#sam.disabled

[tortiefrancis]

Nobody talks about the hard parts about autism.

Nobody talks about not knowing when you need to eat, drink or pee. Not knowing when you're in pain, or why you're in pain. Not being able to communicate what you need.

Or when change is so hard to deal with you have meltdowns and outbursts. When you can't control your anger and hurt yourself or others. When you can't emote unless you're breaking down.

Or when you can't understand what someone is saying, what you're reading, anything. When you can't even try because trying makes it worse. When you ask for help but not getting what they say just makes you more frustrated.

And so many more difficult experiences we have to deal with that no one likes.

[tortiefrancis]

[ ID: Photo of a person with light tone skin, from the waist down, wearing a short, white lace skirt, white socks and white shoes, as well as a shiny metal leg prosthetic with fake, white flowers attatched to it. The person sits on a rock in a green field, next to some old, wooden fences. There's a mountain range in the background. Sky is blue. /End ID ]

Xiao Yang's custom prosthetic leg by YVMIN

[tortiefrancis]

Happy disability pride month! I decided to draw some disabled Barbies, most, if not all, from the fashionista line!

note: I'm not fluent in Brazilian Sign Language, please let me know if I messed this up in any way!!

[ ID: a digital, stylized drawing of five women sitting around a brown table and talking to each other. The background is transparent, and there's some shading. The women are, from left to right:

A woman a wheelchair and has dark skin, black eyes and long, coily, black hair, and wears pink heart glasses and a short, sleek, rainbow striped dress. Then, a woman with Down Syndrome with tanned skin, hazel eyes and long, wavy, blonde hair, and wears a white dress puffy sleeves, pink, yellow and purple flowers, a pink necklace and pink orthopedic shoes. They both smile.

Then, a Deaf woman with pale skin, green eyes and long, straight, red-ish brown hair in a high ponytail, and wears hot pink hearing aids, a short, black dress with a white collar and hot pink, white and purple flowers and dark hot pink shoes. She does the sign for bus in Brazilian Sign Language, her two hands close to her chest, curved inwards, then going forward, breaking apart, like a bus door opening.

Next to her is a woman with vitiligo with dark skin, dark brown eyes and long, dark brown, coily hair in a large bun, wearing a long, pink, yellow and white striped dress and white shoes. Finally, a woman with alopecia with medium tone skin, brown eyes and no hair, wearing a hot pink dress with puffy sleeves and purple flowers, golden hoop earrings and white shoes. They both have neutral expressions. /End id ]

[tortiefrancis]

every single time a post says "unmute" and there's no cc or audio transcript or whatever i feel like committing a felony

[tortiefrancis]

For new year's, I'd like to send love to:

- people with autism

- people with epilepsy

- people with sensory processing disorder

- people with misophonia

- people with post-traumatic stress disorder

- people with heart conditions

- people with photophobia/light sensitivity

and anyone else trying to enjoy the new year without having to worry about loud noises or lights

[tortiefrancis]

[ id: a discord message by @/Jagm, with an attatched screenshot of Puss in Boots 2: The Last Wish. Screenshot shows a hand on a poker table, with the subtitles: (music note) Who's the... [sings in spanish].

The message reads: ok guess I am manually making an accurate fuckin subtitle file. (All caps) This is one word. This is just the word gato. Why are subtitles like this. (End caps) /End id ]

The subtitles of the new Puss in Boots are SO BAD. Literally every single instance of anyone saying anything in Spanish, even just a single word, is replaced with [speaking Spanish].

There is a character who throughout most of the movie is known as Perro or Perrito and even that gets replaced with [speaking Spanish]. So a deaf person watching this movie would have NO IDEA what the other characters were calling him!! It’s ridiculous.

Anyway here’s an srt file with accurate Spanish that I made. Enjoy.

[tortiefrancis]

i need people specially fellow autistics to stop treating autism as a superpower

[tortiefrancis]

I don't know how to say this but adults with autism can have meltdowns and very much do. It's not just a thing in children. And yes I mean even old adults and elderly

[tortiefrancis]

♿️ ♾️ Happy disability pride month!!

[ ID: Digital, stylized artwork of five people and a cat sitting around the Disability flag, against a pastel blue background with pastel yellow stars doodled around. Above them is navy blue text that reads: "Feliz mês do orgulho PCD" (Translation: Happy disability pride month). The people, from left to right, are:

1) A thin woman with medium tone skin, dark brown eyes and a long, dark brown wolf cut with blue tips and spiky bangs. She wears dark makeup, earrings, a chocker, a cross necklace, a long sleeved mesh shirt, a dark tank top with the wheelchair symbol in the center, black shorts, a big, black belt with a chain on the side and a black boot. She has one amputated leg and uses blue crutches. She smiles, eyes half open.

2) A young child with dark tone skin, dark brown eyes and short, dark, curly hair. He wears a long sleeved green shirt with blue and yellow striped on the wrists, cyan pants and dark blue shoes with yellow lightning bolts. He holds a blue teddy bear with yellow ears. He has Treacher Collins Syndrome. He smiles.

3) A fat woman with light tone skin, green eyes and short, red-ish hair with a white streak. She wears glasses, a pink tank top, blue pants with white stars, light blue shoes and a medical bracelet. She has a cleft lip scar, a heart surgery scar, white patches on her skin due to piebaldism, and also moles. She smiles, doing a peace sign with one hand.

4) A thin man with light medium tone skin, sharp, brown eyes, a thin beard and medium length, wavy, green hair with a shaved side. He wears a black and white t-shirt with yellow stripes on the sleeves, black pants and red shoes, as well as two pins; an orange one with the schizophrenia symbol, and a red one with the autism symbol. He has scars on his wrists and a semicolon tattoo there as well. He smiled. Next to him is a gray and white cat with an "Emotional Support Animal" vest.

5) A thin person with pale skin, blue-ish eyes and a short, coily, white afro. They wear sunglasses, a white flower necklace, a blue, long sleeved shirt, a beige sweater vest and a long, brown skirt. They also wear hearing aids, which are beige. They have albinism and strabismus. They smile.

/End ID ]

🇵🇸 Digital Art Raffle . 🇵🇸 Sketch Commissions . 🇵🇸 Gaza Fundraisers . 🇨🇩 DRC Aid . 🇸🇩 Sudan Aid

[tortiefrancis]

[ PT 1: Ryan Gainer was a 15 year old Autistic Black boy who was shot and killed by police in California.

Ryan seemed to have been having a meltdown, he was holding a gardening tool, police were called to the house but they are refusing to release any body cam footage of the shooting and refusing to state how many times Ryan was shot, they failed to help him before the paramedics arrived.

After shooting him Ryan's family was then forced out of their home while the police rummaged through their house looking for any justifiable cause for shooting Ryan.

This is hardly the first time the San Bernardino police department has attacked or killed people having a mental health crisis. /End PT ]

[ ID: Photo of Ryan Gainer, a young boy with dark skin and short, coily, black hair, smiling. /End ID ]

[ PT 2: Rest in Power Ryan. /End PT ]

[ PT 3: Stop calling the police on disabled and mentally ill people! /End PT ]

Ryan Gainer was a 15 year old Autistic Black boy who was shot and killed by police in California.

Ryan seemed to have been having a meltdown, he was holding a gardening tool, police were called to the house but they are refusing to release any body cam footage of the shooting and refusing to state how many times Ryan was shot, they failed to help him before the paramedics arrived.

After shooting him Ryan's family was then forced out of their home while the police rummaged through their house looking for any justifiable cause for shooting Ryan.

This is hardly the first time the San Bernardino police department has attacked or killed people having a mental health crisis.

Rest in Power Ryan.

STOP CALLING THE POLICE ON DISABLED AND MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE!

[tortiefrancis]

shoutout to people with intellectual disabilities, you guys deserve the world

[tortiefrancis]

Happy disability pride month to him <3 (heart)

[ id: a cropped screenshot from the 3D animated movie "Nimona" showing Ballister Boldheart, a broad man with medium tone skin, short, wavy, black hair that's slicked back, brown eyes, a thin face, a mustache and a goatee. He wears a black armor and cape. He also has a black prosthetic arm, with some wires exposed. /End id ]

[tortiefrancis]

It's disability pride month again! Let Watson be disabled, for the love of God

[tortiefrancis]

[ PT: Happy Disability Pride Month! 🩶💚❤️🤍💛💙🩶🌈 (x) /End PT ]

Link: https://pin.it/27Tz763kj

Happy Disability Pride Month! 🩶💚❤️🤍💛💙🩶🌈 (x)

[tortiefrancis]

disabled arab friends ^-^ (smile)

wanted to draw more arab people but also more disabled people, so i decided to draw both. i didn't have many ideas for this drawing so i'm open to suggestions! :3 (cat smile)

this also my first time drawing people walking so i hope this is good

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[ ID: Digital, stylized art of four Arab friends walking together next to each other against a transparent background, with colorful lineart and some shading. From left to right:

A thin man with medium tone skin, brown eyes, short, straight, black hair, a unibrow and a thin beard. He's a leg amputee, has vitiligo on his hands and walks with a pair of green crutches. He wears a white shirt with green sleeves, swamp green pants and light swamp green shoes. He looks to the woman next to him.

The woman is fat and has medium tone skin, brown eyes, a scarred eyebrow and a cleft lip. She wears a dark red hijab, two yellow heart hair clips, an orange shirt with yellow hems and a heart, dark red pants and yellow shoes with light yellow hearts. She talks to the man.

Next, a man with light skin with a lighter patch on his forehead, brown eyes, short, curly, blonde hair with a light patch and a beard. He has dwarfism. He wears glasses, a gray polo shirt, navy blue denim pants and blue shoes. He talks to the woman next to him.

The woman is chubby and broad with light-medium tone skin, a port wine stain on the left side of her face, green eyes, one droopier than the other, and long, curly, light brown hair. She wears a red t-shirt with white stripes, black denim pants and light pink shoes. She looks at the man, her hands in her pockets and her head low. /End ID ]

[tortiefrancis]

Nimona reminds me a lot about growing up disabled and neurodivergent.

Being seen as a disgusting thing, a monster without having to do anything, the people around you begging for answers on why you're this way, 'how' did you 'turn up' this way, asking for you to hide who you are. The weird looks over your symptoms or behaviors, the most minor ones, too.

And when it all comes crashing down, when you can't hide it anymore, when you're just so full of pain, and anger, and sadness, people are scared of you. People see you as an even more dangerous and frightening monster.