#temporary disability

[disabledbracket]

Welcome to Disabled Character Bracket!

Hello, hello! This has probably been done before, but I wanted to do polls for disabled fictional characters because I could. This includes physical, mental, and temporary disabilities, as well as chronic illness!

Below the cut is the official bracket!!

[snakebites-and-ink]

I'm struggling with work and a work injury so may I request a drabble? Whumpee gets hurt at work and Caretaker takes care of them? With lots of comfort if you're fine with that ❤️

-- @whumperofworlds

Not my strongest suit, but I gave it a try! Hopefully this is alright.

CW: Work-related injury (strained leg), worrying they're a burden

Whumpee sat on the couch feeling useless. They’d hurt their leg working, and there was a lot they couldn’t do without using it. And using it would aggravate the injury. They couldn’t even move around the house normally.

“Done! All nice and toasty,” Caretaker announced, waving around a hot pack fresh out of the microwave.

Whumpee accepted it, then sighed as the warmth from the hot pack seeped into their aching leg.

“Thanks, Caretaker. I’m sorry you have to deal with all this. I could probably manage to do more of these little things if it’s too much trouble.” Whumpee didn’t say that managing those little things with only one currently working leg would be a pain—They didn’t want Caretaker to feel obligated to tend to Whumpee’s needs if that would be a pain for them instead.

Caretaker grabbed Whumpee’s face on both sides. “Hey, you listen to me. You are not ‘too much trouble’. You’re hurt, and I wanna help you through it.”

“…Okay.”

Caretaker smiled. “Okay. Now what do you think, hot chocolate to warm up the rest of you while the hot pack warms up your leg?”

“The rest of me doesn’t need heating the same way…but you know I’ll never say no to chocolate.”

Caretaker brought them a steaming mug of the delicious drink, then settled next to them on the couch with the remote. They turned on the tv to distract Whumpee from their pains and troubles, and Caretaker insisted Whumpee get to choose what they watched.

[lonewolfel]

It's an odd thing

to be fine one minute

then disabled the next.

To be going about your day

then experience crippling pain.

To be unable to do the things you normally

took for granted.

To plan your life around a pill schedule.

Always on the look out for side affects and worsening.

To be in a constant state of pain.

To only rate movements and positions on how barable the pain is.

To struggle to just get out of bed.

To know that'll you'll heal in time

and yet the lack of progress is discouraging

and makes you feel like a failure

who will never heal.

To have to rely on others for simple things like getting out of bed.

To have given up on basic chores and self care

because it causes far too much agony to even bother.

To be unable to feel joy

because despite the two prescription painkillers you are on

all you can ever feel is agony.

To be mocked and rediculed for something you have no control of.

To feel so useless and hopeless.

Being unable to reach out for help

because "I'm not really disabled"

and "I would only be talking aid from those in actual need".

To be trapped in a failing body,

all the while you try to pretend that you are fine

as you drown under all the expectations you could normally meet.

To feel exhausted, humiliated, and like a burden.

Just a couple weeks you tell yourself

but never has it seemed so impossible.

[a-rare-askblog]

Here's to all my homies who have/had temporary disabilities. It's hard to know where you are and where you stand. You don't want to step over people who have your problem permanently, but you know there is a place for you somewhere. Even when a disability is temporary, it exists in a moment in time. In that moment, you need help, accessibility, even if it won't matter forever. You can't walk up those stairs, read that picture, hold that pencil, whatever it is. And it matters. And you matter.

~ someone whose cushing's decided to thrust what felt like a million different temporary disabilities onto them last year

[cripplecharacters]

Hello! Apologies if I misread anything and break a rule, I don't believe I am!

I was wondering about a character with superpowers and whether or not they would be considered disabled, the power in question being regeneration. If a character can regenerate a lost limb, but it takes numerous days or possibly even months to do so would this character be considered temporarily disabled when the limbs are lost, or would the fact they'll regenerate nullify this completely?

I've found a few answers, and the general consensus seems to be no but I was hoping I could be provided with a more specific answer, thank you!

Hi asker,

Nope, you're not breaking any ask rules.

I am inclined to agree with the general consensus that the character in general wouldn't be considered disabled.

However, it is in a way similar to breaking a limb. Obviously it's not exactly the same, but it is similar in that for X amount of time, the limb is out of full commission and is slowly regaining function but it isn't a 0 to 100 situation. This can be considered a temporary disability.

I know you want a very specific yes/no answer, but that's a little harder to do with things that aren't possible in our world.

But if you ask me, personally, I would consider it to be a temporary disability.

Hope this helps,

– mod sparrow

[freedrinksandbadadvice]

Ouch

I am in an unfamiliar town traveling for the eclipse, and on Saturday I went for a walk with a friend and tripped on a heaved sidewalk. My hip locked and I fell, luckily to the boulevard side so I landed mostly on grass. It hurt a lot, and I sat for awhile before determining nothing was broken and I could stand up, but wouldn't be able to walk back to where we were staying. My friend called her husband and said we needed a ride, and he picked us up. In the immediate aftermath I iced my hip, took ibuprofen, and took a hot shower and did some gentle stretching. It was pretty obvious to me I didn't need to go to urgent care, but one of my friends was skeptical and consulted a doctor friend of ours, who agreed but told him danger signs to watch out for that would indicate I did need to get checked out.

But by evening I was thinking about how I was going to handle the rest of the trip, not to mention getting home at the end, and quickly realized that the answer was to go buy a cane. And I'm not sure I would have realized that if I hadn't been listening to disability advocates online talking about the importance of normalizing mobility aids for several years now. So in the morning we swung by a pharmacy, I picked up a cane, and it hasn't really been a big deal. I move a little slower than my friends and can only carry things with one hand. But I brought a crossbody reusable shopping bag, because I usually do on vacation, so I can shove stuff in it. I thought about requesting assistance at the airport tonight but my hip's been feeling better every day and I'm walking almost normally for short distances, so we decided to check our bags instead of carrying on and I'll be fine with my cane.

So this is a general thank you to people here and elsewhere who've been open about their disability needs, and particularly @yespumpkindoodlesthings who's both talked about her own supportive devices and put them in her fiction. I probably won't need the cane for long this time, but I wouldn't be surprised to need it again some day, or some other device, and it's good to know I can just do that and it's no big deal.

[shiningstarr15]

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGERY OF BLOOD AND INJURY

Soo remember when I said I would NEVER draw Yelena Belova in anything but joy and happiness?

It wasn’t entirely a lie..

Now hear me out, as much as I prefer the fluffy fics of the sisters, I will admit to having a soft spot for the hurt/comfort (emphasis on the comfort) and BY GOD one of those examples I didn’t know could affect me in some way was the created trope of temporary disabled!Yelena.

So this is from a combination of two fics I’ve read that involved this trope. The first one being Chargedlion’s fic titled Love is Blind in which, you guessed it, Yelena is blinded.

And the second one is from a fic from @the-widow-sisters titled Listen to Me, in which Yelena loses her hearing.

Both of these are multichaptered and terrific and you should go read them if you haven’t ASAP (the link to ao3 is on there directly 💖)

Both of these are scenes from the two stories

Also yes it’s my first attempt at drawing a blind person. I’ve never done so before so I wasn’t sure what it’s supposed to look like but I did my best 😅

And you knew I had to throw Natasha in there somehow, shes majorly important to both stories (duh)

I hope you enjoy!

[squaredawayblog]

Women assigned to male doctors for workers' compensation evaluations are less likely to be approved for benefits than when the doctors are women.