Let’s stop making people with hayfever or compromised immune systems suffer!

[whatshouldwecallchronicillness]

When the nurses see opioid use in my medical history…

[secotm]

Y'know, it's rather fucked up in general how crutches are used as a metaphor for something that holds you back, rather than something that props you up and keeps you moving forward when you'd otherwise be left to scrape and crawl.

When your philosophy is that help of any kind is weakness, you end up with some ass-backwards concepts.

[chronicillnessmemes]

brain: bored.

me: we could watch this show?

brain: no.

me: we could….play this game we’ve been looking forward to for a while?

brain: no.

me: we could draw?

brain: no.

me: okay, fine, what do YOU want to do?

brain:

brain:

brain: bored.

[robothugscomic]

New comic! (link)

This comic came up in my work recently, as I was interviewing Janice about design and disability. She generously gave me permission to quote her in the comic. All the characters in this comic represent feedback I’ve heard as an accessibility professional, both from disabled and able-bodied folks.

It’s always interesting when I’m giving an accessible design 101 workshop how many people come with ideas about disability as a binary thing - they often think of the most extreme form of a disability as the most common kind (ex - a person with a visual disability literally getting no visual input, a person in a wheelchair not being able to move at all), whereas disabilities manifest in lots of different ways, and fluctuate with time and circumstance. This is why there’s not one perfect accessibility solution, and we need flexibility and accommodation in the way we design our environments and systems!

Anyways, mostly remember that you don’t know for sure what’s going on when you look at someone, and in the face of uncertainty, try to default to kindness. That serves me pretty well.

[spiritualseeker777]