#multiple disabilities

[sky-loves-music]

Firstly, Congrats on 50+ Followers!!

Secondly, Could I please get a color and)or a song??

Lastly, how's your day been? /Genq

Thank you for the congratulations!!

Have one of my current favorite songs

My day on the day you actually sent this ask was kinda horrible, I was in the emergency room getting admitted into the hospital (I was there for 5 days and am at home now)

My day currently has just started and is good so far!!

❤️

Thanks for the ask!

[rabid-goblin-freak]

I don't like how people seem to look at, and treat me differently when I use my cane vs. When I don't use it. I either get stared at, or treated by strangers as if I'm fragile? I don't understand why, nor do I like it.

When I don't use, or need my cane. I'm basically completely invisible and unnoticed. So, I don't see why me using my medical equipment would make people notice me more?

[wronggalaxy]

Do...do y'all realize not everyone in the community was either born disabled or became it. Like you can have disabilities you were born with and ones you developed later on at the same time. And some disabilities you do have from birth but don't start presenting until later on. And some disabilities are quite literally from birth, as in the act of being born caused them. Some disabilities aren't from birth, but happened so young they mine as well have been. Some disabilities from birth or a young age could and should have been avoided(FADs, shaken baby syndrome, etc). We don't all fit into your boxes of either being majorly disabled from something at birth or becoming disabled at like 25 like some of you, and I don't want to erase your existence, but I'm tired of you erasing mine.

[big-boah]

I feel like a lot of us neurodivergent + multiply disabled people have something we're good at that doesn't quite match up with "expectations".

Mine is: I have med/high support needs and I'm not coordinated enough to walk straight without guidance. BUT I'm an amazing driver and have been since I was 15. Very safe at high speeds and I LOVE driving. Most people don't expect that!

Does anyone else have a "secret skill" that they're proud of?

(I know abled people can exploit our skills in the form of 'inspiration porn', but it's okay to be proud of your skills too!)

[thedisabilitybookarchive]

'Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens'- Nijkamp, Marieke

Disability Rep: Unidentified Mental Health Condition (Possible Bipolar), Blind, Retinitis Pigmentosa, Wheelchair User, Anxiety, Agoraphobia, Idiopathic Pain, Cane User, Schizophrenia, Depression, Hallucinations, IBS, Chronic Pain, Bipolar II, Cerebral Palsy, Autism

Genre: Short Stories, Multi-Genre, Fantasy, Historical, Contemporary, Romance, Realistic, Science-Fiction, Horror

Age: Young Adult

Setting: Persia, USA, Multiple Settings

Additional Rep: Chinese Female MC, POC, F/M, Sapphic Characters, F/F, Latin MC, Muslim Female MC, Transgender Man LI, Black Female MC, Non-Binary MC, Biracial Native-American MC, Cuban wlw Female LI, Queer wlw Female MC

For more information on summaries, content warnings and additional tropes, see here:

‘Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens’- Nijkamp, Marieke

This anthology explores disability in fictional tales told from the viewpoint of disabled characters, written by disabled creators. With sto

[imautistsick]

Happy disability pride month to pregnant disabled people who now have worse or more debilitating symptoms because of it (progesterone is the worst hormone)

[maidofmetal]

everyday i wake up and wonder which medical professionals i have to contact today

and then i don’t contact them 🫡

[owlbloop]

I have traded my hope for pride

Whether the world burns

I will care that at the end I am standing

Pride might be more fragile

Than the spider threads of hope

But it will build me a dome

Seven hundred layers thick

Hope cannot protect me

From icy words and burning blood

In a lifetime it will catch me too little

To live through the decade

But pride?

Pride is earned by my hands

By my living and laughing

In a world that would see me dead before safe

And I have earned it countless times

By fighting the venom in my ribs

And my memories

Walking a fraying rope

I deserve to be proud of how far I've come

From the kid who hid under the bed

Who fell for everything

Who no one believed when they cried

I deserve to be proud of the hundreds of pages

Written by blistered fingers and dotted

By water and bloodstains

That fought nightmares and the urge to tear

I deserve to be proud of having friends

Despite the relentless fear

That I will be left, turned on, forgotten

That they have gone from zero to a handful

I deserve to be proud of trying

Even if I failed or went too far

That I stared at this messy world

And one day found unstable land

And I deserve to be proud of waking up

Of eating, talking, wanting

Through aching ribs and spinning eyes

To do it all again

So no, I will not have hope

For something I cannot hold or see

For what is impossible

And what is far beyond complete

I will take pride

And let it tell me

That I am succeeding in living at all