#powerchair

[gayaest]

🌈🍡🍭🍬🩷🍫 Kandi, bright and full of so much life ⭐️🍧🎨

[hell-on-sticks]

your powerchair does not take up too much space!

Powerchairs can easily be snazzy or beautiful or cool colours. People who use powerchairs are not taking up too much space. you don't need to be smaller or tucked out of the way for others' convenience. Powerchairs can do so much that manual chairs can't (even with a power assist) and that's a good thing! So many people are supported by their powerchairs, and the world has been changed many times by someone living their life using a powerchair.

It will never be a bad thing for disabled people to have access to their homes and their communities. Using a powerchair isn't a "lesser option" to a manual chair, it isn't "giving up", and it is never taking up too much space. You're taking up exactly as much space as belongs to you already. It's great to see you around 😊

this blog loves all the mobility equipment disabled people may need, and I think people using group 3/CRT powerchairs don't get enough positivity about their mobility aids.

[pink-slay]

does it bother anyone else with complex seating/positioning needs, especially those in custom big powerchairs, how everyone and their mother is doing a brand deal with OAS mobility on their two non custom powerchairs and advertising them as a kinda one-size fits all solution. I'm glad people are getting what they need but I can't help feel alienated, especially on a day (yesterday) where my powerchair and the power assist on my backup (heavy manual tilt in space) chair gave out leaving me in crisis as a full-time (nonambulatory) wheelchair user. Again, I'm happy people are getting things that help them live their lives, and I, myself, wish I would've started using mobility aids sooner than I did before my disability progressed to this point, and I even understand that sometimes people don't have the support to talk to a medical professional or physical therapist about aids. However, using chairs like this long term can cause a lot of damage to people's bodies, and it's hard as someone in a big powerchair to see other people in big powerchairs who are doing this brand deal because (although they don't owe excessive nuance to anyone, even me) it makes it seem like needing accessible vehicles and difficulty transporting complex chairs is solvable by just getting a lighter chair, even though using such a chair would not be a possibility for so many people. Again, please use what you find beneficial and safe to use, but also, know that there are many people (myself included) who couldn't even sit up in those chairs, let alone use them regularly

[vampire-loving-vampire]

people seem to have this idea about wheelchair users (and ableism as a whole but especially so here) that their understanding of us is basically the same as "who would hit someone with glasses ?". and im being serious too , mentioning discrimination towards us always gets this kinda shocked response "why would someone be mad at u for using a wheelchair ?? u need that to walk !!" .... that is unless its their turn to deal with u where they will literally tell u that u take up too much space and how inconveniencing u are outright and if u say anything about that its like . this sentiment that u HAVE to understand their side . that tolerating u is an act of charity , optional , that its just extra therefore not doing it doesnt make them bad . just not above and beyond . and like even other disabled people are like this . theres basically noone on our side except other chair users . we literally are forced to accept this and be nice about it , there is no other choice . it doesnt matter how badly i might wanna go to the mall or how much i need groceries , if someone doesnt want to help me then well . i dont go . and i have to comfort them about it after . "nooo dont worry we can go next time ! yeah its okay im fine ! yeah i didnt need to go that bad u guys just have fun without me !" . even if u get super lucky and the people u live with/rely on most are fine , the chances of everyone else in ur life being good ab it ? well . i wouldnt bet on it

[dippythestick]

my favorite scene in the whole show

[gilearstimboards]

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Black Mobility Aid Stimboard

PT: Black Mobility Aid Stimboard

Made for: anon

Thank you especially to @gaystims for making so many of these gifs. There is a real lack on tumblr, so thank you.

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[disabilityaidpositivity]

I heard you were looking for big powerchair posts >:) Her name is Tulpar after Manas' horse from the Kyrgyz epic, I have a very limited sitting tolerance bc ~cfs~ so she helps me get outside! Was legitimately bedridden without her. Sometimes I feel ashamed and embarassed because my chair is big and I need it at least a little bit tilted/reclined all the time (plus it's heavy and my family doesn't have a WAV, so Inconvenience Anxiety) My siblings helped me decorate it by spray painting the color shrouds my favorite color, lavender ! The first image also features my light sensitivity glasses, which are kind of goofy but they help me a lot. Anyway. Submitting this because I'm trying not to be ashamed of my chair, love your acct :)

Powerchair positivity!! Thank you so much for sharing!

I love the lavender highlights on your chair! And, btw, your glasses are not goofy!

[Image descriptions x2:

The first photo features a young woman sitting in a black lavender purple power wheelchair, facing the camera and smiling. She has her hair in a long braid over one shoulder and is wearing a light pink half-zip pullover, blue wide-leg jeans, and orange-tinted glasses. She is outdoors, possibly in a park or walkway. Another person is partially visible standing to her right.

In the second photo, she is again seated in her powerchair but this time, her chair is turned to the side. She has put her elbow on the arm rest and has rested her chin in her hand. She is looking directly at the camera and smiling. She is wearing over-ear headphones, a light purple T-shirt, and light blue pants. A backpack hangs off the back of her powerchair. She is in a well-lit indoor public space, possibly a library or study area, with carpets, chairs, tables, and overhead lighting in the background.

/end ID]

[m-e-isannoying]

ID: digital drawing of a dog in a powerchair. In the background, there is the blurred disability pride flag. /End ID.

Happy disability pride month!

ID: same drawing, but without the background. /End ID.