happy disability pride month. this year, i hope we can focus properly on people with physical disabilities. every time a conversation goes towards physical disabilities, it gets derailed and turned into a discussion of other disabilities. that's obviously bad, and is rooted into a deeper case of ableism within many spaces.
this year, let's shine some light and focus on people with more physical disabilities
people with missing/compromised limbs
people with compromised/absent motor functions
people who experience constant pains
people who are always exhausted/tired
people with nerve disorders
people who are blind (cannot see to the point of it being dangerous / getting in the way of daily ordeals)
people who have autoimmune diseases (like lupus— PLEASE stop making house md jokes. its uncomfortable obnoxious and treats many real struggles like just a joke/reference to a show)
people who have hearing issues (including those who are "fully deaf", or can barely hear anything instead of not hearing at all)
people who have heart related issues that force them to lay or sit down, etc
people who seizures due to epilepsy or other seizure-inducing issues
people who cant and/or do not speak (with nonverbality included)
people who have bone-related issues that affect their day-to-day life (so for example extreme scoliosis or other malformations)
people who are physically disabled and need mobility aids
people who are physically disabled and dont use mobility aids
people who are physically disabled but cannot get any help (including mobility aids, but goes all the way to a proper diagnosis)
people who became disabled later on in their lives (usually due to accidents but theres more reasons)
people who have limps or cannot walk """properly""" (according to the able bodied society)
lets celebrate the people struggling and surviving with physical disabilities a little more this year. its disability pride month, and i hope we dont forget the people with physical disabilities to talk about non-physical ones. happy disability pride month!
“alt text for more info” “turn on cations for more info” no actually this is not where more info goes. These have a very distinct purpose. There are plenty of other places for more info. If you’re going to make your post inaccessible, the least you could do is not use accessibility tools at your own leisure for whatever purpose you see fit.
Disabled friends and tumblrites all: do your best to stay alive. The fight will be very hard for some of us, if certain plans go into action and our cost of living goes up while benefits go down, but we have to try.
We’ll crawl up the Capitol steps again if we have to. But we have to stay alive to make it there.
it's so important that non-disabled people are allowed to be wherever disabled people are when they need to be!
there are disabled people who need to be with a caregiver, or need someone to support them with navigation, or communication, and many more supporting needs.
and even when a disabled person doesn't need support like that, it's important that they have the same access to being able to be with family and friends just like anyone else!
when there's an elevator for wheelchair accessible entrances, my partner goes with me. when i sit in designated wheelchair accessible areas, my partner sits with me!
being disabled shouldn't and doesn't mean you are forced to be separated from caregivers, family, or friends!
my partner helps me with navigation, travel, and communication, but i also just want to be able to be next to them like how anyone else could! i'm not gonna be separated while out of the house just cause i'm in a wheelchair
family: i know you're disabled so don't be afraid to ask for accommodations if you need them
me: *asks for accommodations*
family: why are you being so controlling. the real world isn't like that. not everything revolves around you. also stop being weird you're making me uncomfortable
Do not tell someone their mobility aid isn’t cute.
Please, for the love of any god that exists and the ones that don’t too, don’t tell someone their mobility aid isn’t cute. Don’t tell them it ruins their outfit. Don’t tell them they’d look better without it. Don’t.
Why? Because chances are, they were very insecure about it before. Maybe they still are. And also because it’s fucking ableist. You’re telling them that using a mobility aid looks bad. I don’t care if you think the outfit would look ten times better without it, keep that shit to yourself. You’re not the one wearing it and if the person has decided that their functionality is more important than their appearance, then that’s their choice to make, not yours.
Mobility aids are there to help the person using them, not to appease your idea of beauty.
And, not to mention, mobility aids are fucking cute.
The braces worn on the outside of pants because that’s more comfortable or they don’t fit underneath or it’s uncomfortable otherwise? Rock on. Canes that are decorated or otherwise but let someone get around easier? Fantastic. Crutches that let someone participate in society? Amazing. Wheelchairs that mean someone doesn’t have to be in unnecessary pain? 10/10. Walkers that give someone the freedom to do things they want to? Spectacular. Freaking prosthetic limbs?? Iconic. Insulin or blood monitoring patches that means someone doesn’t have to be thinking about yet another thing while they go about their day? Beautiful. Feeding tubes that mean someone can fucking get nutrients? Cute as hell.
If you have something that makes your life easier and you use it, that automatically makes you smart and hot. You have my permission to hit anyone who says otherwise (with your mobility aid if applicable).
TL;DR: Mobility aids are cute and anyone who says otherwise is stupid.
I don't feel like responding to your entire reblog and also I'm blocking you but CVI is NOT visual processing disorder
Context (link)
Sources will be at the bottom after disturbing arguments are addressed.
I'm going to respond to this assuming there is a missing "a", as I never said CVI is VPD, I said it's a type. That's probably clear but I'll make it crystal
Could you clarify any particular reason as to why you believe you are the arbiter whose opinion should be regarded above all else? I welcome the opportunity to be educated and proven wrong, but you have yet to support your original claim and still fail to provide any evidence regarding this one.
Saying a disabled individual knows nothing about the condition they literally have? Wow. Just wow.
You previously called someone obsessed and implied they were stupid for reblogging with a response and leaving a comment on your post. If that's considered obsession, what would you call yourself, who has subblogged someone after you left an ask saying you've blocked them?
And then I find this?
Are you actually fucking kidding me? I can't believe I fell for someone's obviously bad faith bullshit as you clearly believe that those who have disabilities understanding senses have sensory disabilities. How is sensory processing disorder NOT a sensory disability when you blatantly include one of the manifestations???
I find it notable you did not respond to stitchieau-the-actual-one or trashiesttrashboy’s points like this, instead, you opted to fabricate a quote as a personal attack to mock Stitch as if they had said “I'm as dumb as rocks”, when one could've easily pointed out how dyspraxia is a form of SPD, not the other way around.
Very interesting, it seems your motivation for blocking could very well stem from the desire for the inherent concealment of concerns about misinformation and bigoted biases, particularly after having sanism and hindrance to disability activism pointed out. Funny how the sanist comments suddenly disappeared after I mentioned them, shame I didn't screenshot it.
You "don't feel like" responding to my (or any respondent, really) reblog because you HAVE nothing to respond with.
SOURCES N SHIT
I wasn't just saying it for the hell of it.
The Child Neurology Foundation (link) describes CVI as visual processing disorder. The American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology & Strabismus (link) explains that in CVI, "the message is not properly processed or integrated".
The Pediatric Cortical Visual Impairment Society (link) notes that "CVI is a problem with the visual processing centers and visual pathways of the brain, not the eye." They continue on another page (link), "the eyes can see, but the brain can't interpret the visual world.” Perkins (link) says it is "caused by damage to the brain’s visual pathways or visual processing areas," and that "the brain has trouble processing what the eyes can see".
The Eye & Ear Foundation of Pittsburgh (link) states "it can involve any visual processing part of the brain," and that it "affects the visual processing centers in the brain". The National Eye Institute (link) drafted a definition in a workshop sponsored by NIH, defining CVl as "a spectrum of visual impairments caused by an underlying structural and/or functional brain abnormality that affects the development of visual function and processing'":
This PubMed article (link) states that “[the] broad consensus definition embraces the wide range of damage or dysfunction of the neural pathways, centers and networks involved in visual information processing," highlighting how this particularly impacts the visual brain areas “involved in integration, identification, analysis and interpretation of […] visual information […]." Given this complexity, it follows that “disturbance of any element of these complex mental visual processes can occur in a range of patterns of CVI", including "impaired processing of visual details", showcasing how "cortical or cerebral visual impairment can interfere with any or all aspects of visual processing."
Another study (link) mentions that "an important aspect of CVI are visual processing dysfunctions (VPD)" processing dysfunction is synonymous with processing disorder.
A different study (link) notes "CVI can be characterized as a condition of 'dorsal stream dysfunction' and represents the most common type of visual processing impairment observed in children with this condition.”
Boston children's hospital (link) lists autism as a confusing diagnostic entity, probably because dorsal stream function were significantly associated (link) with autistic traits.
This study (link) calls CVI a "visual processing disorder"
The only argument I can possibly interpret to be made in good faith would be pointing out how cerebral is different from cortical, which is not what you've done. It isn't a strong argument anyways, as cerebral is often substituted for or used interchangeably with cortical "to more globally encompass these higher order visual processing deficits and their presumed association with damaged areas of the visual processing pathway".
That study (link) continues by explaining how “a practical and useful conceptual framework in characterizing observed deficits in CVI is to incorporate the two-stream hypothesis of visual processing". Within this framework, “impairment of dorsal visual stream processing would impact upon an individual’s ability to process and interact with complex visual scenes […]". This concept is supported by recent studies investigating “individual pathways implicated in the processing of visual information between cortical areas of the brain with the aim of establishing a possible association between the structural integrity of these pathways and visual dysfunction in CVI.” Those studies reveal that “the observed reductions in the structural integrity associated with the key extra geniculostriate visual pathways implicated in visual processing help provide for a neuroanatomical basis for the visual dysfunctions observed in individuals with CVI”
CVI Scotland (link) has discussed a paper titled "Central Auditory Processing Disorder: The Hearing Equivalent of CVI".
Again, I welcome being wrong! I love being educated (: but you have given absolutely 0 indicator that this is anything more than your personal opinion sneered out of frustrations taken out on fellow disabled individuals (oh that's right, you just think they have issues)
