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I used to see this talked about a lot by disabled people. Now I don't see it at all, so I'm bringing it back.

Existing as a disabled person is an act of resistance. When so many people are unhappy with our lives (and are determined to make that known), it's a feat to be alive.

I'm proud of us for being here today.

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I'm going to be incredibly honest right now: a part of me really hates June.

I love it as a queer nonbinary person, but I hate it as a disabled person.

I hate Pride events being inaccessible. I hate disabled people being excluded from conversations because people forget we can be not straight and/or not cis. I hate it being called Pride Month instead of LGBTQIA+ Pride Month because Disability Pride Month is literally next month (July).

Sophie Morgan created an amazing manual wheelchair user mannequin for Primark and it made me realize there is something I have yet to share:

Along with authentic wheelchair user representation being incredibly sparce, authentic plus size wheelchair user representation is still even rarer.

I was born disabled and I grew up plus size. I grew up the only plus size wheelchair user I knew. Thankfully 2 to 3 has been added to that count but that's not enough.

We exist. We deserve to be seen. We deserve to be celebrated.

I grew up insecure and ashamed of my body because society told me being plus size was not okay. Also being a wheelchair user? Absolutely not.

Unthinkable even to this day. Except...not.

I'm so beautiful. WE are so beautiful.

(Also, side note, face reveal? Lol)

1 mention of Anorexia, 1 mention of the word "crazy", mentions of death

Hi. I'm Azure.

I'm a disability activist and writer-director with multiple disabilities.

Business inquiries: [email protected]

Facts to know about me

I'm LGBTQIA+ (not cis and not straight)

I'm a witch in touch with their intuition (and getting better every day)

I identify as spiritual more than with any religion

I'm extremely passionate about authentic representation

I was in a music video (link here)

What are my disabilities?

ADHD

Anxiety

Astigmatism

Autism

Blindness

Depression

Dyslexia

Epilepsy

PTSD

Scoliosis

Spina Bifida (Myelomeningocele) - (I'm a non-ambulatory wheelchair user)

A lot are self-diagnosed. It's a privilege to be able to get a diagnosis from a medical professional.

I've posted about different types of Spina Bifida (link here).

Where else can you find my activism?

My LinkTree has direct links to my social media platforms, my Patreon, and my most recent article on Patreon. (Link here)

I was featured in Teen Vogue when I was 17. (Link here)

What is "the [bad] C word"?

I talk about it a lot. It's the word "Crazy". It's rare I say it.

What kind of posts can you expect from me?

Mostly disability and ableism related (reblogs, personal experiences, ableist words, asks, (in)authentic representation examples, sometimes Smosh (I used to post about it a lot because it was a hyperfixation for a while), facts, etc)

LGBTQIA+ related (usually disabled specific)

Writing related (sometimes disabled specific)

Maybe witch related (disabled specific)

Miscellaneous things not listed

What am I currently working on writing-related?

A book (and movie) about grief to prosses my feelings about Liam Payne passing

Copyrighted: A WLW romcom movie set in Rochester, NY starring a wheelchair user (Summary subject to change: Astrid (a deaf wheelchair user with a crush) and Cindy (an aspiring NYU student with a crush) work at the same Rochester, NY shop. When they go on a trip to help the owner, disaster strikes. Can they communicate to start the healing process?)

A short film about a non-ambulatory wheelchair user being on a date and facing inaccessibility

Stories about disabled people passing

A horror novel about consent

All of my posts about disability are guaranteed to be tagged with the word "disabled" and the word "disability".

All asks I answer are guaranteed to be tagged "ask response".

I'll most likely block you for being disrespectful. To me and/or anyone else.

I try my best to be as accessible as possible, but let me know if I miss something!

If you have any other questions, comment or send me an ask or send me a DM!

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"Finding Nemo" and Parenting a Disabled Child

The dad in "Finding Nemo" is a perfect representation of able-bodied and nondisabled parents who have physically disabled kids.

Don't get me wrong. I don't agree with multiple of that movie's casting choices.

But with just how overprotective Marlin is of Nemo. The "don't touch the boat" scene immediately comes to mind.

My mom has been overprotective of me my entire life. It's something many or most (if not all) physically disabled people with able-bodied and/or nondisabled parents experience.

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I'm pretty confident I've never shared this publicly...until now.

Context needed: I'm a non-ambulatory wheelchair user. Meaning I use a wheelchair to get everywhere. I can not stand or walk.

My mom would drop me off and pick me up from school every day.

In high school, where she parked to get my wheelchair out of the trunk, there wasn't a curb cut from the parking lot to the school building. This means, to get to the building, I would have to roll in front of cars. I also would often have to wait in the middle of the road because between me getting out of my mom's car and trying to not get hit by other cars, one would be in front of the curb cut from the road to the building.

After about 4 or 5 months of this, the assistant principal came up to my mom when she was dropping me off one day. They finally decided to include another curb cut.

Except I wouldn't get it until the next school year.

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I'm going to say something I know is extremely controversial: what exactly is wrong with parasocial relationships? I feel if someone views it as a really bad thing, they're taking it to the extreme (stalking and whatnot). That [the extreme] is awful and not okay at all. But that isn't everyone and all parasocial relationships.

Parasocial relationships are defined as, "one-sided relationships, where one person extends emotional energy, interest and time, and the other party, the persona, is completely unaware of the other's existence". What's wrong with that???

Treating it any differently than there being a one-sided relationship between 2 people not in the limelight is treating people in the limelight like they're not human.

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This is random sorry, and is probably gonna be pretty long, but I saw a couple of your posts about ableism/accessibility in Smosh videos, and I would like to recommend an improv comedy group that, in my opinion, treats disabilities extremely well. Shoot From The Hip is a London-based comedy group made up of four men in their 30s- Sam, Tom, Luke and AJ. I would like to clarify that while none of them have any physical disabilities, both Tom and Luke are diagnosed with ADHD (and I think one of the others might be too but idk), and Sam has said before that he has "a form of dyslexia", I don't know if he would consider himself disabled though (bc I've heard before that he doesnt identify as neurodivergent).

The first thing I want to mention is their subtitles. I think it was some time last year when a group of fans started transcribing the longform plays, and soon after they got in touch with SFTH and a subtitle team was created- fully made up of fans. Nowadays, every new video that comes out has subtitles available, and some are even colour coded to show who is saying what. Becuase it's fans who make the subtitles, there are often little references to other SFTH content sprinkled here and there and stuff, which not only is a delight to see (many people who don't need subtitles still turn them on just for that), it also makes SFTH more accessible for newer fans imo, as they get to know the inside jokes a lot quicker- a win-win! Most, if not all of the backlog of content has subtitles by now, and plenty have other languages available too.

Additionally, SFTH are very inclusive in the characters they play, whether that's including queer characters, neurodivergent characters, physically disabled characters, etc- they've said before (and I'm paraphrasing here) that all these types of people exist, so why shouldn't they be included in the stories they tell? And the best thing is, it doesn't feel forced at all- it's not like they sat down and decided that they would be inclusive, it just happens naturally. And specifically for disabilities- they don't treat them as a huge plot point, as if they come with special "superpowers", nor do they treat them like things that should be hushed and not spoken about, and shamed. They're never the butt of a joke, that's just the way the characters are. A good example I could give for this is from a recent play they put out on their patreon (so unfortunately it's behind a paywall), where a character has a stutter. If any jokes were made about it at all, they were light teasing from this character's brothers- and even then, he was able to stand up for himself and tell his brothers to stop (something I feel is pretty rare for disabled representation!). It was never even a big plot point, it was just another character trait. Another example is that several characters canonically have ADHD (it's probably most common bc their actors have it too lol), but every single time it's always just a quick mention, it doesn't become part of the plot and it's never made out that these characters are rejected, undesirable or anything- it's literally just a character trait, full stop. And lastly, there's a character who lost both his legs in a war (against alien-like Cubes)- but he's not treated with pity or anything, and later when he gets new Cube-forged prosthetics, he just wants to show them off to his husband- it isn't some kind of revelation that closes the gaps between humans and Cubes, it doesn't make the Cubes listen to him and stop the war- no, they make peace through the power of love instead xD.

Anyway, sorry for the long paragraphs, feel free to ignore this reccomendation if you want. Have a good day! ^-^

I may check them out.

One thing in particular you said that caught my eye though is none of them are physically disabled but play physically disabled characters. Some physically disabled people don't agree but I'm voicing my opinion: that's not okay. They agree we're human beings and we exist but they don't actually include us?