#ocs with disabilities

[soradpe]

Make more characters with invisible disabilities

Make more characters with invisible disabilities

Make more characters with invisible disabilities

And I don’t just mean mental health / mental disabilities. There are soooo many physical health conditions that are INCREDIBLY common in society but I almost never see depicted in characters!

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge advocate for mental health representation as someone who suffers from a lot of mental disorders as well as neurodivergency. And while I love that mental health and neurodivergency has been on full display in media as well as people’s ocs and head canons of characters, I find that when it comes to physical health, it’s often not depicted in characters unless it’s visible usually, aside from characters who are hearing or visually impaired (which is not always visible on the character) which I also see depicted a lot (Which is good!!)

Granted yes I am typing this up while recovering from a blood sugar crash and yes that’s part of what prompted this. But anyways here’s some invisible physical health conditions (some common and some not so common) that I’d personally love to see people depict more. And of course, I can’t list everything, so feel free to reblog to add on your own suggestions!

- Diabetes (Type 1, 2, 3, and the Pre Versions)

- Anemia

- Gastroparesis

- Arthritis (Though Note, depending on the type this can become visible)

- Epilepsy

- Chronic Fatigue

- Hypersomnia

- Insomnia

- Hormone Imbalance

- Asthma

- POTS (Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome) (This can also be visible in some cases, such as wheelchair usage)

- Nerve damage (Not all nerve damage prevents usage of limbs!)

- Scoliosis or other Spinal deformities

- Autoimmune disorders (PANS / PANDAS, Hashimoto’s, Crohn’s, Celiac, etc, there’s a lot! Do the research! And keep in mind, many Autoimmune disorders CAN become visible)

- Allergies

(Also as someone who suffers from Pre-Type 1, Anemia, Hypersomnia, Hormone imbalances, Spinal and bone deformities, Gastroparesis, and Nerve damage, I’m happy to describe how to write characters who struggle with those things if anyone so desires!)

[cowsabungus]

A guide to designing wheelchair using characters!

I hope this helps anyone who's trying to design their oc using a wheelchair, it's not a complete guide but I tried my best! deffo do more research if you're writing them as a character

[wis-art]

Kanapka wolf woman dyke wolf etc.

[gayaest]

Darya, in her lightweight manual wheelchair - rather than her beach (water-floaty) chair 🐬⭐️🐠🪼🦐🐚🌊

[saszor]

Happy Face Equality Week :-D

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I really wanted to draw some happy people with facial differences for this week so:)

if you tag this as "tw scars" or some other "body horror" I'm killing u btw:D!!!

[Image description: digital drawing of 7 character with facial differences against a patterned background. The left side shows a gay couple sitting and hugging; one from them has a large bump on his forehead and widespread eyes, while the other has paralysis on one side of his face. In the middle is a teen girl cuddling with a cat, both of which are missing their left eye. Below her is a nonbinary person smoking a cigarette with heart-shaped smoke surrounding them; they have facial atrophy on one side of their face. The right side is split into three small panels; top one shows a Black girl with a cystic hygroma on her jaw on a pastel pink background, middle shows an Indian man with Crouzon syndrome from the side smiling, bottom is a zoom on the side of the head of a person with microtia; they're wearing a bone-anchored hearing aid and have a buzz cut with stars patterned in it. At the bottom, "Happy Face Equality Week" is written. End image description.]

[cy-cyborg]

Just a reminder that unless your amputee character lost their limb less than a month ago, their stumps don't need to be bandaged.

[daily-dragon-drawing]

Disability pride dragon for disability pride month?

#129 - 身心障礙 (shēnxīn zhàng'ài / disability) - Happy disability pride month!!! ❤️

[entroart]

Transfemme Fashion - ft @kaylasartwork

Mini-comic based on a conversation with her about that type of clothing

[anura-artist]

wake up babe new oc just dropped. this is Red he is my boy

[cocopudu]

sherbet blossom 🌸🍨🌷

[undasura]

revisiting an old canon for my ocs where zephyr is a newly retired sled dog racer lady due to a disabling injury and rali is a assistance dog lady.... its cute...

[cowsabungus]

Make pride accessible for everyone!!!!

I made a post about this last year and the year before, and thought if I did it this way it gives people and orgs something to work towards. Often people forget that disabled people aren't just wheelchair users, and even those who are, need more than just that ramp!

My first ever pride, not only as a wheelchair but my first ever EVER pride, I went in expecting to feel at home.

Obviously I wasn't, I'm disabled, so why should I?

Instead there was just a ridiculous amount of uneven flooring, a steep ramp to the disabled toilet, no sanitary towel bin in the disabled toilet (???) no allowances to be let out of the festival to fetch things from my car, no where quiet and organisers who seemed genuinely surprised to see a wheelchair user!

My next pride, three years later, I was a seller, and while they had sorted their toilet problem (still no sanitary towel bin???), the hill to get in wouod have been genuinely impossible for me to get to if I hadn't been driving to get my stall in anyway, even with someone pushing me, no quiet areas, plenty of kerbs for me to get stuck at and again, genuine surprise.

Why is it so surprising to consider disabled people might be at pride? Not only do queer disabled people exist, but parents and family of queer kids and people, vendors and even entertainers!

Making pride accessible is crucial!

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[taro-pdf]

Humans are Space Orcs: Disability in Aliens and Humans

All language is Universal Interplanetary Language unless otherwise specified. Written like a play.

[Kell, human, in the staff break room of a planet-sized spacecraft where they work as a technician. An alien walks in and jumps. Kell doesn't notice.]

Alien, under their breath: what the fuck since when did we have a human on board?? I thought we employed fynta as security…

[Kell turns around and sees them. They wave. The alien stares. Kell puts down their cup and types something on their watch.]

Kell (text to speech, aka TTS): hey, what's up? can I help you?

Alien, under breath: jfdklas;jdjdfls what am I supposed to say to a human???

Kell (TTS): Kell, human, they/them, I've been on board three orbits and I haven't hurt anyone yet. I you can relax.

Alien: Um, Neka, sateen, he/him. And you relax can as well. Human voices aren't harmful to my species.

Kell (TTS): kind of you to offer, but I don't speak, and I can't hear either. My glasses are transcribing your words for me.

Neka aka alien: Oh neat!

[Kell looks at him in suprise.]

Neka: I mean, a lot of my species is deaf. Our world's pretty loud, and hearing is a recessive gene. My parents sent me up for adoption when they realized I wouldn't be able to do anything on-planet because the noise literally hurts, but at least they did't operate to "fix" me.

Kell (TTS): My parents tried to "fix" my hearing but it didn't work out. I can speak with my hands though. [signs in ASL, then types] like that. It's one of the human sign languages.

Neka: WHAT I speak a sign too! [signs in Sateen] You probably don't know that one, but I can do a bit of Universal Traders' Sign as well. it cool I have something in common with one of the scariest species in galaxy!

Kell (traders' sign): Nice to meet you. I promise not all humans are the fighting machines we are said to be.

Neka (traders'): It's been to long since I spoke anything close to my first language. um... you're the first human i've see off a security team and not holding weapons... can you tell me about like everything about humans? I've heard so much.

Kell (traders'): Of course! A lot of it is exaggerated, but there's always some humans who live up to the stories. Let me tell you about them.

[gayaest]

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Bora! She’s blasian (black and korean!) she has POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome) and Chronic Pain! 🩷💜

She takes her rollator everywhere!

[saszor]

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gay people real 🌝

[crippledpunks]

cleaning is extremely difficult. cleaning your home, your office, your car, your personal space, your clothes, your body, anything- cleaning is an intensive process that involves a lot of small movements, focus, and stamina. many people struggle with the various aspects of cleaning, whether it's the executive function involved with executing or conceptualizing each step involved, fatigue from having to gather supplies and move around, pain from long periods of time on one's feet or repetitive motion, drain from struggling to focus, or whatever else,

a lot of people are affected by the difficulty of cleaning. depression, adhd, schizophrenia, autism, fibromyalgia, hypermobile joints, EDS, POTS, MS, chronic GI problems, chronic pain, chronic fatigue and other disabling conditions can make cleaning and keeping a space clean over time very difficult if not impossible for a lot of people- please be kind to those who struggle with cleaning, and kinder to yourself if you struggle to keep up with cleaning. it is a very difficult task. it's not your fault you struggle with it.