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[the-disabled-mothman]

I’m so fucking tired of being stared at for using a mobility aid. I get it I’m young, you have no fucking clue how aware I am of how young I am with a mobility aid, but that doesn’t give you permission to stare at me. Would you stare if I was old? Or, would you deem it normal and acceptable. Disabled people are not your entertainment or your pity story. Stop staring.

[the-disabled-mothman]

“do not let them use icarus against you. when you speak of dreams that feel a million miles from your reach they will say “don’t burn like he did” but if icarus were here he’d help strap the wings to your back with a smile, and fly by your side.”

— you cannot fly if you are unwilling to fall // l.s.

[the-disabled-mothman]

Give my girl Mary Shelly more credit! She did not keep her beloved dead husbands heart with her and potentially lose her virginity on her mothers grave to NOT be given credit as the most badass gothic writer! We would not have the sci-fi/horror genre we have today without her!

[the-disabled-mothman]

Spent forever trying to track this pic back down so into the reblogs it goes

bruce wayne becoming nightwing reminds me of those mums that are like 'im sooo skinny, i can fit into my preteen daughter's clothes!!!' but like. with vigilante personas

[the-disabled-mothman]

Groovy Oracle!

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california rent is so bad i had to move into the giant spider crab tank at the monterey bay aquarium

[the-disabled-mothman]

im so happy that like- fandoms are a thing?? like wdym there's other people in love with a fictional 6 feet something traumatized and beautiful man who loves austen?? like, hi guys!!!!

[the-disabled-mothman]

A lighthouse can be a sort of wizard tower

[the-disabled-mothman]

fight for your disabled friends. fight for your disabled family members. fight for your disabled neighbor on your block. fight for your friends disabled parent. fight for disabled people who struggle to have a voice for themselves. fight for all disabled people.

[the-disabled-mothman]

i exist for 3 months of the year

Pride month

pride month 2 disabled boogaloo

Halloween (aka october)

[the-disabled-mothman]

OP how does it feel to be the funniest person in the Batman fandom?

Bruce keeping a tighter and tighter lid on his identity around the Justice League because with each new person to reveal their identity he realizes that he has fucked far too high a percentage of his co workers as Bruce Wayne and he has to take this secret to his grave

[the-disabled-mothman]

here's something stupid: the catcatfish

some quick facts:

they're nocturnal and tend to roam around while awake.

they have keen senses of smell and hearing, but terrible eyesight. despite this, they also have a tapetum lucidum, making their pupils "glow" in the dark.

their fur is short, dense, and oily to waterproof them.

they prefer a diet of mostly meat and are attracted to strong-smelling food like fish, cheese, and anything fermented.

the elongated dewclaw on each front paw is sharp, flexible, and nonretractable. it injects a venom that causes respiratory failure and cardiac arrest in prey and, in extreme doses, humans. veterenarians typically remove the dewclaw venom glands during the neuter/spay procedure.

they grow to an average of 1m and 23kg (3ft and 50lb) but can reach up to double that length and triple the weight!

[the-disabled-mothman]

I don’t think I could ever phrase it better. The worst part is no one sees this fight, no one recognizes this struggle, no one recognizes how badly we want to do everything but are limited by our bodies, we are Icarus who dreams of flying to the sun but is limited and torn back down by the wax melting away burning his skin and dropping him from the sky no matter the height.

Being chronically ill is hard. So hard.

It is playing a game that is so heavily stacked against me

I have no chance and should give up hope

but I keep trying to win anyway.

I always lose.

It is the eternal struggle of Sisyphus

My own body the boulder

Pushing up and up and up

Only to sink back to the bottom when I've pushed too hard

And lose again.

It is constant pity and sideways glances

It is hearing that my partner "must be a saint"

It is hearing "You have such a good attitude!" and immediately understanding the unspoken bit

It is disappointing my child over and over again because I can't be like the other parents

It is doctors and medications and meals and work scheduled to the minute, to the second, so you can cope with the weight of it all

And it is loss.

My god, it is loss.

It is watching pieces of you die off little by little as the pain increases and the kindness (condescension) withers away from the people who claimed to care!

It is mourning

Every day

For every life you thought you'd live that slips away in silence

Or in agony

Screaming pain into the night begging for solace

Begging to be left with the remains of a life that once mattered.

I win the battle every day.

But I live with the grief of knowing that I can not win the war.

[the-disabled-mothman]

There are times where it honestly feels scary, where the reality of a deteriorating disorder really sets in, where you realize even on your current worse days your better than you ever will be again

getting disabled over a period of time is so weird, because sometimes i’ll just see something, let’s say about running, and think “i should do that!” and then i slowly realise that i can’t run anymore. i can barely even walk. it’s weird because there wasn’t one event that happened that made me like it. there wasn’t a day where i woke up and couldn’t run anymore. it was slow and gradual. and sometimes i realise how much ive lost that i didn’t even realise because it all happened so gradually. sometimes it feels like yesterday i could run and today i can’t, and sometimes it feels like forever ago that i could.

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Holy fucking shit, pain is not a matter of fucking willpower. I'm not being fucking weak when I can't push through my fucking pain. Sometimes, I just fucking can't. I don't need to fucking "stick it out" or "keep fighting." When I say I want to give up it is not because I am not fucking trying hard enough. I am trying so fucking hard every fucking second of every fucking day. The fucking able-bodied assholes that say this shit have never been in actual pain a day in their fucking lives, and it is SO obvious. I think I don't want to talk to another able-bodied person for the rest of my entire life.

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i love that little funky rat so much!!!

[the-disabled-mothman]

*me watching a batman* he definitely has a touch of the autism.

Husband: baby, the autism did more than touch him. It made it all the way to third base