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abyster · 1 year

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"Pocket Doctor" / Simon "Ghost" Riley x GN!Reader / Head-canons

SWF; Fluff ; Mentions of canon violence; Reader is war survivor; Illness; No mentions of Y/N, bad English.

Disclaimer: I got this idea basically from myself cause a few days ago i've found out about my scoliosis lol. That's the reason why you getting some sweet stuff right now ;)

(Maybe i will write some domestic head canons later)

So, lets get started

°When you got into team, they noticed something off about you. Maybe it was your behaviour, maybe exceptional mannerism of yours, or the fact that you were always wearing a respirator. Guys tried to make jokes, to liberate you a bit, which rarely worked. The first time they heard you chuckle was when Ghost said some stupid joke over the coms. Team can not believe it and still think that it was just an radio interference.

°When you met Ghost for the first time the only thought was "He is so big...Damn, is he German?"

° " How can a such a young person have such old eyes?", Price asked you once, laying in med bay. After a short pause and a quick glance he got his answer.

"I read a lot"

°Being field medic means making controversial decisions. The Team questioned your morality a lot of times which blowed their minds when they tried to think like you. And they stoped for their own good. Sometimes, you just need to stop asking questions. It can be for the best.

"A doctor with a gun, ironic, is it not?"

"Shut it , Skull-boy."

°When you cooked something , guys were head over the heels for you. With "It's a one time event, and I won't cook for you ever again." you put the dish on the common table and tried to go out into the sunset. Obviously no one let you to do so, and you got to know others a bit better. "Huh, never thought that something interesting was about them , besides the files"

"This is delicious, where did you learn to cook like that?" Price asked you.

"I've learnt everything by myself. It was hard getting food in warzone, so i tried to make cool stuff basically from shit and sticks." Price fell silent. It's a good thing that due to Ghosts and Soaps drunkenness they will not remember a thing from this talk.

Hours went like the minutes. It was over a 11 pm and while you were able to drag Soap into his room (After he got beaten up in alcohol competition by Ghost) , when you returned into the living room and saw Ghost, big buffed 6,4 guy , laying on the couch like a starfish, the first thought was "Nuhuh, nope, not gonna do this" . Turning your back to him, you went straight to your room. Well, about 5 meters until you decided to cover the poor guy with your big scarf.

In the morning you head a few knocks on your door.

"Come on in, mysterious stranger." You said with your back turned against the visitor. While looking into laptop you waited for his next move.

"Thank for blanket" Ghosts voice was quite recognisable, just as his heavy steps.

"It's a scarf" Silence fell as you were thinking of answer . "You are welcome. Put it on bed, please"

° After that accident Ghost became a bit less colder to you. It appeared in small details. The tone he spoke to you changed a bit, he knew what kind of tea you preferred.

"You sure you are not brit too, Doc?" Mockingly asked Price at your quiet tea session in kitchen.

"Shut it, moustache-man."

If tea is not up to your liking, Ghost will not stop until he will find tea type that you will like. Sweet big boi :)

° Raindrops washed away blood from your face, as you were sitting near stone wall and wincing painfully. You both needed to take a break from all of this. Ghost thought you were out of your mind when you started to read to him poems on another language.

"Huh, that one sounded nice. What's it about?"

"Uhhh, basically about tha fact that humans are not birds, but all have wings. In metaphorical sense obviously. Yeah, i'm going crazy a bit, sorry". Then both fell silent . Being talkative was not one of Ghosts character traits. So you tried again.

"Hey, remember when you said about being a Doc with a gun?"

"What about it?" Answered Ghost, with his soar voice.

"I... I do not like guns . Like, at all. Only in case of self defence."

"You realise that you were creating a bio weapons just like... a year ago?"

"... There is a difference." You coughed blood while Ghost helped you to stand up. "I guess he doesn't like me at all"

° There was a strange connection between you and Simon, no one denied it. A lot of thing happened between you and Ghost since you joined 141 squad. Mainly it was a small intimate things you both enjoyed. The way you fixed his masks "out of boredom", the way he behaved himself around you. For once, you have found a great listener. It is a shame though, that he has fallen asleep during most of your lections on quantum mechanics. After that every morning he went straight into your room to return scarf that you lend to him. Sometimes it felt like you do not need words to communicate. And when you did, it was a story for another day.

°You and Soap were heading towards meeting room when to yours surprise he spoke "You said you did not have a favourites."

"Huh ?I do not". With a tilt of a head you answered.

"Then why do you always laugh over Ghosts jokes? They're stupid as hell"

All of a sudden you stopped in the middle of the hall. So did Soap.

"Oh"

°While on missions, he thought you were just being overdramatic with how exhausted you were. Truth came out when Soap searched for shirt you borrowed from him and found an X-ray image of your spine and Ghost came in. After that there was a big talk about how even they let you into an army.

"Yep, that's one of the reasons i do not like to actively participate in missions... I'm also flat footed by the way :) "

°With that kind of relationship Simon met a lot of your quirks. If you meet him in the corridor and you are going in the same direction , things happen.

Glance was shared between you and the guy in skull mask. You hands were straightened and pointed into his direction. You know, no one was surprised when they saw Ghost giving you piggyback ride to the meeting room. No one dared to say a thing.

°First time when when you hugged Ghost was in quite drunk state. You did not regret anything, though.

Ghost will remember until the end of his life how team stared at you both when you hands embraced Simon and you whispered "Boobs~". Who would Soap be, if he didn't took a picture?

° When you cuddles for the first time it was your initiative, which is not surprising. Ghost did not gave his answer right away, but if you wanted to, he was willing to try. Usually he is big spoon, but when you held his face in your hands he melts. Out of words when you gave pecks on his mask.

"Hey, Ghost, you wear mask because of anonymity or it's a phycological thing?" That question got him in stupor.

"Why are you asking?"

"It's nothing, really", after long stare from Simon you gave up, "I'm just interested in length of your hair. I mean, if you do not show your face than you cut your hair by yourself, and if you not...Sorry, i'm mumbling again"

"Is' alright ...I have short hair."

"Huh, cool. Can i touch it ?"

"Hm...Maybe"

At that evening, at the dead of night, Simon Riley was curled in your embrace, while your fingers played with his hair. Yep, he definitely need a normal haircut.

° When you both got your vacation time, since he had nowhere to go, the guy was quite shocked with the fact that you invited him to your apartment. Like, really-really shocked.

° "Hey, remember the thing i said that "If i truly love a person, i would rather cure anything that's possible in the person that i love, than to buy him flowers?" Simon gave you a nod, drinking tea at your kitchen.

"Well, here is a therapy abonnement just for you..."

#cod x reader #cod mw22 #cod mw2 headcanons #cod mw2 soap #cod mw2 ghost #cod ghost #simon ghost riley #simon ghost riley x reader #simon riley x reader #simon riley #ghost x gn reader #simon riley x gn reader #simon ghost riley x gn reader #ghost headcanons #simon riley headcanons

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bioethicists · 11 months

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hey i'd really love it if you could say more about biopolitics? i hadn't heard that before and it seems fantastic.

😅 u guys humor me too much- these type of asks are like catnip for me i am rolling around on the floor

biopolitics was originally conceptualized by foucault in a series of lectures- the very simple explanation of it (which foucault scholars probably would feel doesn't do it justice) is that the state has a vested interest in creating citizens who are "healthy" (as defined by the state usually by military/work readiness) + reproducing more "healthy" citizens (in this way it often intersects with outright eugenics). people often refer to it as the politics of "making live + letting die" (necropolitics by achille mbembé is an incredible analysis of this second part, focused on colonial power's interest in determining who dies)

what this means is that, at its core, the state engages in programs to improve the "health" of the population not out of altruism but because it needs a supply of work-ready, combat-ready, reproduction-ready individuals. the concept of "health" is tied up in one's ability to perform labor in service of the state, so much so that disorder or the severity of disorder becomes defined by this ability. public health efforts center not on decreasing suffering but on restoring the population to a condition in which they can once again perform labor (including reproductive labor) + serve the greater needs of the state.

my friend cora at umadison did an excellent presentation on how the u.s evokes within "anti-obesity" campaigns a concern that "obesity" is a threat to military readiness. messaging concerning family planning/abortion are often engaged by the state to coerce certain ppl into having children + others NOT to, based on the idea of the Type of Citizen they want. on a deeper level, this haunts us from birth- were there programs to try to improve your mother's pregnancy? public school health surveys? scoliosis tests? presidential fitness tests? irt COVID-19, whose death was seen as acceptable + whose death was seen as worth preventing? was prioritizing a 'return to work ' an out-of-the-blue approach or a natural conclusion of a public health system structured around producing + maintaining a steady supply of labor? none of this is asserting that state public health intervention is inherently BAD, just that its core motivations are not altruistic but rather political (so it has no interest in expanding into a public health model where fitness to work/serve/birth is NOT seen as the marker of health).

a very cynical read of the opioid epidemic would be that the state is so heavily involved now because it is finally impacting individuals that they want to Make Live. harm reduction is reluctantly being adopted (thanks to the tireless work of incredible activists!) but only if it can fit into the framework of Making Them Live Until They Can Become Sober. sobriety is the unspoken end goal not because it reduces suffering but because it allows for workers. the truly liberatory logic of harm reduction, which focuses on autonomy + safety + reducing suffering, is antithetical to the motivations of a state which openly despises those who don't 'produce' proportionately to what they receive.

my interest is in reimagining medicine + the body + disability + suffering outside of this biopolitical framework by acknowledging that our very definitions of all of these things have been engraved in the public imagination with labor production in mind. i'm not interested in trying to create new state programs that are 'untouched' by biopolitics because that's impossible + i can still extract tangible benefits from it (for example, i got all my covid vaccines early + for free bcuz my labor was important enough for the state to invest in my life). the idea is to engage with these programs clear-eyed + willing to look at who we Make Live + who we Let Die. most importantly, we can find what lies outside it all + envision new ways of living

#anti psychiatry

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n7punk · 2 months

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So I know in a lot of your fics Catra is red color blind and you’ve explained it in the fic notes but do you have a place where you’ve fully explained what she can and can’t see?

very bad question to ask me because i am not a Science Person, but my understanding is that our color vision is made up of three cones, red, green, and blue. the more cones you have (and also the more you study names for different shades, i wish i was kidding but Learning Words actually improves your vision), the more shades of color you perceive (generally). in humans you get red-green colorblindness as the most common type and blue-yellow (yes i know i didnt mention yellow cones. it's complicated) as the second one.

this varies wildly for animals. for instance, we used to think mantis shrimp saw colors we couldn't hope to distinguish because they have 12 color receptors and we have the aforementioned 3, but now we think they actually see less than we do and they just have so many different receptors because their cones suck. so like, while we may be able to see many shades of blue and green with one cone, they need a Light Blue cone, and a Dark Blue cone, and a Turquoise Cone.... etc etc. and again, this is just where we're at with shrimp right now! we actually have no clue what cats see - if it's reduced shades due to a generally lower number of cones (they definitely have at least this), red-green colorblindness like in humans, just red colorblindness (something speculated for both cats and dogs), or monochrome colorblindness. different studies and resources have come to different conclusions, so in the end i usually pick just red because it's pretty unique and she's a fantasy species.

all the colors we see happen by wavelengths of light entering our eye. If a color is picked up a ton by our red cones and a little bit by the blue, we would see that as purple, right? except sike, the wavelengths of light do not work like our usual understanding of colors and what cones purple belongs to is not red + blue. i watched a video on this and then decided i wasn't going to understand it and moved on with my basic understanding of color mixing for what she can and can't see, but that didn't stop one Very Annoying Reader from trying to correct me and completely missing the point even after i explained it to them that disability representation is not to mimic any one person's Exact Situation, but to instead represent their overall struggles. literally none of the experiences i give catra apply to humans but just because it's her tail that makes some chairs really painful for her rather than scoliosis, that doesn't make it any less relatable when she finds the world hostilely designed for her body.

lmao can you tell its a sticking point for me. anyway, i often (although not always in AUs, partially because of not wanting to deal with annoying commenters when it Does Not Matter for what i'm trying to convey) write catra to have either very few or no red cones in her vision, which gives her a visual experience that is unique to us and very difficult to simulate due to that wavelength thing being more complicated than just removing red from an image. I don't know what colors catra would really be able to see if a human did have her specific kind of colorblindness, but i do get more specific in this fic about what my general take was early on. Slowly i've shifted to lean more towards her just having generally reduced cones more densely clustered on missing red cones, which would mean she would see fewer shades of color in general but would be able to see all the base colors we do, even if the variation and strength she gets is weak, especially heavily in red (this is kind of what i'm working with for modern AUs. if i mention adora's red jacket, she can kind of see that, just not nearly like we do, and maroon just wouldn't exist for her). this is the type of colorblindness my mom has (cannot tell navy from maroon from black, but easily tells red from blue from black. she leans slightly more towards deutro in her weakness) and is one of the speculated color perceptions for cats.

so i guess to answer your question: it depends on which fic you're reading LMAO.

also, because i can't not mention this: those colorblind correcting glasses (enchroma, etc) are not real, do not give you the ability to perceive things you literally do not have the receptors to, and actually work by filtering out wavelengths of light to make the colors that you see more potent, but it doesn't change the actual colors there, it's just like applying a filter to photo on fucking instagram. it actually limits your color perception even further and you cannot "train" your eyes with them just like you cannot train a limb to grow back. its a scam, and at three figures for a pair of glasses, it really hurts people and their families when they fall for it.

#fic ask #anon

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dandelionflowery · 23 days

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Intro post!

(if you're looking for the breast cancer awareness post it is here)

HII!!

My name on the internet is Dandelion, but you can call me whatever you like honestly. It's so hard to find a good name around here, the fae keep stealing them

I use any pronouns, online people default to they/them, IRL people default to she/her, you can use whatever you feel like!

I'm aroace 🧡💛🤍🩵💙 and my gender is up to interpretation lol

I'm 16 and I live in France but I have both French and American citizenship

I have both scoliosis (diagnosed, 45°) and probably dyslexia (not officially diagnosed but all the internet tests I did were screaming at me to go get an official diagnosis) and those two really hate each other who deCIDED SCOLISOIS SHOULD BE SPELLED THE WAY IT IS (if i spell it correctly be aware that either I copied it from somewhere, or i thought about it for WAY too long, or it was a monkeys on keyboards thing)

I created a blog just for reblogging shit (aptly named @dandelionflowery-reblogs) but even with that I can't promise to tag stuff correctly on either...

I'm not often super active on here, at least not regularly, mostly because I have way too many classes but sometimes I go absolutely insane and spend like an entire day on here (oops)

~~☆~~

I like:

- Harry Potter (Drarry, Deamus, Romione, Linny are my main ships but there's a decent chance you could get me to like a specific portrayal of just about any pairing lol) [also fuck jkr]

- The Marauders (WOLFSTARRR! Also Jily and aroace Peter and maybe Remadora. Same thing as before: open to other pairings [I know of and appreciate the ships with the girls but usually I'll lean towards the first ones mentioned actually I'll lean towards wolfstar with background Jily and aa battery Peter)

- Reading and books in general

- Fanfics, fanart!! (Both writing/drawing them and reading/simping for them)

Speaking of which, I have a side blog that's actually technically marauders themed! @mybrain-fanficedition

- Interactions on here!!

- there's probably some other stuff I like but I can't think of anything rn

~~☆~~

I don't like:

- Following from above, I said I was open to pretty much any pairing, ... I lied lol

I don't really like adult/child pairings (especially not snarry) but I am still open to at least trying it, but it is much much harder to convince me about that

- That said, irl adult/child is very bad and dni if you think it should be a thing in real life, fanfic is fiction do not attempt

- Also the usual list of if you're homophobic transphobic uh racist or just a generally mean person

~~☆~~

I like talking to people even if you don't know what to say just say hi!

Also I have other social media, come find me if you want!

@/flowerydandelion, @/dandelionfloweryart and @/wands.swords.and.books on Instagram!

On Ao3 I'm like 90% sure it's DandelionFlowery and uh probably similar usernames on Discord and Reddit [though I'm not often active on there]

Wait if I link my ao3 that means i need to actually post my fics lol

Leave comments if you read my fics, I love feedback!! (or just leave kudos, it makes me irrationally happy lol)

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nolanfa · 2 years

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Yay, the fic @arsenicalikat wrote for @twsterekbigbang posted! Art on AO3 here, for Magic Matters, by arsenicalikat / alikatastic

Also, I have so many headcanons for every single object you can see on this pic, and someone said I should share them, so here you go under the cut (so many headcanons, be warned):

okay, so:

The fic was not very specific about what types of magic did or did not exist, which in my book means all of them do. I used magic ideas from all over, but words have power, right? So the basic idea is that anything that can be used to carry meaning can carry magic power (like the language of plants magic in the fic).

The dried and potted plants are used in potions (and infusions) and spells and rituals (some are herbs, but there are some non-edible ones too).

The glass-orbed ones: the glass has runes etched on them (health, luck, love, and prosperity, according to a 5-seconds google search), that form a spell that is partly powered by the mossy rocks and low-maintenance plants inside. Because life is energy, so it's power and magic. It's mostly low-key and ambiant stuff that's supposed to seep into the atmosphere of the house. Like, it won't keep you from breaking your leg in a car accident, but it will mean you don't develop cancer or scoliosis when you could have, and maybe you heal just a bit faster.

On the side of one bookshelf are knotted ropes. They were used to hold inventory in South America, so they hold meaning, so they can hold spells. They can either hold energy that is released when you burn, cut, or untie them (like batteries), or like the orbs diffuse subtle magic in the air. If you burn/cut/untie them the energy released can take different forms, which can be used offensively (esp. if cut) or channeled into other spells (esp. if untied). The colours are only cosmetic.

The etched stones on the wall shelves beside them are used for wards for specific places: generally you put them in your yard / around your house in specific patterns or at specific distances and they protect or warn. Magic practitioners can etch them directly on living trees or in the architecture of the house itself and it's stronger, but this is the easy portable version (the symbols on the stones were generated by Watabou's Rune Generator: https://watabou.itch.io/rune-generator).

The rocks poster: in summer souvenir shops they tell you to buy this specific stone because it helps fight bad dreams and morosity and get friends and find love (maybe not all the same rock). So, okay, stones have magical properties. You have a list of them, what they're good for, what other stones their energies don't play well with, etc.

On the central island are rocks (and engraved/magical-ingredienty ceramic beads) that you can buy to make your own jewellery / wards / rituals with (you can refer to the helpful rocks poster for that) as well as already-made necklaces and wristbands. Jewellery is mostly for passive skills (defense, luck, enhancements), rituals are for active ones (summons, portals, curses, etc.; sometimes the stone breaks during the ritual and you have to buy another one or use them for another kind of ritual that allows for smaller rocks, but not always).

On the left are spools of wire that can be used to make wearable jewellery or mobiles or as raw material.

Mobiles and chimes (they're totally sold there, just in the back of the shop where you can't see them from the door) are house jewellery, basically. Passive place-specific enchantments. The way they move creates a different kind of magic, more fluid and naturally a bit chaotic.

Feathers, under the counter, are ingredients too for magical stuff. As well as driftwood and sea-eroded glass and pebbles and bones (there are some in the shop! Just, in a closed drawer okay) (rituals use metaphor extensively; if you have enough imagination you can use anything, the more history it has the better, including, like, shards of CD-ROMs or an old coffee grinder).

The books are about magical theory, magical practice, biology, ethnology (how do you call books about selkies if they're sentient beings? Well, that. Both from internal and external points of views), legends, history, linguistics, anything. Even kids' books for magic-community-specific lore.

On the right on the wall there are posters. They're not magic, just culturally magical (as in, no power but common references; the same way you can have a computer science joke that's not in any actual programming language). Or just, like, a seasonal calendar of plants so you know which is in season right now, or a poster of a celebrity that happens to be a harpy, or something.

#fandom #teen wolf #derek #stiles #sterek #nosart #noslore #twsterekbigbang #arsenicalikat #fanart #nosfinal #krita #made with krita #2D #portfolio2D

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mezmer · 5 months

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VENT!!! Chronic illness!!!!

Second paragraph is about epilepsy if you want to get to the “good part”. Kind of complaining maybe but I noticed people sigh and roll their eyes about me having severe scoliosis in general. I’ve gotten all sorts of responses like “yeah my back hurts really bad too, right here” which I think is strange and doesn’t come across as sympathy. You know, and worse i won’t dwell on since it does feel as if I’m just complaining about it. I wanna swallow that pill and detox. It’s hard to describe this… I used to talk about my condition way more in high school because it was still then such a shock to me. Genuinely reaching out to people and admitting to them how much it affected me, seeking a connection because I wasn’t making one. I won’t touch on that experience in detail but I learned to start keeping it to myself which is probably the right thing to do anyways and more noble to “suffer in silence” how corny that sounds. Another nit pick of mine is my mother, bless her heart, has never been motherly to me about my condition. Never once did I wake up to “how are you feeling?” I know how ridiculous this sounds. There’s people without mothers, or abusive mothers. So yeah, I am probably sounding insufferable. She never congratulated me when I found a noninvasive treatment provider I had sought out since my diagnosis ar 14 (i did indicate to my mother around 11 years old there was something wrong with my body and she said I would grow out of it. Early intervention with scoliosis is key to preventing severe curves.) My mom is just another eye roller, along with exes, old friends. If they weren’t being negative, it felt like they didn’t care. Sometimes I felt as pathetic as I seemed to be. Along with my silence, I did stop caring that they didn’t care, but the negativity hurt. Oh gosh, and the way I tried to make friends with several women I knew who had scoliosis. None tried at all to connect with me, besides one woman, Rachel. She was an addict and had a curve much like mine, and we had nearly the same birthday. She passed away of an overdose last year and she was a mother like me……

One point I can make that has further cemented how little a chronic spinal deformity matters is how it compares to people’s perception of scoliosis vs epilepsy…in my firsthand experience. The drastic difference between how I’m treated for both. With seizures, people become so compassionate towards me and I can see the extreme concern in their eyes and hear it in their voices. Even Johnny… yeah, it’s disgustingly clear the epilepsy chokes him with fear and love for me, when scoliosis just.. I don’t even know what he thinks because he doesn’t even talk about it. To me, scoliosis is just as frightening as epilepsy. People don’t give a fuck about scoliosis and scoff at it, but epilepsy is somehow the edge of death to them. This is kind of a running joke in the scoliosis community (97% women!) that we aren’t taken seriously, it’s a condition only weird dorks get. There’s an American dad episode about it :) And I WISH I COULD ADVOCATE FOR SCOLIOSIS. but it feels like I’ve never been taken seriously. And it’s time I got over it; maybe writing my little tumblr post will close the door on the last decade of embarrassment and shame for being who I am. None of what I mentioned includes my struggle with opiate addiction, feeling pathetic and alone. or how my body looks from having scoliosis. Every inch of my body is asymmetrical and I can’t look in the mirror naked still after all this time. It’s terrible and… I’m praying I can be stronger about this. I can forgive God, but it’s hard to forgive my own partner and my own mother. Yes I have made it clear and opened up as wisely and honestly as I can convey. Nothing changed.

Thank you to those small few of you who have treated me with compassion. Yes, it means this much to me. I’m not seeking attention; I’m just confused why this condition is so…

#idk I��ve been called a mongoloid #‘her ugly fucked up back’#a cripple whatever else I banished from my memory

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hjellacott · 1 year

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Disabled rant

So I've got an invisible disability, as they call it. I've scoliosis, and in my case, it means a whole shoulder blade is out of its proper place and there isn't a good solution but pain management and certain types of physical therapies, such as Feldenkrais, which can be really helpful, but are not covered by the NHS. Which means that for the most part, is something I wish I could cure and fix (contrary to other people who don't wish to change their disabilities or impairments, and say they "don't want to be fixed), but that I've come to accept I probably won't get to fully solve. I know I have to live with this and manage it for life. And the world isn't made for people like me.

Some disabilities or impairments are obvious. A person in a wheelchair, a person with a guide dog... And even though the world isn't made for them either, and they have tremendous challenges daily, at least a part of their problems and solutions are obvious. It doesn't take much thinking to know a person in a wheelchair will need a lift, nobody is going to try and push them up a flight of stairs and call them lazy fuckers if they ask for the lift.

My situation is different. You can't look at me and see my disability. Therefore, I am not treated with the prejudices and stigma other disabled people receive, I don't get pointed at or anything, but in the down side, people don't understand it when I need help and compassion and understanding. That it isn't that I'm lazy, it isn't that I'm being difficult... Is that I genuinely need to sit down more, have a chair nearby, be offered a seat in public transport, because I'm in chronic pain and sometimes I feel great, but sometimes I'm agonising, and I might even faint. I'm agonising and having to smile and offer my seat to a pregnant woman or an elderly person... and I will happily do it, but I could also use a healthy person offering me their seat now and then. But they won't. Because they look at me and only see a young lady who seems fine.

With Feldenkrais now for a decade, I'm now no longer normally in pain, but I've got to be really careful not to make things bad and end-up bed-ridden for weeks. Among other cautions and prevention things, mainly I need to take frequent rests, and even sitting down, sometimes I need to change position, or type of seat, or lie down. My spine, which is S shaped, basically can't hold me up for long. Can't do its job effectivelly. And even though scoliosis is a private matter, I've had to warn my every employer. And I've lost jobs for it.

Most cases, bosses and colleagues don't get it. They think I'm lazy, needing to sit down all the time, because my clothes cover the bad positioning of my shoulder blade. They think I'm exaggerating. They call me names. And I've taken it without complaint for ten plus years, first from classmates and teachers, then in work settings. Lost jobs, or have to quit them for medical reasons, and so on. My doctors aren't even sure I would be able to carry a successful pregnancy to term, but my fucker boss thinks I'm being a lazy, annoying tosser who needs to be sitting down too often.

Anyway.

In psychology, we have two aspects for disability. The medical aspect is the one that tries to "fix you", and focuses on what's wrong with you as a disabled person and what can be do with you or two you to help out. It points out your symptoms. I always feel slightly at war with some disabled people because they try to speak for all of us and say that the medical aspect is shit, that people shouldn't be trying to fix them, that there's nothing wrong with them, that it should only be the social aspect. The one that focuses on finding the problem in society (it is society that disables you, which is why we don't say people with disabilities, but disabled people as in, people who have been made disabled by the world), and adapt society to enable your existence, to put it simply. Personally, I think it needs to be a combination.

I think it is very much CRUCIAL to remember each disabled person is their own fucking individual. We can't really be grouped into one category and say OK, disabled people reject the medical focus, so let's stop pointing out their symtoms and just fix society. I think at the bare minimum, we should recognise main differences between people whose disabilities are invisible and people who have visible ones.

Many of us who are invisibly disabled, we have a physical impairment that, contrary to for example people with Down's Syndrome, we do really want to fix it. We want our medical issues to be researched more and investigated better and for treatments to become more accessible because they aren't. Currently the only treatment available in the NHS for scoliosis is physiotherapy (for pain management, and not necessarily effective) and surgery (involves having nails in your spine, a huge, risky surgery, and it won't necessary solve things completely). I tell people I've scoliosis, most people don't know what it is. So people like me, we do need the medical aspect, it's crucial. It's crucial to raise awareness, to let people know there are so many invisible disabilities, so many people smiling at you and agonising inside, and so, in the one hand, we need a big focus on the medical aspect and trying to fix treatments to fix us, but on the other hand, we also need a focus on the social aspect and building a more understanding and empathetic society that doesn't hurry to call people lazy fuckers if they need to rest more, that is not so quick to judge, that always thinks "hold on, perhaps they're disabled and I can't see it, let's be extra kind". Particularly in work places.

Whereas for visibly disabled people, there are so many kinds. If you've got autism or Down's Syndrome, you might not want to be treated like a sick person, because it's become your identity. For me, scoliosis isn't my fucking identity, I don't want it to be, but I imagine that when you're receiving BS day and night and being called retarded for having something like Down's, eventually you want to flip the table and own it and let it be your identity and something you're proud of it, and you don't want to be told you're ill, that something's wrong with you, you want society to just take you in and love you as you are. But then you've got deaf people or people with hearing impairment but not complete deafness, who perhaps would really benefit from being treated like people with a medical problem that needs solving, so that research can focus and money can be invested in finding new treatments to truly solve deafness. Just like we use glasses when our eyes are impaired (I also got that one).

This goes to show that what we need is a combination of both aspects. Yes we can't go around calling people names and pointing fingers at them and calling them ugly and being shit to them because they're impaired, we can't make people disabled by building a world that will always make them feel broken and not good enough.

We need compassion, understanding, kindness. We need society to change. But we also need for people to understand many disabilities are invisible. Many have degrees. For example autism is a whole fucking spectrum, and I've friends who have the kind where you're incredibly bright, bit like Sheldon Cooper, they'd never call themselves disabled, they don't want to be fixed or to be told something's wrong with them, they think they're better than you. But I've been a teacher at a school for students so deeply autistic that they didn't say a word ever, literally they'd be ill and vomiting and feverish and you had to play guess because trying to talk to them was like talking to a wall, even when using Makaton (some kids will really get good with it, but others cannot use it much either). And those kids do need people to realise something about them is different, that they need medical help and twice as much understanding and kindness, and for their symptoms to be understood. Because if their symptoms are not seen and understood as such, then they'll be judged wrong. Then people will slap them for the way they behave (and imagine slapping an autistic child!), whereas if people know it's deep autistic, a state of severe dependency, and that they didn't mean anything bad when they bit you, when they hit you, or when they start screaming, then they'll be kind and compassionate. And by remembering the medical focus, there'll be more medical research to make their lives better.

The main thing is every disabled person is their own person. Their own world. So when in doubt, don't assume someone's lazy or stupid, assume they must have some disability and don't ask about it. Just be kind, it's not hard. Be understanding. When some disabled people tell you they just want to be treated as normal and not be fixed, don't assume that's everyone. But remember and don't judge that some people really do need to be cured, and are begging for it. Don't generalise and put every disabled person in one same box and assume their needs and wishes are the same. Just ask them how they feel about it personally, if you're close to them to ask.

Think about it like with glasses, right? Sight impairment in an accepted disability common in society and we run to fix it. We all want to fix it. We'll have glasses or surgery. So by that logic, assume many disabled people want cures and want fixing if it's possible, but that doesn't mean they want to be treated like they're wrong or broken or less good, because they aren't. They simply have an issue, and we all have issues and problems and crap. They're impaired. Most of us have at least one little impairment, it's a normal thing, not abnormal. And then, also remember other disabled people don't want to hear a word about their symptoms.

And when your employee tells you they've got a health condition and need a specific thing, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD JUST LISTEN, BE KIND, GIVE THEM WHATEVER THEY NEED TO DO THEIR JOB THE BEST THEY CAN AND DON'T DEMAND FUCKING JUSTIFICATIONS AND PRIVATE EXPLANATIONS.

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firstdivisiongirl · 8 days

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Hello, would it be okay if I got a Tokyo Revengers match? (Like the one where you match people with a bf or gf?)

About me: I am a bisexual non binary person and use they/them pronouns, so whoever works, I have no preferences.

As a rough idea of what I look like physically, I'm around the 1,75m mark somewhere and have dark middle length hair with an undercut. I try to look and dress as androgynous as possible, and I have a lot of tattoos and piercings.

Personality-wise if it helps I am INFJ and a Pisces (Aquarius Moon and Virgo rising, if we want to go hyper specific.) I am a fairly quiet person. I don't really speak unless spoken to, I typically don't have much to share. If I don't have anything of value to add to a conversation I just stay silent, and I've been told a lot of people find that off-putting, which makes me a little sad haha. But I really just prefer to listen unless it's a topic I'm passionate about.

I know I don't handle stress very well, and when I get overwhelmed I have episodes of nonverbality where I physically cannot speak. They pass fairly quickly but they do happen, and they're incredibly embarassing for me.

I also have a hard time surpressing strong extroverted emotions, mainly joy and anger. When I'm happy, you will know.

I like charismatic people, but when someone constantly becomes the center of attention I try not to be too close to them, because that would automatically shift attention to me as well, and I don't fuck with that.

I honestly don't mind people that are a little fucked up. Because honestly that's all good, I'm a little messed up too. Everyone has their flaws and their issues. It's human. It's all good. In fact I think I probably prefer someone who isn't "perfect" because being flawless is just unrelatable tbh.

I'm definitely a person that loves attention from my partner. I want to spend time with the people I'm close with. I don't need fancy dates or expensive gifts, I just need my person to be around. Maybe cuddle. I love physical affection, and I especially love to play with people's hair. So a partner having long-ish hair would definitely be a plus, but not a neccessity. At the end of the day it doesn't matter what skin, eye or hair colour a partner has. I don't care if they're tall or how they're built or what gender they are. I care that they're loyal, I care that they care. I care that they like to spend time with me. And hey if they have some trouble to deal with it's all good, we can carry our burdens together. I mean in the TR universe, who didn't have a fucked up past ykwim?

I enjoy taking care of people and would especially enjoy it if that person was my partner, but unfortunately, I occasionally need the favour to be returned. I suffer from moderately severe scoliosis, which sometimes causes a lot of pain in my back, neck, head, hips and shoulders. Sometimes, it's so bad that all I can do is lay in bed and cry, which definitely makes me an unattractive partner and I'm aware of that. So, I'd need someone who is okay with occasionally just laying down with me, or maybe draw me a bath.

Again, what I value above everything is loyalty and care. And I'm willing to provide a lot of it as well.

Aside from super center of attention people, really the only other "ick" I have is people who make jokes at the expense of others. I don't really fuck with that either. Other than that I'm fairly open to any kind of personality type.

My hobbies are mostly writing stories, watching shows or playing instruments. (I learned both piano and harp when I was younger. I don't have a piano anymore but I still have my harp)

I hope this is sufficient? I'm sorry if its not.

Anyway, I hope you have a lovely day and please take good care of yourself. Thank you for all the time you invest in our requests and matchups :)

Hello. Thank you for the kindness. You put in everything I need to do this matchup. I hope you like it!

You Got...

Souya "Angry" Kawata!!!

First off, doesn't he look so happy to be matchup with you? The answer is he is! Look at the thumbs up! He's happy!

He is definitely not perfect! But he will try to make you happy which is all that matters.

When you are having trouble health wise, he will always be there to make you feel better. He'll come with a big bowl of homemade ramen and some shows to watch!

He is a sweetheart, he would never make jokes at the expense of others and he also wouldn't do anything to make you feel uncomfortable.

Do we really need to talk about how loyal this boy is? No because we all know!

He would be able to help you with controlling emotions somehow. I mean have you seen him and his brother?

Dates are de

Lastly, DO NOT MAKE HIM CRY!!!!!!!!!

#first division girl #tokyo revengers #tokyo rev #tokyo revengers matchups #tokyo revengers matchup #tokyo rev matchup #tr matchups #tr matchup #character matchup #matchups

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chronicbeans · 9 months

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My little Welcome Home OC Segment featuring my OC, Pinkie Patience! It's formatted like a forum post asking to find the episode.

If y'all wanna participate in this challenge (that I created because I just love how creative some of these OCs y'all are making are), go right ahead!

Here's the link to the post explaining it:

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LOST WELCOME EPISODE PLS HELP????

So, a little about me: I'm a disabled man, trying to find this one episode of Welcome Home. This show was kinda my comfort as a kid. I was put in a wheelchair due to an accident from a really young age and the positivity this show exuded was very welcoming and comforting. I mean, it was literally called WELCOME Home! One character, however, really helped me out. His name was Pinkie Patience, and he only appeared in a few episodes. He was disabled, like me, and made me feel understood. Like I had a friend in him, because we were similar. I've heard similar stories from other people online who remember him and are disabled. It kinda seems like he was the bread and butter for disabled kids, back then.

There was this one episode, however, that kinda made me realize that I had more friends than I thought. I always felt like I needed to stick with other kids that were disabled, because a few of the "normal" kids made fun of me and the others. They made fun of my wheelchair, made fun of my friend's leg braces, made fun of anything they could. Especially when it was a visible difference. It really made me feel bad about the fact that, not only was I disabled, I was VISIBLY disabled. Kinda like I couldn't make friends with able-bodied people, because they wouldn't want to be seen with me. This episode, which for the life of me I cannot remember the name of, made me realize otherwise. It made me realize I COULD make friends with able-bodied kids, that, if they were a good person, they wouldn't feel ashamed of being seen with me. I want to find this episode, so I could show it to my kid, who recently had to get a back brace for scoliosis. They hate that people can tell they are wearing it, even if they hide it with clothes.

So, I can't remember the name, but I remember the specific segment that involved Pinkie. It was actually a Wally segment, with him painting. The other characters got involved, too. Let me write out what I could remember.

So, Wally starts out the segment like normal. Instead of asking the viewer what to paint, however, he says something like "I want to paint something for Pinkie. He seemed upset, yesterday, and still seems upset today." Then, he went on to explain how everybody was playing a game yesterday, accommodating for Pinkie's limited movement and joint pain. However, partway through, Pinkie had to stop playing, because his joints got worse and his leg brace broke.

So, Wally begins painting a picture of Pinkie, specifically Pinkie in his leg braces. This is important for later, but isn't really mentioned. Anyways, Julie ends up interrupting the segment, knocking on Wally's door. Wally let's her in, with Julie mentioning her concerns for Pinkie. She joins in on the art segment, drawing a picture of Pinkie relaxing in the sun in crayon. It repeats with each character, with Frank and Eddie working together to make a paper chain of something, Sally writing a play about... Something I also don't remember, but I think she mentioned making sure it wouldn't be too taxing for Pinkie to play the lead role. Howdy and Poppy worked together to make Pinkie a cake, making sure to not put any chocolate or peanut butter in the recipe, because Pinkie was allergic to those foods. I don't remember what Barnaby did, but I do remember him making a joke about how people seem to think Pinkie doesn't do much because of his disabilities, but in fact, he probably does more than the people who think that way about him.

So, Wally making a painting turned into planning a surprise party that was being held in Wally's house (AKA Home, because his house was alive). Eddie ended up going and getting Pinkie, who was brought in in a wheelchair, due to his leg braces still being broken. Everybody presented their gifts to him, trying to cheer him up. I don't remember how he reacted at first, but by the end, he was happy.

Everybody left one by one, until it was just Pinkie and Wally. Pinkie turned to leave, but was stopped by Wally, who hadn't given him his painting, yet. This was the part where the painting became really important. Maybe not to the episode, but to me.

Wally gives Pinkie the portrait, with Pinkie looking a bit shocked. Then, Pinkie smiles and goes on one of his long rants. I still remember it, almost word for word, despite it being a bit long imo. I mainly remember it because I rewatched the episode to write down what he said and I still have that paper. My writing was messy, though, and my spelling was a bit off. So I kinda had to decipher it would write it down. I made sure to write it down, because this was the exact moment that made this show, especially this episode, Pinkie, and Wally Darling, so special to me.

Pinkie said "Man. Thanks. You know, sometimes, I wonder why anybody would find me appealing enough to draw or paint a picture of me. People tend to find it hard to draw things like my braces or my wheelchair. Also, I just think that they look unappealing. Then, I think to myself, "Wow! Imagine all the people in the world who think the same thing! All the beautiful people who also have braces, wheelchairs, or a difference they think is noticable from people who aren't disabled? I know that if I saw them, I would think they are beautiful people, so what makes me different? And I know that you think I am a beautiful person, Wally, be cause you always say so. The same with the rest. Everyone here always tells me how nice I looked that day, how nice I look today, and how nice I'll look tomorrow. You guys always cheer me up when I'm down. It's why, most of the time, I feel good about myself. It makes me sad to think about all of the lovely people who feel down because they are different, and they don't have others to cheer them on."

There was then this moment of silence, like the two of them had this silent understanding. Then, Wally looked to the screen, saying "It's always nice to cheer others up, no matter who they are and what they are going through. You may feel like you have nobody, or that you can only be with others like you, but that isn't true! The world may be a bit mean sometimes. People fear those they don't understand... but avoiding what you don't understand only makes it so that you'll always fear it! You need to go out and meet others who are different, no matter how scary it may seem, at first. Then, you'll eventually meet the people who are nice and want to understand you just as much as you want to understand them."

The show then ended. Wally's segment was at the end of this episode. If it helps out in finding this episode, I think this episode might've been dedicated to someone in specific. I remember the end card having a subtitle saying it was dedicated to someone, with my mom mentioning that it was the kid of a set member on the show who was recovering from polio and had to have knee braces because of it.

I have a few books with Pinkie, like the one about his birthday and the one about not being afraid of going to the doctor. This episode, though, is the only thing I remember that directly talked about how some kids feel when they have to use a visible aid or if they have a visible disability. Please, I really want to find it! I already contacted the Welcome Home Restoration Project people on the website, but I think having extra people searching could help!

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charliethemanticore · 8 months

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please tell me about sayer and bernard roth, and do not pretend to be normal about it 🩷

okay okay okay, anon I am giving you a little kiss on the forehead. I am gonna be going back through my notes so if this takes a hot minute, that’s why.

Update: This is… getting very long so I’m going to do this in sections. Your introduction lies below the readmore. Because I’ve hit 850 words. It really needs an edit. I am not doing that. Have fun. There will be another installment later.

So. Corsets (and Why We're So Weird About Them)

So, a few things need to be established here to understand the roots of modern anti-corset rhetoric. I will be dealing with sexism, ableism, and likely touching on racism within the medical field during the 19th century. If you’re anything like me, you will be angry by the end of this, just hopefully at some guys who have been dead a really long time, and not me. I’m just some guy who is three arbitrary credits off having a degree in History (with High Distinctions, btw. I’m very proud of my disabled ass for my current 6.0 on our 7-point scale)

France, America, and the UK in the 19th century were very Christian in the 19th century. The research I’ve done mostly focused on these countries, however I did briefly dabble in German history because the medical dress reform movement more or less started there, but more on that later.

As many of you know, it is a fairly standard belief in (many denominations of) Christianity* that if you do something Wrong™ then you will be Punished™ with misfortune. During this period, if someone was ill then they had Done Something To Deserve It™. This meant that, often, your physical condition was treated as a shorthand for your moral standing.

* For the purposes of this discussion, Catholicism is included under the “Christianity” blanket, I know many Catholics disagree with that categorization, but I am not writing “Christians and Catholics” fifty times

The medical field was professionalized to a recognizable degree in the 19th century. A lot of that professionalization resulted in super fucked up ideas about gender, race, and disability. The professionalization of medicine was parallel to the rise in global eugenics movement. This will probably surprise no-one but needs to be stated, nonetheless.

Many disabilities are more frequently observed in Women* than Men*. Scoliosis, which was the focus of my research for my major work, was one of these conditions. It followed, therefore, that women were doing something Bad™ that men weren’t** and the easiest options were exercise and corsetry. Now, doctors genuinely believed that women were more delicate and susceptible to disease and injury (both to the physical and spiritual being). For the most part, many doctors did NOT want women to be doing as much exercise as they were recommending for men. So corsets were Public Enemy #1

* I’m nonbinary, I know that the binary is bullshit and biology is weird soup, but I am using the terms applicable to the medical understanding and discussion of the period, it’s just easier when referring to primary texts.

** Many men did actually wear corsets. I want one of the advertisements as a tattoo. They’re great.

Right. So now that we have the basic facts outlined, onward. I will include a reference list below. I might put some of my recommended reading in a google drive or smth if anyone wants that.

So. First of all we should probably talk about what a corset is. “Oh by Charlie I know what a corset is” shush. Maybe you do. Maybe you know what a modern corset is. This is my ted talk and I will be as obsessive about my definitions as I like.

For the purposes of SEO algorithms, a corset is a generic term that could refer to bodies, stays, corselets, true corsets, and anything you can find on google when searching for a fast fashion corset top. A generic term that can be applied wantonly for a thousand different garments from the 16th century to today is not very helpful.

When I say “Corset” I mean a garment that began to evolve from stays in the 1820s and had established itself as the popular foundational garment by the 1840s and remained so until the 1920s. For simplicities sake, a corset is a “rigid bodice” supported by vertical boning (Usually baleen/whalebone. Sometimes steel, sometimes reed, sometimes cording)(1). Its primary function was to support the bust, but they also formed the foundation of popular fashions (2).

Corsets work by distributing weight of the bust (and also clothing) across the entire torso, supported by resting on the hips (think of the difference between cradling a toddler – or a heavy box - and sitting them on your hip)(2). They also formed a smooth surface so that clothing could be tight to the body while limiting wrinkling but, more importantly, IT STOPPED WAISTBANDS NEEDING TO DIG INTO THE BODY TO STAY UP. They could be tight to the body, but the corset would not allow them to dig into the body. They were (USUALLY) custom made to the individual and (USUALLY) only worn to the tightness comfortable for the level of activity for the individual. (I will talk about exceptions later). Tight lacing wasn’t hugely common. Usually the drastic shape was achieved through optical illusion and padding (Bust improvers, bustles, bum pads) (3)(4). If you make the hips and bust appear larger, the waist will naturally appear smaller, regardless of actual measurements.

God this is going to be so long I haven’t even got to the Bernards. Okay so this might have to be in installments.

REFERENCES

1 Steele, Valerie. Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion. Kindle ed. Charles Schribner’s Sons, 2005, p. 290

2 Waugh, Norah, and Judith Dolan. Corsets and Crinolines. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, Ny, Routledge, 2018, p. 75.

3 Kunzle, David. Fashion and Fetishism: Corsets, Tight-Lacing and Other Forms of Body Sculpture. Sutton Publishing, 2004, p. 89.

4 Steele, Valerie. Fashion and Eroticism: Ideals of Feminine Beauty from the Victorian Era to the Jazz Age. Oxford University Press, 1985, pp. 62-63

#Corset history #Victorian history #fashion history #academia #i guess #Historyblr #I am so so excited about this #This is the first infodump i've done for fun on this because i burned out on it after my major project BUT I AM SO EXCITED #which is why this is a mess i am so sorry. I want to publish my short story and it's exegesis which is why I'm not just posting that #the Roth and Sayre sections are coming i promise. I want to talk to them both. study them like bugs. Brodhurst too.#Also I don't know if I should put pictures in. let me know if you want pictures in the next bit #Continuing education #Corsets #Vintage styles not vintage values #Part one #Corset Chronicles #Corset Chronicles part one #(thats how i'm gonna tag this infodump series i think)#anon #thank you anon this made my day #part 2 may be tonight or tomorrow depending on spoons

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cripple-culture-is · 10 months

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Actually a question

Would being able to walk most of the time but with severe pain and fatigue but like 20- 40ish % not able to due to possibly scoliosis (not sure if something else ) and not having aids but wanting something like a brace or cane

Is someone like that disabled or ablebodied

Mainly so ik how to identify myself here

I don't wanna cause any problems

I just always been told my scoliosis isn't that bad because it's not bad enough for surgery

So I never knew how to identify I also have my hips turned in and my feet turned in which makes me very odd balance and clumsy wen I do love as well

Tldr can walk most time causes pain has scoliosis wish had something to assist me am I disabled or abled or is there a word for in between?

Okay, so this is a lot to answer, in a way.

One thing for sure, based on what you've said, I wouldn't call you 'able-bodied'. You would teeter toward being disabled for sure.

I would personally say that you are unofficially disabled. Now, why unofficially?

I cannot tell you if you are legally disabled or not. You would have to speak to your doctor about that. However, in my eyes, and I'm sure most of the people here would agree, you are disabled.

I can walk most of the time. I don't have aids or anything like that. Just because your condition isn't severe enough to require surgery doesn't mean you aren't disabled.

There are many kids who have my condition who have had surgeries. I have never had any surgeries, and I am disabled under U.S. law. Not all cases of scoliosis are considered disabilities under U.S. law. But if you have severe pain and mobility issues, then you could be considered disabled.

If you want to be certified disabled, I would try bringing it up to your doctor. If your doctor tells you that you aren't disabled because of any societal perceptions or stereotypes there are because of disability, I'd try another doctor.

Being certified disabled legally, is the best option, if you want some help in public. If you are certified physically disabled, maybe you could get a handicapped placard/plates and not have to walk as far to get places.

I personally think you can identify yourself as disabled, especially here (you're welcome here 🤗). But if you want to be protected under U.S. law (if you live in the U.S.), then you'd have to speak with your doctor.

I hope this helps!

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justperfectlygay · 2 years

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It has come to my attention that Viktor from arcane most likely has severe scoliosis. So as someone with scoliosis and mine was severe (*I don't know if it still is because of my back brace doing its job*) I'd like to say..

He was amazing representation for the community. In my opinion at least. His character isn't one to "need saving" or "be a victory for the hero and victim towards the villain". He is his own and stands his own and doesn't let it defy him by any means.

Viktor proves that despite being disabled in many ways it does not effect you can have on others and the world. Viktor shows that he is intellectual, brave, morally well and strong willed. Not only that but he is a MAIN character, not a side one.

Viktor shows the emotions one may also have during being disabled. At first it still effects him but to the point where he can act like it doesn't effect him to much but it alters his lifestyle and actions, then when things get worse he begins to show that even though he is okay with having a disability he has a desperation to "make it better" and desperation is a huge thing within disabilities. We have the longing of wanting to be "normal" or healthy, some are contempt with it others aren't.

Whatever one you are it doesn't make you any less valid.

BUT there is an issue with the representation with Viktors plot. He had to *fix* his disability to be happy. Which then caused the death of a woman and if we follow to the point he becomes the machine herald, he loses his humanity to be the machine herald... So riot want Viktors disability to lose his humanity and end up being a mass murderer....... So don't immediately go to say Viktor is the greatest representation but it's more positive than previous showings.

Though, I have noticed an issue because of the fact Viktor has a back brace. This is that people see his back brace and mainly abled people say that it is a binder because he is transgender. Now, I do headcanon Viktor as trans as well, it's a good headcanon. BUT there is a line we do not cross, and this is one of those lines. Viktors back brace is to literally support his body or he can't function properly otherwise: aka he can't live without it. It is erasure to very little representation we have already. Viktor is literally the only character with scoliosis I know, and that might not even be canon. I am aware that there is either bad representation of trans characters or very little but please take in consideration who it may harm or do some research before hand. And no, Viktor doesn't just have a disease. Disease and disability are two very different things. His disabilities aren't an excuse for you to go off and headcanon him without proper knowledge. In my opinion if you didn't know, that is fine you made a mistake at least change it and apologize but if you did know he was disabled and it was a back brace or you choose to ignore what disabled people say for a headcanon politely fuck off. Again I am sorry that you don't get enough trans representation but neither do we and I feel as if this should be acknowledged rather than ignored.

Thanks for your time. However you take this. If you have another thought whether agreeing or disagreeing just thanks for the time. It means a lot. Though I hope I got the message across.

#arcane #arcane viktor #disability #scoliosis #we need more characters with physical disorders #viktor lol #negative headcanons #representation

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askthemysterkids · 1 year

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What are each of the kids' weaknesses?

So I guess first off I can say their loved ones. That is an obvious answer. Beyond that though, it gets more psychological for most of them. (Though PTSD also seems to be a thing across the board.) (Below the cut there is the MK classic, Over the Garden Wall, Amphibia, and Owl House.)

Mabel: Boys. Probably boys. She also can be kind of childish but that can be both a strength, and a weakness. She also can be greedy at times but she's getting better. She also has a fear of stop motion animation and growing up (albeit that is getting better.)

Dipper: So he's both impulsive, but not impulsive. He's also very analytical to a fault. He also is very reliant on the journals when it comes to something he doesn't know so if he runs into something new and he doesn't know what he's looking at and also doesn't have a good source (i.e Ford, the internet, a folk book) he might second guess himself until he comes up with a good plan. He also has a fear of puppets (minus sock puppets) and probably trigonometry.

Coraline: I suspect her mouth can get her in trouble. Also I suspect her pride can be used against her. She also has a fear of spiders, buttons, and those crawlspace doors (turns out tiny doors are doors for crawlspaces. Saw one in North Carolina.)

Wybie: He is very skeptical but I believe that might be better after the movie. He does seem to have anxiety though so that is probably a weakness. He also seems to have scoliosis so depending on how bad that actually is... I'm not sure what his fears are to be honest besides maybe social things. He didn't see the spider things, just the hand.

Raz: He is also impulsive to a fault and eager to please. He is also naive due to being like, 10? He does seem to be crushed by the idea of disappointing his heroes too... He is recovering from a fear of water (yay!) but did seem majorly freaked out by Meat Circus too.

Lili: She is very impulsive and aggressive. She also seems to greatly enjoy fire which probably could be used against her somehow. I would also like to point out that she is also 10. She also has close connections to the higher ups of the Psychonauts so if someone figures out how to use that, that's also there. Not sure what Lili is afraid of. Maybe losing her dad but that's a give in.

Norman: This boy is anxiety coded. He is a ball of nerves and has low self esteem. Legit poke the right buttons on this kid and I think you've got him. (I now want to hug him and give him zombie movies.) He probably has fears of bullies but also that nagging feeling in the back of his head thinking that people don't want him around.

Neil: He is oblivious. Aside from that though, he's not as strong or as fast as the others. He also doesn't seem to notice some social cues. This doesn't mean that he's not nice though! He just seems to miss some. Neil tends to stump me so I don't exactly know what he would have a fear of. I am probably due for a rewatch. Wirt: He seems to care way too much about what other think of him while at the same time thinking of himself as an outcast. He has anxiety, self esteem issues, and a lack of a spine until someone says that to him. Then he has simultaneously too much and too little of a spine. He also does not do good when he's front and center of attention. And is pessimistic. He's also probably overprotective of Greg. He has stage fright, a fear of rejection, fear of getting lost, and is probably afraid of the woods at night.

Greg: He is naive to dangers and is overly optimistic. His optimism is both a strength and a weakness though. He is very much still a young child, I put him at 7. He just doesn't notice dangers. I saw this somewhere and I like this if you need a fear for Greg: Someone said that he might get nervous when its a really cold night. He just was so brave about everything so it's hard to get a fear for him. Sasha: She is aggressive as hell. She doesn't let anyone get in her way and doesn't take no for an answer. This is all both a strength and a weakness. She does seem dismissive of others ideas till later in the show too. I don't remember if she has a fear per say, I wouldn't be surprised if she was afraid of overstepping again though.

Anne: Anne really does like taking the easy way out sometimes and she does get better about this, but I can see her sometimes just wanting the easy way out still. She does also seem oblivious at times and maybe over protective of her friends. She is also very attached to her phone. She might be afraid of death in all seriousness. Also she might be worried about losing her friends again.

Marcy: She is oblivious, clumsy, and kind of air-headed. Though she is brilliant. This is both a strength and a weakness too but she wears her heart on her sleeve. She does have a tendency to look at everything like it were a game or a movie though which while it can be good for coping, it can also potentially be a weakness if someone figures out how to use that. I would not be surprised if she had many fears after True Colors. 0-o Luz: Just like Marcy, she wears her heart on her sleeve but again, both a strength and a weakness. Luz can be reckless and that tends to get her into trouble. She also has a strong need to prove herself. She currently is also going through her self doubt and not feeling like she's doing good arc so... yeah... insecurities. She definitely has a fear of getting judged for leading Belos to the Collector. I guess fear of getting judged for past mistakes.

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knightsofsomethingorother · 9 months

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Starting off with Episode 2, A Knight's Quest!

The football team is running through the forest and they have this giant battering ram that I thought was an elephant at first. It's not :(

It occurs to me that this is an Isekai. Also Arthur's horse has scoliosis. Everyone's talking about how weird all of this is and Arthur and Lance come to the conclusion that this is important because there's a pretty girl in danger and also the future is in trouble or something... Whatever.

Look at this top-down view of the forest.

They find a tree glowing red (goes unexplained for the rest of the episode) and get attacked by some guys and this line is said by our lead:

"It's time for Arthur King to go forward as King Arthur once and for all."

I am 2 minutes into episode 2.

Anyway they summon their magic weapons from their tits. They also just... magically know how to do this. Also they magically know how to ride horses. Also fight. Maybe their high school had really good extracurriculars.

The bad guy has a tit snake he can summon and it occurs to me that this is an Extended Toy Commercial so I need to check something.

Yeah that's about what I had in mind. Moving on! What did I mi-

A hole in the ground opened up and swallowed two of the football boys.

A HOLE IN THE GROUND OPENED UP AND ATE LANCE AND ANOTHER GUY.

Also the villains just... fuck off? Leave. OKAY.

In this pit is Morgana. OKAY. SURE. This paced and written like a fever dream.

She demands that they answer her questions, then tells them to shut up, then says 'A few years in the dungeons and maybe you'll answer my questions'.

Don't ask what happened to this screenshot. Anyway Arthur's having a pity party. Yay. Have I mentioned it's been only FIVE MINUTES??? Now he's off to save them on his own because he's 'Got to do it himself'. And honestly if they had this characterization for the Fake-Lancelot I'd commend it for being very true to the character.

Cheeked up.

Oh and his shield summons a dragon.

He then goes to Morgana's castle on his own. Immediately. After unlocking a bunch of powers. Tension? Pacing? WHAT'S THAT?

So yeah Arthur bodies two guys, a giant bat, and a Giant Fucking Rock and saves everyone no issue. NO PROBLEM. DID YOU DOUBT HIM?

I do have to give them credit for having Morgana be a Saturday morning cartoon villain. It's what she was always meant to be. I mean it... IS a Saturday morning cartoon but shut up.

Stuff proceeds to happen and then they go home.

And then Guinevere's eyes change color in the same shot the end.

So if you want a drinking game, watch this episode and take a shot any time a fully-cheeked ass is the focus of a shot. It will kill you. I'm going to have to give this episode two ass cheeks out of five. There's a lot of little details I'm leaving out for brevity's sake, but good lord this episode gave me whiplash every other minute. And I can't do an analysis or anything without just playing the episode because it's just 'and then this happened' over and over again. This is war though and there's no time to question this shit so onto the next episode!

Episode 3, The Unbeliever.

It opens with me and the mutuals hunting down a peasant running towards Camelot. He runs and runs and runs but never seems to get any further. They also reuse a lot of animation of this guy looking over his shoulder.

There he goes! Anyway he's revealed to be placed there by Morgana and Evil Man. He says that a dragon has one of the Macguffins that they need and then one of the knights goes 'lol dragons aren't real' when LAST EPISODE Arthur SHAT A DRAGON OUT OF HIS SHIELD.

AND THEN THEY PROCEED TO ARGUE ABOUT IT SOME MORE???

Now they just... have squires. Cool? Why is he here? Ladywoman who is apparently named 'Elaine' also tells them she had a bad dream that they died on this mission and everyone brushes her off.

Which, you know. That one's close to the source materials. I'll give them that.

They get into a fight with the baddies. One guy summons a wall from his battle tower. Blah blah blah...

Guinevere tells Merlin something's up, he brushes her off entirely. Then Arthur tells that little boy with no armor or weapons that he should help them fight the dragon that definitely does exist and is just hanging out on top of a church.

Oh what do you know, it's a trap. And the dragon is an illusion. The guy who raised a stink about dragons being fake despite ARTHUR SUMMONING ONE FROM HIS SHIELD is correct.

They're then stuck at the top of the tower with baddies swarming in from the bottom. The solution is clearly to build a hang glider.

As one does.

Back at Camelot that peasant guy tries to burn the round table which appears to be made of stone and he gets his ass handed to him by one of the squires and he's blasted with Merlin's finger lasers.

Then there's ANOTHER fight... I should note here that for every fight they play the same music and the same audio of dudes shouting. I have never once seen a cartoon so thoroughly suck the joy out of the concept of fight scenes but here we are.

During this fight Dragon Skeptic summons an eagle from his shield meaning he DEFINITELY SAW ARTHUR'S DRAGON but I guess that doesn't count as a REAL ONE??? I GUESS???

AND NOW HE HAS A GIRLFRIEND? OKAY??? SURE! WHY NOT?

Also nobody directly apologized to the women. Just a 'I sure should've listened to you' to Guinevere. Nobody apologized to Elaine.

Gooooddddd that one was annoying. The only highlight was watching a child beat the shit out of a grown man. Episode 2 was at least campy fun at times. This was just dull. 0 dragons out of 5.

#bohbot #KA:TKJ #old cartoon review #arthurian shitposting #long post #really long post

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tiredsn0w · 7 months

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How tall is 049 in your AU (if that’s what it’s classified as), and how much do his ✨HIGH HEELS✨ add to his height? Also, did he learn how to walk in em from experience? And are his tendons kinda screwed up from wearing them, or does his biology keep that from happening? Sorry if these are weird questions, I just got curious

Anyway, thank you for taking the time to read this, and I hope your day goes well!

Hello! I would not really classify my writing as an AU because it's on the actual SCP Wikidot site, within the main canon besides for the UnHuman works (though they do cross into the main canon), so it takes place within the SCP universe instead of an alternate one. However, I definitely get what you're trying to say :)

I've stuck with his height being 1.9m, though that's only 2 sig figs so I'd say between 1.85m and 1.94m is probably fair to assume also. (I've usually kept to the upper end because there's some writing where he's described as looming or imposing, and I think it fits him well.)

In terms of high heels, I've imagined them more built into the boots. For example, I have a pair of shoes that a family member got for me. He's a first responder so they're the good stuff, 5.11 tactical boots, they're the only pair of shoes I wear and I love them immensely.

Anyways, you can look up photos of them and they're totally flat, there's no "heel" per se. But it's been measured and they add like 5cm (~2 inch) to my height, without causing any problems for me (I was a toe walker and have been in PT for years for it, so I would know).

So I can easily see him wearing some boots like that, that also have a small heel on them. I think 5-8cm of total added height isn't too extreme, which would make him at least 1.90m and at max 2.00m.

I don't think it would mess his tendons up too bad, because if we're keeping with the bird-like anatomy (and if you're a purist, his clothes being part of his body, including his shoes), they have digitigrade posture, which would mean for a naturally shorter leg tendon.

He's also already on the taller end, so I don't see him putting extra strain on his body for only a few cm. I have a friend with flat feet who has problems all the way up to his shoulders because of it-- everything in your body is connected! Sometimes my chiropractor has to adjust my legs and hips because I leaned too far with my shoulders when drawing. I also had scoliosis for years that was fixed by simply adding something to the bottom of one of my feet. Bodies are so interesting and complicated like that.

Hopefully I didn't text-wall too much-- thank you for the question! I hope your day is also going well. :)

#ask response #scp 049 #scp writing #While a little more on the expensive side- 5.11 boots are awesome #They're not sold here though #He got them for me when I visited #One of my favourite gifts #I love practical things!

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