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Mother. Mother, no. Mother, what are you doing, mother?

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Being too disabled to work is not a “rich person thing.” People who are not allowed to have more than 2k in their bank accounts are not rich lazy upper class people lol. And if you try to argue that “well if you aren’t rich how do you expect to survive without working” I’d like to remind you that lots of disabled people who can’t work don’t actually survive.

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Star girl ⋆⭒˚.⋆

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Plot twist for all the "I'd kill myself if I was as disabled as you" crowd:

If you were in my position, you wouldn't BE spending all day in bed. You'd be abusing your body by forcing yourself to work a job and just "tough it out" when you make yourself sicker. If you had to put up with the level of medical abuse that I do, you'd just swear off the medical field entirely and claim "big pharma" is good for nothing and only wants your money and to keep people sick.

No one actually tells you to stay in bed and rest when you're disabled. Overcoming internalized ableism comes in many phases, one of which is making the radical decision to stay in bed and rest if you're disabled.

You wouldn't kill yourself if you were me, because with your attitude, you could never BE me, and that's really fucking pathetic.

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Say it with me! Wheelchairs aren’t sad! Mobility aids aren’t sad! Mobility aids are instruments of freedom!

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don’t go to grad school in classics it’ll ruin your ability to enjoy ancient history jokes on tumblr (which is really what matters) and you’ll find a part of yourself thinking things like “actually according to livy, remus wanted to name the city remora, so this joke about remus naming it reme is inaccurate” or “actually ea-nasir and the etruscans were separated by at least 900 years and even if you consider the villanovans as already being etruscan they don’t exist in the bronze age so this bronze age tumblr dashboard meme makes no sense” or “ugh nobody on this thread about the song of achilles understands the last 200 years of the homeric question or has even read the relevant passage from the homeric hymn to apollo” and then the other part of you will go “christ what an asshole”

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Love referring to my disabilities as “the curse” and my symptoms as “the demons.”

Sorry, I can’t come, the demons (being an eepy little guy) require my attention (nap time) on account of the curse. (chronic fatigue)

Yeah, no, the demons (hypermobile ankles) decreed that I cannot wear heels anymore, on account of the curse. (connective tissue disorder)

I can’t stand up to fast or the demons (heart rate spike) will steal my vision. On account of the curse. (POTS)

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i don't care how uncomfortable you are around cis men, queer cis men still need places to go, and sometimes, those spaces will be shared with yours. disabled and neurodivergent queer men and queer men of color especially need a place to go. the queer community isn't the "fuck cis men" community. that is the rad fem community. if you think cis men and people who read as cis men are inherently "too scary" or shouldn't be allowed in queer spaces, you joined the wrong community.

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I want to release a line of concerning disability pride merch, starting with my patented “you say bedridden, I say pillow-princess” sticker and ending with a “lost a limb, gained a club” mug

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Absolutely loathe the fact that modern doll collecting has become about consumerism and getting the next new thing while the idea of curating and choosing dolls to add to collections shouldn't be bound to when they came out tbh

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MY TA SHOT SOMEONE IN THE FOOT AND THE PROFESSOR WAS SO FUCKING QUICK LMAOOO

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Trump voters on tiktok are EXTREMELY mad about the following:

They just found out what tariffs are

They just found out what denaturalization is

They (particularly black and Hispanic trump voters) just found out that other trump voters are racist

Leftists and liberals don't want to be their friends (they are furious about this)

Leftists keep telling them they hope they get what they voted for (they are really mad about this too)

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Do you know how many times a day I want to scream at people "THIS ISN'T FOR YOU!" ?

Just yesterday, I was ten minutes late to my tutorial class because for whatever reason, almost every single person in my lecture decided to use the elevator instead of going down one flight of stairs while me and my classmates -- the ones who didn't have that choice -- were stuck waiting for the next elevator.

I constantly have to navigate around people walking up the ramps -- or, worse, standing in the middle of them -- because they couldn't get off their phones for two seconds to use the stairs instead.

At least twice a week I end up in far more pain than usual because people who don't need them take up the accessible seats on the bus and I either have to stand there and wait for somebody to get up (Which is already hard on my body) or just wrap my arm around the pole and try to suffer through a few stops until somebody gets off (Which has already caused several dislocations). As much as people like to brag about how they'd "always give up their seat for a poor handicapped person", they're far more likely to stay right where they are and ignore you in favour of watching Instagram reels on their phone.

And I've tried asking people to move. Directly. Making eye contact and everything. They'll just look down at their phone and ignore me until the bus driver or somebody else says something. And only then can they magically notice me and get up.

Before I get a bunch of people leaping to yell about people with invisible disabilities: I know. I know there are people with invisible disabilities, I spent most of my life with only invisible disabilities. I can guarentee that not every single person in my lecture of 60 people has an invisible disability. This is not the problem.

The problem is that able bodied people see these resources and supports made specifically for physically disabled people and assume they're entitled to them. Most of them see it as something that's put in place just to comply with certain rules or laws or regulations as a 'just in case' thing. Nobody thinks that disabled people are actually out and about. We're an afterthought to them.

And I get it. I do. We all have our blind spots.

But seriously, this is getting ridiculous.

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"you always have something wrong with you"

well yea, no shit. its like im chronically ill or something

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Hey sorry that its been a while! I've been crocheting christmas gifts (still not done but decided to take a break to draw) I have wanted to do some pieces of my favorite Barbie movies for ages and so here we are starting with my #1 absolute favorite Barbie Fairytopia Mermaidia.

I love everything about this film. Nori is a icon, I really really love the part where she gives the true self berry to Elina. Elina is worried that she will lose her wings and Nori says, "Would that really be so horrible? You'd be you. Smart and Brave and everything that makes you special"

Idk that just really stayed with me.