#multiply disabled

[clownrecess]

Happy disabled pride month to disabled people with undiagnosed physical disabilities

Happy disabled pride month to disabled people with undiagnosed mental disabilities

Happy disabled pride month to mobility aid users

Happy disabled pride month to disabled people who are in constant pain

Happy disabled pride month to AAC users

Happy disabled pride month to disabled people with ableist family

Happy disabled pride month to fat disabled people

Happy disabled pride month to disabled people with scars

Happy disabled pride month to disabled addicts

Happy disabled pride month to disabled people who's disability is progressing

Happy disabled pride month to disabled people who love their disability

Happy disabled pride month to disabled people who hate their disability

Happy disabled pride month to disabled people with underrepresented and/or uncommonly known disabilities

Happy disabled pride month to all disabled people. I love you. /p

[this-is-about-disabilities]

welcome to This Is About Disabilities! we post things submitted to us relating to disabilities, things (posts, ideas, things u have experienced irl) that refuse to mention how what theyre talking about effects disabled people, or things in media that are read as non-disabled — even when they are! generally, this is an archive about anything to do with unacknowledged disabilities!

this sideblog is heavily inspired by many other this-is blogs (like @this-is-saneism , @this-is-ableism , @this-is-pluralphobia — used your layout for this post!! sorry!! also sorry for the tags — let me know if you want to be untagged!)

WE ARE ENDO SAFE! while this blog isnt focused on plurality, the mod is plural and pro endo. all people can submit things!

— how do we work?

( pt: — how do we work? )

put your experiences with disabilities being ignored in the ask box! you can also ask questions, (e.g: "is this [insert movie with abstract themes of disabilities] about disabilities?" , "is [insert thing] supposed to be about disabilities?" , "will disabilities be affected by [insert thing]?") sometimes we wont know the answer, but we'll try our best! if we really dont know the answer, we'll reply to the ask and let the community decide!

we dont do callout posts. if you send in a post from a user because theyre excluding disabilities from something, we ask you send a ss of it with their username blurred, or just summarise the post.

— dictionary:

( pt: — dictionary: )

ableism — the discrimination against people with disabilities

saneism — the discrimination against people who have mental disorders or cognitive impairment

intersectionality — different aspects of a person's identity (e.g. race, gender, class, sexuality, disability) overlap to create a UNIQUE experience of discrimination/privilege. its NOT their marginalised identities adding up, and is instead related to how having different marginalised identities can lead to separate types of discrimination. (e.g. the way that black trans women experience different kinds of discrimination relating to their transgender identity than to white trans women due to their race) sorry if this one was explained weird, its hard to summarise ;-;

feel free to ask for any definitions to be added here!

— about the blog's mod !

im a multiply disabled, transgender, queer, plural, mentally ill man! its just me running this blog, so please be patient with asks and whatnot. i use it/he pronouns (heavy it/its pref) only and do not like being referred to with they/them, thank you!

[birdofmay]

I've seen more posts from people who are on "disability benefits" or a disability equivalent in their country. Usually, the whole system is flawed and quite annoying.

That's also the case in my country...

So, if you want, this is a post to complain about your disability program, your disability benefits, or generally anything that's supposed to help disabled people but is inherently flawed and makes everything harder that it should be.

Use the comments or reblogs, GO! ⬇️

[vocaqueers]

being disabled in a bunch of ways sucks so bad by itself, but one thing i havent really seen people talk about is how often the treatment for one thing can make other things worse. caffeine can help for ME/CFS symptoms, but then triggers my IBS. light exercise helps with fibro symptoms but then triggers my ME/CFS. socializing and going out helps with my depression but triggers physical symptoms with everything else. trying to eat healthier by changing my diet up a little triggers my IBS. every prescription medicine we have ever tried gives us awful side effects. dissociation helps us feel disconnected from the physical pain but too much of it makes us blurry all the time and out of touch with our sense of self which affects our mental health. its like no matter what we try to do to get better theres something that will make it worse at the same time.

[cliffexcellent]

One thing that my perspective changed on after getting to know more autistic people is on multiple diagnoses

I used to see a lot of people make fun of those who had long lists of diagnoses as if that means they must be making it up

But after getting to know more autistic and neurodivergent people... people who have just one condition and nothing else are actually in the minority, from anecdotal evidence.

That's including people who are professional diagnosed as well as those who are self-diagnosed. The number of people who got diagnosed with autism and nothing else is actually relatively small.

I looked it up and found that research backs this up too -- between 70 and 95% of children with ASD have at least one other psychiatric disorder.

And that's just the ones that are known about. A lot of autistic people I know suspect they have some other condition (for example, I suspect I have dyspraxia) but don't seek out a diagnosis because, if you're already getting accommodations for autism, there's not necessarily much reason to pursue an additional diagnosis.

I think this is something that fictional portrayals of neurodivergent people often miss. Generally a fictional character will have just the one thing. Most autistic characters are just autistic, nothing else.

From a storytelling perspective this makes sense. A 2 hour movie isn't really enough time to fully explore one diagnosis, let alone 5 of them.

But I do think it partly contributes to this false perception that diagnoses are these isolated things and only silly people lying for attention would claim to have more than one

[queerveganarchist]

ADHD being seen as a silly little quirk instead of a serious disability is so... like my medication is almost identical in chemical makeup to meth; they're ONE SINGULAR METHYL removed. If dextroamphetamine and methamphetamine dated it would literally be incest. And this shit STILL doesn't give me the functioning ability of a "normal" person. Do we understand??? Do I have to make even more uncomfortable comparisons before people get it???? DO I???????? Hmmm Mind you, some of us are prescribed actual meth under the brand name Desoxyn. I know I'm being lighthearted about this but it's truly not funny

[antisinful]

Accessibility is so difficult. I’m the first to admit that I’m nearly impossible to adequately accommodate for due to being multiply disabled, so how can I expect anyone else to be able to at all? I hate feeling like the answer is simply to rot away in isolation so that other people aren’t given the chance to give up on me.

[sweetpea67]

The thing about being multiply disabled is that abled people assume it’s like “x + y + z” or a loose mixture of symptoms but really it’s more like a chemical compound. My autism affects my anxiety which affects my ADHD which affects my autism. They’re all connected. And it’s not just mental stuff, either; my neurotype means I don’t go outside a lot and spend huge amounts of time reading and on my computer, which undoubtedly negatively affects my nearsightedness. My anxiety and ADHD can cause sleep deprivation which has many physical effects. Anxiety raises my heart rate and causes hyperventilation. Autism makes me a picky eater which means I can’t eat random foods without knowing first which means I sometimes go hungry. And none of those things can be separated from me.