#disabled tag

[dysaniadisorder]

[ID: A drawing of OP, a white person with freckles, yellow eyes, and short mesyy hair with red roots, dyed white. It has heavy eyebags, a nose ring, a mustache, and several small cuts and bruises on its hands. It's wearing a spiked choker, heart earrings, several rings, and two large spiked bracelets. It's only shown from the head up, grimacing as it holds its temples. There's a large burst of light cutting over its face and covering one eye, and it emits a golden light while the rest of the drawing is dark and tinted a desatured pink. end ID]

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[coulson-is-an-avenger]

happy disabled pride to those for whom cooking/food prep is a nearly insurmountable task btw. whether that be due to pain, fine motor skills, comprehension difficulty, time blindness, or any other kind of physical or mental reason.

it fucking sucks losing hours and hours to a task that is supposed to be fun and good for love and life, all while cookbook "time to prep" numbers jeer and other people seem to be able to handle it a million times easier.

you are seen, you are loved. we all deserve to eat well and eat happily, and im proud of you for anything and everything you were able to eat today, regardless if you made it or not

[pinball-lesbian]

give it up 4 disabled dykes! dykes who cant use the strap cause theyre disabled! dykes who arent strong! dykes who use mobility aids!

[a-walking-fandom-reference]

why do so many non-chronically ill people not comprehend that chronically ill means exactly what it says!! an illness that is constant, continuing for a long time, always present.

so yes that does mean it is always affecting me, yes i am still sick/feel bad, yes i am sick/feel bad all the time

[ursie]

Speaking of Ableism it’s sooo transparent that whenever people pitch Stardew Valley as their “comfort game”, it being “perfect” and inclusive of “all queer people” (minus disabled ones) they always leave out the jarring and quite frankly triggering level of ableism in the game.

Which did not get removed in any of the updates! Like you can add moss to every tree but you can’t change Penny assaulting George + the fact you’re supposed to defend her from George being upset?? Like to clarify what actually happened is George is getting mail and PENNY MOVES HIS WHEELCHAIR WITHOUT HIS PERMISSION TO GET IT AND GEORGE IS RIGHTFULLY UPSET AND THE WRONG ANSWER IS SAYING YOU SHOULD ASK GEORGE FIRST???

Plus the Harvey event?? Like George does know what’s best for his own body and once again the disabled man advocating for himself is the wrong answer?? Like Harvey you’re telling him to do arm exercises whilst he’s in a manual chair. That’s quite literally all he does

Also Harvey threatening to tell Evelyn without George’s permission. Then there’s George’s dialogue himself from referring to himself as wheelchair bound, talking about how he can’t play catch w Alex, ect all of which is simply an ableist understanding of the disabled identity. Like to be clear George is not written to be a commentary on internalized ableism. The person writing his dialogue genuinely thinks he can’t play catch 😭 and this is all ignoring the ageism in his dialogue as well. The only good writing of George is him being mean to the villagers whom are textually ableist to him like. George and Evelyn should be meaner and Alex should kick both Penny and Harvey’s ass 😭

[the-force-awakens]

Poe Dameron + Disability Pride Flag insp. | template credit

[fruitsilly]

Shout-out to disabled aromantic people today we are so cool

[wilsons-hotlittleprettyboymouth]

okay very important question because I’ve struggled with this ALL my life and I know some people who do too and no idea why!!

(For these purposes assume that diagnosed means either professionally or self dx’d with strong reason to suspect it)

[sunsunbauds]

i've been so fatigued the past week or so :( i want to get stuff done and stream and play games and draw but i'm just so tired

[flugame-mp3]

hi tumblrinas

so i'm making a children's book about disability and mental illness for my class on the history of the book, and there's going to be a page of me and my co-author standing with a crowd of other disabled people. we were going to just create a random crowd of people, but i thought i should see if any of y'all want to be included!

if you're disabled and you'd like to be put into the crowd, please do one or more of these picrews (and add other notes if desired, for example, "my hair looks more like this, my service dog looks like this, my mobility aid/sensory aid looks like this") and send it to me in an ask or a dm (dm me if it won't send and i'll give you my discord)!

i chose these picrews since they're fullbody and have a decent range of clothing options, i think. i'll need them very soon, preferably by tonight.

Baby Carrot outfit maker / something about them / little guy maker

thanks y'all!!

[dysaniadisorder]

chronic illness artfight attack against @charon-cries :)

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

[ID: A fake attention sign in bold letters, reading: "ATTENTION. It is unprofessional to be susceptible to personal illness. Please refrain from all personal emergencies until further notice. THANK YOU." End ID.]

been having a lot of feelings about my job that considers doctors' notes a firable offense.

[sunflowerseraph]

I have a question for cane users, i recently got a cheap adjustable one from goodwill (I cant afford a good? One) and i wanted to ask whats the best way to use it or get used to using it? I dont know if i should have it on my worse side? or atleast the side that needs more support? Or do i use it on my better side? Both my hips/knees and ankles are bad but my left side is worse and i dont know if i just use it as a extra leg?? I dunno guys hellllp

[ozlices]

my neck & shoulders are always so violent towards me & for WHAT? bc i sit like a gay shrimp?????? ok. homophobe. grow up

[ursie]

Tom Taylor’s Nightwing :

Image id : a tumblr screenshot that says “the sexy lamp test but for disabled folks : if you can replace your disabled character with a beloved pet dog that needs an expensive surgery to survive then you have to throw out your manuscript” end id

[the-force-awakens]

with it officially being disability pride month, I wanna talk about my favorite disabled headcanon, which is for the one and only, my most beloved Poe Dameron. Buckle up, because this is a long post.

I actually have a few different disability headcanons, most of which hold up to canon/are extrapolated from canon, so we'll keep that in mind as we go through. I expect this to have about...four parts total. Let's go!

Hard of Hearing

I think a good case can be made that Poe is hard of hearing, with a few instances that could point to this fact, primarily the very beginning of the Rise of Skywalker. Even though Chewie is sitting right beside Poe, Poe does not understand what Chewie has said, because his head is turned (at no other point does Poe have any problem understanding Chewbacca, so we know it is not a linguistics issue)

It's only when he turns towards Chewie and Chewie repeats what he said that Poe understands what was said. There's also the frankly adorable moment in The Last Jedi that's extremely easy to miss, because it's a far away shot and we just barely catch what Poe says:

BB-8 is beeping so fast trying to catch Poe up that Poe has to request that he slow down so Poe can understand him. Other possible evidence of him being HoH (beyond the comical amount of explosions he's constantly caught in) is that there are several shots where we see Poe carefully watching the lips of the person he's speaking to as they're talking, as if that might help him keep up.

And (I don't have a gif of this lmao I'm not giffing him getting hurt) when Poe gets shot in tros, @/dameronalone pointed out it could be evidence he didn't hear the approaching stormtroopers when he turned to look the other way. @/hermitmoss has also pointed to his line at the start of tfa while being snarky at Kylo as further possible evidence, about how it's hard to understand Ren with the voice modulator.

Essential Hand Tremor

Another fact pointed out to me by @/hermitmoss (thanks Braigwen) is that when Poe goes to cover Leia's hand with his own in the Last Jedi, we see that his hand is shaking:

I later noticed that this isn't the only time that we see Poe do this, we see it again in the Rise of Skywalker, where he cannot keep his blaster steady as Rey approaches the serpent at all.

These are the only two circumstances I can find of his hands trembling in the movies, though, and we know from plenty of other scenes that Poe ordinarily can keep a blaster extremely steady:

Autism & ADHD

Okay this one I don't consider to be a headcanon, lmfao. I genuinely believe that Poe was intentionally coded as autistic/ADHD by Oscar Isaac.

Oscar playing/coding Poe as something that is never explicitly confirmed by Disney is far from new: Poe is coded as a bisexual (or pansexual) man, because that's how Oscar Isaac saw Poe and chose to play him, and even if we weren't gifted with it being made explicit, it's still there in his performance.

If you happen to be a fan of Oscar Isaac, or just a Marvel and Star Wars fan both, you'll know he starred in the Disney+ series Moon Knight last year as the Moon Knight system (Steven Grant, Marc Spector, and Jake Lockley).

Shortly after the first episode premiered, Oscar Isaac revealed in an interview that while trying to figure out who Steven was as a person, he came up with the idea that the system be on the Autism Spectrum, and approached Marvel to see if he could include it into his performances, and it was green-lit.

The Lunar system is the best intentional autistic representation I've ever seen, there are so many things they do that are so minor that I doubt most people would ever consider to include, but they are things that me and my friends do.

And there's an overlap in how Oscar plays the various autistic habits and traits of the Lunar system in how he portrays Poe. Most notably, Poe and Marc have extremely similar meltdowns:

There's plenty more overlap (Poe does the same anxious stim Steven does, of rubbing the inside of his index finger with his thumb) but there's so much there I'm not sure where all to begin. I have gone more in depth on the various autistic traits Poe shows throughout the films in this gifset here, though.

I'll go ahead and include some of the moments we see him stimming, that I have evidence of:

(he also does this same hand thing when he starts to leave BB-8 and promises to come back.)

We also see him fidgeting anxiously with his hands during the briefing in the last jedi:

Poe also has a habit of running his tongue along his bottom lip while he's stressed or thinking something through. Here's three examples from across the trilogy (there are plenty more):

We're leaning a little closer into ADHD territory now. I don't really know how to explain why I think Poe is ADHD, to be quite honest, besides the fact that he just radiates ADHD energy to me and I heavily relate. This is a man who cannot stay still, and frequently talks with his hands:

But there's also the fact that Poe oftentimes has a tendency to not be able to fully see the potential of negative outcomes to his decisions - he sees point a to point b, and sometimes becomes laser focused on that. It's something I understand perfectly, because it's hard for me to pull away from something I've already fully committed to doing, and it's even more difficult sometimes for me to truly understand what (and what kind of) consequences my actions will have.

Other evidence of him being extremely autistic (and adhd) is just....that he makes autistic expressions?

Like this...is an autistic expression, I've seen my best friend make this exact fucking face before, I don't know how else to explain it.

Misc Thoughts

Aside from the above, it's pretty much canon that Poe has anxiety and depression — at the very least, Poe Dameron: Free Fall by Alex Segura certainly does not shy away from the suggestion, and is one of the most implicit portrayals we have of it outside the films — it is a series of catastrophizing his circumstances that leads Poe to joining Zorii for a little while as a teenager, following a joyride that ended in a crash that Poe explicitly wishes he had not survived.

The movies themselves also points to Poe having PTSD, partially through the writing but mostly due to the nuanced and thoughtful performance Oscar Isaac gives as Poe (that goes....woefully underappreciated, seriously he adds so much depth to every single scene as Poe, including the thread of anxiety in Poe's voice when Rey mentions Ren's ship is over Kijimi, or constantly looking out to make sure they're not being followed in tros).

(Good expanded material follows through on this, such as Poe's reluctance to discuss anything about what happened aboard the Finalizer in the Poe Dameron: Flight Log, and becoming irate at the thought of having to. He's an extremely traumatized man, and he certainly doesn't deserve to be thrown out of an airlock jfc and he isn't as arrogant as the fascist regime he is fighting, tbh he's not arrogant at all).

Conclusion

I believe that sums up the majority of my Poe is disabled thoughts, or at least the ones that I think holds up very well within the canon framework. He's extremely disabled and - in the case of being neurodivergent - this is critical to understanding him as a character, especially considering his arc ends up being focused on interdependence.

I wish all fellow disabled folk a happy pride month, and I wish all very ableds a very "please do not be ableist on this post". You will be blocked otherwise.