[disableism]

Society acts as if the chronically ill are obligated to tell their medical information to anyone who asks. Even to your own mother. You are not. You are not obligated to tell anyone, everyone, even your own mother. You are not.

[idrawhumans]

Image is a masked thief in black and gray, grinning and holding a giant spoon. Beware the Spoon Robber!

[fabricspoons]

Buy it here: [link]

$4.29

[insicknesspod-deactivated202412]

I’ve seen other diagrams showing spoon allocation, and decided to make one of my own spoon drawer as a visual aid for communicating with my doctors and such. It was actually a really helpful exercise. I don’t really have “good” days any more, so this is a representation of a regular “not terrible” day.

The spacing isn’t quite perfect, but I’m gonna let it slide because this was extremely spoon intensive.

Update: negative spoons added to work.

[shitabledpeoplesay]

Reblogging because I’ve gotten a LOT of questions about the spoon theory lately, and a follower brought this lovely visual representation to my attention!

[myneurodiversity]

I would like to try to work on something like this to help myself communicate my limitations with other peeps.

[hexatropos-blog]

This is SO helpful, especially the ‘missing’ and negative spoons in the ‘housework’, ‘working’ :( and, for my ADHD brain, 'executive function’ allocation areas. It’s not simply a case of not trying hard enough or not wanting to change what you’re doing (or not doing), the resources just are NOT THERE so you Can’t Even™. I wish people understood that, but they don’t, apparently.

[insicknesspod-deactivated202412]

I’m reblogging this for the last comment, and because on tomorrow’s episode, we talk about The Spoon Theory! Cathy talks about a run-in she had with someone who appropriated the concept to describe “normal” tiredness, and just how offensive that is!

In the meantime, check out our other episodes in the Dysautonomia Series that are up now! http://www.insicknesspod.com/blog/2015/10/27/the-in-sickness-in-health-podcast-is-now-live

[neurowonderful]

[Image description: White text against a grey background reads, “challenged, handicapped, handi-capable, differently abled, divers-abled, special needs”. Beside each euphemism for disability is a red X, indicating no. Below the list of euphemisms is the word “disabled” in larger type, and with a green checkmark beside it, indicating yes.]

Seriously. Cut it out with the euphemisms. #JustSayDisabled

(this design is also available in black&white)

(edited to add: yes friends this is a shirt that you can actually buy click here~)

[wtddty]

Your illness will begin to feel normal.

Maybe not today, maybe not in five years, but one day you’ll forget what it’s like to be “healthy” and your healthy will be enough. And that is both a good thing, and a terrible thing.

[cyclicallysick]

As a person with a chronic illness, I can 100% confirm this

[sedandme]

For all the quirks that make it so difficult to describe, there is one unifying truth among people with SED. All of them … Every. Last. One… would, if they were able, willingly choose to eat normally.

I found this post titled Picky Eating vs. Selective Eating Disorder and included in this gem of a post was this picture which I really kinda like…

I think I may have to print this off on little cards and hand them out to everyone who says im just being picky.

[autistic-bobsaginowski]

Stuff Abled People Like: Using extraordinary achievements by individual disabled people to shame other disabled people who need accommodations.

[insicknesspod-deactivated202412]

Yes. Please stop doing this.

[youngchronicpain]

When a friend asks how you are

when a spoonie friend asks

[sassy-swamp-mermaid]

90% of what my doctors do: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

[cripples-r-us]

So Inspiring!!

Using A Wheelchair Didn’t Stop Local Disabled Person From Having Mobility.

[qjusttheletter]

Blind Person Used Public Transit All On Their Own 

[sicklord]

Person With A Feeding Tube Went Out Somewhere In Public

[fibro-battling]

Person Wearing Neck Brace Laughed at a Joke

[crpl-pnk]

This Story Will Warm Your Heart: Person With a Cane Has Friends, Casual Acquaintances

[silentlybr0ken]

Amazing - Deaf person still able to hold conversations

[edsperegrine]

Local Mentally Ill Man Not Actually a Danger to Society, Doctors Say

Local Teen an Inspiration: Still Attends School Despite Medical Condition

[vaspider]

Disabled Mom Manages To Make It To Some School Events!

[it-is-ok-i-am-ok]

Chronic pain sufferer is able to smile!!

[westieronto]

How most people with invisible illnesses are treated by health care “professionals”

[thefemcritique]

The Golden Girls didn’t fuck around

[pardonmewhileipanic]

pls watch

[voremeseymour-deactivated201606]

honestly i really appreciated this scene when I first saw it bc it took me like two years to get a diagnosis for what’s wrong with me

[mttheww]

Dorothy:  Dr. Budd?

Dr. Budd:  Yes?

Dorothy:  You probably don’t remember me, but you told me I wasn’t sick.  Do you remember?  You told me I was just getting old.

Dr. Budd:  I’m sorry, I really don’t–

Dorothy:  Remember.  Maybe you’re getting old.  That’s a little joke.  Well, I tell you, Dr. Budd, I really am sick.  I have chronic fatigue syndrome.  That is a real illness.  You can check with the Center for Disease Control.

Dr. Budd:  Huh.  Well, I’m sorry about that.

Dorothy:  Well, I’m glad!  At least I know I have something.

Dr. Budd:  I’m sure.  Well, nice seeing you.

Dorothy:  Not so fast.  There are some things I have to say.  There are a lot of things that I have to say.  Words can’t express what I have to say.  [tearing up]  What I went through, what you put me through—I can’t do this in a restaurant.

Dr. Budd:  Good!

Dorothy:  But I will!

Dr. Budd’s date:  Louis, who is this person?

Dr. Budd:  Look, Miss–

Dorothy:  Sit.  I sat for you long enough.  Dr. Budd, I came to you sick—sick and scared—and you dismissed me.  You didn’t have the answer, and instead of saying “I’m sorry, I don’t know what’s wrong with you,” you made me feel crazy, like I had made it all up.  You dismissed me!  You made me feel like a child, a fool, a neurotic who was wasting your precious time.  Is that your caring profession?  Is that healing?  No one deserves that kind of treatment, Dr. Budd, no one.  I suspect had I been a man, I might have been taken a bit more seriously, and not told to go to a hairdresser.

Dr. Budd:  Look, I am not going to sit here anymore–

Dr. Budd’s date:  Shut up, Louis.

Dorothy:  I don’t know where you doctors lose your humanity, but you lose it.  You know, if all of you, at the beginning of your careers, could get very sick and very scared for a while, you’d probably learn more from that than anything else.  You’d better start listening to your patients.  They need to be heard.  They need caring.  They need compassion.  They need attending to.  You know, someday, Dr. Budd, you’re gonna be on the other side of the table, and as angry as I am, and as angry as I always will be, I still wish you a better doctor than you were to me.

[lilitharcane-blog]

Honestly this is my favorite thing in the world. I almost cried. 😥

[chronicallyvegan]

Fucking incredible.

[doomyqueen]

Fuckin’ A, go hard.

[metapianycist]

i support the apparently radical idea that ableism exists because of abled people devaluing disabled people’s lives and experiences, and not because of people self-identifying as disabled

being disabled is not an inherently bad thing. if someone tells you it’s inherently bad, or tells you it’s inherently negative self-talk to call yourself disabled, they’re wrong.

i’m disabled. i’m too disabled to be considered productive in capitalism. my life and experiences are valuable regardless. my value as a person isn’t determined by how useful i am to capitalism.

[chronicnerdlolz]

8 Illustrations That Don't Even Come Close To Summing Up Fibromyalgia

With such a wide range of symptoms, fibromyalgia can be hard to diagnose, or even define.

Yep, good stuff.

[stealtharchaeologist]

I hate it when I feel all wonky and I can’t figure out why. I slept okay last night, I’ve eaten today, taken my medicine, drank juice, why do I feel gross?

Then it’s like, oh yeah, chronic illness, that’s the name of the game.

[ghastlyzs]

Another one of those days when

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]