#disabled dolls

[fangelicawynter]

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[magpiemagica]

Now that modern Barbie has a wheelchair friendly dollhouse, I really want the media to reintroduce Becky 😭. She could be a redhead with freckles as a reference to LITD Midge❤️.

I know that Barbie already has a shit ton of friends but one more character couldn’t hurt, especially if she fills a much needed niche (named disabled dolls).

[lovemarisolluna]

Happy disability pride month from all my disabled dolls!

Dani has cerebral palsy, Robyn has asthma and hearing loss, Paloma is a type 1 diabetic, and mini Ellie is neurodivergent and has chronic pain!

[oddball-n-the-dolls]

I am so so hyped for Ozdust Ballroom Nessarose Doll

I’m already trying to figure out a MTM body match for her even though nobody will have the physical doll for a month

(Also she’s not MTM, just 11 points of articulation. The description doesn’t mention her being MTM and her ankles are NOT articulated.)

I’ve taken time to stare at these pictures every day since they came out I am enchanted

[oddball-n-the-dolls]

Yes, even if the Defa Lucy designers probably weren’t thinking about it at all when they did that illustration, it’s still a good lesson about how not all people who use wheelchairs are unable to stand. It shouldn’t be that big of a deal.

I thought the wheelchair design was SO COOL until I looked closely at it and thought “wait? How is she supposed to move it exactly?” They could have easily added a little joystick to the armrest and implied it to be an electric wheelchair, but no. It’s apparently a self-propelling wheelchair with no easy way to touch the wheels and self-propel?

Anyway, even if she isn’t perfect, I’d still much rather her exist as she is than not exist at all.

But I am able-bodied so don’t use me as your main source of opinion.

This is not my usual type of post, but it is something that I believe is important and I feel that talking about something through a misunderstanding with dolls can be a chance to educate people in this community!

I am not a Twitter/X user (I hear the doll community is especially brutal on there) but I was sent these tweets. I mean absolutely no hate to the original poster of these tweets, these were sent to me cropped so I am unsure of who op is or if there is more to the story, so please forgive me if I have missed something.

Op is saying “oh…” because the doll is a wheelchair user, but on the box art the doll is seen standing.

I can see why this may be seen as a problem, and it’s likely that op is someone who thinks of wheelchair users as completely wheelchair bound, which many people do so I don’t blame them (if I saw this doll a few years ago even I may have been upset my her standing). But not every wheelchair user is completely unable to walk and/or stand, this is called being an ambulatory wheelchair user.

This tweet of theirs followed up:

I do agree with op, I highly doubt that this shein/temu brand doll was trying to “represent” an ambulatory wheelchair user, this was likely a fluke that she happened to be drawn standing. But it is not necessarily a bad thing or an ableist action.

Many wheelchair users are ambulatory; whether that means they can only stand from their wheelchair to grab something high up, or they can go for a walk three days in a row before they flare up and have to rely on their mobility aids to get around. These individuals are still disabled and are still wheelchair users.

To be completely honest, I do not care that Defa Lucy is standing, I’m more curious about how she moves as she has no access to her wheels, nor a control panel? To me, that is a poor design choice, even if she is just a doll and can’t move the wheels on her own so there is no “practical use” of the access, it is a significantly more incorrect design choice than her just being drawn standing up. (Not that I think the brand cares about portraying this topic accurately in any way, however, I feel one is more realistic than the other, even if it is “just a doll.”)

[pep-the-artemis]

Colour blindness in Murder Drones

can we talk about how colour blindness is very common in Murder Drones.

In all the POV shots, the only character who see's colours is Doll while Uzi, N, and Kenzie Day are all colourblind (specifically cone monochromacy). We also know Alice isn't colourblind since she identified Nori's yellow eyes.

So when Uzi's eye(s) turn yellow or bleeds blood instead of oil; no one points it out because most characters wouldn't be able to tell.

Edit. if you look in the reblogs, I've done a lot more investigating and found N is colour blind but not Uzi. Check it out.

[pira-vampz]

Some ghost Doll art for you guys

Art block moment

[spottedskunkfa1ry]

Gaslit about covid? Me too. [RANT]

as you all can tell by my page im so new, but for context, im trying to find COVID-19 safe/conscious groups online. i started with Instagram and ive moved to here.

something thats on my mind recently is how i have been severely gaslit to just think covid isnt a thing we should worry for and that im a conspiracy theorist about covid just because i still use mitigation in my daily life and i give a shit about disabled/immunocompromised/chronically ill people in my community and in my life. i genuinely am so scared for whats happening and what will happen to our collective health.

like i had like a breakdown after all my roommates stopped masking last fall and it lead to me being triggered and disassociating for almost a whole year because i felt unsafe with people i previously felt safe with (feeling/being unsafe in my home is a major trigger for me). i was lost touch with reality, i have never felt so disconnected from my friends, mind, and body. it was so bad. And it took a lot of energy, effort, and practice to communicate my needs and boundaries with them only for them to be like "Cool you sound like you're living in fear and im not changing". in the end i decided to move to a different apartment because i coulndt deal with all of them being like that.

the past 4-5 years have made me feel a lot of things and i wrote a poem about the grief ive felt specifically around the pandemic and how it has drastically altered my late teenage and young adult years. maybe ill put it here one day lmao.

a silver lining in this is that all my way of life as i knew it is gone and dead. and that makes more room for me to find people who care for and value our lives at a basic fundamental level and furthermore are willing to act daily to show our love and care for one another. this new life makes more room for me to really question my consumerism [god forbid we stop eating indoors at restaurants and risk getting a deadly virus for shitty food] . it makes me question how i interact with the world with a COVID-safe/mindful lens. and most importantly put disability justice at the forefront of my activism.

I have grieved how life was and i have come out the other side accepting and wanting to do everything in my power to protect my community in the ongoing pandemic. i understand my responsibility and i have begun to see how disability justice connects all of our collective oppression and how disability justice/rights/activism is a key part to our collective liberation. i have seen how covid conscious or safe people [idk what to label it ive been going back and forth bc i think a lot of people have different definitions of these labels im sorry] are so kind, so caring, so compassionate, so giving, and so loving in a way that i dont see or truly feel in other activists/advocates groups. I personally feel the safest, most loved, and understood by my friends, family, and peers who are covid safe and practice community care.

much love to all of them it has made me love them in beautiful new ways. xx im so grateful to have them in my life. if u made it this far ur real asf. if u want share whatever covid related rants id like to read them or if you have thoughts on what i wrote let me know 🥺.

rn i just feel like im shouting into the tumblr void and its been cathartic.

[oddball-n-the-dolls]

I love The Butterfly Pig!

I’m following them on Instagram and they make so many 3D-printed medical devices for stuffed animals and dolls. They’ve helped a lot of kids understand what’s happening to them

Their devices are designed for stuffed animals and “13″ Minikane, Paola Reina, and Mini Colettos baby dolls” (from their forearm crutches listing) so not everything will fit AG dolls perfectly, but it’s should be close enough most of the time

Go support them if you’re able, and check them out if you’re in need of any devices for your dolls!

Dolly cochlear implant!

I've wanted to get a doll-sized cochlear implant ever since I'd heard of doll hearing aids, and I tried making my own, but it never looked right. This one, which I ordered from The Butterfly Pig website, is almost perfect. The hook over the ear doesn't sit right so I will have to trim it down, but I am so excited that Natalia finally has her implant and it works like it's supposed to. (There's a magnet on the "transmitter" that attaches to a magnet in the doll's head, so it can be removed easily for hairstyling.)

I specifically chose the left side one for my Joss mold, so if I had kept her as Joss she could have had the regular hearing aid on one side and the CI on the other, which is not unusual for people who have differing levels of hearing loss in each ear.

I also got a non-tethered version. It's not very pretty, so I may cut a sticker to fit, or make a bow to cover it, but it is barely noticeable under her hair.

The Butterfly Pig offers their toy hearing aids in several covers, like white, pink and beige in addition to the brown and black ones I chose. They also carry several other types of medical devices for toys, like AFOs, NG tubes and nebulizers.

[multiple-sclerosis-barbie]

saw this doll on the Lottie doll website 🥺

on April 28th I went to the hospital because within the span of a week I wasn't able to take care of myself or walk anymore.

when I got a CT scan the doctor told me it seemed like I had a brain disease. I was really scared, I didn't know what that meant, I didn't know if it was terminal or if it was cancer.

on April 30th I was out into the neurology ward and after getting an MRI, spinal tap, and x-ray the doctors there determined I have multiple sclerosis.

luckily it hadn't spread to my spinal cord yet so they put me on a strong dose of methylprednisolone for a few days, I started feeling much better and I was able to walk, eat, sleep on my back, and brush my teeth again!

it was very scary to know that if I had developed multiple sclerosis a decade or two earlier, there would be a good chance I wouldn't have survived.

but I was discharged from the hospital on May 6th and have been improving since! I already have started my treatment with natalizumab, I'm able to go back to work, able to walk to places by myself, able to shower and eat by myself, able to do all sorts of things again!

it has been a very difficult year for me, I lost all of my friends, it's overwhelming dealing with disability applications, dealing with ableism, dealing with having to call in sick often to work, feeling tired all the time, the brain fog and bad memory, but I am alive! >0<

but I think I would take that over not being able to eat or shower :')) it is awful when your tongue is numb and you can't taste anything... or when you have vertigo and double vision 24/7... or when you can't walk in a straight like and you keep falling over... 😵‍💫

I was able to celebrate my 25th birthday, go to the concerts with my dad that i had planned at the beginning of the year, I was able to go to the anime and comic book conventions with my brother, and I was able to eat my favourite foods again! >0<

I like this Lottie doll because having multiple sclerosis and going through all of these things by myself takes a lot of resilience. there is no cure for multiple sclerosis, and I have made peace with that. there's no guarantee that I will ever return to how I was before I went to the hospital.

but I am strong and brave, just like this Lottie doll! >0< she even looks like me ehehe

[donnyclaws]

If you're wondering why I'm especially not posting recently it's bc I'm doing my final uni year and major project. Check my designs for it so far, a trans doll club kid, a disabled groaning creature and a queen/king butch.

[chimera-dolls]

My morning routine is now literally: get up, open Tumblr, open specific doll tags, report anything that is not doll related. Kind of cathartic actually.

[bjd-finds]

1/6 scale prosthetic legs available to order from LuuusiQ / Qiao Lusi

✽ How to buy it ✽ Source ↷

(Delete flowers) https://item✽.taobao.✽com/item.htm?id=665216434889

[weirdpolis]

Since July is the Disability Pride Month and the Barbie Movie Month, here's my collection of Barbie dolls with disabilities.

Mattel has been adding disability representation to their doll series since 2019. So far we've had at least 6 Barbie dolls in wheelchairs, along with 2 Kens and 2 Chelsea dolls (little kid sized dolls).

There are 4 Barbie dolls and 1 Ken with prosthetic legs.

There's a doll with hearing aids, and a doll with Down Syndrome designed in association with National Down Syndrome Society.

There are also dolls with conditions like Alopecia and Vitiglio.

Mostly they come out in the Fashionistas line, but sometimes they also crop up in other thematic series, like "You can be anything", and so we had a Para-alpine skiier and an Interior Designer with a prosthetic leg.

There's also a doll honoring Helen Keller from "the Inspiring Women" series.

And in the clips from the "Barbie" movie, you can spot a Barbie in the wheelchair dancing along with others at Barbie's party.

[chxrlizexx]

My fav serial arsonist 🔥🩵

Drawing Bloom’s Believix form in celebration of getting my hands on an unopened Bloom Believix doll 🎉

After being forced to give away my 4 childhood Winx dolls (💀💀), I never thought I’d ever see one again! But alas, I now have one as a prized possession!

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[talkethtothehandeth]

I love seeing american girl dolls with wheelchairs, with hearing aids, with diabetic kits, with guide canes, with service dogs, with crutches, with allergy and asthma kits, with braces and hospital bands and gowns.

I love seeing disabled and chronically ill dolls