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every trans man with a chronic illness should get everything for free and be treated like a prince and never have to do anything that would hurt them
Someone should invent joints that don’t hurt
✦ chronic tiredness
a flag for having chronic tiredness(as in the name) . credits NOT required for the stamps, but if including in ID hoards please link back.
when the chronic illness is still there
Because i've seen a bunch of fics infantalizing Viktor, making him frail/incompetent, and the like, here is how to write a cane/crutch user with chronic pain, a bad back and a bad leg, from a guy with Fibromyalgia and pots.
Canes! should be around the hip/waist height. there are many different types of canes. for drawing and ideas, check out @cowsabungus for guides! Cane users are not frail, and many cane users can put their canes down for a moment, or longer.
Crutches! the type of crutch Viktor uses is an underarm crutch, however, as he only uses one, and he uses it full/most of the time, it will fuck his back and shoulders a bunch. If you're writing/drawing a modern au especially, Viktor would probably use forearm crutches, and 2 of them
Behavior! Firstly, canes are made of metal, and some of them can even be used as nun-chucks. they are excellent weapons, and a lot of cane users will jokingly/seriously hit people with their canes, or do the equivilent of "i'm not touching you" with their canes. Secondly, weaponized incomepetence. this can show up in many ways, for example, viktor may hand his cane/crutch to jayce, walk a few metres and then screech out [in public] 'HOW COULD YOU? GIVE THAT BACK?', or fall dramatically. other stuff, such as calling every minor incovenience ableist [something i LOVE to do], making people carry their shit for them, and using disability privleges to get a seat on a train and etc, are very common in disabled people, including me.
Actual usage. A person with a shit leg will usually put more weight on their good leg, so a support will either go, on both sides to even it out [such as a rollator/walker or crutches], on the good leg [not that common, don't do this w crutches, or on the bad leg, allieveating pain.
chronic pain. chronic pain sucks, and it often skews with your perception of pain. here are some examples. Footless Jo on YT [fibromyalgia], nearly died from a kidney infection because she thought the pain was normal, my friend E had a concussion and didn't realise for 3 days because of her migraines, and i once dislocated my knee, and didn't realise because i was used to pain.
braces. braces do not alleviate pain completely, but they help a LOT. KT tape is a godsent as well, same with compression items and heat packs.
Every disability is different, and each circumstance is different. Please dm/shoot me an ask for specific scenarios, fic help, questions and advice!
how I manage to get up, function, and get through the day in excruciating pain is beyond me
