#disability tools

[fish-in-need-of-a-bicycle]

Colgate Wisps are little disposable toothbrushes that you can keep near your bed, use without water, and throw away.

Switchbots are robots that can press buttons for you, like turning on lights your thermostat.

You can buy more underwear so you can do laundry less often.

You can put dirty dishes in Ziplock bags and put them in the freezer so they don’t attract bugs or smell before you get around to washing them.

[supertrainstationh]

I’m at a library with this thing and the Wi-Fi seems to connect but when I log into the cloud based backup system it just repeatedly asks me to enter my email.

Also this thing’s keyboard is loud enough for me to be self conscious while using it here and I press o. The keys as gently as possible.

Actually sitting at a desk and putting words into it feels nicer than I expected, especially since this has a screen that actually displays text entered in real time, unlike the other Freewrite models.

Okay time to get out my Pomera DM 100 from almost 20 years ago to actually be able to do some useful work on my next project.

[littlesistersti-backupandspam]

even if you don't have dyscalculia, this is handy to have when printed numbers are always tricky to read

DYSCALCULIA TOOL ALERT!

This is an acrylic magnifying glass with a green strip in it that helps you read long strings of numbers! It's been known for a while that putting a colored filter over pages can help people with dyscalculia read numbers without them flipping places, but this is the first time I've seen something so simple and accessible. I put it on some test numbers and my eyes didn't feel like they kept wanting to jump around all over the number. I can keep this on my desk and use it on paper, or hold it up to my monitor to read long numbers at work! It may help people in other ways as well, this is just what I bought it for and I already love it!

I found it at a Daiso location, but there are probably others online.

Spread the word!

EDIT: It's also like $2, so pretty much anyone who needs it can afford it!

[mochasucculent]

Was looking at refs and since Viktor has two different leg braces I was wondering, do we think he wears them simultaneously?? The refs don't perfectly line up perspective-wise so it's hard to tell but parts of the one he wears during the Hexcore scenes look like they could maybe line up with the brace that he wears over his clothes, but also some parts really don't and look like they'd be super uncomfy. Also HOW does he take these on and off. Experts weigh in

[glitchdollmemoria]

please can we stop describing bigots as delusional. please. im so fucking tired. someone being sucked into a hate group surrounded by others who believe minorities should be oppressed and encouraging them to believe in conspiracy theories that the rest of the group believes, is fundamentally different from someone having a mental illness that causes delusions.

delusions, by definition, cannot be explained by things like cultural background - such as having a belief constantly reinforced by intentional attempts to rationalize it for the sake of maintaining power over minorities. yes, someone can be both delusional and a bigot, and yes conspiracy theories can feed into delusions, but the two are not fucking synonymous.

i did not spend my teen years convinced that i was being stalked by demons just to hear so many of you people equate my disability with incel behavior and genocidal propaganda. stop reinforcing harmful connotations about mental health struggles.

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

“alt text for more info” “turn on cations for more info” no actually this is not where more info goes. These have a very distinct purpose. There are plenty of other places for more info. If you’re going to make your post inaccessible, the least you could do is not use accessibility tools at your own leisure for whatever purpose you see fit.

[supertrainstationh]

I wanted one of these so bad. I was initially promised one for my birthday, but my Dad just saw this as a "toy i was too old for" and wanted me to "grow up", and got my a CD player I never used instead.

But once I actually got my hands on this, he realized how the word processing capabilities of this thing let me function at my desk like a normal student and it was absolutely fantastic.

The functionality would be surpassed ONLY by my eventual 2001 Apple iBook.

Cybiko Xtreme (2000)

[ruegarding]

so. percy's arc in boo (learning to step back, allowing leo to sacrifice himself despite his loyalty/fatal flaw) sucks. for many reasons.

for one, percy yielding is such an integral part of pjo. all of pjo. but even if u somehow missed it in the first four books, tlo explicitly spells it out. "sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding" hestia says to percy. "i yield when necessary. can you do this?" and then this is the climax of the story. "you are not the hero...it will affect what you do." percy has spent the last five books being told that he's the super powerful chosen one able to save or destroy the world, and he still chooses to yield to someone that has done nothing but betray him. "the line from the great prophecy echoed in my head...my whole world tipped upside down, and i gave the knife to luke." hoo acting like this is a lesson percy needs to learn is an affront to reading comprehension. percy lives bc he yields. and then he does it (yielding) again when he surrenders godhood, and power, to choose other demigods instead. this is not subtle writing.

for two, percy has rejected power, and his title, for the entirety of his story. percy doesn't even fully recognize how powerful he is until the volcano in botl. and he had to be told directly that it wasn't a fluke. then in son, percy immediately rejects the power and status offered to him. repeatedly. reyna offers him praetorship, he turns it down. frank is abt to let percy climb the wall first in the war games, percy says it was frank's claim. percy doesn't even want to go on the son quest but relents bc frank asked him. in moa, percy never demands that he lead. instead, he includes frank where he probably wasn't necessary, supports hazel, encourages annabeth, follows leo and piper's lead, and strategizes w jason. he isn't acting as a leader, but rather as part of a team. percy didn't need to "step back," the writing for the other characters needed to step up.

for three, percy had to be kidnapped and manipulated to be on this entire quest. he's not there bc he has a hero complex. acting like he has to learn to step back when he was quite literally shoved into place is wild.

for four, an integral part of percy's character is freedom, autonomy, and he extends this to the ppl he's loyal to. this is pretty explicitly established in tlt: "you're enough like me to understand," sally says. "if my life is going to mean anything, i have to live it myself." percy respects ppl's decisions. this is one of the first lessons he learns when he becomes a hero and an integral part of pjo: percy has to let sally save herself. percy has to let tyson go to the boiler. percy has to let bianca defeat talos. percy has to let nico walk away. percy has to let annabeth fight. if he loves them, he's going to let their lives mean something. even in hoo, percy still lets annabeth go on her quest alone, despite hating it, despite disagreeing w it, bc it's not his place to tell her what she can and can't do. this is her life. she has to live it. so this plotline doesn't even work it we ignore all of pjo and focus solely on hoo.

this theme of autonomy is especially important bc pjo is abt disability. one of the first things ppl try to take away from u when ur disabled is ur autonomy. the fact that percy vehemently defends it not just for himself but for others is essential to the narrative. percy advocates for other demigods, other disabled kids, and tyson, and he does so while maintaining their autonomy. it's why he's the leader, it's why he's the protagonist, it's why there is a callback to it in every pjo book. trying to act like he wouldn't respect someone's autonomy is a bastardization of this entire theme. which is actually fitting for hoo considering it bastardizes the rest of pjo anyway.

[cutiepieautistic]

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[leah2eroes]

ok so im thinking about buying a walking cane because i genuinely think itd be beneficial as a mobility aid for me, but like im hesitant because i dont exactly have a more solid reason than "itd make things a bit easier". am i just tripping dick and its a case of "if itd help u then use it numbnuts", or is it like stolen valour because i dont *need* it or whatever /gen

[fish-in-need-of-a-bicycle]

Idk who needs to know this but the Apple app Shortcuts has many accessibility features you can add to your phone, including one that will make a pain report for you in Notes and will ask you if you’d like Siri to read it out loud so you can tell the people around you. You can use it by going into the Shortcuts app or turn it into an icon you can tap on your home screen.

Go into the Shortcuts app, go to Gallery (it’s at the bottom), and then click the Shortcuts for Accessibility tab. Click the plus buttons on the ones that would be useful for you to add them to the main page. If you want to add one as an icon on your home screen, tap the three dots in the corner of the shortcut, click the share button, and then Add to Home Screen.

You can also customize shortcuts, make your own, or automate them. If you’ve ever used Scratch for coding, this is similar.

Here’s a Fatigue Report shortcut I customized based on the Pain Report shortcut. It’s customized to my symptoms but hopefully you can design it to be useful for you!

[supertrainstationh]

Hey, remember when I ranted about this thing when it was announced?

Well... I've got it now.

Yay?

This is the first crowdfunding campaign reward for electronics I ever received.

I gotta admit, for all the problems I have with this...

It feels nice to hold and looks nice to look at.

Its deliberately built-in impediments to editing are explicitly hostile to my writing process, which for the only English-specific dedicated word processor on the market is KIND OF A PROBLEM, but I'm glad this thing exists nonetheless and I hope these folks the best of success.

I do intend to give this the best chance my lifestyle and writing style allow.

[droodlebug]

overhaul of my old old character Zanethia i felt like she needed to be a plant loving wood elf/briar girl :]

[positivelyadhd]

please don't blame yourself not knowing you were neurodivergent sooner.

please don't blame yourself if you did know you were neurodivergent but your support needs weren't met for whatever reason.

everyone deserves to have access to disability aids and support if they need it.

you are not an inconvenience for wanting to be understood or supported. you are not broken.

it is not your fault that the systems you needed weren't there when you needed them.

no matter what anyone says, you deserve to live in a world where you can be happy and do the things that you want to do and exist how you want to.

I am so sorry that it's so difficult to get that sometimes, but it is not your fault. and you still deserve support now even if you *got by" without.

[squarebracket-trickster]

Oh my god for the last time

DO NOT USE AI FOR RESEARCH. DON'T TRUST ANYTHING IT TELLS YOU.

Do not use AI for research even if it cites its sources. Have you verified the credibility of those sources?

Do not use AI for research even if its sources are credible. Have you checked to make sure they have the most up-to-date information?

Do not use AI for research even if the sources are recent. Is this information generally accepted by experts in the field, or is it a controversial stance? Did AI source the 9/10 dentists or the 1/10? You don't know. You have no way of knowing unless you do your own fucking research!

DO NOT USE AI FOR RESEARCH. for the love of god people

"But I'm just doing research for my novel. It's okay if it's not 100% accurate."

ChatGPT told a person to glue the cheese on their pizza to make it stick. It told someone else a poisonous mushroom was safe to eat. It told another kid that Greek was a combination of four different languages. It thought there were 2 r's in strawberry.

Your information will probably not be 100% accurate. It might not be 50% accurate. It might be so completely and utterly false it would make a flat eather look informed. Just use Wikipedia of you want something quick and dirty. It might not be 100% accurate either, but it won't tell you to eat glue.

[sporadicallynightmarishbees]

New cane just dropped!!

I wanted to get a cane that suited me a little more, and now I have some options.

I also plan on adding some floral vines to my crutches soon.