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chronicallycouchbound · 9 months

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Let People On Food Stamps Eat Hot Meals

Particularly on cold, rainy days (like today), while unhoused, sometimes all I want is a hot meal but it’s so difficult (if not impossible) to cook outside in the rain.

On top of this, I’m physically disabled and chronically ill. Medically, I’m supposed to have assistance with making meals as part of in home care. But I can’t get in home care without a home.

I just finished making dinner for my partner and I, it took 2 hours (3 if you include clean up). My knees are burning, my back is aching in it’s core, I feel like I’m about to faint, and all my joints are screaming. But it’s the only way we could have a hot meal today and get some protein, which is vital for our health conditions.

People judge us for using what little funds we have on McDonald’s some days. Because sometimes, it’s the only hot meal we’ve had in days. And sometimes I’m physically unable to stand, move, and do all the actions needed to cook. Or I faint while cooking. Or the rain doesn’t let up. Or we don’t have access to a kitchen for the day. Or the fire danger outside is too high. The list goes on.

Without my own kitchen to use, I don’t get to sit down while I cook (right now, everything is wet from the rain), I can’t meal prep, I can’t stock up on freezer meals, I can’t use an oven or a microwave to reheat leftovers, I can’t just reach across the kitchen for a fridge item (we have a small amount of fridge space friends let us use), everything about cooking is exponentially harder.

And even if I had 24/7 access to an accessible, full kitchen, it’s not even physically safe to cook my own meals. Even then, having a pre-made, hot, ready-to-eat meal could keep me safe and give me independance.

And all the safety needs for hot meals aside, emotionally, hot meals are also life saving and comfort. Meals are a part of community, culture, love and art.

So many gatherings we have as communities center around food. Most people in the United States would think of ones that often hold great value to Western culture. Mother’s Day breakfast. Spaghetti fundraisers. Wedding cakes. Birthday dinners. Bake sales. Carnival treats. BBQs on weekends. Holiday roasts. Lunches with friends. Casseroles brought to grieving neighbors.

Our world revolves around food.

I firmly believe that no poor person could ever “take advantage” of a system designed to feed us by using food stamps on hot food. This restrictive rule serves no purpose but to punish the most vulnerable of poor people— unhoused, disabled, and those of us living in unsafe conditions.

It also serves to restrict our access to joy and comfort. The joy can sometimes come from the food itself, but also the joy from having shared experiences solidified by the sounds of laughter and forks clinking on plates. The comfort can sometimes also be from the food itself, but also the experience of being loved and cared for while your close friend brings you pizza from your favorite restaurant because you lost your drive to eat three weeks ago and they worry about you. They know you. Those slices of pizza bring color back into your world.

Poor people deserve to be able to have the comfort, joy, and care that goes into a hot meal. We deserve the autonomy to choose foods that are best for us ourselves. We deserve to be able to eat in ways that are accessible to us.

Above all, we deserve access to hot meals.

Originally posted to my blog on 6.3.22

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crippledpunks · 2 months

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being homeless while disabled is an even bigger nightmare. you're expected to carry around all of your belongings, either from couch to couch, hotel to hotel, shelter to shelter, bridge to bridge, or wherever you're headed, you have to do a lot of heavy lifting, walking, climbing stairs, finding safe places to stay, navigating underpasses: finding shelter. even when you're not doing heavy lifting, the fatigue gets to you. you can be in an exhausted fugue for days. depression runs rampant. it's impossible to keep your brain healthy when your body is suffering. nobody's patient with homeless people who hobble or have a hard time walking or use a wheelchair or powerchair. nobody cares if you're hallucinating or having a panic attack or psychotic episode or flashbacks. nobody cares in general, but it's even harder when you're disabled. if you're also disabled and homeless, i love you. stay safe

#actually disabled #chronic pain #disability culture #fibromyalgia #crip punk #cripplepunk #cripple punk #disability advocacy #disability #disability rights #homeless #punk #our writing

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dewiduzthings · 3 months

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We found an apartment and got approved but we currently need $1700 for all the deposits and move in fees. If we can't get this by Thursday, we will lose the only place we've found that we can afford. I'm begging for help at this point..

Please reblog and share this as much you can. We need this desperately..

Cashapp + Venmo: DewiDuzThings

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sailor-moon-rei · 8 months

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Hello!

I remind you that I feed kittens who do not have a home they live in garages, basements and porches

Due to the fact that my back hurts a lot due to a herniated disc, I can't buy a lot of feed at a time. However, I try to feed the cats so they don't starve to death

Fortunately, there are other people who feed them, but they are few and far between.

Please, help me with my back pain and cats

buymeacoffee

paypal [email protected]

making a repost is also a help!

thank you all, you are great with love from Ukraine❤

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scretladyspider · 3 months

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please don’t scroll; I really need your help to reach my gofundme goal of $3500 and not become homeless.

Im Elle, a queer, ace, disabled person with ADHD, depression, and two cats. In November, I lost my job without warning. I have no savings as the job already had me living to the last dollar of every paycheck. I was denied unemployment and food stamps. I cannot work away from home, a physical job, or something with strict hours due to some yet-to-be-diagnosed illness.

this is my story — what’s going on & how I got here. (Smaller text used because it’s a lot of information/a long post.)

In early 2018, I was doing regular walk/runs. In 2019, I stopped being able to run, so I went on walks. Running took hours, then days, to recover from. My body couldn’t produce energy to do it consistently, so, walks. In 2020, I kept going on walks and tried to do aerobics. I was not able to keep doing aerobics. My body took hours upon hours to recover, where before it hadn’t, I was alone for almost all of 2020, and never developed COVID symptoms; it was what happened with running all over again. In 2021, it started to take more time to recover from walks. Then I started to need to take a nap immediately after I clocked out from work— and it was a work from home job. In 2022, I began to go from my sitting desk job straight to my bed most days, laying down exhausted right after work, even sleeping through lunch to get some rest.

On New Year's Eve 2023, I spent 30 minutes cleaning, including vacuuming my living room. I had to rest the rest of the day.

In the last five years, I've gone from running to being exhausted for hours by taking my garbage to the curb.

Imagine you were someone who enjoyed recreational exercise. Now imagine doing 1/100th of that and feeling sick for days. Thats me.

There are other symptoms also. More vulnerability to infection and more trouble fighting infection. Shooting, sharp muscle pains in large muscles such as the thigh or forearm, like a pinched nerve, that come and go at random. Pulse rate that skyrockets upon standing, to go back to normal soon after. Stomach inflammation. Inflammation without major swelling. Headaches. Complete inability to tolerate heat, leading to excruciating migraines that only go away with things like cold showers, electrolytes, and hours of rest in the dark with ice. Muscles that literally don't feel like they're getting oxygen. Random rashes. Face flushing. Being much more easily out of breath, yawning over and over, like I can't get air correctly. Weight gain, no matter what I eat or don't eat.

And just being so, so tired.

In summer of 2018, something… stopped working in my body. I felt sick all the time. I had a low, unexplainable fever nearly every day. Shooting nerve pain would wake me up at night. The doctor said I had a cold. But months went by and I didn’t get better. When my blood work and thyroid hormone level was normal, I was referred to a rheumatologist.

I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia after he made me wait 45 minutes, came in and asked “are you tired?", poked me hard, said I was tender, and left without running tests. This sort of “uhm the standard blood work came back normal, have you tried exercising more? I know you’re here because your body can’t recover from it but have you tried more of that? Also going to sleep at night?” has been the response over and over and over for five years. It got to the point where I even started to wonder if I was somehow making it up. I see a psych nurse. She thinks there's more than just depression, ADHD, and other things - though we both agree that managing those is vital too. She used to be a cardiologist, so this is reassuring. But when I have tried to see other doctors, it goes differently. Most of the time they see I have ADHD, a long history of depression, and hypermobile joints, and say that explains everything. I can't count how many times I've been told "well, you have depression” when the labs, if they even agreed to run them, came back normal. My standard blood work sometimes comes back with anemia, but I take an iron supplement. No improvement had come of it. I’ve had my thyroid hormone levels tested over and over, but never the antibodies. No imaging or referrals have happened, outside of one to a second rheumatologist. He ran no tests either; he just saw my joints are hypermobile and I was “sure taking a lot of mental health medications” (two at the time), and… that was that.

I had given up on actually even getting help until my SIL recommended a doctor she knew. For the first time in five years, when the standard blood work and TSH tests were normal, she told me we would keep looking. I actually cried with relief at that. It’s amazing to be believed after all this time.

Because of …. All of this, I'm trying to figure out how to either work for myself or find a work from home job that has flexible hours I can choose. I literally wouldn't be able to work a retail gig where I have to stand for eight hours, or even a 9-5 where I have to be there for those exact hours, because my body cannot do that right now. I want to get better but it's a long way off. First I need to know what's even wrong. I'm praying for a diagnosis soon. And treatment. At the least, management.

I have heard of EDS and I have been evaluated. I apparently don’t meet enough criteria, hence the diagnosis of JHS instead. It’s in the same family. I have also heard of POTS. I am pursuing testing. Same with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, MCAS, fibromyalgia… yeah. The thing is nothing outside of the standard blood count and thyroid hormone level test, no other lab tests have been done. There are so many things this could be that have never been checked. Lyme disease, for example, is extremely common where I live (it’s actually just extremely common worldwide) and matches much of my experience, but 1) in the USA the initial Lyme test relies on a strain of bacteria cultured in the 80s 2) there are over 100 strains of Lyme disease in the USA 3) in spite of decades of research there are doctors who don’t believe chronic Lyme exists 4) no doctor has ever checked and I only recently learned anything about it so I never asked. But… there are a lot of things to check that I’ve never had checked is my point. Fingers crossed someone can help me get there.

I do not have a partner who can try to support me through this, and my family already supports me however they can. My severance (which was low as I found out I was being paid much less than the rest of the team later) paid only my January rent.

Since my ability to work is severely limited right now, and I've been denied unemployment and food stamps, and I would need a diagnosis and to be awarded disability benefits in court (which can take YEARS that I don’t have), I have nothing in savings because of years of underpaying jobs the cost of living and being disabled and going through prior periods of unemployment due to this and other factors, I am left in a tough spot without help. Without this help, this gofundme... I have nothing.

So... here I am. A queer nonbinary disabled neurodivergent writer, trying my best, living with some undiagnosed illness that's severely impacted my ability to function, who got fired without real reasons (in America they can just do that to you without even telling you why), asking for your help to pay my February rent and January bills so I don’t repeat the trauma of being homeless. Or for you to reblog this.

Thank you for reading all of this.

It’s been on my chest for a long time. Even if it wasn’t for the gofundme, it feels good to talk about and be honest about my health. It reminds me you’re not supposed to feel like this all the time when I tell other people and they tell me I should get help and deserve answers. It’s reassuring to see competent doctors who finally believe me. I hope we figure it out.

no donation is too small— they add up. If just 100 people gave $35, the goal would be met. Sharing is also giving— it means someone who can help is more likely to see it.

You can also help via my venmo — secretladyspider

CashApp — secretladyspider

or find PayPal in my tip jar in my linktree

Goal is $3500 or over. Funds needed ASAP. If it goes over, that’ll help with February.

Thank you for anything and everything.

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spacedocmom · 5 months

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Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom I'm continuously dismayed by the fact that local governments in your era are more concerned with hatefully preventing homeless people from lying on a bench than providing good benches for disabled/chronically ill folks or even abled folks who are tired. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked 11:30 AM · Nov 9, 2023

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solarcandydrops · 2 years

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#repitition #negative #homelessness #chronic pain #rhumetoid arthritis #chronic illness #eczema #mental illness

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dazedpuppydairies · 2 months

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Mutual Aid Request

Hello I'm Fawn a 21-year-old queer, neurodivergent and mentally ill, disabled person. I'm currently not doing very well. I'm broke and concerned about housing. I'm unable to work and currently trying to get on disability, I was denied so I'm working on the appeal with a representative. A family member was helping me out with rent, but due to health issues they haven't been able to. I currently owe my housemates $300 for this month's rent and we're concerned we won't be able to pay next month's rent. I'm also currently reapplying for snap and I'm kind of worried about being denied. That's a worst case scenario situation, but I'm concerned. I'm also trying to get out of my current living situation (kind of stealthy) because it ended up being I'll put it very unhealthy. I'm really concerned, I don't know if I can handle being homeless again with how bad my agoraphobia has gotten. Thank you in advance.

Cash App: $Pixi3Fawn

I can also maybe figure out zelle or like transfers through the bank if you direct message me

#mutual aid #queer mutual aid #disabled #neurodivergent #homelessness #mental health #trans mutual aid #trans #queer #lgbtq+#adhd #agoraphobia #autism #transgender #nonbinary #chronic fatigue #mutual aid request

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chronicallycouchbound · 8 months

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"Homelessness doesn't discriminate" and "Disability doesn't discriminate"

Bullshit. They both absolutely do, and absolutely affect specific populations more than others. I'll add sources later, but these statements piss me off so much I just need to say something about it.

#chronically couchbound #disability #disabled #cripple punk #cripplepunk #homeless #unhoused #hobo crip #hobopunk

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cryptojuice · 2 years

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Help a homeless, disabled trans man afford housing & medical treatment

Pa¥paI: CJa13 || V3nm0: cryptocj

(Condensed; DMs open to questions)

20 y/o. I've been homeless since March 1st, and my bank account has steadily declined since then due to groceries and many medical costs. I'm losing access to the most reliable place I've been crashing at the end of May. I considered a cheap motel, but one month would cost the savings I had before, from months of retail work. Realistically, even signing a lease could be cheaper.

I'm applying for SNAP and interviewing for jobs in my field of professional licensure, but it hasn't been going well. My search radius isn't wide since I don't have a car.

My deadline is the end of the month — May 31st is when I'm no longer going to have this secure place to stay. I don't know how much I'm hoping for; I don't know how much it'll take. Regardless, anything will help when it comes to medical costs, food, and building up savings.

PLEASE spread this post. Any amount helps. If you can't donate, the more eyes see this the more likely it gets to someone who can.

Payþ@l: CJa13

\/enm0: cryptocj

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#crowdfunding #mutual aid #ebegging #signal boost #trans #homeless #chronic pain #chronic illness #autistic #disabled #homelessness #neurodivergent #disability #important #boost #and for anyone who cares about me using the thorn (þ) or the currency symbol. i know those aren't those letters #donation posts with the actual words just historically have a tendency to get removed and/or taken off the dash on tunglr #pinned post

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wasp-jar · 7 months

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Bro why is fatigue so !?!?????!!!??!? >:( !?????!

Like I have shit I need to get done!! leave my body please!!

#to keep myself sane I've been needing to do wayyy too much #so I'm just especially flared up and super fatigued (even more than my normal which is still a lot)#like i have homework and life shit I need to do #like i need to find a job so we're not living on the streets but also what can i do as a disabled teen?????? like theres nothing good #also the stress of being homeless doesn't help the flare ups either ☠️☠️#its fine it'll probably work out in the end #chronic pain #chronic fatigue #disability #disabled #actually disabled

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orangesideirrational · 4 months

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'[anyone] is worthless if they dont-'

no. they arent. no one is worthless for any reason.

and even if they were, i choose to love them anyway. because they are still people.

'even-'

yes, even them

'what about-'

yes.

#disability #lgbtq+#homeless #homelessness #any minority #minority #minorities #disabled #chronic disability #physically disabled #chronically disabled #positivity

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enbycrip · 1 year

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In doing literally *anything*, you have to build in accessibility from the start, and to decide to value *not excluding people who need accessibility* or you’re going to decide that accessibility is “too expensive” and “doesn’t add enough value” for cost.

You have to build it in from the start, when looking at facilities. Allocating tech. Assigning budget. Recruiting staff, if what you’re doing involves that, paid or volunteer.

If you don’t, you will not, in fact, be accessible. You will, at best, salve your conscience and make what you’re doing *possible* for a *few* disabled people. Not “easy”, not “on the same level as abled people”, but “possible”. They will still be paying a price abled people will not, and it may well be devastating. Thus, the people able to soak that cost to show up, attend, take part, contribute etc etc, are likely to be the least-marginalised disabled people there are; not only in terms of their disability, but on an intersectional level.

This applies everywhere. Housing. Education. Employment. Community.

#disabled #disableism #chronic illness #disability #chronic pain #autistic adult #chrinic illness #chronic fatigue #accessibility #inaccessible environment #inaccessibility #housing crisis #homelessness #employment gap #disableism in academia #academia

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lordplavis · 4 months

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These fucking benches are straight up evil

They are curved and on a slight angle away from the wall. We all know this is just anti homeless architecture and that is evil enough in in of itself but....

This makes all these benches fucking useless for me and I assume a lot of others with similar issues aswell.

Let me explain

I have chronic pain in my feet and these benches just aren't places to really sitt for me.

Why?

Because the whole time I have to support my weight with my feet if I wana sit on this type of bench. Meaning I can't rest if I sit there because it's still hurting my feet because I still have to put quite some weight on them.

That means if it's not too wet or filthy I sometimes just ignore any dirt and dust and just sit on the floor.

As if there was no bench at all.

And I can't be the only one with these issues. I assume a lot of people with back, foot, leg or joint problems have similar issues. And it's so simple! A Normal bench would solve this issue. Plus it would be waaaay more comfortable for everyone

This type of anti homeless architecture isn't just hurting the homeless its hurting a whole lot more people who lose their ability to use this infrastructure.

#Seriously these are fucking painful for en to sit on #Literally no reason for them to exist imo #rant #anti homeless architecture #chronic pain

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careforacacia · 23 days

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this week's goals + amounts raised [week beginning monday march 25]

below are the current live fundraising goals and total amounts raised for each current priority need for the week beginning monday march 25

keep checking back, as the amounts raised are updated daily throughout the week as new donations come in, with new posts being released each monday with the latest goals and totals raised

for any goals from this current week which have now been reached, see the bottom of this post under goals which have been reached this week

this week's groceries

$100 / $275

friday march 29

this week's transport

$30 / $80

thursday march 28

essential household items

$670 / $2,500

sunday april 7

international shipping costs

$50 / $159

friday march 29

yoga essentials

$0 / $275

sunday march 31

housing for april

$800 / $2,775

april 2

urgent tech

$0 / $5,500

may 5

$2,250 by sunday april 7

goals which are reached throughout the week shall appear below !

goals reached this week:

- stationary for neurographica® [$80/$80]

- weekly health items [$50/$50]

last updated tuesday march 25

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acacia has fought very hard for very many years to find safety & a safe, accessible, stable place to live.

they have done so all alone, without adequate access to basic needs while being continuously targetted by violence.

since arriving in safety at the end of january, acacia found a suitable property & was able to move in with funds raised through the care4acacia campaign.

they now need support to maintain their safety & to continue to remain in this home.

$2,775 is due on april 2

$2,775 rent due tuesday april 2

raised: $800

acacia is relying solely on donated funds to meet each of their needs as they begin their recovery from a lifetime of harm, poverty + neglect; please give generously

severely marginalized multiply-disabled queer/trans/non-binary culturally oppressed extremely isolated

ko-fi: ko-fi.com/care4acacia paypal: @crayonbachs venmo: @delongashe cashapp: $MaskUpFightCovid

write care 🦩 [care + flamingo emoji] in the message

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flamingpen18 · 4 months

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Really?

I just read through a thread on FB. A disabled woman and her disabled husband are homeless. Both of them are in a wheelchair and both of them are on oxygen. I got to see the morons in this state attacking her for being homeless. Her family lost everything in a fire a couple of months ago. The state service center won't help them and the shelters are all full.

I am not kidding. Delaware is a freaking joke. The homeless population is enormous, and the state isn't doing anything about it.

This is why I am freaking out again. We are about to be on the streets without even our van to sleep in. This state doesn't give a damn about the disabled. You can die while being forced to sleep on the streets, and the only thing the state will do about it is bitch about the clean-up.

@helly-watermelonsmellinfellon

#physically disabled #poverty #frightened #homeless #actually disabled #disability #physical disability #chronic disability #disabled community #disabled

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