#disabledposting

[eptck]

you have to be kinder to people with memory issues.

you have to be kinder to people who are slow processors.

you have to be kinder to people who don't understand your jokes.

you have to be kinder to people who forget important dates.

you have to be kinder to people with cognitive decline.

you have to be kinder to people who were always this way, too.

you have to be kind. you have to be kind.

[aphelocoma-bird]

kinda fucked up that you can get sick one day and then just never get better. no one told me that could happen

[mushroom-music]

I so hate when I’m masking my pain or just can’t explain the pain so I don’t say anything and then I have to take care of myself (ie. take a nap, refrain from too much activity, be in a quiet setting, take pain meds) and someone goes “well ya didn’t say anything abt ur pain!! that means ur fine :)” like NO it DOES NOT i am just DEEPLY AFRAID OF BEING A BURDEN so I shut up abt my suffering and just do what I need to do. Damn dude leave me alone.

[orestes-is-dead]

retconning stuff into existence should be allowed actually!!

now hes not a villain, matt mercer should be permitted (nay, encouraged!) to change his mind about why essek floats

hes such a complex character that i feel like by the time the mighty nein knew him well enough to ask why he floats he wouldnt really have fitted the disabled villain stereotype anyway

((honestly as a certified Essek Fan i dont even think he was particularly villainous at any point in cr2, even at the height of his fucked up shit, he was very very morally grey))

anyway i just think hes neat and matt should reconsider!! besides yk. i feel as though it would be a great place of solidarity for ashton to find out that this powerful, helpful person theyve been travelling with has similar struggles

like yeah dude he has level nine spells and a stable relationship and a group of friends that love him, and he also is a complex person!!! who has his own difficulties!!!

also!!! it wouldnt even be retconning in the canon sense!! essek revealed very little about his floating, just that it has been "expected of him" since he learned how to do it!! the gifted disabled child to closed-off overachieving adult pipeline is real and it is dangerous!!! if anything it speaks to the disabled experience even more, the pressure to appear normal, and if you cant do that, to appear profoundly Different in ways that distract from your disability!!

also!! dynamic disabilities do exist! as ashton has shown us! just because essek can stand (which he has only ever done very very briefly in canon (see: the party at which he was floating despite being in disguise)) doesnt mean it is comfortable for him or that he can do it for very long! he floats when it would be far more convenient not to!! that speaks to need more than want if u ask me idk

ive articulated this very very badly nobody come for me

give me more disabled4disabled friendships PLEASE

[autispec-hours]

yknow that thing where you’ve been on a specific medication for long enough that your brain doesn’t really remember what the symptoms were like before , and it tries to convince you to stop taking it cause ‘ maybe you don’t need it anymore , you feel fine right now ‘ <- currently medicated while this thought is happening

that is the devil talking

edit: not literally the devil

[sunflowersolace]

i hate having chronic pain it’s just like. who gives a shit? not my mom that’s who

[eptck]

anyway

[eptck]

IM SO TIRED OF SO MANY THINGS ABOUT DISABILITY BEING IN PRIMARY COLORS & CUTE BUBBLE TEXT

IM SO TIRED OF CAPTIONS AUTO-CENSORING CURSES & VIDEO CREATORS TRYING TO CIRCUMVENT THE ALGORITHM BY LEAVING PEOPLE OUT OF WHAT THEYRE ACTUALLY SAYING

IM SO TIRED OF FORCED BEDTIMES IN CARE HOMES & FORCED CELIBACY & SOBERNESS BY CAREGIVERS

WE ARE NOT CHILDREN . WE ARE ADULTS . WE CUSS AND FUCK AND DRINK AND DO DRUGS AND WE LIKE ADULT THINGS . HORROR MOVIES AND BOOKS AND SHOWS ABOUT SEX AND VIOLENCE . TREAT US LIKE ADULTS OR I'LL CUT YOU