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dukedyke · 11 months
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also i've started using my walker again bc hey that's life and i was dreading using it bc it's kind of a hassle to get places but honestly? this shit is primo. way less tiring than my cane. i might go back to using this full time.
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disabledmachineherald · 9 months
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i love you people with weak faces i love you people who have trouble making expressions or can't make expressions at all i love you people who "always look sad" or anxious or dazed i love you people with heavy eyelids whose eyes don't want to stay open and who have folds by their mouths and saggy wrinkly faces and atrophied and squishy and floppy muscles i love you people who are incontinent and who drool and have to lean forward to swallow or can't swallow at all i love you people who hold their arms to their chests whatever the reason i love you people who contort or curl their hands or twist their arms i love you people whose legs and feet are floppy i love you people whose feet knock into everything all the time because they either can't feel them or they're just hard to move
i love you people with lopsided faces i love you people with lazy eyes and strabismus i love you people with protruding brows and high foreheads and small noses and far apart or close together eyes i love you people whose ears stick out and who have trouble with hats and masks because it gives them elf ears i love you people with baby faces i love you people below 5'3
i love you people who wheeze badly when they laugh or laugh like "ha. haaaa. ha. ha. haaaa" i love you people with nasal voices i love you people who always have their mouths open i love you people who breathe loudly either through their nose or mouth i love you people who lose their balance a lot i love you people with stroke symptoms
i love you people who can't walk in a straight line i love you people with different gaits i love you people who are always knocking stuff over, spilling stuff, falling, bumping into things, accidentally hurting themselves, dropping stuff, slapping stuff, and throwing stuff
i love you people whose legs want to fuse together really bad i love you people whose feet fall toward each other i love you people who can't lift their legs or arms i love you people with stiff legs i love you people with hemiparesis i love you people with knock knees i love you people with flat feet or very high arches or claw toes
i love you people with atrophied faces or legs or arms or necks i love you people with claw hands i love you people with scoliosis and lordosis and kyphosis i love you people with floppy necks i love you people with hypertonia or dystonia or spasticity
i don't know a lot of stuff
i just love you and i'm glad you exist
you deserve to see yourself in media and art and advocacy and activism and to be respected and supported
i know i've made this kind of post so many times. i don't care. it's never enough
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obsob · 9 months
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oaky no long tentatively exploring idea im aromantic. i am aromantic
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glittergroovy · 13 days
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I need groceries urgently; food, laundry detergent, masks, tp
kofi / v3nmo: Grubcore / Bonfire (shirts)
order specific things for me on my Amazon wishlist or through Throne (Amazon is probably cheaper)
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magpiethepunkfairy · 4 months
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Does anyone have any reading recommendations for anarchist and communist theory stuff that focuses on disablity and disabled people
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Check out this article my university posted on their website!
I hope my interview shows aspiring environmentalists who are physically disabled that they have a place in the movement and I hope that employers will see this and be more open to hiring disabled peeps like me!
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echo-bleu · 7 months
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[ID: digital painting of Maglor, Elros and Elrond. Maglor, an elf with long dark hair with decorative braids, is sitting in a brass-coloured wheelchair and holding a lyre, shrugging. A speech bubble above him says "Nelyo! You'll never guess what happened!" Elros and Elrond (identical half-elven twins with brown skin and dark hair) are about 12 years old and are standing on either side of Maglor. Elros, wearing blue, has his arms crossed and is looking mischievous, and his hair is cropped at the shoulders. Elrond, wearing red, has a long braid, he is looking back and scratching his neck.]
Maglor and the twins from my series the bark of our bones. I've been taking disability prompts but I should also sketch my own headcanons! (I still have a couple prompts to draw, if you've sent one, don't worry, it's coming.)
Maglor's wheelchair was of course designed by Curufin, with help from Celebrimbor. This is an advanced version, they've made a bunch of different chairs over the years (I have many headcanons, some of which I will write eventually). In this AU Maglor tried to rescue Maedhros from Angband and was captured too, and his legs were injured there.
It's a lighter moment set a year or so before the Host of the Valar arrives: Elros decided to cut off his hair and Maglor is powerless at saying no to the twins.
Disabled Tolkien characters series
Under the cut: two versions with different backgrounds because I just couldn't choose
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Also an attempt at making the wheelchair and the lyre more silvery.
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bloggedanon · 6 months
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People are out here arguing that gatekeeping cpunk from people is actually perfectly fine because able-bodied ND people have mad- and neuropunk and that's "perfectly fine" with them and it's actually annoying as fuck imo, large explanation under the cut I forgot to add originally
• First of all, try to tell me that physically disabled people are mentally perfectly fine and have never had their mental health compromised as a result of their physical disability. Just try, I'll wait. Just like how I'm waiting to hear about "able-bodied" ND people not having any physical issues purely as a result of being ND.
• Secondly, that doesn't make gatekeeping with the mad- and neuropunk communities okay EITHER, even IF the first bullet SOMEHOW happens to be true. The separatist mind-body dichotomy is predicated in entirely false pretenses. The experiences between the physically and mentally disabled communities have SO much overlap. One "form" of disability is not inherently more or less disabling than another, that's down to the individual(s) and their conditions. A lot of either "form" can restrict people's abilities to perform a lot of the same tasks regardless of what the tasks may be or what "form" of disability is responsible for it. A lot of medical conditions (and systemic ableism) can produce a whole lot of symptoms that present like mental disorders.
• In the same vein, we DO have to acknowledge that some people have their disabilities affect them in ways that not everyone experiences. The experience of having a psychotic break isn't comparable to the experience of being wheelchair-bound. But neither is the experience of being a low support needs autistic that can function independently and being a high support needs autistic who can't bathe or dress independently and will need lifelong supervision, and this is just two examples of the same disorder! A person who's chronically bedbound isn't going to have a comparable experience to a Deaf-Blind individual, even if they both wind up with lifelong caretaking requirements. If we can acknowledge that experiences in the mentally disabled and physically disabled communities aren't going to be universal even WITHIN our own communities and we don't turn to separatists about it, what makes the physical and mentally disables communities as wholes any different?
• This one's the big one, and I see it a lot, you guys really need to learn what punk actually means. PUNK isn't about the "by X group and for X group" mindset at all. It's not about "X group of people vs X group of people." It's a community of people who are standing together against a SYSTEM. It's about highlighting society's wrongs and shouting about it, and trying to enact change in whatever way we can. Its praxis is just activism. You don't have to be black to stand with the Black community and fight for their rights, and fight systemic racism. You don't have to be a woman to be a feminist, and fight the patriarchy. You don't have to be queer to get down in the trenches with them and fight queerphobia (allies still get bottles 'n shit thrown at them regardless). You don't have to be disabled to stand against systemic ableism. You don't have to be the direct target of systemic oppression, or specific, targeted systemic microaggressions to fight it.
What punk is is getting down in the thick of oppression right alongside those who have to deal with it as a concrete force in their daily lives and being right next to them when shit hits the fan, fighting the same fight they are, and taking the blows as if you were one of them, because to those who want to perpetuate it, you might as well be. Anyone can be an ally, and allyship IS what punk is, just as much as being a member of a targeted group fighting for their rights. Systemic oppression doesn't care about the nuances when it lines us all up against the wall, and our infighting is doing its job for it. The second we start singling out groups of people for their identities is when we've already lost. Anyone standing up against these sytems is punk.
Anyone GATEKEEPING a punk movement isn't a punk, they're a fucking poser. A cop. A fed, even, because there are no cops at punk.
Can you have specific communities OF [x people with x identity and experiences], by and for that group by definition, to discuss their specific experiences unique to their situation(s)? Sure! Just don't do any fakeclaiming in the gatekeeping, mmk?
And don't you DARE call it fucking punk.
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dukedyke · 2 years
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i think we should be able to prosecute our bodies when they're being bullshit. i'm taking my bastard knees to court and suing them for pain and suffering and by god i will win.
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stimmypawbs · 6 months
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BAD brain function get BACK here
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riotparty · 2 years
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Sky and its growing hostility toward the disabled.
I love sky game. I adore the idea and the cosmetics and I love the friends I made in the game. Its been a wonderful experience.
But also one I struggle with a ton. Cause this game is actively hostile toward the disabled.
With the new update on the ui for friendship constellations, I find it harder and harder to turn a blind eye to this.
To start with that, the ui i find is much harder to visually navigate. I genuinely have a hard time telling who is lit and who isn't. I cant easily tell who has lit me back either. Not only that but they recombined the buttons for both the realm ui and the friendship one. And instead added a switch. Its honestly a mess this new change that disregards people with visual issues and processing issues.
And also to continue, the idle timer is also a horrible change. I get they want to promote more interactions but they are actively excluding people with this change who are too busy or just unable to actively play sky for long. Having the idle timer makes these new idle spots they keep adding useless!
Many of my friends have burnout from sky from having to actively play. I have burnout too. And I know I and some of my other friends also struggle too due to mental illness preventing us from trying. These idle spots would be amazing for us if we didn't have the idle timer.
Another issue is graphical options! There's barely any! No one can adjust how much bloom they want. No one can adjust the brightness. Some areas are so horrifically dark I have to turn my brightness up only to turn it back down in others cause the bloom and light is searingly painful. Not to mention the issues with flashing in dark areas with firework staff and spells and certain emotes. (And worse yet from hackers spamming bright effects)
As a side issue to tack onto this: there is no way to report unlit people either so we have no way to report hackers who are smart enough not to let people light them which is a legitimate danger when one of them decides to spam bright effects.
I could list more issues like the unavoidable camera spin toward a spirit when you unfortunately get stuck into the memory process you didn't initiate, the inability to adjust the ui in anyway to accommodate for that specific person, that fact they don't even have a proper feedback center and urge to to dump whatever you have to them on their socials where it could very easily be ignored or drowned out due to the nature of socials.
On one hand sky is such a wonderfully lovely game where you can make life long friendships and can bridge the gap between distances, but the other is that this game is growing more and more harsh toward people with disabilities. There is nothing in this game that is accommodating EXCEPT like the audio sliders they added which should have been a thing from the start.
So again dont get me wrong I love sky game. I made such wonderful friends in the game and the seasons are fun. But im tired of i and other disableds being thrown under the bus with these updates. Literally all of these (aside from the hacker issue) could be fixed if they allowed people multiple options of adjustments that they can use to better their own experience with the game. And also removing the idle timer altogether.
So there is that! Pardon is some parts dont make sense or dont seem right or seem disconnected. Im trying my best to put my thoughts together for this.
Ok to reblog but ableds dont fucking clown on this post. And I mean both physically and mentally abled cause disabled accounts for both.
EDIT: I encourage you guys to read the notes and whatever additions I add cause there are good additions about this. Thank you.
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glittergroovy · 2 months
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hi I need groceries! can't find work, broke, disabled, trans & hungry
if you can throw a few bucks my way it's super appreciated!
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k0fi (goes thru p@ypal)
v3nmo: @Grubcore
throne will ship things on my wishlist directly to me; I really need a new Brita filter in particular
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muttfangs · 6 months
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imo they should teach classes & do exercises in grade school (and college) on human accessibility / empathy / awareness & im not joking they need to conduct this with adults, too. maybe continuing ed or something. just a personal example: I dislocated and smashed my shoulder in a biking accident last week. it has been **infinitely more difficult** to do mundane tasks with one arm, because the entire world is based off the assumption that most people have two working arms list of mundane tasks include: 1. opening pill bottles 2. cooking 3. taking out the trash 4. video games (I literally cant play anything unless it can be done w/ one hand which isnt many lol) 5. texting / using my phone 6. getting dressed 7. getting in / out of the shower 8. cutting up fruit / vegs etc 9. opening plastic packages 10. getting up from a lying down position 11. safely exercising 12. opening cans (if it doesnt have a tab for me to open it w/ im fucked bc I cant operate a can opener with one arm lol) 13. sweeping / mopping 14. doing the dishes (if I didnt have a dishwashing machine in my apartment during this shit........................ fuck me. awful) 15. opening doors 17. drying my hands with a manual roll of paper towels 18. toilet paper 19. standing on the train / bus 20. grocery shopping 21. sleeping comfortably 22. doing shots / injectable medication on myself 23. opening single use eye drop vials 24. using nail clippers and i'm probably missing a lot more bc like. i'm not kidding at all when I say literally every aspect of my life is way harder now i'm not a stranger to chronic pain / illness, but having my shoulder & arm immobile for the next few weeks really has me thinking hard about accessibility. more so than usual. and it's incredibly evident and eye opening just how fucking hostile our day-to-day is to disabled & chronically ill people. I think like. perhaps if in grade school we did something as simple as putting an extra shirt / band / whatever to keep someone's dominant arm down from being used, and then encouraged people to interact with their environments as normal throughout the day-- it would be incredibly eye opening to them as well. and perhaps we could instill more understanding & begin to shift focus to more accessible standards universally it's a simple exercise. but its an effective one. you can try it for yourself and see.
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wilczak · 3 months
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Reminder that if you're radqueer, support those people in any way, or are just neutral about the abelist "trans[mental disorder]" bullshit, I hate you and you should get the fuck off my blog and never come back.
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saloonwomen · 7 months
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stupid fist fight poll battle on twt that put tavros vs sollux and sollux won and Im still mad about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sollux passes out when he stands up the mere thought of a fist fight probably fills him with fatiuge he is an unhealthy Twig meanwhile tavros spends all day roleplaying outside with his crazy ass friends doing God knows What and he would simply win!!!!!!!!!! sollux cant get out of bed cuz hes to sore while tavros is doing somersaults in the backyard for 3 hours
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lhazaar · 3 months
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love love love finding out the morning of a job that they want me to buy a bunch of supplies in the vague hope i’ll be reimbursed, maybe, in two weeks. like cool, first of all i’m SO glad i was awake at 6am to see your email or we all would have been hooped, second now i have to call them and admit the extremely fun and not at all mortifying fact that i cannot afford to do that
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