#physical disabilities

[battle-for-dyke-island]

this is what healthcare is like as a disabled person

[elektra-pop]

Yoga and veganism won't cure disability.

It won't cure chronic pain.

It doesn't make debilitating chronic illnesses disappear.

It does not work. Stop suggesting it.

[affectionatealbatross]

i’m NEVER going to “be quiet” about being physically disabled btw. Everyone has to get even louder about it.

[a-sassy-bench]

breaking news disabled people aren't using their disabilities as an excuse because it turns out it isn't an excuse it's a state of fucking existence

and existence is everywhere all the time no matter what even if you wish it wasn't

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[writing2changetheworld]

SeaWorld has banned rollators (basically a wheeled walker with a seat). They say rollators have to be stored at the entrance.

They claim it's for safety.

They're offering walkers without seats and wheelchairs as a replacement.

They are currently being sued by the Department of Justice.

If you don't understand why this ban is a problem (with or without the offer of wheelchairs and seatless walkers), let me explain what I've thought of (and other people might have more points):

Some people choose to use a rollator instead of a wheelchair or whatever for a multitude of reasons. Whatever the reason(s), someone could be walking with the rollator and need to sit down when there are no other seats around.

[butch-marauders]

Can everybody who uses the argument “well you wouldn’t tell a physically disabled person to just try harder so don’t say it to neurodivergent people!” just shut the fuck up?

Physically disabled ppl hear that shit a fucking lot. Don’t fucking speak on topics/experiences you don’t know shit about

[kasienda]

My three year old daughter came home with a Minnie Mouse figurine, distraught. The plastic toy was missing an arm, and my daughter insisted she couldn’t play with it because it was broken.

I told her that she could still play with it! That some people were born without an arm or that they might get hurt and lose an arm, but that didn’t mean they couldn’t still play or have fun. I explained that some people might get a prosthetic or just have a stub. And she asked what a prosthetic was. I showed her a picture and she was like, “oh! A robot arm!”

When my husband came home, she thrust the toy at him and told him, “Minnie needs a robot arm.”

He was very confused, but he prints and paints miniatures from various table top games. My daughter refers to them as “daddy’s statues.” She knew he could help Minnie. So he dutifully printed her out a robot arm from a warhammer 40k model on our 3d printer, and then they painted it pink and purple together.

All of this to say, look at Minnie Mouse and her new prosthetic!!

[Image description: three photos of the abovementioned Minnie Mouse figurine. One hand is the classic giant gloved  Minnie Mouse hand: the other is a robot arm, palm upraised toward the viewer, clumsily painted the same bubblegum pink as the rest of the figurine. /end ID]

Image ID courtesy of @wanderingthunderstorm

Here’s a post about how to create smoother miniatures for the anon. It’s about your printer. (Includes more typical examples of my husband’s miniature painting).