an--artistic--autistic

[an--artistic--autistic]

from @.mprnews on Instagram.

Not sure how many of y'all saw this, but the combined misogyny-ableism-transphobia was off the charts. I am glad that he did get his top surgery, has support, and that its pursuing it's goals to advocate for other disabled + trans people.

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every time you see a headline like this

I want you to remember these ones

[an--artistic--autistic]

If you wish you were worse [Read here, had a more severe illness be it mental or physical,] that is because you were made to feel invalid. You have been told your pain doesn't count, isn't real, shouldn't stop you, isn't enough to excuse behaving like you have an illness, or an injury, or whatever.

Please, please, please I promise you they are wrong. They are wrong by definition because whatever the condition is you have it, and you need no justification to act like it exists.

You are not wrong, you are not less, you are not fake, you are not invalid. You are not lazy, bad, broken or any of the things they called you in a vain effort to make you like them.

And you're not like them, in so many more important ways than merely the difference in your health. You're you.

I'm so sorry you had to go through that. I believe you.

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tip for people with chronic pain/fatigue: lay down occasionally. haven't laid down in the past 3-5 hours? do it (if you can) and see how you feel. i've found that i'll lay down in bed just to be in my room, but then i get hit with an instant wave of relief because just sitting on the couch was too much for my body, and i didn't realize it.

when you're in pain or fatigued for a long time, your awareness of your body may get wonky - especially if you already struggle w/interoception due to neurodivergency. so. test it, sometimes. you can apply it to other things too: sit if you're standing. stop doing a task if you've been doing it for a while. have a small snack to see if you're hungry. etc. etc.

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Things that society considers autism an excuse for

Nazi salutes

sexual assault

Things that society considers autism not an excuse for and things that people think children who do should be met with violence

using the wrong tone

showing too much or too little emotion

asking questions and having an authority figure take it as "arguing"

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question for research purposes:

What does cold feel like?

I'm autistic and trying to determine whether or not I've started experiencing cold for the first time in 10 years (starting up about a year ago), or if it's a potential nerve problem. The problem is that I have no reference point for what things are supposed to feel like, and I do genuinely enjoy being cold.

It's like there are two different versions of how "cold" is, one is the temperature cold (like cold wind, cold water, cold air, etc) and the other is the semi-recent waves of deep, stinging pins and needles, which happens during health flares and I have been assuming they are the opposite of the hot flashes I get. Heat can occasionally help with the pain but it doesn't stop anything, and they've happened during hot flashes, warm weather, if I'm moving around, etc.

The handful of people that have already responded described it very differently than what I've been experiencing and I'm aiming for more responses to see if there is a trend.

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Yeah I know the opiate crisis sucks and all but man I wish doctors weren't content to just leave you in pain nowadays. Like at least TRY something, it doesn't even have to be opiates. In fact I'd rather it not be.

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the meds I'm taking for the muscle spasms in my back aren't helping the nerve pain in my legs and I've maxed out how much i can take per day and fuck y'all i think this might be what ends me

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Me the second my pain gets tolerable: surly I'm not actually disabled. I'm just faking it. I had a short burst of pain and I've never ever been in pain never in my life, nope no sir, I should stop limping like I'm in pain cause I don't feel any pain none at all

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Idk, I have autism, most of my friends have autism, and none of us have ever done nazi shit. It's so bizarre when privileged white people with autism always have "being extremely racist" autism but no poc with autism ever seems to have that. I don't think it's your autism I think you're just a horrible racist.

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Source: @pathologising

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Source: a_h_reaume on Twitter

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Your severely disabled friend isn’t being too picky about clothing causing pressure sores. Not when they ask someone to check their clothes aren’t bunched up under them, not when they refuse to wear tight clothes or jeans with buttons or studs on the back. Not any time.

A bunched up sock might be a minor annoyance to most people, but my sock was unknowingly folded under my splint overnight and it gave me a pressure sore. Now I can’t wear shoes or my splints again until it fully heals.

This sore is mild and being on the top of my foot makes it easy to remove pressure from so it can heal, but please don’t forget that serious and infected pressure sores are a huge killer of people like me.

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ayo this pretty cool

[id: active style manual wheelchair with frame made of rectangle wood planks screwed together. end id]

as we know active type wheelchair very expensive, & repair need buy from specific medical manufacturer n take very long time. someone (who wheelchair user themself of near 40 years) made open source active manual wheelchair where most (if not all?) material from commercial easy get materials! wood, plastic, pvc pipe, & those commercial aluminum square pipe things. n they put guide made them yourself in link for anyone want try make

this video from their instagram show their wood frame wheelchair actually pretty durable, include clip from everyday use & even drop wheelchair all over place (basically imagine what airline do to them…) - n wheelchair stay in tact! n even if some part break - it easy change because wood planks all screwed together so you just buy wood plank & unscrew & rescrew.

not great for people w advanced seating positioning needs probably (think if only problem is easy butt pressure sore, maybe can still use this + supportive cushion but think beyond that it get hard). but if like you don’t need those things then maybe fun project?

have not use for self so can’t actually talk about experience but it look pretty cool

edit: reblog this version instead

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(spends all day out)

my disabilities: