#growingupdisabled

[mattywheels]

Some of the stories coming out of #OurRoyalCommission disability and education and some of the abuses that happen at schools are terrible. I just read a story of a kid who took a knife to school because he was so scared of his bullies!. Wtf!. Kids are assholes. In the grand scheme of things I had it pretty good but I do remember a few times of not wanting to go to school after being locked to a pole with a bike lock, being put on a bench in my chair beside the gym and just generally dealing with a few morons. School should never be a place kids are scared to be! #stopbullying #disabled #disabilityawareness #disability #sb #spinabifida #australia #strong #wheelchairlife #growingupdisabled #personswithdisability #contentcreator #inclusiveeducation #inclusivenessmatters #inclusivemedia (at Taree, New South Wales) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4eVL3dJUzO/?igshid=11te1z62tbz1g

[dddemigirl]

#disabled #disability #learningdisability #chronicillness #chronicpain #growingupdisabled

[missevonna]

To anyone that grew up physically disabled

Can we talk about how shoe shopping is both satisfying and horrific

[justrollinon]

Maybe some people found my #GrowingUpDisabled posts boring because they unfollowed..., well

[lovewins101]

Cerebral Palsy/nervous system/ stunted growth problems: when you try shoes on and your left foot is so much smaller than your right that your mom says "um. Where are your left toes?" #growingupdisabled

[nihilisticspace]

there should be more support for the #growingupdisabled tag bc these are accurate as fuck

[pain-warrior]

Being scolded by your teachers because you couldn’t take off your EEG cap during the Pledge of Alligiance

[justrollinon]

Though you may see me reblog #GrowingUpDisabled posts with some of the same numbers twice - those will be additions to the posts that I have made but the numbers will go in order as I make different parts of those posts

example Part 1 is - 1 - 32.

Part 2 is - 33 - 50.

[justrollinon]

#GrowingUpDisabled (Part 2)

33. School trips being planned that are not accessible, so you spend the day at school by yourself in the library/office/resource room

34. You sign up for a class field trip, pay for it and when the day arrives the school doesn’t book accessible transportation - You get no refunds

35. Physiotherapy

36. Being pulled out of classes for Physiotherapy

37. Occupational Therapy and being pulled out of classes for it.

38. You parents are unreasonably overprotective

39. Parental Divorce or Separation and abandonment because raising a disabled kid is a lot to handle

40. Finding a Family Physician who has some sort of clue in how to deal with someone with your disability

41 The high pitched squeaky voice of infantilzation going Hi how are you today! do you need some help with that? are you okay?

42 .General public- It’s so good to see that you’re out!

43. Disabled seating on the public bus, at theatres, concerts and other venues

44. Venues not having enough disabled seating or having none at all

45. People getting angry because you ask them to move so you can use the disabled seating on the public bus, and at theatres

46. Witnessing your parent get yelled at in a parking lot by a random person while trying to park the car in accessible parking. Then giggling to yourself as your parent retrieves your mobility equipment from the trunk and you think to yourself “yeah, I hope you noticed, and I hope you feel like an asshole”

47. Feeling like Robocop, The Terminator or a Transformer in your Parapodium, Reciprocating Gait Orthosis or other walking frame mobility aid

48. Religious people insisting on praying for you, in public

49. General Public - Oh you’re not disabled, you’re handicapable! or some other bullshit variation of that

50. People trying to push you in your wheelchair without consent

[justrollinon]

#GrowingUpDisabled (Part 1)

1. Your parents being told by doctors that you will not walk, talk, feed, dress or be able to care for yourself in any way.

2. Your parents being told that you will not live to see your 10th birthday

3. Surgeries from the day you were born and possibly many others in the future

4.  Bi-annual visits to specialists sometimes hours away who specifically deal with your disability, often in younger ages being spoken about as if you’re not even there

5. (Spina Bifida specific) Catheters

6. (Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus specific related to #3) Shunt revisions

7.  Having very few to no friends in elementary school (and sometimes longer) because you’re the only disabled kid in school.

8. Not being allowed to go out for recess in the winter because the school did not adequately clear the snow from paved areas of the playground thus making you a liability

9. Teaching assistants not giving you as a student personal space to socialize, even if you wanted to.

10. Teaching assistants inadequately trained to teach disabled children with learning difficulties

11., Your parents having to fight school boards for accommodation and accessibility like an elevator in a high school just so you can get an education.

12. Being escorted  by a teaching assistant who has nothing to do with actually teaching you, to the bathroom to be supervised even though you are capable of doing so independently because you’re a liability and it must be safe

13. Being exempt from physical education because you’re a liability and must be safe

14. Being allowed to take physical education but the class is not adequately modified to fit your needs

15.   Going from class to class Slow Down You’ll Get A Speeding Ticket!

16, an IEP stating you get extra time to finish an exam and it is not afforded to you

17., From other students or people your age Hey, can I try your wheelchair?

18.(paralysis specific) Other people your age not believing you’re really disabled and paralyzed Can I hit you in the leg with this skateboard/2x4?

19. When your buddies get their drivers license in high school and there is no room in their car for your mobility equipment

(this shit actually saved my life once, no lie)

20. High school - Can you have sex?

21. Someone shows fake interest in you romantically and because you’re disabled, it’s one big joke that everyone finds hilarious

22.  Being tipped over onto your back in your wheelchair for laughs

23. Crawling through your friends house or your own and your friend steps on your pant legs behind you so you crawl right out of them

24. Being invited over to a friend’s place for a Christmas party, and because their house is not accessible, you crawl around. The friend’s parent takes a platter of food and puts it on the floor in front of you to which your friend goes Mom, they’re not a dog!

25. Being stared at awkwardly when you crawl around a friend’s house for the first time and you haven’t yet met any of their family

26. Goin down the street with your friends. Cops pull up for a search. They search your friends but not you because they see your wheelchair

27. Wanting to apply for a part time job in high school but no one will give you the time of day for jobs that high school students usually apply for... because accessibility and liability

28. Actually letting your friends mess around with your wheelchair and getting to laugh hysterically when they fall over trying to do a wheelie

29. Winter time hibernation, except for school and if you are so inclined and are able, sports

30. Learning that making disability jokes makes able bodied peers either really uncomfortable, or love ya immediately

31. Downside - When able bodied peers know you’re cool with disability jokes, even with them making them sometimes and they take it too far, it just ends up being mean but you laugh anyway because you don’t want to cause shit. and lose a friend

More will come in a part 2 post as I think of them.

[missevonna]

Growingupdisabled having 5 different shoe sizes 

[missevonna]

Reblog if you want #growingupdisabled