#I have invisible disabilities!

[mythicalcoolkid]

You don't wish your disability was worse or more visible, you wish your disability was taken seriously. Please stop confusing the two, I guarantee you would not get the support you need JUST by being more severe or more visible. Please listen to visibly disabled people when we tell you it isn't better on our side

[lupusbaby]

Being chronically ill is like

“It’s fine”

“It’s fine”

“It’s fine”

*complete mental breakdown because you can’t do this anymore*

“It’s fine”

[hellyeahsickaf]

I found an extremely dope disability survival guide for those who are homebound, bedbound, in need of disability accommodations, or would otherwise like resources for how to manage your life as a disabled person. (Link is safe)

It has some great articles and resources and while written by people with ME/CFS, it keeps all disabilities in mind. A lot of it is specific to the USA but even if you're from somewhere else, there are many guides that can still help you. Some really good ones are:

How to live a great disabled life- A guide full of resources to make your life easier and probably the best place to start (including links to some of the below resources). Everything from applying for good quality affordable housing to getting free transportation, affordable medication, how to get enough food stamps, how to get a free phone that doesn't suck, how to find housemates and caregivers, how to be homebound, support groups and Facebook pages (including for specific illnesses), how to help with social change from home, and so many more.

Turning a "no" into a "yes"- A guide on what to say when denied for disability aid/accommodations of many types, particularly over the phone. "Never take no for an answer over the phone. If you have not been turned down in writing, you have not been turned down. Period."

How to be poor in America- A very expansive and helpful guide including things from a directory to find your nearest food bank to resources for getting free home modifications, how to get cheap or free eye and dental care, extremely cheap internet, and financial assistance with vet bills

How to be homebound- This is pretty helpful even if you're not homebound. It includes guides on how to save spoons, getting free and low cost transportation, disability resources in your area, home meals, how to have fun/keep busy while in bed, and a severe bedbound activity master list which includes a link to an audio version of the list on Soundcloud

Master List of Disability Accommodation Letters For Housing- Guides on how to request accommodations and housing as well as your rights, laws, and prewritten sample letters to help you get whatever you need. Includes information on how to request additional bedrooms, stop evictions, request meetings via phone, mail, and email if you can't in person, what you can do if a request is denied, and many other helpful guides

Special Laws to Help Domestic Violence Survivors (Vouchers & Low Income Housing)- Protections, laws, and housing rights for survivors of DV (any gender), and how to get support and protection under the VAWA laws to help you and/or loved ones receive housing and assistance

Dealing With Debt & Disability- Information to assist with debt including student loans, medical debt, how to deal with debt collectors as well as an article with a step by step guide that helped the author cut her overwhelming medical bills by 80%!

There are so many more articles, guides, and tools here that have helped a lot of people. And there are a lot of rights, resources, and protections that people don't know they have and guides that can help you manage your life as a disabled person regardless of income, energy levels, and other factors.

Please boost!

[inkskinned]

it is hard to explain but there is something so unwell about the cultural fear of ugliness. the strange quiet irradiation of any imperfect sight. the pores and the stomachs and the legs displaced into a digital trashbin. somehow this effect spilling over - the removal of a grinning strangers in the back of a picture. of placing more-photogenic clouds into a frame. of cleaning up and arranging breakfast plates so the final image is of a table overflowing with surplus - while nobody eats, and instead mimes food moving towards their mouth like tantalus.

ever-thinner ever-more-muscled ever-prettier. your landlord's sticky white paint sprayed over every surface. girlchildren with get-ready-with-me accounts and skincare routines. beige walls and beige floors and beige toys in toddler hands. AI-generated "imagined prettier" birds and bugs and bees.

pretty! fuckable! impossible! straighten teeth. use facetune and lightroom and four other products. remove the cars along the street from the video remove the spraypaint from the garden wall remove the native plants from their home, welcome grass. welcome pretty. let the lot that walmart-still-owns lay fallow and rotting. don't touch that, it's ugly! close your eyes.

erect anti-homelessness spikes. erect anti-bird spikes. now it looks defensive, which is better than protective. put the ramp at the back of the building, you don't want to ruin the aesthetic of anything.

you are a single person in this world, and in this photo! don't let the lives of other people ruin what would otherwise be a shared moment! erase each person from in front of the tourist trap. erase your comfortable shoes and AI generate platforms. you weren't smiling perfectly, smile again. no matter if you had been genuinely enjoying a moment. you are not in a meadow with friends, you're in a catalogue of your own life! smile again! you know what, forget it.

we will just edit the right face in.

[sickly-sapphic]

this disability pride month you can help disabled people by continuing to mask up, using appropriate masks (KN95 or N95) and appropriate masking technique (wash your hands before and after putting it on, don't touch the front, make sure there's no gaping) 🫧

[currentlyfreebleeding]

no girl i just have chronic pain

[sunnywalnut]

Me when my disability disables me:

[imlittlebitdie]

So now in the latest saga of Lando Norris Trying to Make Me Hate Him, we have Lando *checks notes* being shitty towards other drivers that had heatstroke after Singapore.

First of all, someone should introduce rich boy to the idea of “class consciousness”. Instead of tearing down his fellow drivers for health issues after the race (that he implied he was also feeling), he should direct his ire to the people in charge.

Why not use the collective power they have as drivers to influence a change? That’s the entire reason for a driver’s union.

Why is he denigrating people’s health issues (which he is in no position to judge as he is not a medical professional), when instead he could be amplifying their experience and his own to call for change.

Lando sees other people suffering and says, “why do they get a free pass, I suffered too.” He sees their health being put at risk and he judges the driver and the team for looking out for them.

Max, his own best friend, told him “you don’t know what they’re going through.” And he doesn’t, Mercedes has been having a problem with their cockpit getting too hot even before Singapore. There’s been no indications that that has been fixed.

But instead of saying, “yeah maybe you have a point.” Lando instead says, “they don’t know mine.” Again, here it’s either Lando gets the focus or no one should. It has to be about him.

And either way, if he does feel like this…he doesn’t need to say it.

It’s perfectly normal to keep shitty opinions to yourself, but he seems to lack a certain level of self-awareness and discernment for that level of self-control.

Lando Norris, I tried very hard but you’ve made me not like you.

[the-cactus-taco]

While Crying and clenching my jaw: asking for accommodations for your disability is NOT cheating, asking for accommodations for your disability is NOT rude, asking for accommodations for your disability is NOT a burden, ask—

[waytootiredforthistoo]

man i really fuckin hate when people change tt captions to be less offensive words. I'm not fond of 'corn' for 'porn' or 'unalive' for 'death' to get around tt censors specifically, but i can deal with that, ESPECIALLY if they censor their verbal speech as well

what i Really hate is how it's led to an uptick of creators literally just changing words for the bit. Literally had someone tell me (when i tried to explain that it made their content inaccessible to the disabled people that the cc are literally designed for) that they only did it 'for comedic effect'

Really?? REALLY???? Your big funny, load-bearing, can't make this post without it joke is changing 'strippers' to 'lovely ladies' ((at least, that's my best guess at what you said. I wasn't able to hear it, so I had to play the stupid game of guess from context and try to lip read.))

captions were designed for d/Deaf and HoH people. You've bastardized them so that the people they were made for can no longer use/trust them. That's like seeing wheelchair ramps, going, 'hey this would be great for my skateboard, but it needs a sick flat rail down the middle to grind on' and then adding it, making the ACCESS FEATURE designed for DISABLED PEOPLE fundamentally UNACESSIBLE!!!!!!

you didn't just not make your content accessible. you actively misused our access features, actively made your content less accessible.

it's not cool. don't do it, i promise the joke isn't that funny in the first place

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

ableism is so off the wall batshit crazy to me do people really not realize anyone can become disabled at any time

[calmmyfears]

i can't describe how defeated i feel when yet another doctor tells me everything looks normal, everything is normal after medical tests of my body. it feels like a punch in my stomach when they conclude with "so that's good news!" not to me, it is. it means new pain, less mobility, with no visible cause that i have to learn to live with while nothing around me changes. fantastic news yeah.

[frosty-tian]

Day 2 of YoSante Week!

Quiet/Travels

(Featuring my version of them in a modern setting/AU. Main style inspiration is from @/thegnarlyghost on Twitter.)

Sometimes you simply need to retreat into the wild, away from the bustling city life.

Bonus doodle: How Yone looks with his hair down and clarifying the thing he’s wearing is a medical eyepatch (he’s blind in the right eye).

Link to week’s prompts.:

[currentlyfreebleeding]

nerve pain and cramping?? down MY asscheek?? ridiculous.

[squid-socks]

That awkward moment when someone moves back into your house and the “good energy days” just end👀👀

🌈My family is dysfunctional🌈

[soullessjack]

too tired for a whole post but i will say, if I had a nickel for every time I watched a show where a disabled character gets treated like a helpless sensitive baby despite being an adult who’s blatantly characterized as independent in spite of how they are perceived by others, temperamental, deeply determined and sometimes very bitter about their perception, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but one is more than enough for me to be fucking sick and tired of it