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IM GOING TO CRY THEY MIGHT INCREASE THE SSI ASSETS LIMIT TO $10,000.

it's a bipartisan bill too! and for anyone unaware, people on SSI (which is different from SSDI), can only have $2,000 in assets (unless they have an ABLE account, which comes with its own rules). this assets limit has been in place for FORTY YEARS and is a giant part of why being on SSI keeps people incredibly impoverished.

i've also heard they might remove the marriage penalty but i don't have the spoons to read or explain it so someone else please add on!

this is huge! please spread the word and do what you can to help ensure this happens!

#ssi #disability

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count** not could, for that last ask sorry my dude /gen <- the guy who sent that ask

Awful bold of you to assume I can read /lighthearted, I didn’t even notice a typo

#not disabled queer culture is #my brain comes with autocorrect and it is both a blessing and a curse

[disabled-queer-culture-is]

Disabled culture is not knowing if you could as disabled because almost everyone in your life is mildly ableist So then when you realise that you are, in fact, disabled, cause of a variety of things, you cant really accept it, cause youre not in a wheelchair or lack a sense or something

so yeah. thumbs up emoji

#it’s one heck of a battle 👍 #and i wish you the best of luck in working through that #i hope you’re able to get the support you need and that people in your life will improve their thinking #disabled culture is

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Disabled queer culture is being kept from necessary medication and treatment because your father ‘doesn’t believe in therapy or drugs’ so you’re just left to suffer until it gets so bad you’re admitted to the hospital, at which point he shows up and acts shocked.

#disabled culture is #ableism tw #abuse tw #i am so so sorry you’re having to go through that

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Disabled culture is getting really upset at how little people on this website seem to care about people with OCD. Like, reblog bait all you want but dont tie morality and shit to it. Dont make it a ‘ill know if you dont reblog this!’ or ‘i dont trust you if you ignore this’ or ‘reblog to save a life’ or whatever, cause that wont make a person WANT to reblog it more, itll just fucking stress people out, which is made WORSE if any of said people have OCD (like myself)

Am I making ANY sense?

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense! I really hate that too. I don’t even have OCD and those sorts of posts still have had a horrible affect on my ability to engage with anything of that kind, politics especially, even when it is something I find important to talk about. I cannot imagine how awful it can get with OCD or similar disorders added to the mix.

For anyone who needs to hear it: the sort of person that you are is not determined by what you don’t reblog. You do not need to interact with anything or anyone to prove you’re not an evil person. If people start bringing morality into it, it is alright to block them! Take care of and protect yourselves!

#ocd culture is #disabled culture is #ableism tw #and no; the original poster will NOT know if you scroll past without rebloging #and you are not morally wrong for using social media for an escape from reality

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To anyone who made goals they were unable to reach during disability pride month like I did, (I made a goal to order a mobility aid off my own money or start the process of getting a prescription for one, and then did not do that because July hates me), it is okay! I am proud of you!

The world’s still spinning. You still deserve accessibility and respect. Let’s keep to those goals and just change the time frame!

#july has literally always been the worst/most expensive/most stressful/most tragedy filled month of the year for every year of my life #so learning it’s disability pride month was a real kick in the gut sort of irony #but i’ve survived another one folks!! #not disabled queer culture is #haha yeah sorry for the radio silence. #5 people my family are close to died within the span of a week and i had to just lay down and give up for a bit

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In honour of disability pride month, we made a disability Pride Knight! Stay proud! ⚔️🌈

#disability pride month

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"Do you really need that disability aid?" is such an unhelpful, useless question.

Ask better questions.

"Would you benefit from using that aid?"

"Would using that aid improve your quality of life?"

"Would that aid reduce the pain you're in?"

"Would it allow you to do more than you currently can unaided?"

Ask better questions, get better answers.

#not disabled queer culture is

[disabled-queer-culture-is]

disabled queer culture is wondering whether people are staring because your skirt is a teensy bit short, or because you're using a mobility aid.

#disabled culture is #disabled queer culture is #queer culture is #mobility aid culture is

[disabled-queer-culture-is]

Hello there! Not a culture ask, just needed some advice on something.

So I've had catatonia for a couple years now. And over time, the long term effects of catatonic episodes have greatly impacted my muscles and joints, causing lots of weakness, muscle spasms, and numbness, especially in my legs and arms, and I've recently been saving up some money to get a mobility aid to help me walk.

I was also born with leg length discrepancy and clubfoot, which also affects my ability to walk.

But recently I received a comment from someone telling me that I'm not "disabled enough" and idk it just... it really got to me. It made me feel like I don't belong in disabled spaces. I usually try to brush off comments like that, but given that it came from someone very close to me, it hit hard.

So idk, I guess what I'm trying to say is, do you have any advice for someone like me who's been told they're not "disabled enough" and how to deal with comments like that? I would really appreciate it.

Ah, that’s one I’m still working on, myself. (You know how it gets with imposter syndrome.) Here’s some things I try to keep in mind when faced with those comments!

Those people don’t care about you. They don’t care what evidence you show them, they don’t care whether or not you’re physically disabled or what struggles you might have. They just want to argue and put you down. Call them out for being a jerk and an idiot (if you have the courage to/it won’t put you in danger) and end the conversation. They don’t care about you, so do your best not to care about them.

They don’t know you! Even if they’re a family member you’ve lived with your whole life, they are not you, and they cannot and will not ever fully understand what you’re going through. They don’t know your emotions or the way you struggle and grieve your health behind closed doors. If they don’t know your situation and aren’t trying to understand, how can you trust them to make an accurate judgement about your health?

You don’t owe them your medical history. They just want to fight, don’t play their game. The ONLY people you owe your medical history to are the healthcare professionals you are going to for help. Don’t waste your time and energy trying to give them enough evidence to prove that you are disabled enough. (If it’s a struggle you’re running into with getting necessary accommodations/help, get a trusted ally in your corner and have them fight with you! Threaten to call whatever sort of organization your country has for disability rights/advocacy! Nothing will turn around that attitude like threatening to get the law involved.)

You ARE disabled enough. There’s no mountain you have to climb to count yourself as disabled enough. If you have any sort of long term condition, officially diagnosed or not, that impacts your ability to lead an independent life without any sort of aid, you are disabled.

I’m really sorry to hear that it was someone close to you who said such an awful thing. My recommendation would be to get someone who has proven themselves to be trustworthy with respecting you and your disability, and set a time to bring them along to have a talk with the person who told you that. Tell that person that what they said hurt you, that it was an unreasonable and insulting thing to say to anyone, especially someone they claim to care about. Tell them that they can either sort that attitude out, or you can cut them from your life. (It’s okay to leave the room/turn off your phone after that! They’ll probably want to start a fight. Don’t let them, and keep yourself safe.)

I know it’s hard to cut out someone who you care about. But if they can’t put in the basic effort to not call you a liar about something that affects every single second of your life, or at least apologize after they hurt you, you deserve better than them. You are disabled enough. You deserve people who care about you and want to help you live your life to the fullest. You deserve a community of people who understand your struggles, even if only a little bit. My DMs are open if there’s anything I can do to support you!

#not disabled queer culture is #messages to the mod #ableism tw #i hope you’re able to get a mobility aid soon!

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Disabled queer culture is hearing people complain about shopping carts in parking spaces and then condemn every single person who has ever left a shopping cart, literally saying they deserve to get hit by a car, saying they are the worst kind of person, implying all of them don’t deserve to participate in society.

And then, when you try to interject, to say, “hey, some people can’t get the carts back to the return, I know it’s annoying but it’s not black and white, I don’t think we should say things like that,” you are brushed off and told “obviously we weren’t talking about that,” and, “you’re being so sensitive, it was a joke.”

I’m not physically disabled but I know lots of people who are, it hurts to hear thing like that and I’m not even who they’re talking about, it’s fucking wild to say such awful people for leaving carts in the parking lot and not even once mention that tons of people are NOT ABLE to get those carts back where they belong. Blows my mind how many people don’t even acknowledge disabled people’s existence while condemning things disabled people are forced to do because of inaccessibility.

#disabled culture is #ableism tw #violence tw #maybe i just have been lucky enough to be around people who do more than maybe sigh at an unreturned cart #but honestly this is something that hasnt crossed my mind much so thank you for sharing! #i know a lot of people get mean about having their harmful reactions called out #but i hope your statements help at least a few of them to reframe their thinking #thank you for looking out for people like us 💖

[disabled-queer-culture-is]

Disabled culture is when people keep staring at you in public so you stare back because your so goddamn tired.

#disabled culture is #ableism tw #carry around a spray bottle and spray them in the face with water

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disabled (chronic pain) culture is "what if im faking it..." and then random pain jumpscare reminding you that you are indeed not faking. (and then repeating the cycle..)

#disabled culture is #chronic pain culture is #and the vicious cycle repeats… #it never ends! it never ends! but perhaps one day… it may

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[tags reading: #so like #if its a random post then the url wouldnt be super important #but if its a screenshot of a one time i dreamt post then it would be? #because the url actively adds to the post? End ID]

Precisely! one-time-i-dreamt is a perfect example of how in some cases the url may be very important for providing context to the image itself, in that case it provides context that the situation discussed was a dream, and isn’t real. Other examples would be facts-i-just-made-up (for hopefully obvious reasons) or haiku-bot (to explain why a sentence or phrase is repeated, and that it’s meant to be seen in a poetic format)

Hi, I'm not disabled and I've been starting to ID posts that I reblog but I would like to know if I should be as descriptive as possible and describe most of the details in the photo or if I should just state the general details. For example, the post has a tweet. Do I just ID the text in the tweet or all the information like the number of likes and retweets?

I would like to ID as good as possible so it's more accessible but I'm not sure what to do.

Here’s a post I often reference when working on IDs!

Some other things I try to keep in mind are the limitations of screen readers (not being able to understand misspellings, ellipses take 80 years to read, etc), and trying to keep the same general time frame it would take to enjoy the image as a sighted person. For example, a meme that is made for a specific fandom will probably be mostly interacted with by people familiar with it, so it’d be fine to refer to the characters with just names, and not go into too much description on what they look like. On the other hand, an art piece would be worth going into more, but not extremely long, detail to help capture the full experience.

In your example, I’d say that unless relevant to the text, details like user’s profile picture, post date, retweets and likes wouldn’t be worth including for the time and space they take up.

#image id guide #not disabled queer culture is

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Tw for extreme ableism and homophobia

Disabled queer culture is being dragged to church and hearing a pastor talking about how he cured a gay prostitute of homosexuality and performed an exorcism to rid a girl (who was almost certainly psychotic and/or having a meltdown) of demons and just being like

What. Huh.

And then looking around to see if anyone else is shocked by this and realizing you’re the only one who thinks what he just said was absolutely absurd.

Hello???? I don’t think you have to be gay or disabled to comprehend how disgusting that is???? But all those cishet ableds simply don’t????

Evangelicalism is a hell of a drug.

#disabled culture is #queer culture is #disabled queer culture is #ableism tw #homophobia tw #conversion therapy tw #not quite but putting that there just in case #i hate hate hate hate hate when people do that sort of thing #and i hate that other people sit by and think its okay

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also autistic transgender culture is nobody taking you seriously and people often infantalizing you about your trans identity because of your autism :/ (and i also get infantilized because im afab and ppl who r afab (and women too.) r often ignored or not taken seriously)

#disabled culture is #queer culture is #autistic culture is #transgender culture is #ableism tw #sexism tw #transphobia tw #its so frustrating when people do that im so sorry you have to deal with that

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disabled culture is believing that you have chronic pain, therefore it can be “cured” to finding out that you have an autoimmune disease that would worsen over time and there’s no cure.

i was really feeling guilty for wanting a wheelchair back when i thought i had chronic pain, now i can’t stop thinking about having it.

#disabled culture is #autoimmune disease #hope ur able to get a wheelchair someday soon