#impaired

[welcometoqueer]

I, who has congenital anosmia, find myself getting annoyed by all the people who talk about their loss of smell and/or taste since the start of Covid-19

Like I’m sympathetic, I also had Covid-19 (multiple times), it sucks and no one should have to experience it

but

I feel like people only started paying any attention to anosmia once it could/did affect them and even then they just complained about it like it was another of life’s mild annoyances, as though it’s not disabling.

Hell, most people I’ve talked to since the pandemic started didn’t even know anosmia was a thing and thought you could only lose your sense of smell by contracting Covid-19. Literally none of the people I’ve talked to knew it was something you could be born with or have for most of your life, they literally only thought about it as an unfortunate symptom until I explained it.

It’s just ughh…idk, makes me depressed and annoyed when I realize how few people outside those with anosmia actually know (or truly care if they do know) about the impairment.

Have any other anosmiacs experienced these feelings? Please tell me I’m not the only one

[stayalive9129]

Unwell - Matchbox 20 (Lyrics) 🎵

#DearMolly

Today was a rough day. My life once again is in shatters; its all in pieces of glass that I must pick up without hurting myself. 

I am trying very hard not to go to the dark place and you should too. I understand your #pain; the loneliness that seems to never stop. 

I know it hurts so much inside and makes you wanna give up. I am unwell too and I can’t help it. I wish they all understood. I wish they’d stop looking at me as if I am #crazy. 

#DearMolly this song is for you. I used to listen to it when I was 14 and I thought maybe you’d like it too. So you know you’re not alone when you’re a little #unwell. Go ahead, sing the pain away...it actually helps quite a lot.  

“But I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell I know right now you can't tell But stay awhile and maybe then you'll see A different side of me I'm not crazy, I'm just a little impaired I know right now you don't care But soon enough you're gonna think of me And how I used to be”  

[loudlylovingreview]

Barbara Crooker: Who Do You Carry?

Still here I carry my old delicious burdens.                    Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road” . For years, I carried my mother, though she grew lighter and lighter, letting go of her possessions with every move, until, at the end, there were only her clothes, left to be bagged for Goodwill. Untethered by her oxygen tank, she floated away— Today I carry my son, whose body’s an…

[folklore-fairytales]

Too impaired by my youth to know what to do

[evkircheruhla]

Uninteressant weil nicht sensationell? - Uninteresting because it's not sensational?

(English below) Im Mai wurde ein weiteres Gebäude errichtet. Nein, keine Schule und auch kein Krankenhaus, sondern ein Speisesaal mit Küche. Und auch nicht in einem Brennpunkt-Land wie im Sudan, sondern in Ruanda. Klingt vielleicht unspektakulär? Ja. Aber darauf kommt es überhaupt nicht an, auch wenn Spektakel viel eher die Aufmerksamkeit der Menschen erregt. Nein, es kommt auf die Arbeit an,…

[tenth-sentence]

Whether intentional or not, 'Life unworthy of life' ('Lebensunwertes Leben') was a phrase Hitler used in his decree of October 1939, which ordered the systematic killing of those considered too weak, impaired or inferior to deserve being alive.

"Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists" - Julia Ebner

[mightyoctopus]

Blind Tumblr users: don’t get the latest iOS app update!

I just updated my tablet to the newest version of the tumblr app for iOS and it completely broke screen reader access for both VoiceOver and Spoken Content. This has happened in the past already, so I will file a support ticket and copy-paste my text from last time, but this really sucks. I sincerely hope this doesn’t affect all screen reader users, but I’m unsure how they could program this bug in a way it only affects me. If you rely on a screen reader to use the tumblr app, I’d advice to not get the latest update to be on the safe side.

When I say “completely broke access”, what I mean is that no posts on my dash or on individual blogs get read or recognized at all. No plain text, alt text, tags, etc. Note count and buttons still work though.

If you also run into this bug, here’s my advice. If anyone has something more useful, please tell me

File a support ticket and report this bug

Use the browser web version, which still works for me

Interestingly, if you save a post to your drafts and click on “edit” the post text seems to get read correctly. This might be a work-around for some people.

If you have the latest version but your screen reader didn’t break, also please tell me! I would be fascinated to know if this bug is only affecting some people

TL;DR: The latest tumblr app update for iOS made it so screen readers no longer work in the app

Please boost!

Edit: This issue is now fixed as of November 10th 2023. However, since this is a recurring issue, it’s possible that a future update will break it again. See notes for more details.

[feedbaylenny]

Plea deal should've kept her free, but back in jail for not doing her end of the bargain

(As originally published with additional photos, Thu, February 15th 2024) WILDWOOD, Fla. (TND) — A senior citizen is back behind bars — not for DUI 0.15 or higher, which was why she was arrested — but for not following through on her probation requirements. Cathie Ann Oldham’s arrest report said police in Florida got “a complaint in reference to an intoxicated subject in a vehicle,” and they…

[netscapenavigator-official]

By the way, @staff is changing the video player and photo viewer on the mobile app to the one from Tumblr TV. As a result, they have made the abhorrent decision to remove an important accessibility feature in order to TikTok-ifying Tumblr. You can no longer zoom in on photos. Or so I thought. Because the visually impaired are now second-class users to the Tumblr Staff, they just decided to make it harder to zoom in on photos.

So, for all of you who, like me, find the pinch-to-zoom feature on Tumblr invaluable to read and view photos, you now have to:

Tap the Photo > Tap the “more” button in the description > tap the photo again

This will open the old photo viewer (for now, anyway) which was formerly one tap away. It will grant you all the former features of the old photo viewer, including the ability to zoom in.

EDIT: if you’re seeing this on your For You Dash or some other non-reblogged method you will see this edit. Before reblogging and commenting on this, there is addition information in the replies. I have replies disabled, so I am the only person who can add them. I’ve added addition info, as well as an update. Please read them. TLDR: many others, and myself, are now seeing it’s fixed. Many others are not. It may be a roll-out fix from the back-end. Be patient and wait to see if it’ll make its way to you.

[son1c]

visually impaired and still rockin'!

tails built the visor for him. it acts as a multi-tool: a screen reader and a proximity sensor. you know, like how when you're in a car and it'll beep when you get too close to something? sonic uses it to navigate at super-speeds!

[frankiensteinsmonster]

People in this demographic, please let me know how to tag to get a hold of you as someone who doesn't need Image Descriptions!!

[thedisablednaturalist]

You are not a creep if you find yourself sexy with your disability aids. full stop. If your partner is disabled, you are not fetishizing them if you find them sexy when they're in their wheelchair, or wearing their diaper, or have braces on, etc.

Disabled people are allowed to feel sexy and people are allowed to find them sexy. People with facial/limb differences and other physical differences are allowed to feel sexy and people are allowed to be attracted to them.

The problem comes from lack of consent and dehumanization. Expecting all disabled people to fit your sexual fantasy and sexualizing them openly without their consent (i.e. posting/reblogging normal pictures of a disabled person on your fetish blog or sexually harassing a disabled stranger) is fetishization and horrible. Asking us how we have sex or taking secret photos of us to jack off to later is creepy and crossing the boundry into dehumanizing fetishization. Seeing us and our sexuality as an oddity or a funny joke is not okay.

Reminder, sex toys were first and foremost created by and for disabled people. We have always been having sex and have always been seen as attractive by our admirers, without them fetishizing us. Having sex with a consenting disabled person isnt rape, and yes it is possible for us to eagerly consent! While some disabilities make it hard to consent, that isn't true for all of us.

We get horny, we have sex, we jack off, we wear sexy clothes and show off our bodies. We aren't freak shows for abled peoples amusement nor objects for fetishization. We aren't poor innocent virgins who don't know what sex is, we are a diverse and beautiful community all connected by our disabilities.

(post is edited for terminology, please rb this version instead)

[the-delta-quadrant]

normalise disabled eyes. normalise crossed eyes, normalise lazy eyes, normalise nystagmus, normalise how disabled eyes look and move. stop being shitty to vision impaired people and others with eye conditions about our fucking eyes. our eyes tell you fuck all about how "smart" we are (stop being intellectually ableist anyway), they don't tell you if we're listening, they just tell you that we have an eye condition.