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[crippledpunks]

i was recently denied life-saving gallbladder removal surgery by my GI specialist due to being "too fat" (i'm 300 lbs and very muscular) and "needing to lose 10 -15 pounds and waiting 2 - 3 months in order to get the surgery". i was then signed up for bariatric weight loss surgery before i could get the gallbladder removal despite the gallstone stuck in the neck of the organ as well as the other stones inside of it causing me to be incapable of keeping down food

i ended up getting the surgery done by a local hospital with far better doctors, but the initial denial had me so defeated. if you are fat and have ever been denied important surgeries, life saving or otherwise, because of your weight, i am so sorry and you should never have to face that. most surgeries are not impacted by weight in the slightest. this is usually an issue with the surgeon's skill as a surgeon.

i was told by every other surgeon i met that weight has no bearing on a laparoscopic gallbladder removal surgery. at the other hospital i was also told that anesthesia wouldn't work on me or that i wouldn't survive it. yet again i was told by other surgeons that was also not the case. most surgeons worth their paygrade can do these surgeries after just... trying and learning how to work with fat bodies.

i was told by the surgeons and nurses in the ER that it's ridiculous for the other hospital to behave as though fat people will never need surgery of any kind ever throughout their lives, for one reason or another. it's unrealistic. most people will encounter a potential surgery in their life times, no matter their weight and it's unprofessional to just give up when someone above a certain weight threshold needs help.

my heart goes out to you especially if you're trans, intersex, gnc, and queer and have been denied top surgery or other gender affirming care surgeries because of your weight. this is also medically unethical and done for no reason other than fatphobic transphobic bias. you do not need to lose weight to get top or bottom surgery.

take care of yourself. my heart goes out to you and you don't deserve this treatment at all

[aleck-le-mec]

“Dr.who has gone woke”

Season 7 episode 13 this is the emperor of a thousand galaxies, a man with dwarfism.

This woman saved the doctor’s life single handily from being drowned, she is blind.

This boy drew a map completely from memory to help the Doctor, he’s dyslexic.

This woman becomes the leader of her ship when the captain died, she helps the doctor understand what the ghost are saying by lip reading, she’s deaf.

Hell the first doctor even used a cane!

Disability has always had its place in Dr.who so has queerness and anything else you’d like to define as “woke”.

[genderqueerdykes]

i just wanted to say to every disabled person: Someone doubting your condition or telling you you don't have something doesn't change whether or not it's happening. someone's disbelief of gravity doesn't change the effect of its forces. you are the expert, don't worry about what someone else says about your lived experience, especially strangers. you know you best

[schar-aac]

"access intimacy" (also here)

image: a pink forearm crutch and a dark blue pair of headphones, with two pink hearts and a blue heart between them.

[neuroticboyfriend]

I often feel somewhat offput when abled is used synonymously with ableist... Not only can we not know if someone's abled unless they tell us, some of the worst ableism I have faced came from (and continues to come) from other disabled people. I have been misunderstood and severely abused even by other people with severe disabilities.

To be clear, this isn't me saying you can't be like "I'm so tired of abled people doing [ableist] thing." I just wish there was more care to how we talk about people who are ableist, even viciously ableist. I wish there were some more acknowledgement that we live in such a deeply ableist society that many people with disabilities are ableist - outside of internet discourse (which, is not insigificant, to be clear).

Some disabled people even politically side with the system in such a way that it effectively makes them culturally abled... In this world, there is a difference between simply having a disability and being Disabled... The struggles comparatively and culturally abled disabled people matter, they do, deeply... it just isn't fair how they'll take other disabled people down with them, and trade ableism against us for being granted advantages like trust from abled/other ableist people.

And I just wish the section of the online community Im in spoke about that more.

[lonely-paracosmos]

I love you people with npd

I love you people with aspd

I love you people hpd

I love you people with bpd

I love you people who are seen as evil for existing

I love you people who are seen as evil for simply not understanding

I love you people who struggle with empathy

I love you people with no empathy at all

I love you people whos empathy fluctuates

I love you people who struggle with abstract concepts

You are not evil

You are not monsters

You are not murderers

You have passions, you have ambitions

And nothing will ever make you less than human, we fight together

[cherry-pop-elf]

Happy Disability Pride Month!

I figured we can do a little thing together, and try and support fellow disabled content creators this month. Give em a boost! Help spread awareness of their works/content together! Along with bringing awareness the spectrum that is disability’s!

Reblog this post with YOUR Comission’s info/wishlists/kofi’s what have you!

I’ll go first!

Hi! I’m Belladonna. And I have Fibromyalgia

I have fibromyalgia, an autoimmune disease, along with issues with my spine. Causes me to be bed bound/in a wheelchair often. I use multiple types of mobility aids, and currently have plans for surgieres in the future to help make life not such a lonely nightmare lol

I have open writing coms

I have open art coms

These are my payment options

PayPal: FishyArtist

CashApp: BellaDonnaBucks

Kofi: CherryPopElf

This is my Amazon wishlist

Thank you for reading/reblogging!

[disabled-culture-is]

Disabled culture is not realizing for 16 years that no, it's not normal to have minor pain all over your body at minimum, and your eyes aren't supposed to hurt from loud noises

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[disabledweedreviews]

MY DISABLED REVIEW OF: Tyson 2.0 Mike Bites Delta-8 Gummies | 500mg Per Bag/25mg Per Piece

Hi everyone! This is my first review, so I'm still ironing out the kinks of how I want these to look. There's an image description attached to the image, though if unavailable to see, it reads "A bright orange resealable bag of Mike Tyson edibles is pictured. There is a large black and white illustration of an ear, with a shape at the top of the cartilage of a bite mark taken out of the ear. The large text reads "TYSON. MIKE BITES. (Δ8) (THC)" while the small text on the bottom reads "25mg Delta 8 Hemp Derived THC per gummy." The flavor reads as "SOUR APPLE PUNCH."

First of all. Props to Mike Tyson for biting off Holyfield's ear in the 90s in an insane move that, at first, everybody was mad about because it meant the match ended super early and they wanted their money back for the full match. Especially pay-per-view watchers. But then years later everybody makes jokes about it so now it's like. His brand for weedibles. Imagine you're Holyfield and your ear is bitten off, and the dude who bit off your ear has it as his logo for ear shaped edibles 20 yrs later. Objectively funny. Now to get into the review!

TASTE: ★★☆☆☆ (2/5)

They taste like. Ehhhhh. Ok. Fine but Kinda Bad. The best flavor imo is the one pictured, Sour Apple Punch. The other flavors are Watermelon and Black Eye Cherry. They both taste like Shit and have effects that actually make me feel worse. They are all REALLY slimy though, not just in texture but like. they have so much SLIME GOOP everywhere in the bag like every time I get these. So for the autism slime texture haters, this one is already NOT for you. Autism slime texture lovers however? Perfect. Though be warned, it is REALLY sticky. Stickier than most edibles. Sticky as in you can throw it at a wall and it'd stay there all day. It gets everywhere, so if you don't want to wash your hands of a goop mess after reaching in the bag, use a kitchen utensil👍

FOR PAIN: ★★★☆☆ (3/5)

OVERALL BODY EFFECTS: ★★★☆☆ (3.5/5)

Overall decent. Breakdowns below.

Helps the pain a pretty good chunk, though if the pain is pretty intense then it merely softens everything. The body relaxation will make you feel all loosey-goosey like a wet noodle, except not unpleasant. Works really well for my all around back pain. and my muscle cramps. Doesn't work too well, however, for head pain (ironically enough) or for other areas of the body. So migraine havers should probably look elsewhere.

FOR SLEEP: ★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5)

These will knock your ass out if you take more than one, however. You do need to take more than one for sleep, depending on your tolerance. The sleep is pretty nice, very decent on these. Though I don't recommend falling asleep high to the Mike Bites because they give me weird dreams. My roommates don't get this, however. So it could be a me only thing...

FOR APPETITE: ★★★★☆ (4/5)

Works decently well, especially in a pinch! My appetite is the first thing to start working on these, then come the sillies, and then the pain relief. I usually have to smoke a few hits of a dab cart to Really get my stomach full hands on deck for appetite, though it certainly does most of the work.

HIGH: ★★★☆☆ (3/5)

The high is decently pleasant, almost like a really soft buzzing that eventually replaces the pain. I get pretty silly on these, it's a Silly Weedible. Will get me to laugh at the worst low hanging fruit that other edibles DO NOT do to me. It's a pretty even combination of head high and body high, though I usually feel the body high more on these. Great for winding down before bed, as the high does not last too long, which is honestly my biggest complaint about the high for these. Like I know they're 25mg a piece, but they're not as long lasting as compared to others, such as the Urb 25mg delta-8 edibles. Other complaint is afterwards they leave me feeling foggier brained than most other brands of edibles.

PRICE: ★★★★★ (5/5)

They usually go anywhere from $20-30 USD. Can be found at convenience stores, dispos, or online. Here's The Link To Buy Them From My Favorite WebbedSite and they're on sale at the time of writing this, March 28th, 2024. Also I am Not Sponsored.

OVERALL RATING AND SUMMARY: ★★★☆☆ (3.5/5)

NOW TIME FOR A POLL!

Ultimately, I like them. They're not too expensive and work pretty well for their price, if you find them on the cheaper side of the pricetag scale. Not the fanciest by far, though they do the job nicely! I would recommend them if you mostly need the appetite and/or silly boost.

Feel free to reply with any anecdotes in the reblogs or replies of your experience with these if you're also disabled! Specific questions? Reblog or reply as well. Or send me an ask or DM!

[imdisabledduh]

DISABLED BADASS CHARACTERS THAT WE SHOULD TALK MORE ABOUT part 1

BILLY BLACK, from Twilight

Billy Black is the wise leader of the Quileute tribe, a leadership figure that is just vibing with his bestie Charlie in a wheelchair. Nobody dares to disrespect him for his physical condition which I find pretty nice and surprising due to the history of able-bodied directors representing disabled babes on screen iykyk, he is patient and wise, a true leader, and a loving father for his mentally unstable son. His only mistake was bringing Jacob Black to this planet, but nobody is perfect anyway.

[dysgeographica]

dysgeographic culture is loving the subway because it just takes you where you need to go and all you have to figure out is where to get on and off…but also hating the subway because knowing where to get on and off conceptually is not the same as actually doing that without ending up in the wrong place (and subway stations are never laid out in a way that makes literally any sense)

[crippledpunks]

"ambulatory wheelchair user" does not mean "basically abled" or "not that disabled", it just means that the person can stand up from their chair if needed. ambulatory users still need our chairs. just because i can stand from my chair doesn't mean i can walk un-aided all the time or that i don't need it; i still need my chair regardless of my ability to stand up from it when necessary.

[aleck-le-mec]

It's wild to me how some able-bodied people only think of disabled culture as a concept and they haven't ever actually experienced it. To me the biggest tell that somebody has never experienced disabled culture is their lack of knowledge about something I call Societal Manufactured Disability Theory.

This theory posits that an aspect of disability is manufactured by societal norms, stigmas and labeling.

People with disabilities like myself will tell you that people do treat you differently based solely upon the fact that you are disabled. When my hand writing is too messy to read do to Dysgraphia people assume I'm not trying hard enough to be neat, and if I'm lazy enough to slack with hand writing I must always be lazy. When I tell people I have Dyslexia they think I'm less intelligent, unable to read or incapable of understanding the written word. When I tell people I have a connective tissue disorder which is an invisible disability they think I'm a liar, scheming to take resources away from "real disabled people".

The societal norm here in America is to push forward, laziness is not an option we see it repeatedly in the rhetoric surrounding young people. News sources constantly talking about how "no one wants to work these days" or "young people are taking everything for granted".

There is a huge stigma around having Dyslexia that most people don't notice. In American society where we have a 79% literacy rate it is expected that you can read, so when you can't or you have trouble people think you have a lower IQ. Dyslexia can be genetic so I'm actually a fourth generation Dyslexic from my dad's side with all of them men being the ones to pass it down. My dad has always said that my great grandfather had no support for his Dyslexia, nobody cared and in fact the term Dyslexia was only coined in 1887. When my dad went to school they attempted to alleviate some of the symptoms of Dyslexia by making him watch his hands as he crawled on the floor, believing that the root of the problem was in a lack of eye coordination. To this day I and many other Dyslexics will avoid talking about our diagnosis because of the stigma behind it. I have had many experiences in my life where as soon as people learn that I am Dyslexic they assume that I can't spell anything or that they need to read everything to me. That's what stigma does, it makes people hide away just so they can live in peace and be respected.

It is extremely common for people with invisible disabilities to be labeled as liars, this is mostly due to a lack of education and representation. The general public's idea of disability is limited, but the truth is that disability is one of the most dynamic aspects of human beings. Invisible and dynamic disabilities make up the majority of disabilities; in fact, 1 out of every 3 Americans is in fact disabled. When people see me, a young, healthy-looking man, they never think I'm disabled. If I tell them I am, they may think I am lying. People generally do not like liars, and having such a label attached to your name can be detrimental to your social integration.

You can see that none of those setbacks I mentioned are symptoms of my disabilities. The perceived deviance, stigma, and labeling are not things you'll find on a medical report. However, they do harm me socially and potentially medically when it comes to stigma; these things disable me. Thus, part of my struggle as a disabled person is manufactured by society itself, in the norms we hold and the way we treat others.

I have come to that conclusion repeatedly, as have almost every other disabled person. It's a conclusion that is often reached in the community as a whole. However, it is in able-bodied culture where these stigmas, labels, and perceived attacks originate. So, if someone is completely averse to accepting the Societal Manufactured Disability Theory, it suggests that they have probably never fully been a part of any aspect of disability culture.

[cats-and-confusion]

WAS ANYONE GONNA TELL ME THAT PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT WAS PARTIALLY PARALYZED AND USED A WHEELCHAIR OR LIKE WHAT

[blessedscavengers]

blessed be the scavengers

terfs fuck off

made in 2024

[crippled-native]

Disabled native culture is hating the sun because it can literally kill you and makes you violently ill but then feeling guilty bc your ancestors are from an island where it’s sunny and hot 24/7 and then feeling even more guilty thinking about ancestors that had to suffer through colonization in the heat with no such thing as AC