#cleft palates

[hajihiko]

Fashion friday Chiaki! I normally wear monochrome only but I really loved this outfit and I totally wanna use it again soon *v*

[littlefingies]

I just. I just really love Pete okay. Talk about a journey of unlearning toxic masculinity and leaning into softness.

I've been enjoying recording podfics, at least partially as an exercise in learning to love my voice even though there's some weird shit about it. It's a little lispy, a little non-specific-drawly-american-accent, tons of things that piss off men like vocal fry and whatever it's called when you treat random sentences like questions. (Also can we get a big fuck you to my ex-husband for "jokingly" making fun of me for it all the fucking time?)

There are a lot of things to love about Pete, but I love how they just let his voice stand as it is. Nobody ever mentions it.

I also love this line about him specifically.

[wavy-gorl]

happy disability month to anyone who feels like they're in a weird limbo of not feeling like they can call themselves fully able-bodied or disabled, ur still valid even if you don't fit certain visible standards of being considered disabled or if ur disability only impacts u sometimes

[ink-asunder]

I wish everybody who writes stories about dystopias where "plastic surgery is mandatory" and "being unconventionally attractive is an act of rebellion" a very "listen the fuck to teenagers with facial differences and the medical abuse they suffered at the hands of money hungry, glory hungry, and bigotted plastic surgeons."

It's not a dystopian hypothetical. It is reality for people born with facial differences.

[odddogs]

snout seated in the glistening crown of his fangs

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[noelletism]

hey im working with smile train to raise money for children in need of cleft care! if you have anything to spare its highly appreciated!

https://www.mysmiletrain.org/campaign/Veronica-for-Smiles24

[fflaminlo]

nextgen custom for my buddy and its boyfriends ponysonas !! its fall yall

[pika-bitch-iii]

Silo Sinking — Itajun

It’s Junpei’s last ever Reaping Year, now that he’s finally turned eighteen. On the bright side, it means he can work for real money; the only con is there’s no more tesserae to fall back on.

At least there’s Yuuji, though, as blond and bright as the wheat fields they cultivate. What’s that stupid thing the Capitol freaks say again?

Oh, right. May the odds be ever in your favor.

Or—Welcome to the 72nd Hunger Games: JJK Edition? Blame the autism, I guess.

[ophanim-vesper]

Personally always hated the 'mouthbreather' insult. Having a cleft lip and palate meant my upper respiratory system makes it harder to breathe through my nose. My nasal passage is literally distorted and sometimes I can't even breathe at night while lying down, because my mouth instinctively closes while my nose is completely blocked. So, I had to resort to mouthbreathing, and that has been belittled and ridiculed and associated with being 'retarded' or generally stupid. Being born with a physical defect that literally makes it harder to breathe through your nose shouldn't be an insult. Having a chronic illness that makes it harder to breathe shouldn't be an insult. Needing to have a less socially accepted adaptation in order to LIVE shouldn't be an insult. Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk.

[newwwwusername]

Nimona (2023 Movie) - Ballister/Ambrosius - Cleft Awareness Month Prompt 8 : Hearing Problems

Prompt : Write a fic (can be fluff, hurt/comfort, whatever the author sees fit) where a character has a cleft palate (lip is optional) and their hearing isn't great because of it (can range from just slightly poor hearing to severe hearing loss/issues). Headcanon : Ballister has a cleft lip and palate

"Bal?" Ambrosius said, catching the other man's attention.

"Hm?"

"I asked what you wanted to get for dinner" Ambrosius said patiently.

"I didn't hear you, sorry" Ballister said with a small frown. His hearing had been getting worse recently.

To be fair, it had never been great. Due to his cleft, he'd gotten a lot of ear infections when he was young, and it had led to gradual hearing loss. Even with all the high-end medical treatment he had access to once the Queen had taken him under her wing, the infections and subsequent hearing loss didn't just go away until they'd taken the next step and put tubes in his ears but, by then, the damage had already been done.

Plus, he was getting older now. He wasn't elderly by any means but, his aging ears (which were often assaulted by the chaos of his life), combined with the wear and tear from the ailments of his childhood... Yeah, it certainly added up.

"That's alright. You don't need to apologize" Ambrosius replied with a warm smile, pulling him back to the present. "So... Dinner?"

"Nimona likes pizza" he said almost instinctually. Ambrosius chuckled, but Ballister only returned it halfway, and that's when he clued in that something was wrong.

"You wanna talk about whatever's bugging you?" he asked as he opened up the delivery website on his phone and begin inputting the family's usual order, making sure to get a bit extra for Nimona, since she was out playing with the local kids and tended to be especially hungry after a long day of chaos.

"It's just... My hearing's been getting worse" Ballister sighed. Ambrosius looked up at him with concern.

"Do we need to take you to the doctor?"

"It's nothing serious" Ballister assured him. "It's just aging and... You remember how I got ear infections all the time when we were kids?"

"How could I forget?"

"That also had worn down on my ears a fair bit" he explained. "I guess it's just all finally catching up to me"

"Okay" Ambrosius nodded. "Thank you for telling me"

"Of course" Ballister replied with a crooked smile. "No pineapple on the pizza" he said suddenly, glancing at the screen. "Nimona won't eat it"

Ambrosius just laughed and unchecked the 'Pineapple' option.

Do not repost on other sites! If you want to participate in this month's challenge, there are 31 cleft-centered prompts that you can find here

[128grazer]

We got in a senior cat to the shelter and we were trying to track down her owner and someone managed to find them and apparently the cat is 18 years old and had been missing for 2 years 😭😭

[fluent-in-lesbianism]

I’m officially a multi-cat owning lesbian:

This is my new baby boy Winston ❤️

[aethling]

anybody else always have to go through the whole

“what’s wrong with your face?”

“i was born like this! now can we please hurry up and play wolves i’ve only got 20 minutes to be in this mcdonald’s playplace.”

song and dance every single fucking time they met another child

[armandposting]

every time I come up against a pregnancy food restriction I don't like I text my mom about it like "are they for real on this one or can I ignore it"

[vashti-lives]

*squints* a kid I know is turning 7 on Wednesday is this too young for a series of unfortunate events?

[kaleidoru]

big brother