#DISABLED

[janeacular]

If you've ever felt too crippled to love just remember that VIKTOR left JAYCE and not the other way around. He wanted that purple disabled cookie so effing bad

[ellaeved]

Alternatives for those who don’t know what TO say: Hope you feel less bad soon, hope you feel better soon, do you need anything to get you through this, I hope your flare-up ends soon

My personal faves: You’re being so brave about it, you are chronically stubborn/ strong

what is it with able bodied people saying “get well soon” after you say that you’re chronically ill?? like? i am not gonna? and i once literally responded with “i’m not gonna, it’s chronic, as in permanent.” and they went like “oh well, hope you get better!” like bro 💀

[lupusbaby]

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

[singin-salmon]

this asf.

i'm an environmental science major but i'm also disabled. this makes it hard for me to do dishes a lot of the time (while at college) and i resort to prepackaged meals, paper plates, and disposable bottles.

i end up showing up to all my environmental sciences classes, where everyone else has their Nalgenes, with my disposable plastic water bottles. i used to be embarrassed about it, but i really don't have time to be putting myself down for being disabled anymore.

Some people don’t want to hear this but sometimes accessibility is not sustainable or eco-friendly. Disabled people sometimes need straws, or pre-made meals in plastic containers, or single-use items. Just because you can work with your foods in their least processed and packaged form doesn’t mean everyone else can.

[thegreenopaque]

bad doctor bingo. go wild, my friends

[spaced-out-venus]

crazy how chronic illness or other health disabilities changes your perception of your own health. I start feeling faint and my heart is racing and instead of being like "omg this must be a heart attack" like I used to I have to go "hm is this Normal pots, Worse pots, or an Actual Issue"

[jenny-94]

Nice sunday 🥰

Schönen Sonntag 🥰

[tealleaves4]

Unfortunately it goes far deeper than socializing being a 'luxury' vs essential expense. The real issue is nobody cares about poor people or poverty in a capitalist hellscape controlled by white wealthy people. Even working class people who are one paycheck or medical issue away from being homeless themselves. The entire system is built on cruelty. The poor, homeless, and disabled are valued so little that people don't even think they deserve to be alive because somehow they aren't adding to corporate profits. By saying people need to 'earn a living', you're saying if they can't work, they literally deserve to die. Sit with that a minute. I mean seriously sit with that attitude and consider it. It's impossible to 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' when you can't even afford boots y'all, so stop spewing that nonsense. And btw, many of the disabled and homeless are VETERANS, who fought for your rights and freedoms and were literally exploited by their own government. Disabled elderly are being forced to work until they die because they're that desperate not to end up homeless and on the streets in their old age. We all have something to offer and contribute to society, but being coerced and manipulated by a system that literally kills people into forced labor is just modern day slavery. WAKE THE FUCK UP.

yesterday when working with my case manager, she went through a long checklist of my comprehensive needs to refresh our treatment plan. as a part of the questions she was asking me, she asked for various areas of my financial struggles, including if i was able to afford social activities such as hanging out with friends, going to the movies, etc. as part of my necessary purchases. the question was specifically phrased as "Do you have enough money every month to be able to afford social activities?"

this was not proposed as a "luxury". the question was not phrased as "Do you have enough money every month to afford luxuries/luxury purchases?" this was listed with the necessities like food, housing, medical needs, transportation, bills, and clothing. this made me burst into tears when i realized it was considered a necessary part of everyone's mental and well being. my case manager told me that not a singular person on this planet deserves to have to "earn" the right to socialize, interact with leisure activities, or to do things that bring you personal fulfillment. your money does not, and should not entirely go toward survival and practicality. it will ruin your mental health.

to any poor person who has ever been told that they don't "need" or "deserve" social or leisure activities or that your money "needs" to go 100% toward survival: they are straight up lying to you. it is a fundamental part of your mental health. don't fucking listen to them.

[cy-cyborg]

If you're using Mocap to animate an amputee character, you need an amputee actor!

I know there is a lot of debate about disabled actors playing disabled characters, but with amputees, even in mocap, it does visibly and negatively impact the performance if you don't get an amputee to do that roll - unless you're going to majorly adjust the animations later, but that would require so much additional work that it kind of defeats the point of using mocap at all. Amputation (and limb differences in general), weather a prosthetic is present or not, changes how you move and how fast (stumps and limbs with prosthetics often move faster due to less weight), the poses you can do (abled actors often physically can't always do the same poses because the limb their character lacks is in the way) everything. It will even impact how other parts of the body will be posed (e.g. lots of leg amputees have altered spinal curves, which will effect things in the upper body, because of slight changes to their center of gravity and the pressure applied from prosthetics. The higher up the amputation, the more limbs missing and the longer the character has been without them, the more noticeable this will be)

I'm glad that we're starting to see more amputee representation in games, truely, but you can't just slap motion capture data from a non-disabled people onto a disabled character and expect it to look right, especially when it comes to disabilities like amputation, where a massive chunk of weight is gone or altered. It's exceptionally noticeable.

I've worked in 3D animation and games. I understand crunch, and I understand sometimes it's a technical issue or limitation, especially in older games, but I also know how much work goes into this stuff, how much love and care these folks put into it to get things looking right. Even mocap cleanup is a lot of work, and a lot of skill is still need it to get it looking right in-game. I've seen first-hand the almost obsessive attention to detail some animators have - so why is this the thing that gets consistently overlooked?

A lot of this also applies to live action where a charcater's missing limb or prosthetic is just added in post too...

[blitzsicedcoffee]

During my therapy session I thought I'd have a lot of anger but I'm just really sad. With this pain in my chest. Sad so many people don't give a fuck about my existence.

[powerrangersystem]

[sunnysilvavo]

YES! MORE ACCESSIBILITY FOR ALL! ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻

We need more solutions like this to aid disabled people keep the jobs they love and PREVENT disabilities as well! I can't tell you how much it would have helped me not make my fibromyalgia worse just by having a normal seat at my retail jobs in the past!

[localratwithcowboyhat]

What i keep in my bag as someone with auDHD and Chronic illness

communication cards, chewrely and spike ball incase of Shut/Meltdown

Smelling oil and disinfectant can help with nausea

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Medical bag details:

not shown:

- medical ID and sunflower lanyard

- small water bottle and electrolytes

- keys and loop earplugs

- noise cancelling Headphones

- extra ADHD meds incase i forgot to take them

-Inhaler once i get one

I also keep instant cool packs on me in summer to help with temperature regulation and circulation

[chronicillnesshumor]

[onepeaceman]

I need yall to understand that people like us are unemployed and discriminated against. Often forced into sex work or labor which doesn't pay well enough and does a lot of mental/physical damage.

I need yall to understand most of us are poor and alone. Some of us are even ostracized in the queer community.

I need yall to understand mutual aid, self sustainability, and understanding looks like sharing resources like money, a place to stay, and sometimes that means not getting anything in return

I need yall to understand a lot of us are at multiple intersections of existence.

Some of us are disabled, and trans, and queer, and poor, and --

And we need even more help!

I could get a job. Somewhere safer and better.

But right now? Right now I'm holding myself together with decades of practice.

That's it.

I need money. Like, a lot to get out of the hole I'm in.

There are people in your country that need you.

Many of you decided your virtue signaling and moral purity was more important than even taking baby steps in the right directions

You've condemned whole demographics to death over your emotions. And you've thrown the rest of the world into a downward spiral

So I hope you can put your money where your mouth is now, since you certainly couldn't do it with your vote.

This may seem silly but this is what I needed to hear in 2016, so I’m going to say it now. It’s okay to feel hopeless or angry or scared or betrayed or even just mildly nauseous. However you feel is the right reaction for you. You’re just not allowed to kill yourself. You are too good, too valuable, too important for this to be the thing that takes you. Yes the world is a mess, but taking one good person out of it isn’t going to make it any better.

So take care of yourself. Wrap yourself in that blanket. Get that hug. Eat that mug cake. Find your life preserver whatever it may be and keep going. You are stronger than you realize.

Deciding to do something when you’re feeling defeated is hard. If all you can take care of is you today, focus on doing that. Tomorrow or a week from now you can look at what your community needs to do to weather the storm in the long term. Yes communities are hurting now, but having to grieve one more person isn’t going to make anyone’s life any better. Please keep going. Please don’t let this election take you too.