wishful-seeker

[wishful-seeker]

I was just grocery shopping and for a while I was in line behind the peak possible combination of parent and child, here is my 1 minute recreation from memory

[wishful-seeker]

anon, you do not get to decide if someone is disabled enough for you. If we're going off what you say "disability is a social construct like gender" EVEN if you were right YOU don't get to choose someones identity??? I am disabled, and i will always be disabled. Maybe I'll get better, but I'll always need my 24 pills and 3 ketamine lozenges a day just to be able to walk and not vomit everything i eat. Even if i was well enough to work again one day i will still consider myself disabled because its apart of my IDENTITY. We do not exist to be cured asshole. And i don't want to BE ABLE BODIED, ever think of that? That maybe life is worth living even if i need a wheelchair? I don't want a fucking mech suit, i want doctors to not treat me like a fucking dog. Disabled people are not a problem society needs to solve, there will ALWAYS be disabled people and thats actually not a fucking bad thing! What if i told you im happy not being able to work, only getting money from disability, and am only focusing on what little recovery i can achieve one day at a time? Yes it's hard ITS HARD AS FUCK, but i like my life! I like who i am! And my disability is who i am!! Im not speaking for others, this is just my opinion, but if you really want to increase quality of life for disabled people instead of trying to make them not disabled we need to put more efforts into making things more accessible. More wheelchair accessible buildings, more inventions to allow people to use a computer with voice commands or eye tracking software, more public transportation that everyone can access. Fuck mech suits, Jesus christ.

The thing about disability being a social construct is largely true, because when you have a physical issue but receive accommodations + care such that they can do everything able-bodied people can, you're no longer considered disabled. Case in point: glasses. If glasses fix near-blindness, you're not considered disabled, even though you're basically blind without them.

In a hypothetical world where mech suits existed, were cheap and comfortable and accessible and worked well, and were normalised such that people didn't even notice, even quadreplegics wouldn't be considered disabled (although of course that's distant science fiction).

That's what "disability is a social construct" means. In the same way gender being a social construct doesn't mean boobs aren't real, or money being a social construct doesn't mean physical cash doesn't exist.

I don’t agree with this analysis at all.

What hypothetical disabled people might be able to do in the future holds no meaning in the current reality I occupy

You say that quadriplegics will be “considered” abled with exoskeletons - but then you fail to elaborate on the relationship between these devices, their users, and the people who supply them

My father has had type 1 diabetes for 30 years. 30 years is an entire lifetime for some people. The cost of his insulin increased literally that ENTIRE TIME until last year when the Biden admin put caps on insulin prices

Furthermore, his insulin pump retails for 4,600$, and if it breaks, he is still diabetic at the end of the day and will slowly and terribly die without it.

I noticed a lot of people on here have lots of ideas and hypotheticals about how disabled people should and could navigate the world, but their arguments fall flat and topple so easily because you’re not connecting these ideas to anyone’s intrinsic reality

This is why so many physically disabled people are fatigued by the entire “disability is a social construct” conversation. It’s overwhelmingly used by uneducated 17 year olds to minimize and downplay and discredit the real-life, life-or-death interactions and experiences many physically disabled people live with

#god this anon has pissed me off #this feels the same as tells a trans person they are not trans if they “fully” transition or something

[wishful-seeker]

"Imagine you're so disabled you can't celebrate a holiday"- someone with ehlers-danlos syndrome talking about themselves.

No offense to that person but like.. yeah? Its a disability that disables you?? Also acting like missing a holiday is peak disability is kind of wild? Like for 2 years i couldn't even go outside dude.

[wishful-seeker]

[wishful-seeker]

Im sick again 🙃

#i love my undiagnosed autoimmune disorder its so fun /s

[wishful-seeker]

Obsessed with my minecraft character, she is my new OC

#i made i skin myself so she kinda already was an OC before this

[wishful-seeker]

this too shall pass

[wishful-seeker]

hey white leftists

[wishful-seeker]

Me wishing i could put spikes on my wheelchair but can't because i need someone else to push me because my arms also have chronic pain.

If only i had a scooter attachment :(

But they are 800 to 3k dollars :(

So i don't get autonomy ig.

I can't go anywhere alone.

#crps #cripple punk

[wishful-seeker]

neurodivergent people are not immune to being ableist

you as a neurodivergent person are not immune to being ableist

#no if you are neurodivergant or mentally ill you cannot call yourself a cripple or call others cripples

[wishful-seeker]

you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?

#i dont remember the names of close middle school friends #even though i really cared for them! its wild

[wishful-seeker]

Water represents cleansing and healing because sitting in the rain or a sprinkler makes you less upset.

#witchcraft #witchblr #sufficiently advanced witchcraft is indistinguishable from shitposting

[wishful-seeker]

I have finished two books this year :)

As a kid reading was really hard on me, summer book reading for school always sent me into meltdowns because i didn't understand the books, it was really stressful! My reading level in school was always below average, but because i loved reading i just kept doing it. I've never read two books in one year before, especially by may!

[wishful-seeker]

While i completely understand why they say it, if someone says this I'll probably not like OR reblog, not because i don't like it! But because i feel rude reading "dont like, reblog" and only liking anyways :/

this is assuming its on art you normally wouldn't jump to reblog. i myself only rb stuff i really really like so .

The 'rude/demanding' tone would be stuff along the lines of "if you like but don't reblog I'll [threat]" which i see surprisingly often, both serious and more silly

[wishful-seeker]

it's not natural for candy to be $3.49. candy is supposed to be one dollar

[wishful-seeker]

Texas, US

[wishful-seeker]

"advertisement from the Mystery of the Long Lost 8th, 9th, and 10th Books of Moses" (1948)

"The Sorcerer's Key or The Great Book of St Ciprian" (1970)

"Advertisements from Lewis de Claremont's The Ancient's Book of Magic, New York." (1940)

"The Magic of Love and Green and Red Magic." (1969)

"The Big Art of Magic" (1970s)

The pulp revolution of magical texts from the book Art of The Grimoire by Owen Davies

#witchcraft #witchblr #magic history #magic