#mobility aids are so useful

[mythicalcoolkid]

You don't wish your disability was worse or more visible, you wish your disability was taken seriously. Please stop confusing the two, I guarantee you would not get the support you need JUST by being more severe or more visible. Please listen to visibly disabled people when we tell you it isn't better on our side

[mellosdrawings]

I'm a fervent "genuine cane user Azul" believer, just so you know. It just makes sense ? Guy who's got his legs cut from eight to two, who has bones and has to face gravity for the first time in his life, etc.

In the original Little Mermaid story, the mermaid's legs actually hurt her a lot whenever she took a step. Maybe it's not to that point for Azul, but he's explicitly said to have poor balance and stamina. A cane would just be the perfect mobility aid for him in all aspects.

[unmaskingdisability]

Cars are a form of mobility aid! Your solarpunk future has to include space for people who still need cars.

Who need to arrive to a parking spot right outside the building ,and not have an alternative of walking a mile if that One Spot is full. Who need safe places to decompress or change medical equipment, who are immunocompromised and risk major health complications from the wrong crowded bus. Who get so overstimulated/in pain/exhausted walking around town that they can't attend the actual event otherwise. Who need space for their medical equipment/backup mobility aids/service dog.

We absolutely need a world where Public transit and walkable cities are the default! And!! There has to be room for disabled people and our needs in your revolution!

[chronicpaingirlie]

besties we have GOT to have more love for and more representation of fat disabled people . especially here in our online circle of disability positivity . please remember to include fat disabled people when you talk about disability

[werewolf-transgenderism]

saying again that if a mobility aid or piece of assistive tech or whatever will improve your quality of life and make it easier to get through your day just fucking use them!! you don’t need a diagnosis to use something that will make your day-to-day life easier. a diagnosis will maybe give you some more specialized ideas for what assistive devices or mobility aids might be useful but you do not have to wait until you have one to start using things that reduce symptoms or make life easier to manage.

[rain-after-thunder]

Disabled Aelwyn who uses crutches.

Aelwyn who can’t go back to school to finish her wizzard studies, who starts researching different ways to bend magic to her will.

Aelwyn, who has always had a knack for creating new spells, starting to tinker at her own crutches, weaving wards into the framework.

Aelwyn, for who good is not good enough, caves and asks Gorgug for help. Who finds a way to make her crutches extend, bend and move to support her arms, elbows, shoulders. Makes them connect to her back, her hips, down her legs .

They no longer look much like crutches anymore, it’s a thin, light framework that supports her entire body, that moves her exactly the way she wants, that allows her to stand with her back straight for more than 5 minutes for the first time in two years. The exoskeleton glows with abjurative runes and the outline of a powerfull ward is visible over her body, deflecting blows like steel armor.

New spells rest in her memory, mechanical and precise if nature in a way that the arcane inks in her spelbook can’t articulate. Spare the Dying, Resistance, Cure Wounds, Sanctuary.

Her joints still ache, she tires fast and even after all this time it is still hard to control the venom in her words, still hard to accept help and kindness without it feeling like a wool blanket on freshly flayed skin. But she has found something that is wholly hers, found something to be proud of that isn’t tinged with approval from her parents.

Aelwyn still can’t walk without support, but the frame folding her up is crafted by her own hands. Maybe everything will be allright.

[cripplemetal]

i was so self-conscious one day about my cane.

i was with my girlfriend, and anxiety got the best of me. i stopped and asked her: aren't you ashamed to walk with someone like me? don't you feel like you wish i looked normal?

she looked at me and said "what do you mean, you look hot".

[chronicallycouchbound]

I wish I could go back in time and give 16-year-old me a hug and tell them that when the doctors say that you’ll be in a wheelchair in your 20s, that it’s gonna be okay and you can put stickers on it!! You will love your disabled self and be so happy in your disabled body and feel the love of a beautiful community that welcomes you with open arms. You will realize you were disabled long before you used a wheelchair but never knew the words for it. You will create accessible spaces that not just allow disabled people, but celebrate disabled people. You don’t have to cry or think no one will love you. You will be okay.

[undeadvinyls]

oh yeah abt 1970s crk au........heres pure vanilla and white lily in some pretty 70s clothing..... <3

heres a list of all the sources i used for their clothing under the cut! im p passionate abt 70s fashion so it was a joy to research

vintagedancer.com - 1970s dress styles

revivalvintage.co.uk - guide to vintage 1970s

fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu - 1970-1979

ofc there was also a lot of images i got from google images by googling phrases such as "hippie fashion 70s" "70s dress" etc. etc.

[birdofmay]

Friendly reminder that not everyone with cerebral palsy needs canes or other visible mobility aids, but still needs to use the accessible bathroom (unstable trunk/floppy/dystonic, needs the handrails, wears diapers and somebody else has to change them, etc.)...

If your only criterion for being allowed to use the accessible bathroom is "I can see that they have a mobility aid", you don't seem to know much about disabilities apart from your own...

[anxious-art-block]

Aid

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[daysofnights]

sirius tries the truly godawful pickup line ‘did you fall from heaven’ on remus at a bar and then trails off and goes bright red when he finally processes that remus is using forearm crutches

[puppyvenom]

“dumb crip’s just too damn slow” not matthew’s crutchie. NEVER matthews’s crutchie. he was barrelling across the stage with purpose at all times. he could fucking MOVE. he did NOT come to fuck around he came to be speedy as shit and i love him so dearly

[neurosky]

Does anyone else have dreams about getting good mobility aids and actually being able to use them without shame?? Because I've had so many dreams about getting a wheelchair that's not from some random store and it's honestly getting depressing

[slingbats]

testing a brush set I forgot I had, drew these while my wifi was out for like. 3 hours

[octoberarts]

You have no idea how much I adore @gayaest 's Mori Kei character, Rawiya...she's adorable and I put all my other art on hold for this XD

[Image Description: A drawing of a person standing, with one leg crossed over the other, leaning on two yellow forearm crutches. She's smiling, and has a red flower head wrap on. She has brown skin and vitiligo on her face, arms and legs. They have a brown long scarf with blue dots. They also have a long, short sleeved beige knit cardigan, with multi-layered clothes underneath, including two different skirts with many different patterns. She is wearing brown socks and red fuzzy slippers.]