#Disibility

[auntierayeraye]

[yellowyarn]

I need a badge that says "Nothing happened, I'm just disabled" to wear when I use my braces or other disability aids. Maybe abled people would stop asking me about it then.

[v4guelyv4mpiric]

are umbrellas vampire mobility aids

[katerimarie]

This is Chelsea Bear. She has Cerebral Palsy like me! We also share the same first name! Love her content!

This is very accurate. CP is not curable. It’s permanent. My CP affects me from my hips to my toes. Causing me to have a limp and chronic pain from my muscles always being in a flexed position. I have issues with fine motor skills as well as a learning disability.

When the Doctor delivered me and then the placenta he said it didn’t look right and that if my mother had been in a bigger city at a better hospital they could have caught it.

Another doctor also had to help by fashioning neonatal care pieces for my breathing from ones made for a normal sized baby so that I could get on the Mede vac which would have the proper pieces. I could probably have fit in one of my dad’s palms I was tiny. BUT I weighed a bit more so that helped. I flew out of my home town to a larger city on December 24 1992. A few stressful hours after I was born. On December 25 1992 a blizzard closed our air port. So I wouldn’t have made it to the metropolitan area and the NicU there if I had been born one day later and I probably wouldn’t have made it.

I get that people are trying to be nice when I tell them about my CP but saying “I’ll pray that you’re healed.” But it definitely doesn’t work that way. My mom’s due date was March 1 1993 by the way.

[queerdo27]

I’m currently making a video on disability representation in House. I think it’s perfect besides the nit picky part of me who wishes House was played by an actual disabled actor, which got me doing research on how Hugh Laurie was able to play a pretty convincing disabled guy (I’m aware that he uses the cane wrong for most of the show, I am just gullible) and if the limping had any long term effects on him.

He was so committed to the fake limp that he was doing it off screen and HIS LEGS WERE JUST LIKE THAT FOR YEARS??? He also took Vicodin. This is the most bizarre, and my personal favourite, method acting story of all time

Usually I hate method acting because I feel bad for their costars but I feel bad for the amount of stress he put his body through. I’ve never seen someone method act a disability let alone to the point where it manifested a real temporary disability??? Anyways I might method act being abled and see if that cures me or something

[mind0zone]

Shout out to disability representation. I just found out my leg may permanently be damaged after a skateboard incident, and in the slum of it I thought "well at least when I'm older I can pull out a cane like my name is Remus Lupin or Viktor." Gotta love cane users

[autistic-crypt1d]

Being chronically ill is exhausting. I'm on 4 meds plus 3 supplements and now I'm getting upped to 5 meds (swapping out one of the original 4) and adding 3 more supplements. We're adding topical pain relief product to the mix too and we have to try everything 1 at a time to check for reactions so its going to take forever.

I do PT twice a week every other week and now I have to find a way to add more regular visits to 2 other doctors.

I'm exhausted just thinking about all the new stuff I have to add to the routine that I already barely keep up with 😭

[schrodingers-slut]

Every day I see a new hot take that just boils down to “this thing or service only exists because people are lazy!”

I’m so fucking tired of people assuming “Well I don’t need this so no one does!”

I know disabled people are forgotten and seen as inconvenient or a footnote or a technicality or an afterthought. I know this. I know people don’t think we’re worth the work it takes for us to exist.

But it really feels like shouting into the void trying to remind people that no, we can’t just get rid of this facet of society because, shockingly, disabled people utilize it and are not, in fact, a group of people you can just ignore when it’s most convenient.

[doctorsherlockwinchester4]

Okay, but in the pjo series......arcery from a wheelchair......that's got to be one of the most badass things that I have ever seen!

This is turning into the disabled people's pride month, and I am all for it!!!

[lyracreek]

ppl who use crutches and/or canes regularly are so brave bc I have been given crutches for 1 day and the urge to smack anything that even mildly bothers me is almost irresistible

[king-of-squishmallows]

Disablity Pride Month!

[futurebird]

for the love of god put alt text on yer images

I don't want to get mean. But one of the most tiresome things about tumblr is that almost no one here seems to put alt text on images. I thought ya'll cared about being welcoming and supporting everyone. Not having alt text is just RUDE.

So if I want to reblog something and it has an image I have to add a description at the end. This is a band aid. A work-around. It's not ideal. It would be better if the original image just had alt text on it.

I've written 100s of descriptions hoping people will see the reblog with [Image Description: ...] and think "wow maybe I should have done that"

But …. it's not really working. I don't think anyone is picking up the hint at all. So let me be more clear: It's rude to post images without a description. It makes this part of the internet nearly useless for many people. As the person posting the image only you can put the description in the right place (in the alt text) and you are the best informed person to write the description. You know what it is and why it's there. So just ... add the alt text please.

On mastodon I almost never see an image without alt text. We could be like that here too. You don't need to make it long. Something is better than nothing. Just give some context so the post makes sense and everyone can participate. Stop making it harder.

[adult-starry-astronaut-creates]

[yellowyarn]

it does not matter if Aaron is mentally ill or not. It does not change the meaning or importance of his death. disabled peoples lives are not lesser.

[swirlingyouintomypoems]

Dear fic writers of the world,

If you plan to write a story about a disabled character who has a service dog*, great! More power to you. HOWEVER, please for the love of god do your goddamn research before you write that fic!! Look up your local SD laws, different types of SDs, their rights, and most importantly, the difference between a service dog, an emotional support animal, and a therapy dog. These are all VERY different titles and entail very different "jobs", and the laws surrounding these animals vary greatly. Multiple times I have started reading a fic with a service dog in it and it's literally just an ESA. This annoys me to no end. I know you don't own anyone anything with your fics, but as a former service dog handler, I ask that you at least do this one service to disabled people.

On the off chance any fic writers who are writing/want to write about a character with a service dog see this, feel free to hit me up. I'm happy to talk about what life with an SD is like, as well as the many nuances/laws/public perception/literally anything

*Under the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) mini horses can also be service animals, however these are not as commonly seen :)

[queerdo27]

Yeah, being disabled fucking sucks, but I have a purple wheelchair now so who’s really winning here?🤨