#disabled community

[hepburnromanization]

POV: you're a disabled American

congratulations! you just graduated from college! how will you proceed?

get a corporate job. get othered by abled coworkers. live in fear of termination

join the military. commit acts of pure evil in hope that you'll get GI benefits.

live off disability payments. remain impoverished for life. rely on family.

Remaining time: 6 days 13 hours

[crazycatsiren]

You know what?

It hurts, when people think you're getting all the special treatments for having accommodations.

It hurts, when people think you're allowed to get away with behaviors that they aren't allowed to get away with, when you have a meltdown, or a shutdown, or need to stim, or require a sensory aid.

It hurts, when people think you are privileged because the ADA is a thing.

It hurts, when people think you have an upper hand, when you are barely able to exist on the same level as them.

[this-is-disabled-joy]

Disabled joy is when I was at epic universal and tuffnut said my wolf cane was awesome!! And noticed me later because of it so we could get a picture together!!

[ had to edit the photo a bit to not post my friends face sorry if the crop is weird ]

This is disabled joy!

[this-is-disabled-joy]

I have 2:

The captioning in Grian’s videos! It's always so good, color coded names so you know whose talking, accurate captions! Like-- this is amazing and I wish more people would do this

I went swimming recently and it's the only time in years I had to stop exercising because I was out of breath and not in pain

This is disabled joy!

[this-is-disabled-joy]

Finding ways to customize my disability aids!!! Like putting stickers on my cane, painting my fidget spinner, ordering colorful knee braces, etc.

~🌈💫

This is disabled joy!

[this-is-disabled-joy]

Being able to prove a TON of epilepsy-related stigmas/misconceptions/myths wrong just by living life

This is disabled joy!

[multifariousmayhem]

pls read

im going through a rough time (i know i know, im chronically ill so it happens a lot) but like... in all honesty this is different

and i never have made a post like this so bear with me:

im chronically ill, which if we are moots you know lmao, and is genuinely disabling. to the point that i had to drop out of college and i cannot (physically cannot due to pain) hold a regular 9 to 5.

the position i am in now is... precarious to say the least. i am living in an abusive household at the moment, and i am facing the possibility of losing the little help i have rn.

i will be honest im not sure what could happen to me. i do not know what i would do if i lost access to my medicine or my hrt. so!

if you wanna support a trans chronically ill/disabled artist:

this is my vgen for comms: https://vgen.co/davidzochi

this is my toyhouse for adopts: https://toyhou.se/davidzochi

this is my artblog: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/davidzochi

and my kofi: https://ko-fi.com/davidzochi

any support/help is appreciated. even following me, liking and reblogging my art helps! (pls do reblog this post so it gets more reach)

more ramblings here:

my dream/plan is to move across countries to where my boyfriend lives, where he could care for me and not like... mistreat me or abuse me due to my chronic conditions.

i been saving money (all the comms, adopts, etc. money has been going to saving for that) but im nowhere near close to be able to first afford even travel there, and second have enough money so i could actually stay there.

as sad as it is i might need to save money for the possibility of losing my family's support... i wont lie is scary, i am scared.

i never begged for money online, and i dont know how to find help either. i will keep trying to give it my all to the art stuff and hope i can build something that will help me get through