#seat canes

[vintagehomecollection]

Beyond The Kitchen: A Dreamer’s Guide, 1985

[scootersscooter]

More Peri doodles<3

ft. Bonus Hazel and Dev :)

[queerlycarter]

me leaving the house for the first general admission concert since my body gave up on functioning: im not gonna bring my cane. what if i accidentally hit someone or someone kicks it out from under me bc they didn't see me

me literally before the first opener: fucking dying. having to sit on the railing separating off the accessibility seating risers. some kind of cruel irony btw that we ended up Right There

[fishfingersandscarves]

I have come to the very frustrating and necessary conclusion that the next convention I go to i should really just get a wheelchair. Which. Sigh

[cursedthing]

.thinkin of getting ourselves a rollator.. since lately we've been getting more and more dizzy (and heart horribly racey) when we stand up for too long :[

[scorndotexe]

god i cannot wait to use my cane again i always leave it behind when traveling where i think it will really get in the way but i regret it every single time. i think my cane is just necessary at this point

[tasmanianstripes]

I'm gonna make an original post because I am not a discourse blog nor am I looking for a fight or, God forbid, for somebody to harass the OP or me over this. I am just a disabled person who's really fucking tired with how people treat accessibility features and I need to vent out my frustration

(As a disclaimer, idk if the OP of that post is disabled or mentally ill or anything, nor do I care. It genuienly doesn't matter. Being disabled or mentally ill or having any kind of disorder doesn't prevent you from being ableist. You can't hide behind "I'm disabled/have PTSD/whatever".)

But I saw some garbage take about trigger warnings today, that basically boiled down to that fanfic writers and artists don't need to use trigger warnings, that it's a fairly new thing and the standard for fiction was not using them for many years, and anything more than what the site requires is just a courtesy, but what ticked me off was these two ending points

(Image ID: A tumblr text post that reads "➡️ It is your responsibility to protect yourself and close a book, or hit the back button if you find something in fiction that you're reading that upsets you. ➡️ You are responsible for protecting yourself from fiction that causes you discomfort." End ID.)

Which I absolutely agree with, which is why it's so frustrating.

Because how can somebody protect themself if the author chooses not to disclose potentially triggering and dangerous content they're posting?

Is it a standard? Yeah. Does it mean it's a good standard and shouldn't be changed? Hell no.

Yeah it is within your right to refuse to trigger tag something, but it doesn't mean it's the moral choice nor that it doesn't make you an asshole. Like not giving up your seat on a transit for a person in need is within your rights and you nobody can stop you from not doing that, but you are being a prick.

I'm all for people controlling their own online experience, they shouldn't demand somebody not post something and instead learn to block and filter their own experience, but they can't feasibly do that if somebody chooses not to use warnings. Just because something is the standard or law or a policy doesn't mean it's a moral choice. AO3's "Creator chose not to use archive warnings" is a good compromise, it can keep the creator from spoilering their story while warning the readers that they're clicking on their own risk. But to post something with absolutely ZERO warning? Yeah, full offence, you're just a cunt.

Call me crazy but it's not "courtesy" when it's about accessibility and people's health and safety, it's the bare minimum you should do to avoid dangerous situations. It's not just about comfort for many people, posting something triggering without any warnings can be genuienly dangerous. If you genuienly think everyone can just click away from a fanfic like that and be only uncomfortable at most then you're naive and sheltered, a lot of people need these warnings, fandom spaces are hostile to disabled people as is. If you want people to protect themselves from fiction that causes them discomfort or worse then you need to give them the tools to do so, you can't just wash your hands off any responsibility and absolutely refuse to meet anyone half-way.

It seems that when some people say "you need to control your own online experience" don't genuienly mean it, because if they did they would understand it's a two way street. No, they just want an easy guilt-free way out to shooting down people who criticise them for posting uncensored, not warned about triggering content.

I swear to god, when people pull out "Well it's the standard!" when talking about accessibility features for disabled people it makes my blood boil. Well it SHOULDN'T be!

[gaybd1]

UGH

the thing about NOT having The Pain for about a month due to not having to work full time/do adult responsibilities is…

Going from Almost Zero pain back up to Normal pain on that first day back is THE WORSTTTTT KILL ME NOWWWWW

[trollzz]

hes my princess diana

[chuluoyi]

aaaa i see i hope u enjoy more delicious food then 🙂‍↕️ are u planning to visit any hawker centres? theres this hawker centre in ang mo kio that sells really really yummy soup noodles - at kebun baru market and food centre, theres a stall called “teck kee cooked food” and they sell super duper good soup noodles!!!! u def have to go early in the morning if u wna try their sheng mian cos queues start as early as 9-10am and there were times my family and i had to wait 1h for our noodles 🥹 its like singapore’s version of ramen and i hope that you’ll give it a try 🙂‍↕️ if ur not into noodles they also sell great congee and i believe theyre open from friday-wednesday 6am to 1.30pm ❤️

the address is 226H Ang Mo Kio Street 22 #01-23, Kebun Baru Market & Food Centre if ur going!!!!

enjoy ur trip and eat well chu!!!! lots of love 💞

🥟 nonnie

ahhh noted dimsum nonnie!!🙂‍↕️ and yes i’m visiting hawker centers! i’ve gone to maxwell and albert and oh wow there are many delicious food there but it’s soooo crazy crowded that i didn’t get any seats :’)

i love noodle soups!!🥹 i think i’ll pay it a visit tomorrow! thank you for the recs dimsum nonnieee🫶🏻

[astrosapling]

Me: Excuse me, sorry, could I take one of these disabled seats. I have a cane. *gestures to cane*

All the Ableds in the disabled seating:

[hellsquills]

Mark my words: the next Bruce Springsteen live album will be Live in Madrid 2024 (June 15th)

(If you were there show yourselves!!)

[c-k-mack]

Thanks to a modicum of talent and personality, it’s not unusual to become a cruise “celebrity.” Thanks to sciatica, this year’s cruise celebrity was my friend here:

[hearty-an0n]

whatever happens ^-^ i was just at the arena and its so beautiful and wonderful

[post-grammatic-stress]

Madonna calling out a fan for sitting during a concert, when said fan was in a wheelchair, struck me so hard.

Madonna wasn't expressing some wildly out of touch view. She just said outloud what so many people actually think. You can tell by how she covered for it. "politically incorrect," she said. Not "oh shit, none of my business that you aren't standing", not "oh, wow, I was projecting my able-bodied world view". Not simply just "I'm sorry for assuming".

It's not that she thinks we as disabled people deserve respect. It's that she knows it's frowned upon to say the quiet part out loud.

[alienaiver]

con day!!!! everything is ready and i hope i wont forget anything crucial in my con bag