#Invisible Disability

[kleptozoology]

Same when it comes to the homeless. People don't want to admit that 90% of them are just one or two bad months away from losing their home and being just like them. They treat them with disgust instead of respect, making all sorts of wild assumptions about drug use and moral character. It's not just "I live a normal life because I'm doing something right that the poors and cripples haven't thought of" it's "I live a normal life because I'm a better person than they are." They think that someone's disability or economic status is the result of moral meritocracy, which is just another thing you can blame on John Calvin.

Some rando: You should think about stopping your prescription

Me: My pills make me not want to die tho

They: You shouldn’t want to die, that’s not normal

Me: Yeah that’s why I’m taking my pills

[directactionforhope]

Anyway it's that "morning people are an oppressive class" meme except actually my slideshow says "sleep issues are an often huge fucking disability"

[squid-socks]

Is there like a graduation requirement for doctors that’s like “be a dick” or “shove your own head up your own ass so far it never comes back out” or something?

Why are most so fucking awful??😅

[thornsinpudding]

I feel like when chronic illness suddenly gets bad in your teens it's so hard to truly accept the fact that you aren't going to excel as much as you did before you were ill

Over the past year I've started caring for my grades less and less, I'm usually just too exhausted or depressed to study due to my condition and it's almost humbling to watch how I've went from being the fifth in my entire class to not even being able to compete with others..

[threelogsinatrenchcoat]

What people need to realise about “reclaiming” a slur is that it’s not something someone does in their personal time for self improvement. It’s a form of Socail protest and reformation of language. It has to be an intentional group effort or it does nothing.

Take the word B!tch, for example. We have seen this shift from a derogatory term to one of positive description, Because there was an active intention by women to purposefully change what the word bitch meant in order to reclaim it as their own.

The same goes for the word Queer, or the N word. These switches were made by the community not by single people who wanted to feel like edgy shit.

Now, take the R slur into this measure. As a community of disabled individuals, we are divided between two camps: the people who want to say the r slur WITHOUT changing anything and keeping its original ableist usage and those who don’t want to say it at all.

Saying it in your day to day life by yourself doesn’t reclaim anything. because there’s not reformation, there’s no changing of definition, and there’s no community backing you up. You’re just saying a slur. And thus, you’re an asshat.

[spoonie-support]

Using a wheelchair is not "giving up". Using a shower chair is not "lazy" using mobility equipment does not take it away from other people who "need it more"you deserve to be able to access life. Safely with less pain in the best way possible and on your own terms.

[lupusbaby]

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.

[franciummusic]

I thought I was the only one

Do any other chronically ill or disabled people feel like they're watching themselves rot away due to how little they can do as a result of their conditions

[yellow-dress-basil]

Since the Paralympics are happening and I’m seeing all sorts of people saying “See? This person doesn’t let their disability stop them!”

I would like you to remember that Paralympions are OLYMPIC LEVEL ATHLETES.

How would it feel if I compared your output to that of a literal olympic athlete and used that to justify not helping you or giving you what you need?

Oh, well Michael Phelps and Simone Biles can do it - why can’t you?

Thats how you sound.

[chroniclesofchronicillness]

This makes so much sense

[mascflowers]

I really wish butchhood wasn't conflated with being a protector so much, honestly.

I'm a very vulnerable butch. I'm chronically ill, invisibly physically disabled, and have a lot of mental health issues. My masculinity doesn't inherently make me more strong or powerful.

But there's a huge amount of butch culture built on butches being protective of femmes, or just being strong and working in very physically laborious jobs. It feels disheartening to be locked out of a major part of my culture, just because I'm disabled.

So here's to all the disabled butches who want, or are expected to, be strong because toxic masculinity has taught us the mascs are the protectors, but we can't be.

We're the ones who need people to slow down for us. We're the ones who need to sit down and catch our breath after walking a bit. We're the ones who need help. And that doesn't make us any less butch.

[zebulontheplanet]

Just a reminder that people who still live with their parents as adults deserve respect and for you to stop being ableist. There are multiple reasons someone could still live with their parents! From invisible to visible disabilities, finance issues, and more!

Stop using the “well they’re gonna turn into a creep living in their parents basement” punchline! It’s disgusting. STOP. BEING. ABLEIST. STOP. FORGETTING. THE. POOR.

[haowenyang]

you’re not a disability advocate if you make fun of people with incontinence or people that drool or peoples motor functions or people with brain damage or people with low intelligence 👍

[johnlennonirl]

Here I am, posting something similar like the fibro post... this one goes out to my psychotic folks🫶

[squid-socks]

I need a solution to how hard it is to make a bed. I’m in so much pain today but I know I’ll feel a lot better after I have a clean bed.

BUT OMG IS THIS SUCH A DEMANDING TASK. 😭😭😭

(Tbf I - like the dumbass I am - own a loft bed. So yes. Double hard🤦‍♀️)