#disability month

[liminalweirdo]

The problem with "you can choose to wear a mask or not," is that masks mostly protect other people. So if you choose not to mask, you're actually removing someone's ability to try to protect themselves.

We know that if you wear a mask it does protect you, but only marginally. In the end, it's everyone wearing masks that prevents the spread of covid from one person to another. This is because if you have covid the mask catches the viral particles you are exhaling before they can get into the air, where covid is airborne and hangs in the air like smoke for several hours.

People who are masking are mostly protecting you. If you're in the presence of someone wearing a mask, it's literally common courteousy to do the same.

#wear a mask #covid #not wearing a mask is eugenics #covid is airborne #the pandemic isn't over just because you're over it #disability rights #human rights #disability month #spoonie

[threadbareturnbacks]

You know what? Happy Disability Month to those who were disabled by accident. Cars, skis, ice, sand, rocks, horses, just plain bad luck. Broken bones and backs that never heal. Shoulders that can't lift or move right. Wrists that don't turn. Hands that can't grasp. Brains that don't work right anymore. Legs that don't move anymore and eyes that won't recover.

The shame, the blame, the frustration, the wishful thinking that tears you apart. The beauty of small victories and simple kindness. The community you build. Reshaping a life with no warning. Mourning for the person you once were. Joyfully embracing the person you now are. Happy Disability Month to you too (even if you aren't ready to use that word yet)

#disability #disability month #i love that we celebrate disability month but i never see anything about actually physical accident disabilities on here #and irl most disabled ppl i know were hurt in an accident or event #it's most of the population tbh and thats why weve got to stand up for each other #bc we all end up here one way or another #community support #disability community

[isa-ah]

that’s what the aids are for!

#oc #isaiah #disability month #what is it? visibility? awareness? idk lol #alls i know is getting. a cane was the best thing i’ve done for myself

[ooppo]

Don't forget us this disability awareness month!

#Bipolar disorder #BAD #bipolar affective disorder #schizophrenia #mental health #actually bipolar #disability month

[i-got-da-rubes]

“Thank you for asking what nobody else did.

What not even I considered.”

Drawn with my non-dominant hand.

#fucking gave up on the last frame but whatever #uh #dear the person I am addressing #you know who you are #love you platonically #but I’m not good at accepting your kindness or putting my thankfulness into words #so here we are!! #also sorry your hot pink #you seem like you like pink #and again thanks #for asking me if I’m okay #I hadn’t given myself time to ask that question #I appreciate you #okay soppy time over fuck you man #onto the other tags #disability month #happy disability pride month #disability pride month #disabilties #fibromyalgia #AMPS #ganglion cyst #tendonitis #damn I collect illnesses like trading cards #vent comic #but like in a positive way #art #digital art #comic #rubes art

[chimeramoth]

on this day, the last day of disability pride month of 2023, happy pride and wrath and blessings to the disabled people who had to grow up with cruel parents who medically neglected/abused you. having to grow up feeling something wrong with our bodies or minds but our parents, teachers, and other adults in our lives not wanting to listen to us. having to grow up feeling sick and catching illnesses all the damn time because our immune systems are exhausted. having to grow up as the kid isolated and picked last for physical activities. having to grow up huffing and puffing but the doctors "couldn't find anything wrong" with us. having to grow up feeling so sick in our muscles, vessels, and bones, on the verge of blacking out and/or vomiting when we were forced to participate in sports or field day. being criticized and dehumanized for just wanting to stay in bed and rest. rest and heal and catch up. rest and recover our strength. having to grow up with parents who never told you that you had a disability because they "never wanted [us] to think something is deeply wrong with us" or they "never wanted [our] disability to stop us from achieving greatness."

i love you disabled child. i love you sick child. i love you tired child. i love you weak child. i love you crying child. i love you aching child. i love you neglected child. i love you medicated child. i love you unmedicated child. rest your bones and heal, child.

#disability month #disability pride #invisible disability #invisible illness #chronic illness #chronic fatigue #chronic pain #terminally ill #childhood #trauma #positivity #healing #disability pride month #disability positivity #neurodivergent #yee and haw

[tiny-bird-of-sunshine]

Happy Disability Pride Month to...

People with invisible disabilities

People with chronic pain

People with chronic illnesses

People who feel like they don't deserve to call themselves disabled / People who don't feel "disabled enough"

People who don't have alot of treatment options for their disability

People who treat their disability in "uncoventional"/non-western medicine ways

People who struggle with their doctors listening to them, treating them, or just in general

People with fibromyalgia

People with disabilities that are a diagnosis of exclusion

People who have under researched disabilities

I see you, you're valid, and your feelings are valid, whether it's anger, grief, pride, content, etc. Now go treat yourself to something you love and rage against your country's medical system if it sucks. You deserve it 🫶

#disability month #disability pride month #disability pride #disability #disabilties #chronic pain #chronic illness #invisable disability #fibromyalgia

[thedenofravenpuff]

Happy Disability Pride Month, ya'll!

My disability is caused by Fibromyalgia, a disturbance in the nervous system causing chronic pain and fatigue. Among additional effects I deal with anxiety from it.

Had to retire at the age of 34 as I was unable to work anymore and my focus is now to just have a good life and stay as functional as possible. I might not be able to work, but I want to at the very least be able to take care of myself and live on my own, despite sickness.

Fibromyalgia is considered among the "Invisible disabilities", because it doesn't show on tests or blood samples, and people from the outside can't tell what is off unless you show heavily physical signs.

I have a limp the longer I'm on my feet and need a cane whenever I got outside now, to get more steps in with the support before I get tired.

Everyone have their struggles and battles, whether or not you can see it. It's been a struggle for me to come to accept I'm disabled, after a life spent being active and productive. Only to see that strength and energy just fade away into nothing. Fighting two years with a GP not giving a crap because "Your bloodworks are fine" and "It'll just pass on its own". Even after getting diagnosed by specialists, I was ignored and brushed off, until I changed GP.

Now, finally taken seriously, and accepting the changes in my life, I still have my struggles and they'll never go away. So even if you can't see it, never judge someone. They are not "lazy", "making excuses", "grabbing for attention" and so on. You'll never truly know their story and it's not a contest.

Just be open and supportive.

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#PuffBlog #Disability Pride Month #Disability Pride #Disability Month #July #Fibromyalgia #Chronic Illness #Chronic Pain #Chronic Fatigue

[faelingdraws]

happy disability pride month from us running this account <3 

#rw oc #slugcat oc #faeling draws #disability awareness #disability month #disability pride month

[roaringwish]

History is written by victors, and for that reason, it wants to leave us behind.

Don't let it.

#touhou #2hu #okina matara #disability month #disability pride month #all my personal art involves Okina one way or another huh #so this is why she needed all that oil #well probably not I just thought it would be a good metaphor for the ones who were left behind #I wanted to upload a speedpaint but it was loading a 4 minute long video for 2 hours and I wasn't having it #1 hour*

[rjalker]

anyways it's 2023 and disability pride month.

The word "cripple" "crippling" and any other variations are for physical disabilities, not mental illnesses or other things like dysphoria.

Instead of "crippling anxiety" you can say "Debilitating anxiety" or "Disabling anxiety" ect.

It's not "Crippling dysphoria", it's "debilitating dysphoria".

To say something is crippling is to directly compare it to being physically disabled. And too many people in 2023, who proudly call themselves progressive, and leftists, and communists, refuse to listen to and actually respect physically disabled people in even the most bare minimum way.

No, you are not crippled by your depression, or your dysphoria, or your anxiety, or whatever it is, unless it's a physical disability.

And no, you cannot nitpick and pretend that "Well, actually, all neurodivergences are actually physical disabilities because they come from the brain, so they're the exact same thing!"

No they're not.

Physically disabled people are literally physically barred from society. Physically disabled people get left behind in buildings in fires and other emergencies.

Having social anxiety does not make it literally physically impossible for you to get in and out of your front door.

Having depression does not make it literally physically impossible for you to go up and down the stairs to get out of a burning building.

Having dysphoria does not literally physically make it impossible for you to go out literally anywhere in public.

If you think you have to compare your mental illness / whatever to being physically disabled for people to take it seriously, then you need to work on your own internalized ableism, and realize that equating, and this is a real example, having agoraphobia to being housebound due to the fact that you can't even get in or out of your house, let alone anywhere else, in a wheelchair...

you are just ableist.

Systemic inaccessibility literally physically prevents many disabled people from leaving their homes. T

here are real physical barriers stopping physically disabled people from existing in our society and no amount of therapy, medication, self-care, positive thinking, or whatever it is you do to help manage the symptoms of your mental illness, is going to make those physical barriers go away.

If you refuse to do the bare minimum of changing the language you use to be less ableist, then you will never be able to combat larger forms of ableism. Removing ableism from your vocabulary is step 0 to fighting systemic inequality.

Language shapes the way we view and interact with the world.

Mental illnesses are not crippling. Physical disabilities are crippling. And if you won't even do this basic thing to be less ableist then there's no way you will ever be able to fight other forms of ableism.

It's 2023. Remove "crippling" from your vocabulary unless you're using it to describe a physical disability or condition.

#ableism #disability pride month #disability month #cripplepunk #actuallyphysicallydisabled #actually physically disabled #cpunk #cripple punk

[liminalweirdo]

this disability pride month (and forever after) please consider not saying "i'm so OCD" or "my intrusive thoughts won." OCD is a real mental illness, a real neurological disorder, and when people really have OCD, their struggles are not taken seriously or understood with any depth because the public uses OCD terminology so carelessly in casual conversation.

#signed: this actual person who actually has ocd #ocd #obsessive compulsive disorder #disability month #disability pride month

[gods-favorite-autistic]

Poll for disability pride month!

If you feel comfortable sharing what you have, feel free to share! Reblog for more engagement and please try to stay respectful of others!

#disability pride month #disability #disability pride #polls #disability poll #disability month

[softgaycontent]

the hazy area

[ID: 6 panel comic of a woman with short hair having a migraine. panel 1: she is wearing sunglasses and a shirt that reads "ow fuck", while sitting in bed. ellipses by her head indicate a thinking pause. panel 2: she takes off her sunglasses and thinks, "migraine... over?". panel 3: she thinks, "nice!", and stands up from bed, with a smile on her face. panel 4: a pair of metaphorical small devils beat her in the head with hammers, as a consequence for standing up too fast. text reads "Bam bam bam bam bam", as she cringes in pain. panel 5: she stands in pained shock, with stress lines coming out of her head. the "OW FUCK" on her shirt is written very large. the caption beside her reads, "Worst pain of entire migraine crammed into 7 seconds". Panel 6: she is walking while hunched. text reads, "Free to resume normal activities as long as I move at grandma-pace". / End ID]

#migraines #myart #disability month #i had another comic i wanted to make but this one just happened to me #disability

[ooppo]

I love you people with mood, personality, and dissacociative disorders. Literally fuck any sort of media that paints us all as inherit killers, abusers, and delinquents. You all are people first and foremost and I'm sorry that the media tries to make it seem like you aren't just for a more interesting story.

#disability month

[sybilhallward]

if you have chronic pain you're disabled

Hi anon. You sent this ask in March, after I'd written in the tags of a post that I didn't know if I was allowed to call myself disabled because of my fibromyalgia. I remember this vividly, because I've been thinking about it ever since. My biggest struggle with fibro has always been allowing myself to recognize I have specific needs and justifications for some of my "deficiencies", and this was no different: how could I call myself disabled when there's people who are missing limbs or cannot move? I must just be lazy and entitled! Thing is, despite having full control over a technically perfectly functioning body, I don't have the same options as abled people in my day to day life: my neck moves, but 80% of the time it hurts; my legs work, but if I stand up still for more than an hour I need to sit for the next three and nothing really helps my muscles relax; I can live my life fairly normally, but for a couple of days every month I need to take 2-3 naps because I cannot otherwise keep my eyes open; my hands work, but they start hurting so easily that I've never been able to actually build up their strength. This, specifically, has impacted my life pretty drastically: I've stopped playing the violin partly because at first I couldn't stretch my pinky in the correct position on the fingerboard, and then even holding the instrument up became painful. I've stopped playing tennis because my wrist screamed with every impact. My biggest joy in life has always been writing, but for the last few years I've barely done it... there's a variety of reasons, but chief amongst them is the fact that nowadays I can only hold a pen for about 20 minutes before my hand gets enveloped in white-hot flame, and using a computer took most of writing's magic away, for me. These last few days I've realised I might never again play an instrument unless I allow myself to be extremely patient with my limits, and that singing is really the only way i can painlessly make music. These thoughts are sort of breaking me at the moment. Of course, I don't want to feel and present myself only as a victim for my whole life, but the first step in taking control of my life and trying is realizing I won't have as easy a time as able-bodied people: when I got my diagnosis I had been avoiding all sports except swimming for years, because I thought I was just bad and whiny when trying anything else. After realizing I had a real problem, though, I started doing pilates to slowly build up my strength and now I can do things I thought I could never do! I can walk long distances, carry some weights, play table tennis and table soccer with friends at parties... My life is so much better now that I recognize and accomodate for my limitations! So... yeah. I am disabled. Less than some individuals in this world, but also much more than some other. And that's not bad. Thank you, anon. Happy disability pride month!

#vane blogging #chronic pain #chronic illness #fibromyalgia #chronic fatigue #spoonie #disability pride month #disability month #disability #disability pride