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“You’re too young to be disabled!”
This is a shock. A revelation. Before today I had never known my age.
My disability realizes it has chosen the wrong body. It slowly slips off of me and slinks away, in search of an older body to haunt. My wheelchair disintegrates into nothingness. I am free.
Friendly Reminder:
Depression can a cause pain, but pain can also cause depression. Just because someone is depressed does not invalidate they're physical pain and certainly does not mean that they're pain must be all in their head.
My sociology professor had a really good metaphor for privilege today. She didn’t talk about race or gender or orientation or class, she talked about being left-handed.
A left-handed person walks into most classrooms and immediately is made aware of their left-handedness - they have to sit in a left-handed seat, which restricts their choices of where to sit. If there are not enough left-handed seats, they will have to sit in a right-handed seat and be continuously aware of their left-handedness. (There are other examples like left-handed scissors or baseball mitts as well.)
Meanwhile, right-handed people have much more choice about where to sit, and almost never have to think about their right-handedness.
Does this mean right-handed people are bad? No.
Does it mean that we should replace all right-handed desks with left-handed desks? No.
But could we maybe use different desk styles that can accommodate everyone and makes it so nobody has limited options or constant awareness that they are different? Yes.
Now think of this as a metaphor. For social class. For race. For ethnicity. For gender. For orientation. For anything else that sets us apart.
@every disabled or chronically ill person who needs to hear it today i believe you. you don’t have to prove your pain to me
When people treat accessibility like a luxury for disabled people when it’s actually a legal right 🙃
Disability is not a dirty word
Disability is not a dirty word
Disability is not a dirty word
Disability is not a dirty word
Spoonies, raise your hands for me if you too have that existential crisis of having your youth stolen by illness. While people your age are out doing the youthful thing and you don’t have the spoons, but you really really wanna be out there with them.
big mood
You’re allowed to hate your illness. You’re allowed to hate your body for making you sick. You’re allowed to be angry, to be negative, to be depressed. You don’t have to be ‘inspiration porn’ or please others for the sake of being palatable. Being sick all the time fucking sucks, thats it.
MY BODY, MY BUSINESS!
Another mental health/chronic illness posi piece. You don’t owe anyone anything with regards to your health choices!
A few words about Afflicted, because the spoonie community has got so many words to get out about this shitshow.
If you’ve missed it, Afflicted is a new docuseries on Netflix that follows several people experiencing chronic illnesses and the measures they take to find relief and, dare it be said, cures. A comment frequently made by the subjects is that Western medicine has been woefully inadequate for what they have been going through, and so they are shown exploring alternative medicines, substantial changes to their ways of living, and tests and treatments that aren’t well known beyond conventional modern medicine. As the series go on, supplemented by edits of commentary from ‘specialists’, it becomes clear that these measures are being used by the documentarians as reason to mock them and dismiss any legitimacy to their conditions.
All the documentary’s subjects have since come out on social media, upset by the way they were portrayed in the final edits, and discuss how they and their supports were manipulated by the people who claimed to have an interest in sharing their stories. Most recently, Jake hosted a livestream Q&A that you can watch on YouTube.
One of the only things Afflicted did successfully was validate and encourage the stigmatization of people who are chronically ill. The scrutiny, skepticism, and dismissal we experience on a daily basis from the medical and social communities alike has already been painful and a totally unnecessary burden. Afflicted doesn’t give people with chronic illnesses a voice - it amplifies the voices of people who want to tell us it’s “all in our heads” and supports comparisons on “who’s really sick”. It lets people talk even more about us and not to us. It merges us into one character in a cautionary tale about overactive imaginations and attention-seeking.
It promotes a supposed specialist telling viewers that we become attached to our ‘roles’ as chronically ill people and that failing to be cured by routine medicine means we have committed to a subconscious need to be sick.
It tells viewers that we should be pitied for our inability to exist in a reality that doesn’t match theirs.
It warns our loved ones that we are probably just manipulating them in one way or another, either to cling to them or reject them entirely.
It portrays the chronically ill as merely being victims of trauma and labouring from the inability to just get over it.
We are reduced to oddities, burdens, lunatics.
Our illnesses and the things we do to try and have any semblance of control over them when all else fails are indulgent and entitled.
So yeah, fuck Afflicted.
Your disability/illness/disorder is NOT “an excuse”, it’s a reality. Having limitations does not make you lazy. You should never feel guilty because you have limitations.
SERVICE DOG PSA
So today I tripped. Fell flat on my face, it was awful but ultimately harmless. My service dog, however, is trained to go get an adult if I have a seizure, and he assumed this was a seizure (were training him to do more to care for me, but we didn’t learn I had epilepsy until a year after we got him)
I went after him after I had dusten off my jeans and my ego, and I found him trying to get the attention of a very annoyed woman. She was swatting him away and telling him to go away. So I feel like I need to make this heads up
If a service dog without a person approaches you, it means the person is down and in need of help
Don’t get scared, don’t get annoyed, follow the dog! If it had been an emergency situation, I could have vomited and choked, I could have hit my head, I could have had so many things happen to me. We’re going to update his training so if the first person doesn’t cooperate, he moves on, but seriously guys. If what’s-his-face could understand that lassie wanted him to go to the well, you can figure out that a dog in a vest proclaiming it a service dog wants you to follow him
living with a chronic illness is shitty because my explanation for why I missed school or couldn’t go to a social event is always “I was sick” and people get tired of that really quickly
“you were sick last week too” yes I was sick last week, I am sick this week, I will be sick next week and I will possibly be sick forever, deal with it
Able bodied people who think that if you can walk/stand at all you shouldn’t use a wheelchair … like… i hope you guys don’t use cars or buses
what do you mean that’s different? you can walk right? and you can run right? since distance doesn’t matter just walk and run everywhere u cowards
PLEASE KNOW NOT EVERYONE IN A WHEELCHAIR IS PARALYSED. I REPEAT- NOT EVERYONE IN A WHEELCHAIR IS PARALYSED.
Schizophrenic people are 14 times more likely to be victims of a violent crime than commit one.
“(Schizophrenic) Individuals in this sample were at least 14 times more likely to be victims of a violent crime than to be arrested for one. In general, the risk associated with being in the community was higher than the risk these individuals posed to the community”
This means that neurotypicals are a much bigger threat to schizophrenic people than schizophrenic people are to neurotypicals.
You can now shove all your “psycho killer” stereotypes up your ass.
I’d really appreciate if non schizophrenic people reblogged this cause the misconception that schizophrenic people are dangerous is so widespread and I really want people to see this post so that they won’t react with fear and apprehension when they meet a schizophrenic person.
