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I hate the perception that visibly or invisibly disabled people have it easier or harder. BOTH SUCK. Both suck because of shitty ableist assholes. Take it from someone who is both, depending on the day. Both are terrible! Neither has any real advantages! I promise you! The only privileges that any disabled people have over other disabled people is lack of quality medical care vs. having access to it and some other thing that I forgot because of severe brain fog but will update this with when I remember! Your enemy is not other disabled people unless they are ableists! Ableists are the problem! They hate us and question us and don't think we deserve to live! They! Are! The! Problem! Not! Each! Other!

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Whine less

Omg guys just got my first anon hate, what a beautiful tumblr milestone to achieve

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I got a power attachment for my chair!

[ID: A pink wheelchair with an EcoAssist front attachment. End ID]

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In case anyone finds it helpful because mobility aids are horrifically expensive and inaccessible…

And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damage…

Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.

He also is working on cheap, open source, accessible designs for beach chairs, off road chairs, motorized attachments (think smart drive), and so on. Plus he skateboards in his wheelchair. Cool dude, helpful info, pass it on.

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the way my partner talks about my ocd is so hilariously on point. for context, i experience a lot of verbal compulsions (feeling like i Have to Say a Certain Thing to magically fix another) and he just told me. "most of the time it's easy to spot a compulsion cause literally nobody asked"

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I think the worst part of OCD is KNOWING it’s totally illogical but still having to do it cuz what if the Bad Thing happens

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some people’s new years resolution needs to be to stop going out in public while horribly sick with infectious diseases

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If you use wheelchair users as an example of the default "person who gets automatically accommodated and treated with empathy and respect" then I'm going to hunt you for sport.

A lot of wheelchair users end up needing to make a whole new group of friends when they start using wheelchairs because suddenly you're viewed as captain buzzkill when you don't want to be carried up and down the stairs by people you KNOW don't lift.

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I am genuinely quite embarrassed a lot of the time by my OCD thoughts and how they affect me, not in a very serious way but in a way that every time I say out loud to someone "my brain takes morality very literally and seriously to the point where I used to cry as a teenager at night because I believed those silly chain emails about sending things to 10 people or your mum will die and sometimes on really bad days I still do" or "I have aggressively looping thoughts that there is someone keeping a tally and however many times I forget to wear sunscreen is how many days less I have to live" and I hate saying this outloud to people it sounds so cringe but also saying it outloud and hearing how cringe they are kinda lessens the potency a little so 🤷🏽

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I think some of you forgot that autistic people sometimes act strange and say things that are poorly worded and speak with incorrect tone and misunderstand or miss social cues because they are autistic

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Every person need to be taught disability history

Not the “oh Einstein was probably autistic” or the sanitized Helen Keller story. but this history disabled people have made and has been made for us.

Teach them about Carrie Buck, who was sterilized against her will, sued in 1927, and lost because “Three generations of imbeciles [were] enough.”

Teach them about Judith Heumann and her associates, who in 1977, held the longest sit in a government building for the enactment of 504 protection passed three years earlier.

Teach them about all the Baby Does, newborns in 1980s who were born disabled and who doctors left to die without treatment, who’s deaths lead to the passing of The Baby Doe amendment to the child abuse law in 1984.

Teach them about the deaf students at Gallaudet University, a liberal arts school for the deaf, who in 1988, protested the appointment of yet another hearing president and successfully elected I. King Jordan as their first deaf president.

Teach them about Jim Sinclair, who at the 1993 international Autism Conference stood and said “don’t mourn for us. We are alive. We are real. And we’re here waiting for you.”

Teach about the disability activists who laid down in front of buses for accessible transit in 1978, crawled up the steps of congress in 1990 for the ADA, and fight against police brutality, poverty, restricted access to medical care, and abuse today.

Teach about us.

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disabled bitches: please survive

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Hi I like your pfp it is very swag :D

Thank you! I drew it myself lol, the wheelchair is actually kinda inaccurate because I drew it before I got my actual wheelchair

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For the ask game! 9. Is there a disability related topic that you wish people would talk about more?

I have two messages in my inbox with this same question and I keep forgetting to answer it lolll

I always love to see disability positivity but (on tumblr especially) I don’t tend to see much of it! I kinda try to do that myself but my most popular posts are mainly me complaining lol. I’d also love to see more talk about disability history, maybe it’s just not something I happen to run into but it’d be nice to see!

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my ocd thoughts take the form of bill cipher… makes it easier(?) to ignore haha

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ocd is the answer to the age old question no one ever asked, "what if your anxiety had autism"