#disabled blogger

[a-little-revolution]

HAPPY DWARFISM AWARENESS MONTH ✨️

Elliot (they/them) here, I have achondroplasia dwarfism and run a blog on it and disability! Give me a follow and send me an ask!

#dwarfism awareness month #dwarfism #disability #disabled blogger #queer and disabled #nonbinary #they them

[melodymorningdew]

@doctordisco12

#disabled #chronic illness #chronically ill #chronic pain #chronic disability #chronically fatigued #fibromyalgia #undiagnosed chronic pain #undiagnosed chronic illness #melody morningdew #physical disability #invisible disability #degenerative disease #mobility aid user #mobility aid #walker #hypermobile ehlers danlos #undiagnosed something #undiagnosed disability #degenerative illness #stress related illnesses #invisible illness #disabled blogger #disabled blog

[majaurukalo]

Disabled people who shit talk their disability (and other disabilities) and think less of themselves if they don’t overcome their disability and are so full of self-hate and even go to social media or television to spread that kind of thought always raise in me some mix feelings.

The first reaction is anger. I’m angry at them for spreading such an abysmal view on disability and other disabled people and basically downgrading all the amazing work real disabled activists do everyday to make us see as humans and for having such horrible thoughts of a community they belong to.

They also trigger a very sensitive spot inside of me and I think they shouldn’t be given a platform to talk in such a way.

But then I try to calm down and rationalise and remind myself that I was in their shoes once.

That is basically internalised ableism which I, as many other disabled people, suffered from for a very long time.

Throughout my childhood and teenage years I would shiver at the idea of ending up in a wheelchair, I prayed that I would be healed and “fixed”, I would cry myself to sleep just to be normal. I hated myself.

I didn’t know any better. My parents didn’t teach me a better view because they didn’t know any better either.

You know what helped me accept and love myself? The disabled community.

All the amazing disabled creators, who talk about this topic in a healthy, empowering way.

So what I think is… disabled people who still suffer from internalised ableism are not our enemies. They are just people who haven’t found this community, who are still processing this difficult reality (and maybe they are newly disabled so that’s even more understandable). They are traumatised, they are suffering from the toxic views the able-bodied society puts on us. They probably don’t have a healthy support system, maybe just family and friends who are pushing them to get fixed, who are telling them to not give up to that kind of life. They think they are unlovable.

So let’s not shit on them. Let’s not insult them because that’s not how they will feel welcome into the community.

Instead, let’s encourage them to change view. Give them positive and empowering disability resources and examples.

#cripple punk #cpunk #disability #cripple #crip revolution #crip punk #disability justice #disability rights #disability pride #ableism #internalised ableism #disabled blogger #this may be related to a recent disabled person who went to an English program I think #and spread around lots and lots of ableism #it saddens me that there are still so many horrible stories about disability being spread on tv #but I don’t want to shit talk this person either #they might regret it in the future #I hope they find acceptance and self love

[waywardtyrantpirate]

Im...having mixed feelings about getting a cane. Ik I need one but I don't...I just....it will help me get better and stop the problem from getting worse. I fear that I'm not -disabled- enough even though my walking has been getting worse and worse lately. But it's it feels that I am now more permanently visibly disabled, my appreance is important to me, and I feel like I will be judged, as I have been in the past about my disability. I just want to disclaim that I don't see anything wrong w/ someone using a cane but I grew up in a household where if you used a mobility device it's bad. I'm in a place where I can get one and not be berated for it. I'm doing some cane shopping lately and feel a part of me healing.

Thx for reading !!!

#nonbinary #nonbinary problems #disabled #disabled blogger #disablity #disabilties #i need advice #i need motivation #ptsd #actually ptsd #cane user #mobility aid #mental health #mental illness #positive mental attitude #positive suggestions #rant post #ranting #trauma #trauma recovery #recovery #help #help me out

[crazycatsiren]

"You're just looking for attention!"

Says the attention seeker who's butting onto posts that are clearly not for them.

#disabled #spoonie #cripple punk #chronic illness warrior #disabled blogger #disabled community

[arcadsia]

An open letter to the artist community (from a disabled artist)

I’m not really someone who likes making PSA type posts, as I like to keep my existence mainly quiet but with some consideration I’d like to cast my stone in the water today to talk about the entitlement of able bodied artists towards disabled folk.

I want to express foremost that I AM disabled, I AM an artist. I’ve been doing art since I was 9, and have been taking it as a serious career possibility since I was 10. I’ve been doing this for a long time, and while I might not be in the same business as many other artists, I absolutely get the right to talk about our own community.

I’ve gotten into the ID scene more recently than I’ve been an artist. I am not a perfect product of IDers, but I am someone I consider knowledgeable on the subject and want to share part of my insight for other artists, young and old.

What are IDs?

IDs, or image descriptions, are text additions onto a post that describe what is going on in the image or video. These IDs are here so people who have visual impairments, who cannot see the image, or otherwise do not understand what is going on can gain access to the post and understand what is going on.

IDs ARE necessary, because not everyone on the internet is able bodied, and disabled people shouldn’t be excluded from enjoying the posts or art we enjoy. If you think disabled people don’t belong on the internet, or that adding IDs are a waste of time, or make a post look ‘ugly’, you are ableist. 

They are valuable tools that disabled people need, and as a community we should all work towards adding more IDs to our posts, or reblogging posts with IDs in the notes. Many of us are not asking you not to post ever unless a post has an ID, and we’re not asking everyone to start adding identifications (though it would be deeply appreciated!), we’re asking you to be more conscious of these usual tools so that other parts of the community who are otherwise excluded from your normal posts, can be included!

Art entitlement

Okay, great! Cool! We know what an ID is, and why they’re important, but what’s the tie into art? Very glad you asked! You see, most art is a visual medium that has traditionally been only accessible to those who can see it. Thanks to the internet, art has become a more widespread medium that anyone can enjoy!

That’s why, in more recent years, accessibility blogs have been reblogging art with image descriptions so that those who might not be able to access art in its image form, can still enjoy what an artist is trying to communicate with visuals.

IDs on art can be VERY helpful tools, especially for people who might consume similar content to you, but can’t always enjoy the exact same content as you due to outside factors. 

It’s why, as an artist, you should be conscious about posting art, or reblogging others' art.

Now, like above I am NOT saying you cannot post art ever unless you have an image ID. However I am saying that when you believe in full truth, that you as an artist are entitled to being reblogged for your time and effort, you are disrespecting several ideas.

You are disrespecting the idea that people OWE you something, when they don’t. As artists we often need as much attention as we can get on our art if we want to make big money off our work. However, as artists we are also often freelance. 

We have no employers besides ourselves, and our occasional clients. When we offer our work to others, our clients do not owe us to accept our services. They are entitled to say no. It’s the same in reblogs.

You are offering your service (art), and if a client for whatever reason doesn’t want to reblog your art. They don’t have to. You are not entitled to telling people what they do with their own autonomy. 

Additionally, when you are not providing accessibility to your art & are demanding/begging for people to reblog your art over liking it, you are digging your own grave here.

No one OWES you that reblog, but when you are purposefully excluding an entire community from your post, you are making it harder for people who DO want to reblog your post.

As someone who is disabled, I have very limited spoons. I take it out of my day to go online, and spend 5-20 minutes writing up an image description for posts I want to reblog. I cannot work endlessly reblogging posts with my own image IDs, but in most cases I have to make my own IDs because no one else has. 

Not every artist is able bodied, but a large majority of you are. It often takes much less effort and energy than it does for someone like me, or my friends, to make a short image description. 

If you are unwilling to do that bare minimum, or are unable to at that moment, you do not get to feel entitled to people reblogging your work. You do not get to shame your other community members, or your clients, for not reblogging your work ever. Period. 

I am tired of having to hear people complain over and over again, shaming their fellow artists for being the ‘weak backbone’ of their community for not reblogging each other's art. I am tired, I am disabled and I’m an artist: and I need you all to give a damn about adding image descriptions to your art/reblogging posts of art with image Ids.

#disability #art community #art PSA #accessability #art information #important #image descriptions #ids #id #long post #information #informational #art #artists #tumblr artist #disabled artist #disabled blogger #PSA

[a-trace-of-lace]

Outfit of the Day

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#a trace of lace #fashion blog #disabled blogger #petite style #outfit of the day #ootd #outfit inspiration #fall fashion #knit dress #storets

[lifeonkylesfarm]

Hi y'all!

I'm organizing a fundraiser so that I can afford a wheelchair.

I'm disabled (I do talk a lot about that on this blog) and I've never had one, but have been in need of one for a while. I have chronic pain and chronic fatigue, among other symptoms, and my lack of energy prevents me from getting around and doing the things I need to do. I'm often in so much pain that I skip meals, avoid going to the bathroom, etc. because I'll have to walk. Getting a wheelchair would help me immensely.

Any amount of money is greatly appreciated and will bring me closer to being able to get around the world.

Even if you cannot donate, please reblog or share in some other way. Anything you do is so so helpful for me and my family!

If you want, you can also send me money through paypal.

#disabled #gofundmecampaign #disabled people #disabled rights #wheelchair user #mobility aid #mobility aids #disability issues #disabled and proud #chronic illness #chronic pain problems #chronic fatigue #chronic pain #actually chronically ill #actually disabled #disabled trans #disabled blogger #disabled community #disabled crowdfund #disabled life #disabled liberation #disabled isn't a bad word #disabled problems #disabled pride #disabled pride month #disabled and trans #disabled support #disability inclusion #disability #disability crowdfund

[smeetlinglord]

When I say Idk how to live normally anymore since becoming homeless I mean it. I'm like someone walking around with a gaping gunshot wound. I'm constantly mask-off in public but usually on a mission so I'm never speaking to anyone, but they can tell I'm barely surviving.

If you encounter me in public, I hope your empathy overrides your discomfort for me and my circumstances. Listen, I know why you're scared, but if I can survive homelessness, I think a lot of people can. Everything is far from hopeless, but still quite bleak. That's why we need drastic societal change quickly. And this time I'm gonna need you to take the reigns from my hands sometimes. I've done the heavy lifting my whole life. Please help. Do something. I would do it for you a thousand times over for nothing. Why can't you do that for me for a handsome reward instead? Do you have no hopes left? No dreams? No love for humanity left in you?

I really don't need anything anyone can't give me crumbs of. Consideration, recognition, validation, encouragement. It's not a lot to ask for really, but it's very hard for people to learn to do. So, please, it will make your life easier, it will help you to cooperate. Be kind. It's not for naught. And it's free!

#homelessness #temporary housing #actually autistic #borderline blog #disabled blogger #philanthropy #homeless pandemic #cannabis patient #op

[itsgivingautism]

01/18/24 — Zia rants about being autistic & physically disabled & chronically ill in a fucked ableist society & having to be dependent on their partner

Started to have meltdown over this & other stuff to my partner before he left for work…. I didn’t meant to have a morning meltdown. I found myself shutting down and feeling guilty before he left bc I can recognize it’s hard on him even when he doesn’t wanna show it. But needed a place to rant and ended up going off down below for a like an hour. I don’t want to open up but I made tumblr after not being on here since high school for an outlet for a lot of reasons, with support & encouragement from therapists to do so. But I also hate being perceived. I’m just so fucking annoying tho I somehow always bring attention to myself that I never want….. but I’m also learning to tell my story & share my experiences. As an autistic person late diagnosed who was severely abused throughout my entire childhood opening up, learning to unmask & not shutdown, understanding my own thoughts, feelings, & experiences is so fucking hard.

I am so grateful for my partner but god I wish I was independent. I wish I had the ability to take care of myself. I wish I wasn’t so fucking dependent on his love and support. I wish I wasn’t so needy, or clingy. I wish I wasn’t disabled physically and mentally. I wish I wasn’t so wounded & traumatized. I wish I wasn’t so chronically ill. I wish I wasn’t in autistic burnout, a state of prolonged cognitive decline that one average can last 2-10 years.

I wish I could get a job. Even working from home but my mind can’t even. I’m constantly age regressing and going across different timelines of my mind and getting trapped, constantly disconnecting from this current physical reality even when I seem like a part of it to others - but it’s just automatic masking as a trauma response. All a result of my CPTSD+autism+adhd

I haven’t been able to work a real job since 2020. I’ve been fighting to get the support & benefits I need but constantly being shit on. Having to go thru constant channels to prove how severe my issues are and then being told try this treatment first and when it doesn’t work its still somehow my fault. I’m sick of having to prove my disabilities & illnesses and then when I show how bad they are I’m being dramatic. But when I mask & show strength, I must be making it up. How could you be so strong about then? There’s no winning. Only losing. I don’t see a point in showing weakness or asking for help. But then refusing to and bottling it all up, that has lead me to deeply problematic bad spirals. I just want to be taken seriously by doctors & medical professionals. I hate this country.

I wish I was normal. I hate burdening my partner. Although I know he doesn’t want me to feel like one and he genuinely wants to help me, I also know I stress him out….

I am dependent on him financially while his job is fucking over their contracts, refusing to give him & his coworkers the raises they were supposed to get a year ago. Him and his coworkers have collectively trying to unionize for months (which is the only reason they actually didn’t get a pay cut which the company was tryna do even tho they were supposed to give raises last year) and ofc my partner has been the one leading the unionizing. (We joke about my radicalism really rubbing off on him)

I’m constantly trying to find ways to make money, which end up doing more damage to my body. He hate what it does to me. He wishes he could do more while stuck in his work contract. it’s a lot on him. And I feel like his life would be so much less stressful without me tho….. or at least if I could just be normal & healthy….

Even my friends point out that unless I’m talking about my emotions & trauma I don’t make any sense talking…. like burnout really shows…. It’s embarrassing constantly. I sound like a so clearly disabled most of the time. I used to exceptionally smart & articulate before this burnout. Ik they mean it accepting my but it’s hard when 90% of what I say comes out wrong. It’s hard when I’m trying to be supportive and it sounds like asshole shit bc my issues with speech & cognition. I want to be a lovely validating friend. Not the one they have to dissect my word vomit to find the love & support in foolish clumsily words. I’m technically hyperlexic so I can keep creating words but my other learning disabilities downgrade the quality & meaning of those words.

But I also only make sense when talking about my looping emotions & trauma is bc I only share what I can (the deeper stuff is vaulted by selective mutism & shutdowns). This is the shit going thru my brain, talking to myself about and looping constantly. Ofc it’s the only thing I can talk about. But even most the time I’m still not making sense entirely. But it’s all I can think about, talk to myself about, and it’s all the my brain is giving me permission to share about myself.

#disability rant #autistic rant #actually autistic #actually disabled #actually chronically ill #autistic adult #autistic blogger #disabled blogger #autistic experiences #disabled #chronically ill #actually cptsd #Zias diary 🌿 #Zia 🌿 #chronic illness

[a-little-revolution]

Hello lovelies and happy disabled pride!!!

For any new to my blog, I'm Elliot (they/them), I'm 25 and write to spread awareness for the LP (little people) community!

- I have achondroplasia dwarfism, chronic arthritic pain, and use a moblility aid

- I'm hard of hearing, wear hearing aids, and am learning ASL

- I'm nonbinary (they/them), trans and queer

- I am also autistic! and have a stimmy sideblog called @doyouwannaseeafrog My special interests include laika animation, studio ghibli, and sailor moon :)

- I'm an aspiring tattoo designer, artist and occasional poet

If you're looking to learn more on dwarfism and have any questions, give me a follow and send me a message!! Happy disabled pride to all my fellow spoonies!!!

Photoset description: three mirror selfies of myself, a little person with green hair in a curly mullet with buzzed sides and tufts above my ears. I hold a phone with a celestial pattern on the case, wear mixed pattern earthtones, and have gold facial piercings. In the third photo I stand with my black rollator.

#me #disabled pride month #disabled blogger #dwarfism #queer and disabled #crip queer #nonbinary #they them

[melodymorningdew]

I love being told that the help I'm given means I owe something to the person who helped me 🙃 Like don't help me, then.

#unconditional love is a thing #don't help me if you're going to hold a debt over my head thanks #disabled #chronic illness #chronically ill #chronic pain #chronic disability #chronically fatigued #fibromyalgia #undiagnosed chronic pain #melody morningdew art #undiagnosed chronic illness #disabled blog #disabled blogger #chronic migraines #chronic migraine #chronic fatigue #undiagnosed something #undiagnosed disability #ibs c #invisible disability #invisible illness #i hate living #kms #physical disability #tic disorder #post traumatic stress disorder #pots maybe #pots #hypermobile ehlers danlos

[cozycoffeereads]

As some of you know, I just spent 32 days in the hospital due to two invasive and risky brain surgeries. It’s disability pride month, and I’m going to try to post as much awareness as I can for someone recovering from such surgeries. I will also post disabled authors and literature about disability.

Source for graphic: find your own hope

#disabled blogger #disability pride month #disabled #disability rights #chronic pain #EDS #brain surgery #chiari #iih #adhd #trigeminal neuralgia #epilepsy #potsie #brain damage

[cherieye]

Stop being disappointed in disabled individuals for not fulfilling the potential you see in them, instead be furious that no one feels the urgency to build the accessibility they need to even have the opportunity to do so.

#disabled tumblr #being disabled #disabled artist #disability #disabilties #disabled blogger #words #disabled

[rottedmolarx]

hey guys !! i really hate to ask for help but i really need it. my health (mental and physical) has just been on a decline, and on top of that our foodstamps (SNAP) have been delayed.

i also dont know if insurance is gonna cover some of the treatments/procedures/medication i need, so..

if you are unable to donate at the time, i understand, and if you could reblog this that would help so much.

i am literally so desperate that all i am asking is 5$ or less. If 1,000 people donate 1$ then that's 1,000 dollars i have to help cover medical expenses and food.

when i figure out how to use redbubble or how to price and ship things out i will eventually open up commissions and hopefully a little store but right now this is the most i have.

im also really sorry but all i have is c@sh@pp and i will put it in my bio too but its offhandmonr0e

thank you guys so much,

-Gordon

#help appreciated #ftm transguy #disabled blogger #queer bipoc #halloween in july #scary stuff #scary stories #because living in america is a scare fucking story #i have to stay here until i can get fucking diagnosed and treated n shit

[writing2changetheworld]

Activism Social Medias

I have some social medias I use for disability activism. Please check them out! My blog

My Instagram

My Tiktok

This activism and my work are very important to me. Check them out!

#blog #disability blog #disability blogging #disability blogger #disabled blogger #disabled community #ableism #ableism blog #activist #activism #activism blog #disability rights #disability #disabled #disability activism #social media #ableist #write #writer #writeblr #disability activist #disabled activist #representation #disability representation #disabled rights #disabled rights are human rights