#wheelchair questions

[alxor-of-hellsite]

Hey manual wheelchair users of tumblr, is moving on it at all similar to the controls of rowing a boat in minecraft?

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[tsubaki94]

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[err0r-inthesystem]

Question for mobility aid users:

Hi. Sorry if this is a dumb question, but is there a way to know when you should start looking at getting a mobility aid? I've dealt with lower back pain for the better part of the past 4-5 years and my knee likes to just randomly start hurting (due to an injury from when I was 16 that I wasn't able to get proper care for 3 months). It's never bad enough to keep me from walking, but it definitely makes moving a lot harder and I feel like it's just getting worse over time.

I know nothing about the process of acquiring a mobility aid, nor do I know where to start looking for information or what questions to ask. I've honestly been thinking about this for a while though, but I don't know what does/doesn't "count" as a need for a mobility aid.

Again, I'm really sorry if this is a stupid question. Thank you for your time. ^^

EDIT: Thank you to everyone who offered advice on this post. I'm gonna be honest, expected maybe three people to see this total. I really appreciate the people who took time out of their day to respond to this. I just am not good at responding to people (memory issues + social anxiety collectively jumping my ass, yk?), but I have read through every reblog and comment on this post and I just really want to say thank you.

[gummi-stims]

Mobility aids!

There simply aren't enough decent gifs of people using/styling these things for the stimboard makers out there

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[thedisablednaturalist]

Watching a seminar for disability disclosure by my university and all the panel members specialize in mental illness/neurodivergence. They only mentioned MS. Everything else they've talked about so far has been about depression or autism. Going To Explode.

[puppetmaster13u]

I have a question.

Batfamily, right? DC and Pokemon crossover. They would definitely have some separate pokemon they use for their civilian identities, competitions, general things etc, than ones who they partner with for their vigilante/battling right?

So hypothetically, wouldn't they also have some separate pokemon for some undercover work. Like say, for the Malones? What type of pokemon and Malones names do you think they'd use/have lol

[emcapi-gaming]

I am greatly enjoying all the discussion about Solution 9 and the positives and negatives that I've been seeing.

However! I went for a walk around the other day as Arkose! Who is my S9 oc with mild levin sickness (manifesting similar to peripheral neuropathy), and who often uses modified arm crutches for balance/stability.

And I suddenly noticed that this place is an ACCESSIBILITY NIGHTMARE. WHY ARE THERE SO MANY FUCKING STAIRS WITH NO RAMPS. WHY ARE THERE RANDOM BUMPS AND ELEVATION CHANGES IN THE ROAD.

Literally when I have time I'm gonna make a series of screenshots with Arkose posing next to all the FUCKING STAIRS doing very sarcastic /showleft, /showright, and/or "magic the gathering butt crack guy prayer hands pose."

[puppetgearing]

Why do you draw wheelchairs like that /gen q

I’m a full time manual wheelchair user and all the pieces of the wheelchairs you draw look like…they’re floating? The footplate is inaccurate too and there’s not even a cushion. I would highly recommend looking at references! /gen

it's mostly because the wheelchair he uses is connected to his backpack !

(there actually is a cushion ! it's being hold up by those two fang, spider leg looking thingy, you can see the placement on the sitting pose on where it's supposed to be !)

it's a very stylized version of how a normal wheelchair look, i actually looked up references of wheelchairs while making the backpack, i just deliberately choose to make it look like that cause it's not a typical normal wheelchair, it's his backpack that he doubled up the use as a wheelchair because he needs it to switch fast if the situation ask for it cause everything he needed is in the bakcpack itself (the spider limbs version though it does look floaty but it's on purpose). if i were to put the wheeled version of his backpack, it would not look as floaty as it does (and if you're talking about the splash art, it's just for visual purposes, it doesnt float).

the footplate tho... yea i realized after posting the splash art that i drew it wrong 💀 its a pain to go back and edit tho because it does lag a lot and it's a bunch of heavy edit for it to look like that so i can't exactly went back and redo it, tho i am planning on fixing it in the future !

[smallleaf]

I'm thinking about this stuff for a school project so I've come to the most reliable source for data!

But in seriousness all input is appreciated

(Tagging for reach i guess?) @autistic-culture-is @autismswagsummit @autistic-bowlcut-swag @disabled-comic-showdown

I'm really sorry if you don't like being tagged, I hope you don't mind it. This is just importsnt to me

[clarafyer]

A bit of a different post

Okay so a website absolutely wasted my time just now by telling me I had to pay for my results about my god damn leg pain so I am desperate enough to turn to Tumblr (/lh) for some sort of idea at what the fuck is going on with me

I have intermittent (on/off) pain in my upper legs and hips. It's in the muscles, bones, AND the joints of the hip (primarily the right hip joint though). This has been going on for months now, but when I mentioned it to a friend it turns out this might not be so recent as I complained about similar pain over a year ago.

I'm not an active person at all, I only really exercise when PE is part of my school schedule, but I do remember to stretch some days of the week.

I am also hypermobile, but the thing is, yk that 9 point hypermobility system? Elbows over 10 degrees, fingers back at 90 degrees, thumbs to forearms, touching the floor with your knees straight, and knees forwards 10 degrees? Of all those points, the only ones not hypermobile are my knees, (and, whatever area touching the floor means)

So hypermobility would explain it if it wasn't for that.

I don't want to disclose my age, but I am a female teen. The pain also is amplified during periods

I'm asking the disabled, mobility aid, and healthcare communities for possible causes. If you do not experience similar pain or are not otherwise qualified to answer, then please don't.

Update: I have talked with my parents, some very possible causes are poor posture, narrow diet, puberty, and as I mentioned before: little exercise

[mousegirlheart]

I was so caught up in the euphoria of seeing an official Ocarina of Time Lego set that for like a minute I lived in a world where I could ever afford Lego sets

[demonic-blog]

Hello, tumblr. I just recently had a doctor's appointment in which my specialist informed me that my spine has started shifting again (12 years post scoliosis-corrective surgery) and that there is some degeneration in my lower spine. This likely means I will be wheelchair-bound in the near future. I already knew this was a possibility from my last visit in 2019; however, it is likely to happen sooner than we thought.

Even without paralysis, it is becoming difficult to walk due to the pain, so I might have to start using one even sooner. I already use a cane, but it only helps for short periods of time. Any more than 15 minutes of standing/walking hurts too much.

Do any current wheelchair users have tips for new users?

[otterloreart]

I was thinking about how the seapony magical girl levitates as default because I couldn't think of another good way for her to get around, which moved my mind over to the topic of wheelchairs and if she were a wheelchair user. I like the idea of a magical girl whose wheelchair transforms as part of her outfit (if it's an extension of her body it should change too after all)

I felt like this idea probably isn't a /good/ one, at least in this context, so I did a little bit of reading trying to find wheelchair users' opinions about this topic. It's one of those things where I felt vaguely uncomfortable with it but couldn't pinpoint why persay.

I found this post discussing positive disability rep and I think the sticking point is that it seems very plot-convenient that the seapony main character also happens to already have a useful wheelchair for her transformation. I also generally feel like having her transform into a legless magical seapony might have some negative implications or be trope-y. After all, I reverse-engineered wheelchair idea from her not being able to walk in seapony form.

Most of the other advice discusses the exact disability, doing research on it to properly represent it, etc. My idea for the wheelchair route would be that she's an ambulatory wheelchair user/has some use of her legs, but I don't have anything more specific than that. Maybe her disability could sort of tie in with her magical water abilities; my understanding is that people with chronic pain, joint issues and some other conditions can sometimes swim as a safe form of physical exercise. So she could particularly enjoy being in water regularly for that reason. But I'm not actually sure if that is actually good representation, or it ties in too well?

Anyways, I'm not planning on actually making the takara ponies into a story, but I was exploring these concepts and I wanted to post the concept art and ask other people their thoughts.

If anyone feels like offering their opinion on the ideas in this post, please feel free to comment.

[sag-dab-sar]

Medical professional: *who has no actual reason to know why I'm using my wheelchair* so why are you using a wheelchair?

Me: Legs don't work well 🫤

Medical professional:

[here-there-were-dragons]

i have to wonder what super hardcore militant vegans think should be done about obligate carnivore animals, because in all my painfully-rapidly-approaching-30-years i've literally never actually seen anyone give a clear consistent much less halfway feasible answer on that