#disabled tag

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

happy disabled pride to those for whom cooking/food prep is a nearly insurmountable task btw. whether that be due to pain, fine motor skills, comprehension difficulty, time blindness, or any other kind of physical or mental reason.

it fucking sucks losing hours and hours to a task that is supposed to be fun and good for love and life, all while cookbook "time to prep" numbers jeer and other people seem to be able to handle it a million times easier.

you are seen, you are loved. we all deserve to eat well and eat happily, and im proud of you for anything and everything you were able to eat today, regardless if you made it or not

#disabled tag #disabled pride 2023 #disabled pride month #disabled pride #cooking is so painful and mentally exhausting and i just lost like 4 hours making something that'll feed me for maybe 3 days so yeah #mossy speaks #if anyone has any cooking tips PLS feel free to drop them btw #food #food cw

[a-walking-fandom-reference]

why do so many non-chronically ill people not comprehend that chronically ill means exactly what it says!! an illness that is constant, continuing for a long time, always present.

so yes that does mean it is always affecting me, yes i am still sick/feel bad, yes i am sick/feel bad all the time

#this one goes out to my parents #who you would have thought would have learned maybe something from their first child but they have not #everyday it’s like guess what you’re kids are still in fact chronically ill (+ have developmental disorders) #they make me so frustrated because not only do i have to deal with chronic illness but also unhelpful people who create a negative #environment which guess what worsens chronic illness #rey actually speaks #actually chronically ill #disabled tag #everyday i wish they would not traumatize my sister like they did me and yet they don’t learn

[ursie]

Speaking of Ableism it’s sooo transparent that whenever people pitch Stardew Valley as their “comfort game”, it being “perfect” and inclusive of “all queer people” (minus disabled ones) they always leave out the jarring and quite frankly triggering level of ableism in the game.

Which did not get removed in any of the updates! Like you can add moss to every tree but you can’t change Penny assaulting George + the fact you’re supposed to defend her from George being upset?? Like to clarify what actually happened is George is getting mail and PENNY MOVES HIS WHEELCHAIR WITHOUT HIS PERMISSION TO GET IT AND GEORGE IS RIGHTFULLY UPSET AND THE WRONG ANSWER IS SAYING YOU SHOULD ASK GEORGE FIRST???

Plus the Harvey event?? Like George does know what’s best for his own body and once again the disabled man advocating for himself is the wrong answer?? Like Harvey you’re telling him to do arm exercises whilst he’s in a manual chair. That’s quite literally all he does

Also Harvey threatening to tell Evelyn without George’s permission. Then there’s George’s dialogue himself from referring to himself as wheelchair bound, talking about how he can’t play catch w Alex, ect all of which is simply an ableist understanding of the disabled identity. Like to be clear George is not written to be a commentary on internalized ableism. The person writing his dialogue genuinely thinks he can’t play catch 😭 and this is all ignoring the ageism in his dialogue as well. The only good writing of George is him being mean to the villagers whom are textually ableist to him like. George and Evelyn should be meaner and Alex should kick both Penny and Harvey’s ass 😭

#sorry someone liked my sdv ableism post again and I made a new game and?? #they didn’t take the ableism out 😭 #stardew valley #I babble #sdv harvey #sdv penny #sdv George #tw ableism #disabled tag #long post

[the-force-awakens]

Poe Dameron + Disability Pride Flag insp. | template credit

#swedit #starwarsedit #starwarsblr #starwarsdaily #starwarscolors #swsource #star wars #poe dameron #disabled tag #nym.gifs

[fruitsilly]

Shout-out to disabled aromantic people today we are so cool

#aromantic #disabled tag #doing my part for aro trending on valentines day #apple rambles

[ozlices]

my neck & shoulders are always so violent towards me & for WHAT? bc i sit like a gay shrimp?????? ok. homophobe. grow up

#mine #chronic pain tag #disabled tag #spoonie tag #at least we have our muscle relaxer back it was an emotional reunion

[verdantmeadows]

Respectfully, they should make medicine/related things that you can buy that DON'T have child safety seals, because, as a disabled person, I find them so incredibly hard to open and get past that I just have to ask someone else to do it for me 90% of the time. Like, I understand why they have them...but it makes it so I can't be in control of my own health.

#book of kells #disability #disabled tag #to be clear everyone i live with is happy to do this for me #but sometimes people are Asleep

[autispec-hours]

how to force your body to not curl every single muscle in on itself while resting

#un-tism #invisible disability #physical disability #disabled problems #disability #disabled #disabled rights #hypermobility #hypermobile ehlers danlos #hypermobile eds #ehlers danlos syndrome #ehlers danlos problems #eds zebra #actually disabled #disabled thoughts #disabled tag #disabled tumblr #autie rambles #textpost #text post #text tag #txt tag #txt #txt post

[pencildragons]

opens firefox i am rotting how to stop rotting how to get the rot out of my brain how to be content how to stop feeling like something is hideously wrong how to identify the hideousness wrongness what is the rots identity what is the rot actually how to identify what the rot is i am rotting how to stop rotting.

#im a mfucking #. having a time of it rn #everythign is wrong and bad and idk what #like am i just having a cf moment? can't write drank water ate conducive food had salt tablets went for a walk took meds #and nothing is working #dont want to consume any of my medias do not want to do anything #rotitng . #words of wyrm #adhd #chronic fatigue #disabled tag #this si not enjoyable to me lads how do i stpo it #or is it #autism #it may be the autism #anyway. if anyone has suggestions. pls

[guinevereslancelot]

experiencing the symptoms again

#if i faint at work im.gonna die <3 #or get a concussion on the concrete floor #but these headaches are tooooo much fr #😭 #i have to wait until november when i get health insurance to see a doctor and maybe get a prescription for the pain bc nothing helps #and i cant put up with it anymore #also lowkey hoping there's a treatable cause idk #chronic pain tag #disabled tag #ok to rb #this has been a shitpost

[flugame-mp3]

doing groupwork in class as an autistic person is fucking crazy. like why is it hard for you to communicate with me. why do you get passive aggressive when i ask for clarification. and if you're going to act like that why am i not allowed to get aggressive back at you. blows you up with my mind.

#theo.txt #disabled tag #ND tag #my partner for this assignment literally just left without talking to me about our plan im so fucking frustrated with them #because they DO NOT RESPOND OVER TEXT #AUUUUUUGH FUCK YOUUUUUUU IT COULD BE SO EASYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY #vent #<- I GUESS LOL #the Me Feeling Everything So Much All The Time is not helping either tbf

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

okay i’m done being nice about this actually. able bodied people owe me and every other disabled person on the planet real money for every time they put the fucking line “im not an inv*lid” into their writing

i understand the urge to have disabled characters defend their autonomy, that’s excellent!!! but if you don’t stop making them punch down and call other disabled ppl slurs, im going to break your legs

cut it the fuck out

(able bodied people are encouraged to reblog, just don’t be an asshole)

#use any other word. im no longer asking #disabilities #disabled tag #spoonie #mossy speaks #also us disabled folk are not exempt from this btw!!!! we don’t get to punch down either!!!!! cut it out!!!!!! #it costs zero dollars to use a different word. 🔪

[lucaskindagay]

I don't feel welcome in my local Quaker meeting anymore, not through any fault of theirs particularly, but just because I am unable to sit in silence and hold peace as I used to be. They are a wonderful group, but they have not been able to understand and accept my tourettes and seizures etc. As part of me and as unavoidable even when I am worshipping. It sucks. I miss the stillness and peace so much, and I feel almost like I'll never find it again. Even my expressions of autistic joy, and quiet stimming (which have always been part of my expression of community, communication, and self especially in worship) aren't acceptable there, because it's not the way they do things. This is not explicitly said, but judgemental looks and words hurt. I miss being able to participate in meeting and feel safe and welcomed.

#quaker #quakerism #religious society of friends #tourettes #non-epileptic seizures #disability #disabled tag #lucassad #luca talks

[ursie]

Can’t believe this needs clarifying in the year 2023 but body horror and disabled bodies are in fact different things. If you’re tagging burns or amputees or visibly scarred people (and yes this includes fan art) as body horror (or trigger tagging their disabilities at all) you’re being ableist and you deserve death ❤️ disabled people are allowed to exist and if you find out existence triggering that is in fact a flaw you need to address not a legitimate issue that should be coddled for gods sake. I don’t care if you have your reasons. If I wanted someone to trigger tag gay people or blonde people everyone would rightfully mock me because you can’t just be triggered by a group of people-you understand how ridiculous that is right? I don’t know how or why y’all think disabled people are the exception.

Image id : a pink banner that says people who disagree with me dni

#that all said am legitimately this code to needing a tag for abled bodied clowns y’all are killing me #I babble #disabled tag #cripplepunk #tw ableism

[the-force-awakens]

with it officially being disability pride month, I wanna talk about my favorite disabled headcanon, which is for the one and only, my most beloved Poe Dameron. Buckle up, because this is a long post.

I actually have a few different disability headcanons, most of which hold up to canon/are extrapolated from canon, so we'll keep that in mind as we go through. I expect this to have about...four parts total. Let's go!

Hard of Hearing

I think a good case can be made that Poe is hard of hearing, with a few instances that could point to this fact, primarily the very beginning of the Rise of Skywalker. Even though Chewie is sitting right beside Poe, Poe does not understand what Chewie has said, because his head is turned (at no other point does Poe have any problem understanding Chewbacca, so we know it is not a linguistics issue)

It's only when he turns towards Chewie and Chewie repeats what he said that Poe understands what was said. There's also the frankly adorable moment in The Last Jedi that's extremely easy to miss, because it's a far away shot and we just barely catch what Poe says:

BB-8 is beeping so fast trying to catch Poe up that Poe has to request that he slow down so Poe can understand him. Other possible evidence of him being HoH (beyond the comical amount of explosions he's constantly caught in) is that there are several shots where we see Poe carefully watching the lips of the person he's speaking to as they're talking, as if that might help him keep up.

And (I don't have a gif of this lmao I'm not giffing him getting hurt) when Poe gets shot in tros, @/dameronalone pointed out it could be evidence he didn't hear the approaching stormtroopers when he turned to look the other way. @/hermitmoss has also pointed to his line at the start of tfa while being snarky at Kylo as further possible evidence, about how it's hard to understand Ren with the voice modulator.

Essential Hand Tremor

Another fact pointed out to me by @/hermitmoss (thanks Braigwen) is that when Poe goes to cover Leia's hand with his own in the Last Jedi, we see that his hand is shaking:

I later noticed that this isn't the only time that we see Poe do this, we see it again in the Rise of Skywalker, where he cannot keep his blaster steady as Rey approaches the serpent at all.

These are the only two circumstances I can find of his hands trembling in the movies, though, and we know from plenty of other scenes that Poe ordinarily can keep a blaster extremely steady:

Autism & ADHD

Okay this one I don't consider to be a headcanon, lmfao. I genuinely believe that Poe was intentionally coded as autistic/ADHD by Oscar Isaac.

Oscar playing/coding Poe as something that is never explicitly confirmed by Disney is far from new: Poe is coded as a bisexual (or pansexual) man, because that's how Oscar Isaac saw Poe and chose to play him, and even if we weren't gifted with it being made explicit, it's still there in his performance.

If you happen to be a fan of Oscar Isaac, or just a Marvel and Star Wars fan both, you'll know he starred in the Disney+ series Moon Knight last year as the Moon Knight system (Steven Grant, Marc Spector, and Jake Lockley).

Shortly after the first episode premiered, Oscar Isaac revealed in an interview that while trying to figure out who Steven was as a person, he came up with the idea that the system be on the Autism Spectrum, and approached Marvel to see if he could include it into his performances, and it was green-lit.

The Lunar system is the best intentional autistic representation I've ever seen, there are so many things they do that are so minor that I doubt most people would ever consider to include, but they are things that me and my friends do.

And there's an overlap in how Oscar plays the various autistic habits and traits of the Lunar system in how he portrays Poe. Most notably, Poe and Marc have extremely similar meltdowns:

There's plenty more overlap (Poe does the same anxious stim Steven does, of rubbing the inside of his index finger with his thumb) but there's so much there I'm not sure where all to begin. I have gone more in depth on the various autistic traits Poe shows throughout the films in this gifset here, though.

I'll go ahead and include some of the moments we see him stimming, that I have evidence of:

(he also does this same hand thing when he starts to leave BB-8 and promises to come back.)

We also see him fidgeting anxiously with his hands during the briefing in the last jedi:

Poe also has a habit of running his tongue along his bottom lip while he's stressed or thinking something through. Here's three examples from across the trilogy (there are plenty more):

We're leaning a little closer into ADHD territory now. I don't really know how to explain why I think Poe is ADHD, to be quite honest, besides the fact that he just radiates ADHD energy to me and I heavily relate. This is a man who cannot stay still, and frequently talks with his hands:

But there's also the fact that Poe oftentimes has a tendency to not be able to fully see the potential of negative outcomes to his decisions - he sees point a to point b, and sometimes becomes laser focused on that. It's something I understand perfectly, because it's hard for me to pull away from something I've already fully committed to doing, and it's even more difficult sometimes for me to truly understand what (and what kind of) consequences my actions will have.

Other evidence of him being extremely autistic (and adhd) is just....that he makes autistic expressions?

Like this...is an autistic expression, I've seen my best friend make this exact fucking face before, I don't know how else to explain it.

Misc Thoughts

Aside from the above, it's pretty much canon that Poe has anxiety and depression — at the very least, Poe Dameron: Free Fall by Alex Segura certainly does not shy away from the suggestion, and is one of the most implicit portrayals we have of it outside the films — it is a series of catastrophizing his circumstances that leads Poe to joining Zorii for a little while as a teenager, following a joyride that ended in a crash that Poe explicitly wishes he had not survived.

The movies themselves also points to Poe having PTSD, partially through the writing but mostly due to the nuanced and thoughtful performance Oscar Isaac gives as Poe (that goes....woefully underappreciated, seriously he adds so much depth to every single scene as Poe, including the thread of anxiety in Poe's voice when Rey mentions Ren's ship is over Kijimi, or constantly looking out to make sure they're not being followed in tros).

(Good expanded material follows through on this, such as Poe's reluctance to discuss anything about what happened aboard the Finalizer in the Poe Dameron: Flight Log, and becoming irate at the thought of having to. He's an extremely traumatized man, and he certainly doesn't deserve to be thrown out of an airlock jfc and he isn't as arrogant as the fascist regime he is fighting, tbh he's not arrogant at all).

Conclusion

I believe that sums up the majority of my Poe is disabled thoughts, or at least the ones that I think holds up very well within the canon framework. He's extremely disabled and - in the case of being neurodivergent - this is critical to understanding him as a character, especially considering his arc ends up being focused on interdependence.

I wish all fellow disabled folk a happy pride month, and I wish all very ableds a very "please do not be ableist on this post". You will be blocked otherwise.

#nym speaks #disabled tag #autism #poe dameron #my meta #sui ideation cw

[transmasc-wizard]

the RTC stuff has me thinking and like. wow abled people really, really underestimate how much disability affects disabled people huh

the fact that you can even REWRITE ricky potts to be abled signals something is wrong. and i mean that morally, like, "why the fuck would you erase a disabled character?", but i also mean that on a writing level.

i am multiply disabled. i am afraid of staircases & showers, hate parties, dislike babies & small children, wear hoodies a ton, cannot wear earrings, wear combat boots a ton, don't often go out for lunch, and cannot dance. all of those things are connected to the first one, and they're just a fraction of my examples.

afraid of staircases & showers, cannot dance, wears boots: my balance is bad due to leg & ankle pain. I'm afraid of situations where falling is already more likely. i'm also not great with dancing for obvious reasons! and i wear boots that make me feel more secure.

dislike parties, babies, small children, can't wear earrings: i have severe auditory hypersensitivity. the first 3 are because i already can't stand lots of normal noises and those things are even louder than usual noises. i can't wear earrings, because i'm always wearing noise-cancelling headphones earrings don't fit under/can't be seen under.

hoodies, can't go out for lunch: i am. sooooo tired. all the time. i wear the most comfortable possible clothing and don't go places more than necessary to reserve my already low energy levels.

these are almost all things that affect my day-to-day life that aren't directly obvious disability things, and my disabilities are on the more manageable end. i don't need mobility aids on a 100% literal level (i need them on a "happily function" level, and thus am not currently happily functioning, but like. i could run out of a burning building without assistance). i could maybe, probably live alone. i can & do walk on a day to day basis, even if it sucks. i can usually hide being disabled if i'm in a situation where being visibly disabled is unsafe.

a character like ricky? who is 100% reliant on disability aids? who is constantly visibly disabled? THAT CHARACTER'S DISABILITIES, IF DONE PROPERLY, SHOULD NOT BE SOMETHING YOU CAN JUST WRITE OUT AND HAVE THEIR STORY STILL MAKE SENSE.

#nicola.txt #disabled tag