#partially blind

[photozoi]

Chendra

[infiniteinoblivionn]

[wronggalaxy]

The urge to cut off like 99% of my friends is constantly growing.

1) They keep calling me slurs(I'm literally OK with being called a faggot and tranny by the ones who also fall under those slurs, but somehow not wanting to be called a cripple, by able-bodied people no less, is somehow toxic???)

2) They make fun of me for having to have my phone on 'light mode' even though I've explained a billion times I literally CAN NOT SEE THE TEXT OR PICTURES OTHERWISE

3) They constantly mix up my lazy eye and strabismus and say it makes me look like a token idiot from movies(I wonder fucking why?! Could the answer maybe, possibly, be ableism in the film industry?!)

4) They take my cane without asking which I don't really mind when I'm sitting down but they'll literally take it while I'm standing and leaning against it, knowing I'm a severe fall risk and that falling is extremely dangerous for me, which they also make fun of

5) They treat me like I'm being ridiculous because I'm upset that after 13 years of modern, contemporary, and classical ballet and 2 of tap and hip hop I can no longer dance at all(not even with my arms as they tire easily or my head cause moving it too much triggers tic attacks)

6) They refuse to slow down for me when walking to class, even on staircases, but also get mad when I don't walk with them(not to mention walking alone is dangerous for me for multiple reasons)

7) They treat my absence seizures as if they're not serious because they don't involve shaking on the ground and said it's basically just dissociation(which they also get mad at me for doing)

8) They call me dramatic for having trauma responses to things like cars back firing and plastic water bottles popping even though they know I have untreated PTSD from my house being shot up by my neighbor when I was 11

9) One of them gets angry at me if I'm upset about being called a slur because "they're just telling the truth"

10) I told them that I want to go by Nora-Zachary and They/Them this year instead of my old 'preferred name'(it was never my preferred name I just had to pick the first name that came to my head the first day freshman year so I wouldn't be called my deadname) and He/They, but only one has complied on pronouns and no one has on my name

11) They laugh and call it 'cute' on days where my rhotacism, struggle to verbalize, and/or accent(both regional and autism accent)are more prominent

12) A couple have said I don't have a lisp, which is true, but what they actually meant is that I don't have a speech impediment(literally why do able-bodied people think only lisps and stutters exist, I'm pretty sure rhotacism is one the most common articulation impairments along with lisps and lambdacism, yet not even my parents know what it's called)

And like a billion other things too. Being around them is quite literally making me more suicidal. But IDK. Do I just need to suck it up? Is this as good as it gets? Before literally a year ago I only had 3 friends, and before 2 years ago I had 0, so I don't know what's acceptable.

[titan-god-helios]

hey artists !!! this disability pride month (and always) please put image descriptions or alt text on your work !!! that goes for anyone posting images in general too :3

[disabled-sysboxes]

[TEXT ID: this system is blind]

[IMG ID: a white, rectangular box with a square of red with an icon for the blind on the left, and the text 'this system is blind' on the right.]

[TEXT ID: this system is partially blind]

[IMG ID: a white, rectangular box with a square of red with an icon for the blind on the left, and the text 'this system is partially blind' on the right.]

[TEXT ID: this system is legally blind]

[IMG ID: a white, rectangular box with a square of red with an icon for the blind on the left, and the text 'this system is legally blind' on the right.]

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I GOT IT 🥺🥺 a friend bought it off my wishlist and I- I have so many emotions 😭😭 im honestly very grateful and also terrified when I take it out with me.

[latin-america-photography]

A Colombian partially blind man peeks out from the dark inside of a concrete highway overpass in the periphery of Bogotá, Colombia. - Copyright © 2019 Jan Sochor Photography

[cuttlefishkitch]

digidegrade legs were not meant for slav squatting but lumi makes due