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I GOT OFFICIALLY DIAGNOSED IM FINALLY GETTING ANSWERS GUYS I OFFICIALLY GOT DIAGNOSED WITH POTS

The sheer joy of knowing I finally have concrete answers about my health is indescribable 🥹

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Repost from IG: resources via MALAN

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I luckily haven't had to deal with much chronic pain or hand pain yet, especially with regards to baking (crochet is another story). That said, these look like some pretty solid tips! There's also some in the comments section.

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I think that it's really important for people to realize that being disabled is traumatic. genuinely. your body and brain feel like they are breaking down and wrong. you are in constant heavy stress from stuff like chronic pain. most disabled people i know have a somewhat regular emotional break down from the trauma of it all. and we are expected to just smile through it by society, to not be in the way, to not be an issue.

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Making fun of someone using a cane is so fucking funny to me

Like yes Barbra go off on me, a young person for using a mobility aid, please ignore how it’s literally a metal pipe and you’re in bonking range

-Rayne

(Ps we use mobility aids- specially canes)

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Why do people think it's tragic when you use mobility aids? Can't you see that this is giving me freedom, that it's giving me my life back, that without it, I wouldn't be present? Let alone functional???

how can't you see this

it's giving me my life back.

Even when it's short term mobility aids like crutches for a broken bone, it's still giving freedom... it's allowing the bone to heal and for you to live as usual...

let alone people with chronic pain, paralysis, and long term injuries!

without them, I wouldn't be here!

how can't you see that is a good thing!?!? 😭😭

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When you have an invisible disease, your sickness isn’t your biggest problem. What you end up battling more than anything else, every single day, is other people.

― Heidi Cullinan, Carry the Ocean

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Social experiment: at some point in their lives every single able-bodied person should be put in a wheelchair, challenged to do the groceries and travel on a bus to do so (including sloped footpaths, busy places, and throw some looks in etc)

It'd make everyone so much more sympathetic to disability and to those who have to use chairs on the daily.

Sincerely,

I've been in a chair in public for 20 minutes and I've already had several inappropriate comments and many uncomfortable and sympathetic stares, people grabbing my handlebars...and a "fucking cripples" from a 13 (ish) year old when the bus driver asked him to move from the disabled seating..

yeah, shoutout to wheelchair users, y'all are awesome and underappreciated...but seriously everyone should have to try this at least once.

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I think non-ill people often forget what mobility aids and support means to us

I got compression socks yesterday. This morning I cried because I remembered i had them to wear

-Oliver

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Happy Disability Pride Month!!!!!

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Gentle reminder that disabilities are disabling.

You're not some awful, bad person for not doing things that able-bodied people can do without negative consequences.

Sometimes, you haven't showered in a while.

Sometimes, your room is a mess.

Sometimes, the dishes pile up.

That doesn't make you a failure or deserving of less respect, support, and kindness.

Being disabled, having disabilities, and things that result from said disabilities, don't change the fact you deserve to exist. You deserve peace, and love.