Unfiltered Reality

Unfiltered Realities: Where we show the world that life's unfiltered moments are the best ones - brace yourself of giggles, cringes, and plenty of 'oops'!

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Unfiltered Realities

Hi, it’s Echo! 👋

This is Unfiltered Realities. A corner of Tumblr where I will be sharing real unfiltered life experiences of mine , echoes of everyday. Things that impacted me, thoughts that haunt me or preoccupy me, rambles about reality and living with a disability.

You are welcome to send in questions, submissions or anything that would be fitting to this blog, if you like to, about your #unfilteredreality #everydayecho , that I will then publish anonymous or public or with a nickname - however you wish (just mention it in the ask or submission)

I try my best to be a safe space. I’m gratefully taking constructive criticism and feedback from y’all ❤️ If you want me anything tagged as a TW let me know and I’ll try to keep stuff tagged.

Enjoy your time :3

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5. I’m not a professional , I only speak out of my own experiences and if given advice it’s strictly from the viewpoint and experience and knowledge I have that I gained over the years on my own.

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1000 posts!

[amphibiousbug]

they should make standing up that doesn’t want to kill you

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Update

Soooo

Yesterday I moved into my own apartment. My fam and fam friends helped out. There was a moving company there too. Move took 3h which was pretty quick but alas I don't have that many things.

My mom and a fam friend helped to pack out the kitchen stuff and put them away. I packed out my laptop and sound system and my bed and fave plushies.

Today I'll try to unpack more stuff.

Good thing is that my legs have more function again and I can waddle around without crutches or with one crutch around the place.

Unfortunately the water in the kitchen isn't working and my new Oven isn't connected yet to the gas supply so that will be done these days.

Luckily our water here is potable and drinkable so I can drink water from the bathroom sink xD

For the first night sleep it was ok, only I woke up 3 times or so bcs of unknown sounds I can't sort yet and identify but thats normal after not living here since 14 years. I used to live in this house but in the other apartment and now I live in the same house but different apartment that used to belong to my late Grandma.

So its new old new old sort of. Only difference is the stuff is a bit newer now and I can decorate it as I want. Pro: I don't have to pay rent. Con: I pay utilities and this house is old as fuck so gas and all that is a bit spicy in this economy but alas. I'm not complaining.

Currently listening to music but with headphones on bcs idk if my upstairs neighbors can hear my soundsystem and 9am feels a bit early to blast music imo lol.

My fam checked on me to see how I slept which is nice.

I feel like such an adult to own my own apartment at age 28 lol but hey it was cheaper in this economy to stay with my mom and monthly pay a small amount of money for utilities and food then moving out.

I lived in the other apartment with my mom for 14 years which is insane. Ages 15-28 and I got sad the last night I slept in my room which isn't my room anymore now.

Pain wise I had pain in my left hip and left leg yesterday but today its a bit better again.

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Hey Google, why is my body a meanie right when I have an important thing coming up and causing me pain and agony? 🫩

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Today is the last night I’m sleeping in my room in this apartment. 14 years I lived here. Between ages 15 and 28. It feels surreal that this is actually happening. That we somehow managed to pack up my life in this apartment to move tomorrow. Luckily I had help from family to pack.

It’s weird to try falling asleep in between moving boxes and packed stuff tbh. Tomorrow night I will sleep in my own apartment. Which is a new chapter for me. Scares me tbh but I will somehow manage.

Chronic illness wise, I’m doing a bit better. I can walk around with one crutch at home and sometimes with no crutch. The medicine I got prescribed at the emergency room helps and during another thing I did aka a one day hospitalisation my rheumatologist prescribed me some other stuff well.

Duloxetine currently helps me for my anxiety and for the pain. I’m taking Thiossen as well and Gabapentin too. Sometimes I’m taking naproxen but only if needed. I have some muscle relaxers too I can take when needed.

I even managed to do 12 min of indoor biking again but I think I have to slow down again back to 5min bcs currently my left hip is a negative Nancy.

I learned how to walk up stairs and walk down stairs with 2 crutches and I feel 😎 for that and I’m not even falling so yay!

I’ll update the coming days how the move was.

[decaying-spoon]

The disability is really disabling today

[charlyisatiredbutch]

I wish non-disabled people would understand that a physical disability isn't just about the one joint that hurt. My knees hurt like hell, because my back is fucked up. But because i limp, my ankles aches, as well as my toes. So then i got some crutches, and my shoulders and my fingers are so sore. I take some really strong pain killers, so i have terrible brain fog and needs to nap almost every day.

Everything hurts, and it's so exhausting to be in pain all the time. Using mobility aids are life saving but it's also very tiring.

Anyway, be kind to disabled people and understand that living is harder, so a bit patience would be nice.

[mangosmangosmango]

chronic illness sucks. i was a dreamer who believed i could do anything. i was a kid with so much potential for greatness. i promised myself i'd never let anything break me but being in pain every day for years on end breaks you. It breaks you over and over no matter how many times you reshape yourself to something new. a dreamer is all i have ever been. who am i without the dreams that keep being stolen from me

[ennieasys]

You know you're disabled when you see someone getting ready in the morning and think, "damn you've been standing for a while do you need to take a break?"

[circuitramen]

i really think ablebodies don't know how much mental effort it takes to do something like stand/walk — like yes, of course there's physical effort, they usually acknowledge that. but there's a mental strain to it as well, you have to be conscious of where you're putting your weight and your balance and if you start feeling lightheaded or not and on and on and on it goes. there's mental strain to physical disability and it goes very un-talked about.

[sirfuckhead]

ever think about your childhood and be like not only how did anyone let that happen, how did everyone let that happen. because what the fuck

[overqualifieddog]

[ID: a mock caution sign. The illustration, done in bold black, shows a set of hyper mobile hands stretching the thumb to reach their forearm, and lightning bolts float above the wrist. The text on the sign reads “Warning Just because you can bend that way doesn’t mean you should.” /end ID]

Happy EDS awareness month.

[smadeleine42]

Thank god for every disabled person who posts about their experiences and thoughts and feelings and opinions and pain and suffering and joys and wins and hopes.

Seeing other disabled people online just going about their daily lives and sharing and trying to make other disabled people feel less alone is what truly keeps me going.

This is our infrastructure, these are our lives, and it matters so much.

[thr33-3y3d-3lk]

very true!!! i am sometimes told that i share too much about my medical life online, but if everyone shared this mindset of medical issues being ‘tmi’ or ‘attention seeking’, everyone would feel so much more alone in this- more than we already do. community is so important for everyone, but especially for us disabled folk i feel. the world is just so much more different for us.

[unfilteredrealities]

For this reason I made this side blog to live blog my chronic illness journey and showing an unfiltered reality being mids chronic illness and finding out that a plethora of things are going on with my health and I hope that I can make at least one person feel seen or less alone and show them that there is a community and there are people who go through similar stuff 🥹

[honeybeetlejuice]

every disabled person should get a free pass to jump one ableist medical professional of their choosing with absolutely no consequences

[necropolis144]

They should invent doctors that actually give a shit about your rapidly decreasing health and rising levels of chronic pain that are slowly taking over and ruining your life.

[nokias-nonsense]

*grips you*

your symptoms dont have to be the most severe to be valid. your symptoms are real, and others having worse symptoms doesn't mean anything about yours. its real, its valid and it deserves treatment