#disabled community

[gryffindorhealer]

Likewise, for those that need this.

there’s this extremely kind soul of a woman on instagram that makes accessible recipes that don’t require standing, chopping, or a stove and she might just have a permanent place in my heart

edit: here's her YouTube account, as well as her TikTok and Facebook :)

[writing2changetheworld]

Hi!! I recently saw a post of yours and wanted to discuss my opinion with you perhaps ,obviously I don't mean anything rude or malicious at all and my anxiety was telling me to go anon when I'm disagreeing but we've interacted before positively and different opinions don't ruin that!!

when it comes to the healthy baby thing, I understand how the wording might come off ableist but my point of view was quite different. Why wouldn't I wish for a nondisabled child? This might come off as wrong but I'm speaking from my own experience. I'm autistic and I wouldn't wish my kid to be autistic too. Not because that makes them any less by any means, but because ik from experience that being autistic will introduce a unique set of difficulties to thier life. Of course that isn't thier fault at all but we sadly live in a world that isn't inclusive or comfortable for people with autism. This goes for any disability (i think?) Each disability will give you a unique set of experiences and difficulties that non disabled or even differently disable people will never understand. And so much of it is sadly negative experiences. I don't want my kid to suffer, and even if they are disabled I will do everything in my ability to accommodate them and help them. Another example is my fibromyalgia, I would never want my kid to experience that level of pain daily. If they are disabled surely that won't ever make me love them any less at all.

Okay. I've been working on this post and I saw your username (which I won't share in case you don't want it known) until recently. Now it fully says "anonymous" and I don't understand. That honestly makes me really sad because I thought we could openly disagree and it not be an issue.

Someone is going to have difficulties, that's life. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Even if a nondisabled or someone with a different disability or disabilities can never understand, that doesn't make a disabled child's difficulties or whatever worse than a nondisabled child's difficulties.

You acknowledge it wouldn't be their fault but you're putting a lot of fault on the disabled kid.

I was also born disabled and I do have difficulties. I experience daily physical pain, people dismissing my needs, people dismissing my problems, people calling me names, people saying awful and inappropriate stuff to me out of ableism, etc. People need to learn and that's not going to happen with another nondisabled person in the world. And if they refuse to do better, at least I tried.

Every single human being suffers for whatever reasons at multiple points in their lives regardless of disability. You can't stop that.

I'm glad you would try to accommodate and them being disabled would not make you love them less. Congrats on being a decent human being. (Sarcastic)

I understand not wanting your child to be in pain because of fibromyalgia. But something could easily happen that makes them disabled and causes them as much if not more pain everyday.

Hoping/Wishing your kid is nondisabled - for one less disabled person to exist (because that's exactly what it is) - is literally eugenics.

I also asked my mom to read your ask to see if she, as someone who was pregnant with and birthed and parents a physically disabled person and my able-bodied younger sibling, could offer a perspective I can't. She said she worried about me growing up disabled and hoped my younger sibling wasn't physically disabled (each of which she realized were selfish).

[forsapphics]

Happy Disability Pride Month! 🩶💚❤️🤍💛💙🩶🌈 (x)

[disabilityaidpositivity]

Disability aid positivity post!

It's so easy to see us accepting accommodations/assistance like mobility aids as 'giving in', but the reality is they're giving us access. Accepting my disabilities allowed me to live with them better. Trying to pretend they weren't there and make do without assistance just decreased my quality of life.

[sayruq]

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

sometimes when chronically ill/disabled/neurodivergent people say “I can’t do this thing” they really mean “I can technically do this thing I guess, but not without pretty significant repercussions” and I really need more fully-abled people to understand the validity of that

[raging-guanche]

friendly reminder you dont need a diagnosis to be in disability spaces, as an example im in constant pain and fatigue, have migraines every week and my joints hurts to a point I can't write, but since familiar gaslighting/medical trauma and the fact that im an indigenous, brown skin fat man a diagnosis is fucking hard (but im in my way! :)) , but i still deserve a safe space to talk about my experiences and to feel valuable and supported.

never feel like youre interrupting someone's space or that you shouldn't be here cause you dont have a diagnosis, disabilities existed before diagnosis

[only-knives]

IM GOING TO CRY THEY MIGHT INCREASE THE SSI ASSETS LIMIT TO $10,000.

it's a bipartisan bill too! and for anyone unaware, people on SSI (which is different from SSDI), can only have $2,000 in assets (unless they have an ABLE account, which comes with its own rules). this assets limit has been in place for FORTY YEARS and is a giant part of why being on SSI keeps people incredibly impoverished.

i've also heard they might remove the marriage penalty but i don't have the spoons to read or explain it so someone else please add on!

this is huge! please spread the word and do what you can to help ensure this happens!

[tam-is-damned]

people genuinely do not consider that disabled people might be in abusive households, I have talked to so many people who wonder why i didn't get care when i was a baby or a child because i was disabled since birth and when i tell them it's because my family was and is abusive they tend to have the reaction that my parents were "trying their best" no they weren't, i was disabled, i was sick, outwardly so and my parents just did not care, and did not want to provide care to both of their children, they only could deal with 1 disabled child and that was not me! Now that im an adult who cannot drive and cannot live on my own i am quite literally trapped in my parents house because i do not have anywhere else to go!! it is not my fault i wasnt taken to the doctor as a child!! and it is not my fault that i still can't leave now!! I have almost died numerous times during my childhood, and teenagehood because i didn't get care, that is absolutely not my fault.

[yellow-dress-basil]

QUICK PSA FOR THE DISABLED COMMUNITY

If you take any daily medication, do not eat grapefruit or activated charcoal unless you know for a fact they won’t affect your medication.

Both Grapefruit and Activated Charcoal will cancel out medication.

‘Where would you ever eat activated charcoal?’ You may be asking

Well

Halloween eve is here y’all and if you want a black cocktail or cupcake, it was probably made black with activated charcoal! So please double check before consuming!!

[writing2changetheworld]

The Rollettes are in a Lady Gaga music video! This is huge! This is amazing!

[squid-socks]

Why is it always up to disabled people to look after other disabled people. Why do able-bodied people feel no obligation to assist? Why do they throw the additional responsibility on disabled individuals. Why is their whole system built on isolating groups??

[nomoremrnicefat]

in honor of disabled pride month, i want to give a shout-out to all disabled fat people who had to roll their eyes who have been told "you're not disabled, just fat" or "thats because you dont eat well/exercise"

[smilepilled]

happy disability pride month. this year, i hope we can focus properly on people with physical disabilities. every time a conversation goes towards physical disabilities, it gets derailed and turned into a discussion of other disabilities. that's obviously bad, and is rooted into a deeper case of ableism within many spaces.

this year, let's shine some light and focus on people with more physical disabilities

people with missing/compromised limbs

people with compromised/absent motor functions

people who experience constant pains

people who are always exhausted/tired

people with nerve disorders

people who are blind (cannot see to the point of it being dangerous / getting in the way of daily ordeals)

people who have autoimmune diseases (like lupus— PLEASE stop making house md jokes. its uncomfortable obnoxious and treats many real struggles like just a joke/reference to a show)

people who have hearing issues (including those who are "fully deaf", or can barely hear anything instead of not hearing at all)

people who have heart related issues that force them to lay or sit down, etc

people who seizures due to epilepsy or other seizure-inducing issues

people who cant and/or do not speak (with nonverbality included)

people who have bone-related issues that affect their day-to-day life (so for example extreme scoliosis or other malformations)

people who are physically disabled and need mobility aids

people who are physically disabled and dont use mobility aids

people who are physically disabled but cannot get any help (including mobility aids, but goes all the way to a proper diagnosis)

people who became disabled later on in their lives (usually due to accidents but theres more reasons)

people who have limps or cannot walk """properly""" (according to the able bodied society)

lets celebrate the people struggling and surviving with physical disabilities a little more this year. its disability pride month, and i hope we dont forget the people with physical disabilities to talk about non-physical ones. happy disability pride month!

[softgritspoonie]