#disabled things

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

“alt text for more info” “turn on cations for more info” no actually this is not where more info goes. These have a very distinct purpose. There are plenty of other places for more info. If you’re going to make your post inaccessible, the least you could do is not use accessibility tools at your own leisure for whatever purpose you see fit.

#disability accessibility #accessibility #vision impaired #hearing impaired #hard of hearing #physical disability #sensory disability #disability accommodations #disability representation #disability advocacy #equitability #neurodiversity #adhd autistic #disabled things #alt text #captioning #subtitles #disability resources #accessibility tools

[creatorofcalmqueerchaos]

Do not tell someone their mobility aid isn’t cute.

Please, for the love of any god that exists and the ones that don’t too, don’t tell someone their mobility aid isn’t cute. Don’t tell them it ruins their outfit. Don’t tell them they’d look better without it. Don’t. 

Why? Because chances are, they were very insecure about it before. Maybe they still are. And also because it’s fucking ableist. You’re telling them that using a mobility aid looks bad. I don’t care if you think the outfit would look ten times better without it, keep that shit to yourself. You’re not the one wearing it and if the person has decided that their functionality is more important than their appearance, then that’s their choice to make, not yours. 

Mobility aids are there to help the person using them, not to appease your idea of beauty. 

And, not to mention, mobility aids are fucking cute. 

The braces worn on the outside of pants because that’s more comfortable or they don’t fit underneath or it’s uncomfortable otherwise? Rock on. Canes that are decorated or otherwise but let someone get around easier? Fantastic. Crutches that let someone participate in society? Amazing. Wheelchairs that mean someone doesn’t have to be in unnecessary pain? 10/10. Walkers that give someone the freedom to do things they want to? Spectacular. Freaking prosthetic limbs?? Iconic. Insulin or blood monitoring patches that means someone doesn’t have to be thinking about yet another thing while they go about their day? Beautiful. Feeding tubes that mean someone can fucking get nutrients? Cute as hell. 

If you have something that makes your life easier and you use it, that automatically makes you smart and hot. You have my permission to hit anyone who says otherwise (with your mobility aid if applicable). 

TL;DR: Mobility aids are cute and anyone who says otherwise is stupid. 

#disabled #actually disabled #mobility aids #ableism #mobility aids are cool #disability #disabled things #use mobility aids

[pxgeturner]

in my community justice class we're talking about disability justice rn. and naturally, I, the crippled girl, was yapping. Today, we talked about a few different disabled writers and. damn. I fuck with Eli Clare's work on cure. and we got to talk about inspiration porn/the supercrip phenomena ? hell yeah. and the class is like 1/3 just other disabled girlies. I felt so, joyful. in being able to say things and being praised for I think so often but anytime I bring up at home I'm told to not because I'm being too "negative" or "extreme". girl, am I extreme or am I a poor, queer, disabled woman of color who is the daughter of immigrants? i'm just speaking the truth of my people. ALL my people.

#giselle.txt #cripple punk #crip punk #disabled #actually disabled #invisible disability #invisibly disabled #physically disabled #disabled things #disability things #chronic disability #mentally disabled #disability #disabilties

[echo-stimmingrose]

Quick PSA for able-bodied people because I've seen too much of this these past couple of days:

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stop referring to wheelchairs as "adult strollers" or just strollers in general. Disabled people are infantilized enough on a daily basis as is, please stop contributing to that by referring to our mobility aids, aka the things we need to live our lives, as something used for small children.

-sincerely a very tired wheelchair user

#you may not mean anything malicious by it but it is very much insulting #disability #wheelchair user #disability psa #ambulatory wheelchair user #disabled things

[mathsbian]

You know what I was thinking about last night?

In the US, we pay into various accounts that are set up by the government to help us out later if/when we need it. These include unemployment insurance (UI), social security retirement benefits, and social security disability benefits (SSDI). These accounts are directly connected to how long you have worked and the amount of money you were paid, and are only for you to access.

We also pay into programs that are for anyone who needs them, no work required to get assistance. These include social welfare programs like SNAP (food stamps) and TANF (cash assistance for families with children so they can buy clothes for their kids and stuff that isn’t covered by SNAP) and SSI, which is another kind of disability insurance but is specifically for poor disabled people who are possibly still working but can’t afford their cost-of-living expenses which are higher than the average person thanks to their disability.

If you want to get money from SNAP or TANF, you have to prove that you need it. The government will be checking if you have a job and how much you get paid, they’ll look at your bank accounts to see how much money you have on hand, you send them copies of bill statements to prove your expenses eat up most or all of your income. Since SSI is a similar program, I can understand why there’s hoops to jump through to get money from that program.

However, if you want money from your UI account or your social security retirement account, you pretty much just have to tell the government you’re in the group that account is for now. For UI, you have to show you’re still looking for new work (at least in my state) but it’s a very lax requirement compared to the requirements for SNAP/TANF. I’m not entirely sure how one goes about collecting their retirement benefits but I assume it involves a similar process of filing with the government that you’ve retired instead of being between jobs, and they’re only check that that admission from you is true.

SSDI, though? You pay into that account your entire career. But then if you suddenly need the money, you have to go through a ridiculously complicated and drawn out process to be approved. UI approval takes a week at most in my state. I assume retirement benefits get approved in under a year at the very most. But getting approved for SSDI when you don’t have one of the limited diagnoses that automatically qualify you (and not even just a diagnosis in the list, a diagnosis with the right stipulations such as mental health conditions having to be present for over two years without much documented improvement despite consistent treatment)? That can take up to TWO YEARS because they can just deny you over and over again and force you to appeal the decision as many as like 5 times, and each appeal has a 6 month waiting period. And on top of that, once you stop working, the account starts counting down to self-destruction. You only have so much time before you lose access to the money entirely. If I am not found disabled on this application (I’m halfway through all the possible appeals), I will not be able to get my SSDI money AT ALL.

It’s fucking bullshit. I paid into that account so I would have money set aside for if I became disabled. I don’t have to prove I need the unemployment money, which I’m no longer qualified to receive, they’ll basically give it to me no questions asked. But when I’m disabled and barely scraping by for years I keep getting told that “actually from our review of your case it seems like you totally can have a desk job, go fuck yourself” despite me constantly including the detail that I cannot sit upright at a desk for more than an hour without needing to lie down completely flat for two hours immediately after. It’s MY MONEY. They’re not saving it for someone else, they’re going to just eat it if I don’t get it, why can’t they just GIVE IT TO ME???

#disability #us politics #ssdi #disability benefits #disabled things #fibromyalgia #chronic pain #chronic fatigue #poverty #vent

[autisticdreamdrop]

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using mobility aids doesn't make you less of a person.

#disabled things #disability things #disabled #disability #disabled community #disability community #mobility aid #mobility #crutches #cane #walker #rollator #wheelchair #cane user #crutch #crutch user #walker rollator #rollator walker #rollator user #walker user #wheelchair user #chronic disease #chronic pain #chronic fatigue #chronic illness #invisible disability #mentally disabled #disabilties

[yikes-ajax]

You know what? I hate how most people think I'm 100% dependant on my mobility aids. Sure I hobble around with my cane and scuttle on my crutches, but I'm not helpless. They're so surprised when they find out I don't use them at home, or that they can hurt as bad as the disability itself, or that my dependence on them is a fluid thing and changes day by day. We have this idea of how disabled people should be— bound to their aids, miserable, defenseless. These ideas only helped me reject the idea of something wrong with me longer, because I didn't look like those people. Most of the time now, I use my aids when I don't need them just because I feel like I have to look "disabled enough" for people. We've built expectations for disabilities, which is funny, cause you couldn't have picked a more unpredictable thing.

I don't expect everyone to be educated, there are so much more pressing things to worry about, but when you have a friend or family member that's disabled, the least you can do is glance at a few resources online or ask them about it. I'm just so sick of family treating this like a big deal, or nurses holding on to me like a toddler still learning to walk when I need to get on a scale, or co-workers treating my cane laying around like a reverent item i will strike them down for disgracing. It's a piece of shitty metal y'all. I don't have a sliver of trust for that thing. Complaining about how cheaply made a lot of aids are to be priced expensive is a whole other post.

I'm just saying, if there was an immediate danger, you won't see me struggling to get away. I'll have already thrown my cane at them and ran. Yes, I have a disability, but I am not weak. You think these beefy arms are for show? You think this hunk of metal I lug around is soft? You think I made it to the end of the day fighting tooth and nail just to sit down and die? I'm fucking feral, fight me.

#dislocated my leg last night again after months #so is this a bad time to say i managed to sit crisscross but now im stuck this way because im afraid my leg is gonna pop out again? #i dont know how to move 😭😭😭 #actually disabled #cane user #vent #disabled vent #disability vent #disability visibility #hypermobility #disabled problems #disabled people #disabled representation #disabled things #disabled tumblr #disabled life #disabled community #disability rant #disability tumblr #disability things #disability issues #disability problems #disability awareness #disability life #disability community #disabled #disability #disabilities #mobility aid #mobility aid user

[teddyjamesro]

Babes with mobility aids, reblog with your aids name.

I have a bright blue cane and his names Jonathan

#disabled #actually disabled #mobility aid #jonathan i love you #my cane baby #cane user #babe with a mobility aid #chronic pain #disabled things #aid

[icedteaffee]

I cant breathe i accidentally made a sticker of myself on this fucking phone LOL

No OF COURSE IT BLOWS IT UP AFTER I SEPARATE THE TWO PHOTOS FROM SIDE BY SIDE BECAUSE ITS CROPPED

this is it i’m so proud of this disgusting gojo sticker, complete with an iced coffee beverage (endearing)

And i am wearing two different boots because unfortunately i swapped the right one for my boyfriend’s nearly identical boot

So that’s how i found out I have rheumatoid arthritis in my right ankle because it feels like my sprain from hs never healed. Zoo wee mama You are my special lol

#gotta savw this #rory posts #weed #cosplay #disabled things #irl #gojo satoru #jjk #funny #oh yeah #cloud strife #final fantasy vii #ff7 #kingdom hearts #rorys face #hoh

[wishful-seeker]

"Do you ever wish you were born in a different era?"

Uh

NO

Im disabled as fuck, have an eating disorder that means i can only eat like 10 different things, i need a wheelchair, i need this ages medical technology, i need MEDS, i need hot baths, i need ice, i need-

#cripple punk #tw eating disorder mention #disabled things

[superautismwheelchairbeing]

absolutely ate shit today, I went to a really pretty place but there was a cobbled high street, my castor wheel got stuck in between the,,,, idk uneven bit? cobbles? and my wheelchair completely flipped over and scuffed up my chair and power assistance stuff so! yeah! that wasn't humiliating in the slightest, SO MANY PEOPLE saw it and ran to help which was nice but I'm so embarrassed why can't wheelchair users just use pavements without risking our safety

#wheelchair user #disability #cripplepunk #queer cripple #wheelchair #disabled things

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

I follow tons of disability/chronic illness/mental health tags and I keep seeing memes or infographics without alt text or image IDs. This is not okay for content of any subject matter, but its beyond ridiculous for these spaces in particular. You can’t call yourself an advocate if you are declining to use accessibility tools like this. There are absolutely no excuses, especially with the technologies we have now. Most devices can read and copy the text out of any image, for example.

Basically if it’s not worth including everyone, it’s not worth posting. Make it accessible or don’t post it. Thank you

#accessibility tools #disability accessibility #disability advocacy #alt text #image id #text id #screen readers #disability accommodations #neurological disability #physical disability #invisible disability #vision impaired #sight impaired #blindness #accessibility #inclusivity #disability rights #disability community #disabled community #chronic illness community #disability vent #chronic illness vent #neurodiversity #disability problems #disabled rights #disabled things #queer disabled #disability representation #accommodations #disabled representation

[creatorofcalmqueerchaos]

Give yourself permission to love your mobility aids!

Name them! Decorate them! Style them! Sticker them! Repair them! Take pride in them! 

They do some really cool stuff - they let you participate more and experience more things! They are not a burden - they are a freedom. 

They make you look like you’re taking care of yourself, which - let’s be honest - is hot as hell. Also, people dancing with mobility aids? So freaking amazing. 

So embroider little flowers on your braces. Paint smiley faces on them. Put stickers on your wheelchairs. Wrap them in duct tape. Get fun colors for them. 

Name them goofy puns or threats of violence. 

Use them to help you get around. 

You look so fuckin’ cool with your mobility aids, I promise. 

#mobility aids #decorate your mobility aids #disabled #actually disabled #disability #disabled things #decorated mobility aids #decided to start writing things that I needed to hear #cause maybe someone else does too :)

[themidnightreader]

So I have FND and as a result of that I sometimes suddenly have difficulty walking and it’s so hard not to think the imposter thoughts. When my legs Don’t Function I think “??But I know how to walk?? I do it all the time??”

#fnd #functional neurological disorder #disability #imposter syndrome #disabled things #disabled thoughts

[echo-stimmingrose]

I hate wheelchair injuries. My hand is bruised and sore just because I moved around yesterday. This is some bullshit and I wanna fight god.

#this is a really minor injury but i felt like complaining #ambulatory wheelchair user #disabled things #wheelchair user

[mathsbian]

Me: god I’m so achey already this morning

Me: well I only slept 5.5 hours so i guess it makes sense

The sky: *opens the floodgates for just a few minutes*

Me: … or it could be the weather again. FML

#fibromyalgia #chronic pain #chronic fatigue #chronic illness #disability #disabled things