#able-bodied

[noodle-shenaniganery]

Question: when people use the term “abled people”, is that short for “able-bodied people” or just a term for non-disabled (neurotypical and ablebodied) people in general?

#actually disabled #disability #disabled #neurotypical #ablebodied #able bodied #disability advocacy #abled people #ablebodied people #potentially? #able-bodied #question #question question question question question

[madlovenovelist]

Book Review – ‘Six of Crows’ (#1 Six of Crows) by Leigh Bardugo

Revisiting the Grishaverse with a magic heist and a mixed-bag of miscreants. Genre: YA, Fantasy No. of pages: 465 Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off…

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#able-bodied #book #book review #Casey Carlisle #CritiqueCasey #Crooked Kingdom #diversity #Dregs #duology #fantasy #Fiction #Fold #found family #gang #Grisha #Grishaverse #heist #Inej #Jesper #Kaz #Ketterdam #LGBT #LGBTIA+ #magic #Matthias #monsters #Nina #Novel #powers #queer

[entropysoup]

magicians book update!!

JOSH TIME god i missed his presence. hes such an important character. he deserves more love. and i adore the backtracking julia lore 💓💓 its fun to hear whats shes been about. god shes so emo and edgy.

my favourite sentence until now:

"pretty soon he was going to figure out that she wasnt role-playing a sexy depressed goth chick, she had actually become a sexy depressed goth chick.

also lev grossman is using the expression "the funny thing about blank is..." every two sentences and its hilarious

#able-bodied #the magicians #tm #the magician king #the magicians books #the magicians trilogy #lev grossman #idk im kinda confused by grossman #on the one hand he used the r slur multiple times and used asp*rgers which is not nice #but i also kinda appreciate his somewhat awareness of the world? ive never seen disabled people just exist in a book so casually #also this is the first time that ive seen the term outside of twitter #even though this isnt perfect and my perception isnt perfect i somewhat appreciate this #the term able-bodied*

[icannotgetoverbirds]

quick question

if I were to go out in costume and the costume required that I wore heels or something, would it be bad for me to make/get forearm crutches to compensate for my lack of balance? if and when I do end up having a better balance and/or upgrading/downgrading I might be able to donate the crutches to someone in need afterwards?

I could also make them have fake blades attached for the costume (or real blades if I'd be allowed to do that at an event) if that helps? Idk because I'm able-bodied (at least I think - i still have yet to see a cardiologist about the POTS but it might just be anemia) and I don't want to b shitty about that but also like.

I've heard that when it comes to things like that it can actually help to destigmatize and/or create more demand for accessibility tools that results in a better supply? I know that it's not a proper comparison but the closest equivalent I can think of is if more people (including NT people) started wearing noise-cancelling headphones out and about, which I'd love to see (Edit: not a proper comparison at all, sorry about that!).

Basically I'm pretty sure that this is harmless and/or actually helpful but as an able-bodied person I know I'm not exactly the authority on things like that so I'd like opinions from people who this is actually relevant to (IE mobility aid users, esp crutch users) if at all possible.

#/gen #/genq #/gen question #/pos #/nm #disability #disabilities #disabled #able-bodied #able bodied #crutches #forearm crutches #mobility aids #disclaimer i am not physically disabled #byrd chirps

[gentlemanbutch]

the way that no one wears a mask at my local LGBTQ clinic, and in fact comments on my mask like it's just this hilarious little idiosyncrasy that I still wear one and not because I'm immunocompromised and we're in the middle of a pandemic ... as if there isn't an airborne virus that literally fucks up your immune system ... as if we didn't lose a generation of queer people to another virus that fucks up your immune system ...

#i am tired of being tired and enraged but god i am so tired and enraged #white queer able bodied people try giving a shit for five seconds challenge #disability rights #disability #disabled #disability justice #chronically ill #covid #covid 19 #covid-19 #covid conscious #covid isn't over #chronic illness #immunocompromised #hiv #aids crisis #lgbtq #lgbt #queer rights

[keymintt]

YOU MUST TRY TO LOVE YOURSELF WHEN NOTHING ELSE DOES. THIS WILL BE THE HARDEST PART

#art #painting #drawing #coyotes #coyote #traditional #body horror #gouache #black #white #neon #sword #eye strain #my art #trying a different color scheme with this one yeehaw #would love to be able to do more than like. two of these a year but alas i am Busy #greatest hits

[colourmeastonished]

Body swap movie where one of them has invisible disabilities and when the other one lands in their body they immediately collapse catatonic on the floor from the pain and fatigue and the first one is like 'oh damn guess I don't have to worry that I'm faking it anymore'

#i have this fantasy of one my able bodied friends and or coworkers occupying my body for like an hour #just to get a real sense of how much i am truly weathering hellfire every day of my life #sometimes i take stock and im like holy crap ive gotten so used to so much #im a frog in a pot and ive convinced myself the bubbling is just fun ambience #my thoughts #invisible disability #chronic illness #chronic pain

[thereforeispam]

I think what frustrates me more about the depiction of disability in media is how it only seems to exist in a vacuum.

Growing up disabled - being socialised as disabled - is traumatising.

You have no support network. You have no one like you. You have no characters, role models, idols, teachers, classmates, employers, colleagues, friends, relatives, siblings, parents like you. There are no movies or films or books or music or any form of entertainment made by and for people like you. Education facilities and workplaces were not made to accommodate you. The way you navigate the world is noticeably slower and more challenging in ways abled-bodied + neurotypical people do not understand.

And if you want to get existential about it, for all you know you are fundamentally detrimental to society. You lost in the evolutionary arms race. You have no idea why you exist. Why you have to exist? Your very being is a subconscious warning to abled-bodied + neurotypical people. You exist as a lesson. Their lesson. You're a taboo side-comment whispered in the car or at the dinner table. Sometimes, you're not even a word at all but a simple, repulsed expression.

Sometimes, you feel those emotions towards yourself - towards people similar to you. And sometimes your internalised ableism crushes you further and further into your own loneliness and isolation. Sometimes, you are stuck between worlds, and the only respite is to choose neither. Somethings its choosing to resent abled-bodied + neurotypical people and avoid them when you can. It's choosing to develop an "us vs them" mentality and viewing them through a lens of hyper-vigilance because all the work you've put into yourself can just as easily be undone.

Being disabled is traumatising.

#this more like a part two to my last post bc i wanted to explain my mindset #disability #disabled #mental health #mental illness #neurodivergent #neurotypical #neurotypes #mental disorder #able-bodied

[littleogreboii]

i see a lot of people talk about edward being disabled in fma, but it's less often talked about how alphonse is also disabled. i think it's partially because alphonse doesn't experience physical pain like edward so for a majority of the series, he's not having any of those kind of symptoms, but he is still disabled. also because alphonse's experiences are unique. like you don't see ant walking, talking suits of armour in real life (unless they're piloted by a human being physically inside them) and in world, there are about 3 others like alphonse).

alphonse is dependent on edward's survival to function. after fighting scar for the first time, alphonse is literally in pieces. he can't walk or anything until edward is in a position to fix him. similarly his body is dependent on nutrients from edward's body. like there's the point towards the end where edward gets impaled and alphonse collapses. furthermore, these periods where alphonse collapses start to become debilitating towards the end of the series and massively alter his daily living.

also, alphonse constantly talks about how upsetting it is for him to not feel any physical sensations. yeah, he's not feeling physical pain, but he's also not feeling the warmth of a fire, the sun on his face, or the fluffiness of the cats he keeps petting. he talks a lot about not being able to eat or sleep, and how there's a lot of foods he wants to try.

there's another thing that highlighted by edward at one point. alphonse's body doesn't regenerate at all. the parts scar destroys are gone forever; edward stretches out the metal that alphonse has left to repair his body. and obviously human beings don't regrow limbs, but imagine if your skin didn't ever heal over a cut. how long would your body last?

also alphonse gets told several times that his body is great throughout the series, and he literally argues against it every time, because to him it is shit. like he is missing some of his senses just for some supposedly immortal body that isn't even immortal.

even once alphonse gets his own body back, the amount of physical therapy the boy has to go through. his body has essentially been doing nothing and only receiving what nutrients it can get from edward for years. by the end of the series, he's still using a cane as a walking aid. it's unknown whether he requires that cane for the years to come, but for at least a period of time he requires a mobility aid. I don't know enough to say what effect muscle decay from inactivity and severe malnourishment during a major portion of his teenage years would have long term.

#fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fullmetal alchemist #fmab spoilers #fmab #fma #fma brotherhood #alphonse elric #i will say im able bodied so that might influence my perception #also if any of the language or thoughts i had seem wrong or are used poorly then i do apologise #im writing this in the middle of the night so my brain is low-key soup #i just do think alphonse suffers as a result of his armoured body and alphonse edward and winry are the only ones to really talk about it

[jakeperalta]

the taylor swift ai porn issue is such a bleak reminder of how inescapable the horrors of misogyny are. like obviously there's the talk of sort of "celebrity problems" like treatment by the tabloids etc, but beyond that there's just the constant heinous shit that women seemingly cannot escape no matter what. it doesn't matter that she (as well as other female celebrities) is extremely rich and famous and successful and has basically as much privilege and power as it is possible for any person to have, ultimately that's still not enough to escape the revenge porn and sexual assault and stalking and harassment. like there is literally no level of power a woman can have that puts her out of reach of all the men who hate women and want to control and humiliate and subjugate us in any way they can.

#with the obvious addition that if you do not hold these privileges of being rich/white/able bodied/straight/cis etc etc then it's even worse #(which is why even someone who hates taylor with their entire being should still root for her in situations like this. #because if someone with all of her power and resources and privilege can't fight something like this then what kind of hope is there for #any other random woman or girl who faces the same thing.) #talking

[satellites-halo]

Sick of posts that say stuff like "all mobility aid users should weaponize their mobility aids"

hey man, I can't do that! I need to bring my mobility aids into places that would deny me entrance for things like spikes and barbed wire! not every cripplepunk is a white skinny cane user, and having something deemed as a 'weapon' on some of us can be genuinely life threatening, even if it's a mobility aid! I don't want to have my rollator taken away from me and have to be searched bc I put some spikes on a seat cover or something!!! let cripplepunks express their punkness however is safe and comfortable for them, don't expect us all to be able to do the same things you can, because we all cant

#cripplepunk #cpunk #c-punk #cripple punk #punk #cripple #disability #physical disability #mobility aids #for the record: #i am not claiming that i am not white #i am a white latino and i acknowledge that i have the privelage to do these things more than BIPOC #however its still important to remember that our BIPOC siblings may be racially profiled #and put in real #genuine harm #for having anything people may deem a weapon #able-bodied people can reblog #but do not derail

[madlovenovelist]

Book Review – ‘Crooked Kingdom’ (#2 Six of Crows) by Leigh Bardugo

A found family of rogue thieves now battle it out for their home turf. Genre: YA, Fantasy, LGBTIA+ No. of pages: 546 When you can’t beat the odds, change the game. Kaz Brekker and his crew of deadly outcasts have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn’t think they’d survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they’re right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and…

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#able-bodied #book #book review #Casey Carlisle #CritiqueCasey #Crooked Kingdom #diversity #Dregs #duology #fantasy #Fiction #Fold #found family #gang #Grisha #Grishaverse #heist #Inej #Jesper #Kaz #Ketterdam #LGBT #LGBTIA+ #magic #Matthias #monsters #Nina #Novel #powers #queer

[bet-on-me-13]

The Villains Daughter

So! Years ago, back when the Justice League was only just starting out, only a year or two after their initial team-up, they had one of their biggest battles to date. A group of Extra-Dimensional Beings had burst into their reality, hellbent on destroying a Government Facility and the nearby small town in Illinois.

They barely managed to beat the Invading Army back, although the Government Facility and a part of the nearby Town had been destroyed in the battle.

Later, they would learn about what had happened. Apparently the Government Base, called a GIW Facility, had managed to finally Crack the secret to Interdimensional Travel a few days earlier. Unfortunately, they had opened a Portal into a Dimension known as the Ghost Zone, ruled over by a Tyrant King who wanted to enslaved all world under him. Their Breaching of the GZ had alerted the Tyrant King to the existence of their Dimension, and he had launched an immediate Invasion to try and take it over.

And the evidence supported this.

Wonder Woman shared Legends of her People, telling that their Founding Ancestor had fled the rule of a Tyrant King when she passed into the Afterlife.

Zatara shared his Magic Tomes, showing them passages detailing the horrific Rule of the Tyrant King of the Infinite Realms.

They even asked Boston Brand, the Deadman and resident Ghost about it. He hadn't been the the Ghost Zone in Years, but even he told them that he had personally fled the Tyrant King.

And they also learned that when the Tyrant King set his eyes on something, he did not falter on his Warpath to acquire it. The Tyrant King, Pariah Dark, would be back for their World, again and again.

And they needed to be prepared. This Battle was what kickstarted their true Commitment to the idea of a Team. They knew they could not defeat Pariah Dark alone, so they needed to remain as a Team.

But there was another thing that came about from the Battle.

While the JLA had been helping clean up, Wonder Woman came across a strange sight. A Baby had been left in the rubble of the GIW Building.

She asked around, investigated, and did all she could to find the babies parents. At first she thought that one of the GIW Agents had brought their kid to work that day, but their records indicated that none of the Agents had children of that Age. And Neither did any of the other workers who worked on the base, like the Janitors or the Kitchen Staff. And of they did, all of their children were accounted for.

She eventually came to the conclusion that the Baby must belong to somebody in the nearby Town, but that lead led nowhere either.

She finally came to the conclusion that the Baby's parents must have died in the Invasion, a very unfortunate but very real possibility. She was going to place her into the System, but over the course of her investigation she had grown fond of the Child.

She decided to Adopt the baby herself. She didn't know the child's name, so she had to come up with a new one.

"How do you like the name, Stella?"

The baby gurgled in delight.

...

Over the next decade of their Teams Existence, the Justice League had to fend off the Legions of the Ghost King's Army many more times. It seemed that Pariah had grown wise to the fact that they were the ones defending the Human Realm, as almost all of the later attacks were directed on them personally.

It made sense, they were the First Line of Defense against his Armies, if he managed to defeat them, their World would soon fall.

But they dealt with the attacks as they came. They had made it their mission to defend their Home from the Forced of Pariah Darks Army, and they would not falter now, or ever.

In the case of Wonder Woman, he Daughter had grown to be a fine little lady. Stella had eventually developed Powers similar to her mother, in that she could fly and had super strength, and had begged to be trained as a Hero.

And who was Diana to deny her Daughter her greatest wish? Over the next 5 years, Diana trained Stella in the ways of the Amazon's. Then, when Stella was 15, she had her join the newly formed Young Justice.

She made a great group of friends on that Team, and even started going by Ellie as a Nickname. Her best friend was by far Conner, though she didn't know why she felt such a strong connection to him? It felt like she could relate to him, but her situation was completely different?

Ah well, her Mom wouldn't mind having another kid, would she? She always wanted a Brother!

...

Meanwhile in the Ghost Zone, the Ghost King was getting anxious. After 15 years, his Agents in the Human Realm had finally managed to set up the Ritual needed to Summon Him into the Human Realm.

Who knew that accepting the Ghost King's Throne would bar him from entering the Human Realm through normal Means? He couldn't even use the Portal, he needed to be summoned or he simply wouldn't be able to leave his new home dimension.

But now, it was almost time. Just another year or two, and he would finally be able to enter the Human Realm. He would finally be able to Find Her. His Daugther.

Danny would finally be able to reunite with his daughter, Ellie.

#Dpxdc #Dp x dc #Dcxdp #Dc x dp #Danny Phantom #Dc #Dcu #Justice League #Wonder Woman #Diana adopts Ellie #Ellie was kidnapped by the GIW #Ellie was deaged so her Core would be able to grow alongside her Body #She doesn't know she even has powers aside from her flight and strength #They all just think that he is an unregistered classification of Metahuman and that's why her blood work didn't come back with a Meta Gene #Ellie Joins Young Justice #She is extremely uncomfortable when Superman rejects Connor but she doesn't know why #The Justice League thinks that Danny is a Villain #They think that he is Pariah Dark #Just under a new name #The whole world thinks that Danny is the greatest Supervillain to ever live #Including Ellie #She does not react well when she finds out that the World Greatest Evil is her Dad #Especially since she doesn't have the context #Danny attacked the JLA because she could sense that they had his daughter #He thought they were working with the GIW

[plague-parade]

if upon being told about someones illness/condition, your first thought is to say “have you tried X?” i want you to step back for a moment and think to yourself “if i thought of X after hearing about this condition for the very first time, the person who has this condition very likely has thought of this and possibly tried it already”

we are tired of constantly being told to try the same things by people who didnt know our condition existed five minutes ago.

you dont need to offer any solutions or try to fix us. i know it might seem like a polite thing to do or that it shows you care, there are other ways to show us you care.

#thought of saying something about being told ‘get well soon’ too but idk if im ready for that possible backlash lol #my mom (able bodied) gets really mad at me when i say this kind of stuff is annoying #so i just assume all able bodied people would react that way #actually disabled #disabled #disability pride month #disabled pride month #disability pride #disabled pride #physically disabled #chronically ill #chronic illness #actually chronically ill #cripple punk #cripplepunk #cpunk

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 169

Danny is from a world where everyone has wings, even if most have long since lost the ability to fly. Something about loading and aspect ratio, wings being too small, body too heavy, now mostly used as display, whatever. 

It doesn’t matter even if he had blueprints from when he was like six of a jetpack to help fly. It won’t work anyway and hey, he has his ghost form! Which uh, might be perhaps, affecting his wings which were maybe sort of scorched black and practically down to the bone thanks to the accident. 

It doesn’t matter, he swears. Though he’s admittedly relieved to see the new feathers growing in are different from Dan’s angry sunset. Even if they’re not even supposed to be able to grow back. Alright, this is fine, no one is going to notice! It’s not like everyone knows about the poor Fenton kid whose wings were absolutely destroyed thanks to an accident! It’s fine. 

He’s not flying in a half-panic towards the Far Frozen while crying because his wings are coming back and he’s so scared. He didn’t panic and instantly fled the moment Jazz pointed them out while changing the bandages. 

He definitely didn’t trip over something while wiping away said tears and blacking out from all the stress and all of his problems that he definitely mentioned to someone and isn’t keeping a secret. Definitely. 

Hawkwoman and Hawkman would like everyone to know that neither of them were expecting a very small child to be spat out of the villain of that week’s machine that should definitely not be a portal. A very small child, maybe nine or ten, with a multitude of concerning wounds both old and fresh. Which isn’t even beginning to touch on the wings. 

Feathered, like baby down despite the gnarled scars, unlike their own metallic, with the beginning of tiny specklings like stars amidst the darker fuzz peeking from the wounded flesh. 

Who?! Who dared?! It’s (at least to the forever reincarnating duo) a literal baby! They still have down! Tiny baby fuzz! Was it the portal?! Oh this villain is going to taste their maces for causing this if that’s the case! 

The rest of the Justice League would honestly like to know what just happened and are honestly unsure on if they should stop the two…

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #wing au #Shayera & Carter: THAT IS A BABY #Danny who is still very distressed when he wakes up: I don’t know what’s going on & might start crying at any moment #He got brought to the Watchtower #Y’know what make it where his world is similar to a Flashpoint timeline & that’s why JL never came #He has no idea why he’s tiny and just wanted to go to one of his caretakers #The League is trying to figure out how to get this kid home but also subtly asking how his home life is #Danny: Oh I guess my bio-parent’s house is dangerous but my caretaker’s homes are really cool and safe! #The JL now think this child is in foster care of some sort in his world #Danny does nothing to dissuade this assumption #Honestly it’s really freaky for him to see people without wings & maybe clings to Hawkwoman & Hawkman #Look their wings might be metallic but at least they have them & he can actually recognize their body language #How can anyone deal with not being able to express with wings?! #Even if his were completely scorched from the Accident he could still move them and such!

[flowercrowncrip]

Shout out to people who can’t follow sleep hygiene rules because of their disability.

Shout out to people who need to rest in bed without sleeping because being in a wheelchair/ chair for too long causes problems like pain, fatigue or pressure risk.

And people who can’t sleep in a dark room because their medical devices and equipment have essential lights.

And also to people who need a PA/ carer to frequently come in during the night and disturb you.

Just in case you need to hear it – you aren’t doing anything wrong 💜

#this post is inspired by the able bodied person running my friend’s chronic fatigue group #who told a bunch of physically disabled people their fatigue was caused by them resting in bed