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Over the last six months, I have written exactly one story. To be precise, I have rewritten this story ā I initially worked on This Silent Sea over the last span of time before my daughter was born last year, at which time it was a short story (and for me, mostly an exercise in trying to write a story to a limited word count). The last few months of my pregnancy were hard, and the first fewā¦
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my man neil was just making a fun tweet and this cat straight up murdered him
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The only known videoĀ footageĀ ofĀ Anne Frank
I canāt think of any reason why someone would not reblog this.Ā
If this isnāt interesting/sad to you, then I donāt know what you like in life.
Canāt we hit 1,000,000 notes? This is such a rare shot, everyone should see it.
congrats to 1 million notes
I reblog this every time I see it, because itās one of lifeās hardest lessons.
If you are scrolling through Tumblr trying to distract yourself from something you donāt want to think about, or youāre looking for a sign. It is going to be okay. Just breathe.Ā You are alive and you matter.Ā
i reblog this everytime i see it because i always need it and figure others do toom
Moffat, fixing Doctor Who again.
Note because Moffat is crap, this episode wasnāt written by him it was a female writer. So a female writer fixes Doctor Who.
No one is surprised by this, LOL
Her name isĀ Sarah Dollard.
Writing requires discipline, but disciplined writers are not necessarily prolific. Most good work gets produced over time, sometimes many years, allowing the writer to grow with the material, to allow her world, her command over craft, and her psychological maturity to coalesce at just the right moment to produce something of value. This process often involves dreadful periods of not writing, or, worse, periods of writing very badly, embarrassingly badly. As time passes in a writing life, the writer learns not to fear these arid periods. The words come back eventually. Thatās the real discipline: to train the mind and heart into believing that words come back. ā¦ Be willing to wait. In the meantime, write when you donāt feel like it. If you canāt write, read.
Monica Wood, The Pocket MuseĀ (masculine pronouns changed to feminine)
I needed to hear this today.
(via savetheteaboy)
And again today.
(via one-bite-at-a-time)
(See also: the Law of Undulations)
I ļ¬nd that, for me, the work is a safe place to put all the stuff you donāt want to put in your real life. I donāt want to be a crazy, manic asshole. I donāt want to have an affair. I donāt want to have a fucking gunļ¬ght. But! Thereās a part of your brain that wants to experience everything, and so workās a safe place to explore it all. Both in the writing and in the performing. I get to write about an affair. I get to have the guilt and the feeling of that without having to fuck my life up. [laughs] Art is the place to safely explore all those other sides of you, because the side you want to bring home is the side that wants to be a good father and be a good husband and be a good son. In art we can be fucking nuts
Lin-Manuel Miranda pretty much nailing why all art and means of creative expression is so important (x)
the thing that rly gets me about inspiration porn tho is the fact that like, able-bodied ppl created this world that is SO inaccessible to disabled ppl in every sense, they created this world that disregards the existence of disabled ppl and our struggles, and then they congratulate disabled ppl on succeeding in this world regardless of that struggle
like ur literally ACKNOWLEDGING the fact that ur world is shutting out disabled ppl but you dont think u need to do anything to change that?? alright
PREACH!
or they do the opposite: the subject of the inspiration porn ādidnāt let their disability stop them!āĀ
but they also have the aid of for example, 10,000$ prosthetic or high-end medical treatment that eliminates symptoms.
Like where is the trophy for people somehow managing to live with ill fitting improper mobility aids and no access to treatment for their conditions. There isnāt any because barely scraping by isnāt inspiring enough.
But that would mean admitting that disabled people donāt have access to the things they need People donāt want to be reminded of that.
Thereās also the stories where we shower praise on abled people who treated a disabled person with respect and dignity (heās handsome and popular but he took a disabled girl to prom anyway!) And those stories are literally admitting that most of the time, abled people treat disabled people like crap so itās apparently news worthy every time a disabled person is treated nicely by their peers.
do you ever have one of those friends who is such a huge part of your life that sometimes you remember that you werenāt always friends with them and you just
how do without friend????
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Its important to stay informed, but its also-if not more-important to take care of yourself first when it starts to feel too much.
Dissconnecting yourself from social media and the news for a while to do self care and to engage in activities that you enjoy will not have any negative impact on whatās happening in the world. Take care of yourself please. ā¤ļø
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Iām mature now.
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This is the quality content Iām on here for.
Five years ago, TED Fellow Jennifer Brea became progressively ill with myalgic encephalomyelitis, commonly known as chronic fatigue syndrome, a debilitating illness that severely impairs normal activities and on bad days makes even the rustling of bed sheets unbearable. In this poignant talk, Brea describes the obstacles she's encountered in seeking treatment for her condition, whose root causes and physical effects we don't fully understand, as well as her mission to document through film the lives of patients that medicine struggles to treat.
THIS IS SO IMPORTANT
What happens when you have a disease doctors canāt diagnose.
So important.
I always hate it when people are all āso do you go to school, or are you working, orā and I either have to
make up some lie, or
eventually get around to āI am not working because of depression/anxiety,ā and subsequently have to deal with whatever bullshit-riddled and completely unsolicited opinions on mental illness this stranger feels obligated to share with me.
So my therapist was like, āYou donāt have to do either. You can just say you havenāt worked in a while because youāre recovering from an illness.ā
I tried it when the home inspector was here today, and it fucking worked. He was like, āoh, Iām sorry, are you doing better now,ā and Iām like yeah, and donāt worry, itās not contagious, awkward laugh, and we moved on.
MY THERAPIST. IS A GENIUS. Because it is an illness, so itās not a lie to say that, and itās also none of his business to know specifically what it is, and I clearly donāt want to give more details, so we should move on from this topic. MY THERAPIST IS A GODDAMN GENIUS.
Dude I needed this. I never know what to say when people ask if I work because Iām severely disabled and donāt work.
REBLOG TO SAVE A LIFE HOLY SHIT
this is the best thing Iāve seen all day.
I think this is the new Punch Hitler in the face?
HIT HIM AGAIN
Could somebody be a paramedic if they were missing a forearm?
Yāknow, sometimes a question comes along that exposes your biases. Iām really, really glad you asked me this.
My initial instinct was to say no. There are a lot of tasks as a paramedic that require very specific motions that are sensitive to pressure: drawing medications, spreading the skin to start IVs. Thereās strength requiredāwe do a LOT of lifting, and you need to be able to āfeelā that lift.
So my first thought was, ānot in the fieldā. There are admin tasks (working in an EMS pharmacy, equipment coordinator, supervisor, dispatcher) that came to mind as being a good fit for someone with the disability you describe, but field workā¦.?
(By the way, I know a number of medics with leg prostheses; these are relatively common and very easy to work with. Iām all in favor of disabled medics. I just didnāt think the job was physically doable with this kind of disability.)
Then I asked. I went into an EMS group and asked some people from all across the country. And the answers I got surprised me.
They were mostly along the lines of āoh totally, thereās one in Pittsburgh, she kicks assā or āmy old partner had a prosthetic forearm and hand, she could medic circles around the rest of her classā. One instructor said they had a student with just such a prosthesis, and wasnāt sure how to teach; the student said ājust let me figure it outā, and by the end of the night they were doing very sensitive skills better than their classmates.
Because of that group I know of at least a half-dozen medics here in the US with forearm and hand prostheses.
So yes. You can totally have a character with one forearm, who works as a paramedic for a living.
Thanks again for sending this in. It broadened my worldview.
xoxo, Aunt Scripty
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When I was growing up, I was around people who were mostly pretty good at staying positive about my range of career options as a deaf person and who encouraged me to dream big. But one of the few things I was told that I likely couldnāt do would be to be a doctor. This is because they werenāt sure how to work around theĀ āneedā to listen to certain things through a stethoscope. No, it didnāt have a real impact on my career-related decision making because I didnāt really have an interest in the medical professions anyway, my interests took me in other directions. But it was one of the few limits that some people put on my vision, and even though it didnāt have a practical impact on me I still felt the constraint a bit ā just the idea that something random like a stethoscope could potentially shut me out from an entire field.
Now flash forward to when Iām in my 20s, back when I was interviewing people and writing articles for a university staff/faculty publication and alumni outreach magazine. And one day I find myself interviewing a deaf EMT for an article I was writing on deaf women working in various professions related to the various sciences. And this deaf EMT had a specialized stethoscope designed to be SO LOUD that even I, a severely to profoundly deaf person, could actually hear a beating heart or the sound of nerves working! And that was with putting the buds for the stethoscope directly into my ears, which meant that I actually took out my hearing aidsĀ in order to listen instead of having to figure out how to get headphones to directly funnel sound into the eeny tiny microphone in my hearing aid. Ā The kind of headphones designed with buds going directly into the ear just DO NOT WORK FOR THAT, period full stop. And most things designed for hearing people DO NOT WORK for deaf people because they only use the little bitty baby amplification that hearing people use to protect their incredibly fragile ears that start to hurt at just about the point Iām starting to be able to hear that there even IS a sound to be heard. Hearing people run in terror from the kind of BIG LOUD amplification that us deaf people need. (Unless they are the kind of rock music fans who think all good music ends with actual, noticeable hearing loss at the end of the concert.) And on top of that, most things designed for hearing people naturally donāt compensate for the fact that I hear low pitch sounds MUCH better than high pitch sounds. Meaning, I can actually hear low pitch sounds if they are amplified loud enough, but for high pitch sounds ā well, the first 32 years of my life they basically didnāt exist in my life, for the past 14 or 15 years the only reason I can hear high pitch sounds is because these days, with the advent of digital (not just analog) hearing aids, itās now possible to have hearing aids that take high pitch sounds and process them so they sound like low pitch sounds. So this is what water sounds like! When itās processed so that itās actually something I can hear. Ā But somehow this stethoscopeāinvented when (most? or all?) of us deaf folks were still wearing analog hearing aidsāmanaged to be loud enough for me.
Until the deaf woman EMT loaned me her stethoscope for a minute and explained it to me, I didnāt even know that you could actually hear the nerves working, not just the heart or breath in the lungs! And never imagined actually hearing it myself
And the deaf EMT told me that, for deaf people who really canāt hear anything at all even with that LOUD stethoscope, there are other machines to pick up basically the same information that you can get through a stethoscope. And she also pointed out thatās a fairly small part of being a doctor or EMT, anyway. You donāt have to be able to use a stethoscope to join the medical professions.
And ā¦ somehow, even though I had never personally actually wantedĀ to be a doctor anyway, and still donāt want to, and still donāt miss having tried it, it was still so awesome realizing that this one last barrier that had been put on my old childhood imagination could just fade away.
People need to know.
PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
That people with disabilities can do all kinds of things
THAT people with disabilities ARE ALREADY DOING all kinds of things.
Because ā¦ on one hand, yes, there are a FEW things that people with certain disabilities actually canāt do. They do not yet have driverless cars on the open market for everyone to buy, so until thatās ready, blind people still canāt do jobs that by definition have to involve driving (like taxi cab driver, bus or truck driver, etc). And deaf people canāt be phone operators. And although deaf people could translate between written languages, and although there are certified deaf interpreters who translate between signed languages (yeah thatās an actual thing), people who are really deaf (and not just a little hard of hearing) canāt interpret between spoken languages on the phone.Ā
But most of the things that people THINK are impossible for people with disabilities to do? Ā Can be worked around with the right technologies, devices, software, adaptations, and a little resourcefulness and creativity.Ā
More people need to be like @scriptmedic, meaning they need to do the work to actually research the options and find out what is already being done. And they need to talk with people who have the actual disability to see what ideas they have. Because we often have a lot of these ideas, and we often see some of our supposedly more āinnovativeā ideas as being actually rather boring and ordinary because weāve been doing them since before our memories even start. Just by example ā As far as I can tell, from the bits I know (Iāve only known a few adults without hands at all well), many babies born without arms seem to just naturally do all kinds of things with their feet instead, because thatās what they have to explore the world with. It seems like a āgee whizā creative answer for people who havenāt needed to adapt to life without arms, but isnāt so innovative from the perspective of an adult who has been doing all kinds of stuff with their feet literally since infancy. As a deaf person who has been using writing as a tool of communication since, like, age 7 or something, it baffles me when I still occasionally meet hearing adults who seem to find the idea remarkable. And all that is before you even get to the stuff where we have to actually workĀ to come up with a solution, by drawing upon more sophisticated adult experience, knowledge of available technologies, and opportunity to talk with other adults with similar disabilities who are working to solve things too. We usually have a lot, a lotĀ of practice working to come up with solutions for things we havenāt tried before, so we are often likely to see solutions that everyone else missesāand not just for disability related accommodations.
People with disabilities donāt want to set themselves up to fail any more than anyone else. So if they seem to believe thereās a way for them to do it, you should give them a chance to show you, or explain what theyāve already been doing in the past, or explain what theyāve seen other people with the same disability do, or explain what ideas they have that they would like a chance to try out. Donāt just assume and then stop trying. Talk to us.
This. All of this.
Are you looking at creating a disabled character? Then you need to think not about what they can or canāt do, but about how they might approach the same task with different tools at their disposal.
Donāt say āX canāt do Y or Zā. First, ask, āwhat is actually NEEDED to do Y? Whatās the process? How could I adapt it?ā
Iāll be the first to say that medicine is an ableist community. We are. We almost have to be, because the whole point of medicine is to reduce disability and disease. We assume total health is the baseline, that other states are āabnormalā and to be corrected.
And sometimes that leads to misunderstandings. Misconceptions. False assertions.
And Iām going to tell you this, because I think @andreashettle would like to know this: I am, functionally speaking, a person with ānormalā hearing. (I have a very slight amount of loss from working under sirens for a decade, but functionally I do just fine).
But you know what? Iāve never heard the sound of nerves. Never. I didnāt even realize that that is a sound you can hear.
So you, with your deaf ears, just taught me something about a tool I use every. single. day. of. my. life. About a sound Iāve never heard, with my ānormalā ears and my ānormalā stethoscope. (Okay, itās a pretty kick-ass stethoscope, lezzbehonest rightnow.)
And for the love of all that is holy, I want to see these characters in fiction. Deaf doctors, one-handed medics, bilateral amputees running circles around other characters just to prove that they can.
I apologize for my misconception, for assuming that disability meant ācanātā. Itās a cultural part of medicine that I dislike. But now that I know itās a thing I want to see it everywhere.
But if youāre going to do itā¦ do the godsdamned research. Have respect for those who live with disabilities. Write better. Write real.
And above all? Write respectfully.
xoxo, Aunt Scripty
