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disabled-culture-is · 2 months
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i know i haven't been posting asks in a while but i swear i'll get around to it soon, depression's just been kicking my ass lately
anyways my doctor still doesn't know what the hell is wrong with me so that's cool
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disabled-culture-is · 4 months
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disabled culture is realizing fainting from getting up too fast or stretching or many more reasons isn’t normal and you are disabled and have been for years without knowing it
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disabled-culture-is · 4 months
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Disabled culture is being new to accepting you're physically disabled but knowing you want to get a wheelchair once you have the means to do so and using a cane in the meantime, then wanting to cry (/pos) when a friend sends you a meme about wheelchair users with the tag "you" because the fact that they know what you need and are chill with it even if you dont already have access to the mobility aids you need
Sorry i am bad at articulating
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disabled-culture-is · 4 months
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Disabled culture is not being sure if you’re able to stand long enough to take a shower because you went on a 10 min walk that morning (it’s 9pm now)
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disabled-culture-is · 4 months
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Fibromyalgia culture is ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow
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disabled-culture-is · 4 months
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Disabled culture is not realizing for 16 years that no, it's not normal to have minor pain all over your body at minimum, and your eyes aren't supposed to hurt from loud noises
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disabled-culture-is · 5 months
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disabled (mentally) culture is being totally able to do the thing but because you do the thing in a different way that means its somehow bad.
undiagnosed/undersupported disabled culture is creating ones own accommodations or alternative ways of doing things like having water bottle with a straw because it's easier or only wearing pajamas or jeggings because or athletic because jeans are too scratchy. or covering ones ears because the noise is too loudy even if headphones would have been more socially acceptable. or chewing on erasers because it's the only thing that helps you focus because gum was banned and not being given suggestions for non-erasers oral-stim alternatives, simply "don't chew that it's bad," isn't going to fucking work and makes me feel worse and want to chew more.
For some, undersupported disabled have "self-medicating" with criminalized substances because they don't know, or even been blocked access to, alternatives, and are more likely to become addicted to things because their brain is on survival mode.
Disabled dealing with ableism and productivity-culture is being forced to push past one's own biological indications of needing a break and then that being the standard of "see, this person did this thing, clearly this person is fine." Which, need I say, is a tactic that the enslaved had to deal with in the U.S. It is dangerous to normalize any person or persons as feeling half-sick, and this stereotype still leads to black depression being underrecognized because former enslavers and their kin got used to seeing black people being sad.
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disabled-culture-is · 5 months
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Hello i would like to ask a question. I have chronic joint pain, and how bad it is fluctuates, so I can be in no pain as long as I'm not really physically active for months, qnd then for the next few months be in pain no matter what I do. Would using a cane to PREVENT pain rather than help relieve some of it be like cheating or can i do that. Asking because I hung out with friends in an arcade and I had to stand for like an hour and by that point i was aldeady in pain, qnd then we went bowling so alltogether it was like 3 hours of stqnding, and I feel like if I could use a cane for casual standing I'd be in considerably less pain right now, 3 hours later :']
of course you can use a cane to prevent pain, do whatever helps you most!
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disabled-culture-is · 5 months
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Physically disabled culture is being late for class because the elevator broke down AGAIN and not being excused for some reason??? Ugh
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disabled-culture-is · 5 months
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question: is this blog in use?
i'll be starting the blog up about now! i realized i was obsessing a bit too much about things, so i think i'll just rip the bandaid off :]
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