#chronic illness mention

[promptsforyourwhumpfic]

The Grand A-Z List of Whump 1/3

This list contains ~290 items listed A to H

As always, I heavily encourage people to research topics thoroughly when writing. Whump is generally a 'dead dove' sort of topic, however it is important to avoid stereotypes/misinformation. This lists intention is to not glorify/romanticise sensitive topics in any way.

This part one-of-three comprehensive lists of injuries, Illnesses and tropes - including those from the Whumptober 2023 trope vote!

All submissions are listed in italics, and those who wanted to be tagged will be included at the end. If you have any more submissions: please send them via DM/my ask box.

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"I don't need your help."

"I'm doing this to make you better"

"I'm fine, take care of them!"

“I’m Fine”

"Kill me instead"

"Let me in."

"Look at me."

"Should I know you?"

"Take me instead."

(No) Anaesthetic

A

A Good Ol' Sickfic

Abandoned

Abdominal Pain

Aching Wounds

Acne

Adrenaline Crash

Adrift (in space/at sea)

Agoraphobia

Airsickness

Alien abduction

Allergies

Alopecia

Ambulance Ride

Ambush

Amnesia/memory loss

Amputations

Anaemia

Anesthesia

Angina (Heart condition that causes pain)

Animal Attack/Bite

Ankle Sprain

Anthrax

Anxiety/Anxiety attack(s)

Aphasia

Appendicitis

Arrested

Arthritis

Asking for help

Asphyxiation

Assumed Dead

Asthma/Asthma Attack

Auctions

Autoimmune disease

Avalanches

B

Backache

Bad Caretakers

Bandaged Head

Banished

Barbed Wire

Bear trap

Beaten up by ex-friends

Beaten with blunt object (i.e, bat or pipe)

Beatings

Bedrest

Bedside Vigil/Hospital Vigil

Begging

Betrayed by close friend/team/family

Bites (Animal, Bug, Human….)

Biting

Black Eye

Blackmail

Bleeding Out

Bleeding Through

Bandages

Blindfolded

Blindness (this could be temporary or permanent)

Blisters

Blood Loss

Blood Poisoning

Bloodied Knuckles

Bloodstains/blood trail

Bloody handprints

Bloody nose

Blunt force trauma

Blurred vision

Body modification

Body Sharing

Body Switching

Bounty on their head

Brain Damage

Brainwashing

Breakdowns

Breathless

Bridal Carry

Broken Bones (Ribs, Arm, Leg)

Broken Nose

Broken Promises

Bronchitis

Bruises

Building Collapse

Bullet Removal

Bumpy roads jarring injuries

Buried Alive

Burning Building

Burns/Scalding

Busted kneecap

C

Cancer

Caning

Capgras syndrome/delusion (belief that someone close to/important to the person has been replaced by an imposter)

Capsulitis

Captivity

Captured

Car chases (and maybe a car crash)

Carbon monoxide poisoning

Cardiac Arrest

Caretaker has to “play nice” with whumper.

Caretaker has to hurt whumpee while undercover.

Caretaker sacrificing something dear to them to get something the whumpee needs.

Caretaker turned Whumpee

Caretaker-whumper who's a parental whumper. But their "love" is not real love. Or even right treatment.

Carsickness

Cataracts

Catatonia

Caught in a fire

Caught in an explosion

Cauterization

Cave In

Cavity

Celebrity whump (exploitation in the music/movie industries…)

Chaffing from ropes/handcuffs/shackles

Chained/Shackled

Checking for injuries

CHF - congestive heart failure

Chicken Pox

Chills

Chloroform

Choking

Chronic pain

Claustrophobia

Cleaning wounds alone

Cold/Flu,

Collapsed Lung

Collapsing (into someone’s arms is usually nice, bonus points for cradling their head as they lower the whumpee to the floor)

Collapsing after they win

Collapsing/Fainting/Passing Out

Collars

Coma

Comfort after a nightmare

Common cold

Completely betrayed by their own team

Complications

Concussion

Confusion

Constipation

Constricted Airways

COPD - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease makes breathing increasingly more difficult.

Corporal Punishment

Corset too tight and won’t unbutton

Coughing

Coughing Up Blood

CPR

Cramps

Crikes (intubation through neck)

Crush injury

Crying

Cuddle pile

Curses

Cuts/Grazes

Cutting off hair (more of an emotional hurt)

Cyanide poisoning

D

Damaged Larynx/Vocal Cords

De-aging

Deathbed Confessions (don’t have to actually die and stay dead, just the threat of dying)

Defeat

Defenestration (throwing out a window)

Dehydration

Deja Vu

Delirium (bonus points for this being drug/ fever induced)

Deluded whumper/thinking they’re helping the whumpee

Dengue Fever

Denial

Depression

Dermatitis

Diabetes (type 1 and 2)

Diarrhea

Diseases ('mystery' diseases are the best kind)

Dislocations

Disorientation

Disowned by Family

Displaced hip

Dissociation

Distress call

Dizziness

Dragged Away

Dream sequence

Driving to the hospital with a whumpee slumped barely-conscious in the seat of the car

Drowning

Drunkenness

E

Ear Infection

Edema (swelling from build up of fluid)

EKG

Electrical Burns

Electrical shock

Electrocution

Emergency field surgery

Emergency Surgery

Emotional angst

Emotional manipulation

Endometriosis

Enemy to Caretaker

Energy Drain

Environmental whump

ER

Execution

Exes reunited with one wanting a relationship and the other just wanting friendship.

Exhaustion

Experimentation

Exposure

Extreme Weather

Eye injury

F

Facing Phobias

Failed Escape

Failure to thrive

Fainting

Fainting (but also fainting aftermath) / Fainting due to lack of sleep, food, or overworking fainting from exhaustion

Falling

Falling for Caretaker/Whumpee/Whumper

Falling Through Ice

Fatigue/Exhaustion

Fever

Fibromyalgia (Chronic Pain)

Field medicine

Fighting (while injured)

Financial difficulty faced + how whumper might take advantage of that + how caretaker handles everything (well/badly)

Finding your loved one dead without explanation but thinking they’re still alive.

Fireman's carry

Flare ups

Flashbacks

Flinching away

Flu

Food Poisoning

Forced to... (Break out, Choose, Hurt, Kneel, Scream, Watch)

Forehead kisses

Forgotten by team

Foul-tasting medicine

Found family

Found unconscious

Fracture (Arm, Hyoid bone etc)

Freezing / cold whump

Friendly Fire

Frostbite

G

Gagged/Muzzled

Gangrene infection

Gaslighting

Gas (noxious, poisonous etc)

Gastritis

Glass (shards, debris etc)

Grief

Gunshot Wound

H

Hair Pulling/Cutting/Matting/Stroking

Hallucinations

Hanahaki

Handcuffs

Handgag

Hard ground

Haunted

Hay Fever

Head injuries/concussion

Head trauma

Headache/Migraine

Heart Palpitations

Heartburn

Heat Exhaustion

Heatstroke

Heavy metal poisoning

Held at gunpoint/knifepoint/weapon point

Hematohidrosis (Sweating blood)

Hemophilia/Hematophilia (Blood unable to clot)

Haemothorax

Hernia

Hidden Illness/Injury/Scar/Medical Issues

Hiding

High Blood Pressure

High Fever (like dangerously high)

High Pain Tolerence

Hit by a car

Home Sickness

Hospital Codes

Hostage Situation

House burnt down

Huddling for Warmth

Human Shield

Human Weapon

Hunger

Hungover

Hunted for Sport

Hurt no comfort

Hyperalgesia,

Hypermobility

Hyperventilating

Hypo/Hyperthermia

Hypo/Hyperthyroidism

Hypoglycemia

Hypotension/ Hypertension

Hypoxia

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[alynnl]

Reeling under chronic migraines again...

As the title implies, yours truly is suffering tonight despite my best efforts to counteract this horrible chronic illness of mine.

So, since I am restless and my “filter of things I normally wouldn’t say when not medicated” has been lowered, I feel the need to subject y’all to “headcanons/plot bunnies that involve Cyrus suffering some sort of (non life threatening) physical or mental illness” because apparently I imagine him everywhere and I just roll with it at this point.

Idea 1 (pure crack with fluff mixed in): Cyrus having a stress-induced fever dream where he ends up kissing Olberic, Therion, Alfyn, Erhardt, (and maybe Primrose and H’aanit) in said dream.  He wakes up absolutely horrified as this is so out of character for him. Alfyn and the rest of his friends ask what’s wrong, and Cyrus desperately asks them all to stay away from him, because they’re all saying things awfully close to what their dream selves said.  Alfyn finally gets through when he asks Cyrus sincerely to let him do his job as a healer to take care of him.  

There is some fluff in Alfyn looking after the Professor, but then there is also our apothecary confessing he had similar dreams (About Zeph and a few others.)  This idea ends with Cyrus’s fever going down, and him telling Olberic and the rest of the group to come closer, and he hugs and/or holds hands with everyone and apologizes for acting so silly and pushing them away.  And Cyrus is grateful to Alfyn for doing a fine job, as always.

Idea 2 (serious, angst with a happy ending): Cyrus does not take the aftermath of Quarrycrest well.  He’s the one out of the Guys (and possibly the entire cast, besides Tressa) who hasn’t seen such violence up close.  He gets a mild case of hemophobia and is understandably shaken by the gruesome sight of the human sacrifices.  (Whereas Olberic and Alfyn are both desensitized from violence because of their respective years in their jobs, but Therion is equally disgusted and needs to just be alone for a while.)  

Ultimately Alfyn and Olberic help support Cyrus through his ordeal and there is some bonding between the guys from the experience, and Therion even joins in the last minute, giving Cyrus a mint or something else equally practical so that he’ll forget the smell from inside the mine.

Idea 3 (Author projection, concept exploration): Basically “what if Cyrus’s normal chapters and banters, but somewhere along his conversations it’s revealed he has chronic migraines?”  And what really helps him remedy it the most are his research frenzies, since he is able to put his mind to good use and not wallow in his pain.  All the more better that he’s still working with his core philosophy in receiving and giving knowledge.  But he’s also found that in the company of the others, whom he’s come to trust and value greatly, his illness (and stress levels) are  a lot more manageable.

#Lynn speaks #Lynn's writing #technically #writing prompts #concepts #headcanons #the 3rd one is so autobiographical it's shameless- #and yet I figure it'd be interesting #to give Cyrus some sort of weakness that he's learned to cope with #Idea 2 is technically projection in giving him my phobia #but I also see it as a realistic reaction to the Quarrycrest debacle #Don't ask about Idea 1 #I think that I had another migraine when I daydreamed about that one- #sweet Gods above #Cyrus Albright #chronic illness mention

[trope-appreciation-tuesdays]

Torture TAT: oddly-specific but I’m very much a fan of the subtle kind that isn’t directly coming from a malicious whumper? Stuff that slowly drives a whumpee to the edge but isn’t life immediate life threatening like chronic medical conditions such as pain, allergies, hives, etc.

I think we forget just how torturous pain can be without there ever being a whumper! Yes!

#torture #pain #medical conditions #chronic illness mention #chronic pain mention

[phoenixian-cluster-amaryllis]

To the 3 people following me, I’ve been playing Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel and they have this event going where you can only play with one copy of any card in your deck, and I’ve been playing it with Gladiator Beasts and having absolute blast.

This doesn’t really matter, and isn’t a recommendation to try Yu-Gi-Oh or advice on how to play it, it’s just.

I’m a trans woman who grew up with chronic illness and familial abuse.

So it’s really nice to enjoy something from my childhood again.

#yugioh #master duel #transgender #abuse mention #chronic illness mention #nostalgia #also yugioh is a garbage cardgame and no one should play it #the yugioh animes are considerably better at being quality television than the yugioh cardgame is at being a quality game #and I’ve seen Arc-V

[obsidiancreates]

Awww….Yancy and Wilford feels!!!!

That not only goes for Dark’s concern of Space inheriting possible genetic diseases from Damien/Celine—but also the other boys borne from Actor too. I’d bet that Dark may try to write down what he recalls from Celine’s marriage (it’s just bits and pieces at times but he at least wants to work with /something./)

He remembers Actor being a relatively healthy aside from the occasional drink, but. Actor was also a creature of pride, which didn’t help—not even Celine knew everything about him.

I’d imagine the Actor’s kids would one day have to compare notes. They’re just as blind. (For some odd reason, I think Actor had a bit of��� low-key, early arthritis going on. It’s why he was able to tolerate stealing Damien’s body with the cane and all.)

Oooooh. I kinda like that. Maybe The Manor Entity made that happen so he'd have spells where he had to stay home more often and it could grow it's influence over his mind more.

I think The Lads will be safe from it, but they'll take a lot of measures to try to prevent it just in case, like diet stuff and such that's supposed to help stave off arthritis symptoms. Illy and Heist are especially terrified of that happening, for obvious reasons.

Also, definitely All The Kids must avoid alcohol. Space can do a little champagne, but he purposefully limits. We know Actor, Damien, and William all had some... substance abuse issues with alcohol, in the past, and Actor even potentially did Coke given that Benjamin just Had Some On Hand to offer The DA. So they have to watch themselves, just to make sure, since addictions like that can be genetic.

#descendants of the trio au #markiplier #markiplier egos #chronic illness mention #addiction mention #alcoholism mention

[anxious-and-in-pain]

it’s okay to do things that make your symptoms worse (as long as you’ll stay safe)

every once in a while you need to eat something yummy. or go on a walk. or a trip to the zoo. take a hot shower. cry your eyes out. dance. listen to music. draw for way to long. write. laugh. sit in a cafe with a friend. paint your nails. dye your hair. go on a run. pet a cat

sometimes you need to do things that are cathartic or make yourself feel alive. sometimes you need the reminder of why you’re fighting so hard to stay alive

this is your reminder that just because it makes your symptoms worse, it isn’t always the wrong thing to do. there can be value in these actions

#chronically ill #chronic illness #chronic pain #fibromyalgia #spoonie #fibro #ibd #central sensitization #disabled #myposts #chronic fatigue #cat #disability #chronic fatigue syndrome #actually chronically ill #cfs #cfs/me #food mention

[ink-asunder]

We NEED to reevaluate how we view people with "red flags" that don't actually indicate harm to anyone. Things like "doesn't like animals," "doesn't have pets," "my pets immediately distrust them, so that means they're Secretly Evil."

I have a psychotic disorder. I suffer from flat affect. I have zero control over how I am emoting, and very often my emotional readout is completely blank. A LOT of animals (dogs especially) have exhibited aggression and fear around me ever since this started. (There are only TWO dogs I've met in the last five years that didn't BITE ME.) Dogs are unsettled by me because of a symptom of my psychosis--a condition that is out of my control that IS NOT DANGEROUS and doesn't harm anyone.

I also have a severe autoimmune disease and severe allergies to basically all animals. Whenever I tell people I can't come over because they have pets, or I don't have/want pets of my own, the IMMEDIATE response I always get is "why don't you like animals?" So I'm always pretty pissed off when I have to say, "I'm severely allergic. Don't fucking assume I have an undesireable quality just because I'm not a pet owner."

Another ableist red flag we need to talk about is "has no other friends/all their friends break up with them." Hi. I'm physically disabled with a digestive disease and a degenerative disease in my spine. That means my dietary restrictions are stupid and I can't sit/stand/walk for more than 15 minutes without being in pain. Most of the friends I break up with, I do so BECAUSE THEY ARE INCREDIBLY ABLEIST TO ME with no visible potential of changing. From people relentlessly harrassing me about lifestyle changes to not accepting correction or feedback when I tell them "hey, you CAN'T do x because it triggers y condition." If they argue or blow me off, I'm not their fucking friend!

Tl;dr: Disabled, chronically ill, and people with "scary" mental illnesses are often lumped in with "bad people" for characteristics that hurt no one and aren't in their control. Stop using "my dog is uncomfortable around them" as a litmus test for everyone you hang out with.

#chronic illness #disabled #disability #chronic pain #ableism #saneism #not to mention that its literally dangerous for disabled and psychotic people to be isolated and demonized. #its not just that no one want to be my friend. its that people are that much closer to putting me in danger because i dont fit- #-their standard of a 'good person.'

[bitea-sweetea-roseytocin]

LGBTQ+ is more about recognizing that people can exist in many different ways. It's about more than just attraction and gender, it's about diversity. Many LGBTQ+ friendly works include diverse ethnicities, belief systems, family dynamics, mental health, chronic illness, disabilities, outward appearances.

A huge argument from the other side is that we make things too complicated, but that's kinda the point? Humans are complicated. There's little nuances that we don't and may never understand. Nobody is the same, no life experience is the same, and that's okay. The point of the labels and different words isn't to confuse people, it's to say "hey, you're not alone, there's other people who get it, you have a community, you deserve love."

We don't want people to be like us, we want people to be different and be happy with it, and accept that we're different too, because no one is the same.

There's some people who don't get that fully, but even if we don't get it, that is how they differ from us. But they don't represent all of it.

The issue with the other side is that they're pushing for uniformity. There's two personalities they have in mind, one for males, one for females, then copy + paste, copy + paste

Because that's safe. That's what they understand, there's nothing too complicated to figure out with clones, with people like themselves.

But forcing people to bend in ways that don't fit them breaks them, injures them. And that is why it's hurtful to purposely misgender someone, to deny someone's mental condition, to dismiss someone's sexuality

A lot of us put up with it, but it's forcing us to fit your image of what you think we should be, because you can't handle us being something unexpected, because the unknown is terrifying. Being wrong is humiliating. You'd rather snap us into pieces until we can fit in the box you made for us. You'd watch us fold ourselves into origami cranes when we're more fit to be frogs or just pieces of paper, because you wanted to get a thousand wishes more than let us feel safe within our own bodies and minds.

But we've started fighting back, standing up for who we are, we have stolen your wishes and broken your box and everything you know is in splinters and shards and you don't have any magic to fix it with.

You could make kintsugi.

Will you?

#lgbtqiia+ #society #tw mention of misgendering #tw mention of mental illness #trans rights #queer rights #chronic illness mention #diversity #we are who we are #gratuitous metaphors #do not fix us #we are not broken #fix the box that we shattered #with gold

[justflesh54]

its my body surely i have the right to harm it if i wish ???

#actually bpd #cvtaddict #self h@rm #self mutalition #slef harm #tw self destructive behavior #sh mention #styroblr #hitting styro #cutt1ng #chronically ill #i want to cvt

[labmousegirl]

are you disabled or suffer from other chronic conditions that often leave you bed bound? do you often feel like you’re in the “damn bitch you live like this?” meme because cleaning is too exhausting?

my protip is get yourself one of THESE bad boys and hang it by your bed

it’s an over the door shoe rack and the pockets are perfect for holding a lot of household objects.

you can use the pockets to store trash, snacks, meds, and water bottles. if you worry about hygiene, you can also keep some for dry shampoo, deodorant, body wipes, clean undergarments, or toothbrush materials. on good days, you can clean it out and restock it, or have someone else help you. on bad days, you won’t have to worry about getting food and you’ll be able to feel a little better about hygiene.

it’s also really great if you want to keep your hobbies close by!! i can often only work on my bed, and then i have to worry about putting everything away if i have to lay down. if it’s a hobby that has materials that can be stored in the pockets, it can feel more accessible to jump in and out of and take less spoons to set/clean up.

#spoonie #chronic illness #chronic pain #chronic fatigue #disability #tagging for exposure bc i want this tip to get out it helped me a lot #feel like shit today might as well share this tip so i feel sort of productive #worth mentioning i suffer from chronic illness and fatigue that they’re still testing (altho medicating under the assumption of narcolepsy) #but i have trouble sitting and standing for long periods so i spend a lot of time in bed and so whenever my bed gets gross i feel gross #so this is based on chronic fatigue mostly

[cistematicchaos]

I don’t want to sound mean or some shit when talking about how exercise shouldn’t be randomly suggested to disabled people period but I also want it to be clear I’m not just saying that shit in a fit of anger. 

Both my sister and brother were almost killed because doctors would rather push them to keep exercising on the regular than figure out what the hell was going on with their health. I have numerous family members who’ve died because no one gave a shit about their health as long as they keep up “regular” things like exercise. I was guilted into exercising to “manage” my “issues” until I couldn’t even walk and then I was guilted some more. I didn’t even know I had asthma until I was seventeen and someone told me that light running wasn’t supposed to be horribly painful and restrict your breathing. And that’s only a nice chunk of my reasons! 

Like, it’s dangerous, period. I don’t care if we’re talking about mental health or physical health, telling people to exercise when you don’t even know what they’re dealing with, telling people that exercising is The Way to manage their disabilities, telling people they need to exercise or else “of course you feel bad!” is dangerous. I’m not trying to be dramatic but I’m not lying when I say it kills us. It hurts us. Exercise isn’t inherently healthy and even if it was, some of us CANNOT meet your standards of health! Just. Listen to us. Please.

#disability #actually disabled #cripple life #actually mentally ill too #actually neurodivergent as well #i will never meet the standard of health an #i just #mmhhh #someone say this makes sense please #chronic illness #chronic disabilities #asthma #chaos is speaking #ableism #death mention

[gabbagepatch]

Having subjective symptoms is very isolating because there is no way for others to witness what you're going through. They just have to trust you and you have to trust them to believe you. I know everyone in my life believes it, but they don't get it. I expressed to my therapist that I feel that all of these symptoms begin rattling around in my head and it creates a barrier between me and others.

My world: hurting, trying not to show it, coping with pain, fearful, etc

Their world: normal, uneventful, happy evening

It's very difficult to have something happening to you that nobody else can see.

#disability #disabled #hearing impaired #chronic illness #meniere's disease #hard of hearing #chronically ill #invisible illness #chronic migraine #chronic disability #chronic pain #illness tw #illness mention #spoonie

[akindplace]

This is a reminder for you to take the medication prescribed to you if you’re feeling sick, instead of trying to push through without it. Don’t wait until your pain gets too high and intolerable. You don’t need to prove to anyone you’re sick enough to get help, to go to the doctor, to get proper medication. Most people don’t live in pain daily, and it’s okay to need something to soothe that. You’re not weaker for needing it. You’re not a burden or an annoyance when you ask for help. You don’t need to break down before you get help, to wait until it gets “bad enough” to have any relief.

You deserve take care of your body, and it’s not morally wrong to need assistance, you don’t need to do it all on your own and it doesn’t mean you failed. I’m sorry someone made you feel like it was a bad thing to take medication, as if you had no control over yourself, as if you were being dramatic. You don’t have to prove your pain to them, but you need to validate what you feel and seek proper care. Please take care. You’re not meant to live in constant pain.

#disability #chronic illness #ableism mention #self-care #self-worth #on being human #perfectionism #validation #reminder #original writing

[liberaljane]

There’s no shame in living with HIV.

Digital illustration of a queer man of color. He’s wearing a Keith Haring inspired shirt with figures, khaki pants, and a beige sweater. Text reads, ‘There’s no shame in living with HIV.’

#art #feminism #feminist #illustration #feminist art #hiv #health justice #healthcare #lgbtqia #lgbt #hiv/aids #aids #aids mention #reproductive justice #reproductive rights #chronic illness #living with hiv

[chronicallydragons]

Not enough heating pad for the ouchie so I’m just rolling around like a rotisserie chicken

#*microwave noises* #PEM’s got HANDS today #chronic illness #fibromyalgia #me/cfs #disability #gastroparesis #migraine #postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome #chronic fatigue #chronic pain #pots #PEM #ouchie #rotisserie chicken #food mention #cw food #hEDS #ehlers danlos syndrome #MCAS #interstitial cystitis #am i dying?

[bebsi-cola]

i have some discontent about the narrative "we will all end up disabled" "it is likely that you will be disabled before you die" and "you are only one accident away from disability" to convince people to care about us disabled people.

human health is fragile and it is very possible to become disabled, even severely disabled, when previously abled. but the sort of care and activism that will arise from "it could happen to you too" won't be helpful to disabled people. it isn't, for example, helpful to disabled people who were born disabled, and have been told many times by eugenicists that they should not have been allowed to exist. it also undermines the experience of disabled people who in their childhood, teens, twenties, thirties, are living a completely different lifestyle compared to their abled peers. people who only care about eventual poor health will not care about these young disabled people. will not care about the rights and autonomy of disabled children, will not care about accessibility in schools or playgrounds etc.

abled people also have the illusion that even if it could happen to them, it won't. most people do not think they will become permanently disabled. telling them they might will not change this assumption, because there are many many misconceptions and untruths about disability. on some level many people may still believe that disability will be a consequence of doing something wrongly.

finally people should care about us even if they will never ever experience ableism, disability, or poor health in their lifetime. this is true for many groups. my white friends care if i experience racism even if they don't. abled who never will experience ableism shouldn't need to be reminded, persuaded, coerced into caring about disabled people

#bebsi posting #disability #physically disabled #cripple punk #chronic illness #eugenics mention