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kururusti · 8 months

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#aftg #all for the game #andrew minyard #neil josten #andreil #artists on tumblr #amputee neil josten #amputee!neil

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cy-cyborg · 8 months

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Tips for Writing and Drawing Amputees: Bandaged Stumps

When writing and drawing amputee characters, unless your character only just lost their limb, they don't need to wear a bandage over their stumps.

to be clear, eda's depiction in the show was fine, since she'd only just lost her arm and went (presumably) without any medical attention, but because the show didn't have much time to show her afterwards, I've noticed a tendency of the fandom to draw her wearing the bandage permanently, so that's why I'm picking on her for my example lol.

It's a bit of a trope at this point, and I think it comes from one of a few different places:

Amputees do wear bandages on their stumps, but usually only for the first 6-12 weeks post-amputation, sometimes longer if the amputation was a result of a burn. It's possible people saw this though and assumed it was permanent.

Most amputees wear a sock made of either cotton or silicone under their prosthetics to provide them with some extra padding. These socks, called liners, often stick out from the top of the prosthetic socket and could possibly be mistaken for a bandage from a distance.

Some amputees will wear compression garments for a few months to a few years after their amputations which could also be mistaken for a bandage from a distance. These garments are designed to stop swelling and reduce phantom pain, but they aren't bandages.

Stumps get cold easier because their circulation typically isn't as good as the rest of the body, so some amputees will wear socks over them even if they aren't wearing a prosthetic to keep warm, which again could be mistaken for a bandage from a distance.

This one is funny, but in my experience unfortunately, it's the most common: people think the end of an amputee's stump is just a perpetual open wound that never heals. Meaning to avoid "gore" it needs to be covered. I've met fully grown adults who believed this until I showed up to work/uni without my prosthetics or socks on.

People are uncomfortable with seeing an uncovered stump and so put bandages over it to avoid confronting their biases.

Some combination of these points.

But yeah, unless your amputee has only just lost their limb in the last few weeks, they don't need a bandage.

The ironic thing too, is that for most amputees, bandaging a stump is nearly impossible. I've been in and out of hospital since I was 1 year old and only ever met 3 nurses and no doctors/surgeons who could successfully bandage my stump in a way that the bandage would even stay on. This is because stumps are usually tapered in shape (meaning they are wider at the top, closer to the body, and thinner at the bottom), so gravity will pull the bandage off 9 times out of 10.

On a final note: it's ok to show your amputee's stump, it's not gore, there's no blood, it just looks like a regular limb that just stops early. In fact, if you are writing/creating anything for kids or that is likely to be seen by kids, I encourage you to show your amputee's stumps at least once. I used to work on a disability awareness program for kids, and I lost count of the amount of times kids were terrified of me, because they all expected my leg to be bloody and gory. For a lot of kids, I was their first real-life exposure to an amputee, meaning they'd never even heard of people like me, or they had seen an amputee on TV, but because the show went out of its way to avoid showing the person's stump, they assumed it must have been because there was "something scary at the end" that they weren't supposed to see (kids are surprisingly perceptive, they will pick up on stuff like that without you realising). And scared kids aren't good at articulating why they're scared, and would often say really mean or hurtful things to me. I knew not to take it personally and learned how to handle those situations, but not everyone is used to dealing with kids. For a new amputee (or anyone who's less confident in their disability), the kinds of things those kids would say could be absolutely confidence destroying. I never blame the kids, it's not their fault, but the whole situation could have been avoided if they had seen people like us before they had the chance to hear the wrong info. Good representation like this can be the difference between a kid crying, making throw-up sounds and calling an amputee "disgusting monsters" (all things I've had kids do/say) and them just being like "oh ok, cool."

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gayaest · 9 months

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🌺⭐️ Hiraya! She loves interior design (the sims) and bouquet design 💐

Her type of prosthesis is a Osseointegration limb relacement, in which it’s a metal implant directly attached to her bone. 🩷🌸

#my art #art #original character #disabled artist #disabled characters #amputee #leg prosthetic #cane user #id in alt text #babe with a mobility aid #disabled and cute

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rakmansworld · 2 months

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#crutches #new artist #amputee stump

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ididit-allofit-foryou · 10 months

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hapy disability pride month! here's all the drawings i've done so far! (many more to come!)

#disabled pride #disability pride month #disabled artist #disability awareness #feeding tube #rollators #prosthetics #amputee #scoliosis #joint braces #hypermobity #hypermobile eds #dwarfism #forearm crutches #spoonie artist #rain creates

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ampvison · 3 months

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Join me on Pareon.com/ampvison for more exclusive content.

#high hells #stump #amputees #onelegged #single legged #amputee woman #LHD amputees #digital artist #sexy content #sexy Amputee #crutches #amputeeart🤓

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d1rtn4p · 2 days

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Trans bunny girl weee.

Thinking about naming her Creme, but that seems a bit obvious so idk lol.

She/her only.

#furry #furry art #bunny #anthro #trans #bunny girl #trans woman #oc #original character #oc - creme #prosthetic #amputee #leg amputee #disabled #rabbit #my art #digital art #artists on tumblr

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robobabe0401 · 15 days

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you are seriously missing out if you aren’t on my OF 🤭✌🏻

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cy-cyborg-draws · 8 months

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I drew this image in 2022 when I first learned about Disability Pride Month (July). So few people know we even have a flag, let alone that we have a whole month, so I wanted to do some art of my character Nix holding the flag disability in hopes to help get the word out there!

Date created: 6th of July, 2022

#id in alt text #dragon #disabled artist #queer artist #disability #disability pride month #disability pride flag #disabled and proud #sfw furry #furry oc #furry #dragon art #visibly disabled #amputee #legless #leg amputee #my art #my artwork #my artwrok

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angelic-waffles · 30 days

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Someone on twt was talking about Fnafhs and I was like “Holy shit! I watched that!”

Well sorta, I watched it but I didn’t understand Spanish when I watched it. So, I just kinda watched it and didn’t know what was happening

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calligiovanini · 10 months

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Trifid, The Nebula Designer

(OC)

commission requests - portfolio - twitter - ig - bluesky

#illustration #painting #digital painting #oc #my ocs #digital art #original character #drawing #artists on tumblr #character design #art #cyberpunk #trifid #prosthetics #nebula #amputee #exoskeleton

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kururusti · 9 months

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#aftg #all for the game #andreil #andrew minyard #neil josten #artists on tumblr #im sorry but #i want to be strangled by his hips #amputee neil josten #neil with sports prosthesis #its nathan fault

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cy-cyborg · 7 months

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Please stop giving your leg amputees weird robot toes. I don't know why this is as much if a pet peeve to me as it is, but there's a reason why even the most advanced prosthetics irl don't have them and its not because the tech isnt there yet (kind of).

Making that many joints so close together is very difficult and will make the foot increadibly heavy for function that can mostly be replicated by a sheet of bendy carbon fibre (what irl prosthetic feet are usually made of). That many articulated joints are hard to control (even on hands, it's a challenge, and your hands dont have to weight bare), they will add a lot of weight, and will mean more power will be needed. Not to mention the joints would be points of weakness in an area that will be, at some stages in the walk cycle, bearing the majority of user's weight. Unless your character is going to be using their prosthetic feet as hands to grab things like that villain from Kim Possible, they are more trouble than they're worth, and your character doesn't need them.

And look, if the reason you want to give them robot toes is because you have a thing for feet... why did you make them a foot amputee, of all disabilities lol? Odd choices aside, if that's the reason, just be honest about it, because why else is it always "sexy cyborg" type characters that have them?

Joking aside, the goal of a prosthetic is not (usually) to look as similar to "the real thing" as possible, it's to improve mobility. As such, sometimes the best solution will not be what looks the most "normal with a robot aesthetic twist". In the event looking like the real thing is the main goal, we already have the tech for that. Many prosthetics have silicone covers that look so realistic you wouldn't be able to tell unless you can see the top of the socket (where the artificial limb meets the real thing) and you don't have to give up much mobility or functionality to use them, since that carbon fibre sheet I mention just gets hidden inside the cover.

Signed an amputee who finds your pudgy little foot fingers unsettling and wishes people would stop giving robot ones to characters unnecessarily for the sake of making something that looks "normal".

[ID: an animated gif of a character from Kim Possible in a red dressing gown, using his hand-like feet to pour himself some tea. he places the tea pot down and it focuses on his hands, in a close up. the caption reads "and risk damaging these hands?" /end ID]