#disabled visibility

[cryptkeepersshadow]

BAND SPACES ARE NOT SAFE FOR DISABLED PEOPLE.

Not because we haven’t spoken up.

We have. Repeatedly.

Quietly.

Loudly.

Through pain, burnout, fear of being pushed out.

But no one listens.

Not until someone who isn’t disabled says the exact same thing - and suddenly it matters.

Suddenly, it's “a valid concern.”

Suddenly, people care.

We’ve been asking for:

* ⚠️ Strobe warnings

* 🪑 Seated options

* 🧠 Quiet/sensory spaces

* ♿ Basic access

For years.

And we've been met with silence. Shrugs. Eye-rolls.

“You're just being dramatic.”

“This isn’t a show for people like you.”

But the moment an abled voice says

“hey, maybe they have a point,”

People act like it’s brand new information.

Disabled people don’t become believable when abled people speak.

They’ve been telling the truth the whole time.

If you only start caring about accessibility when it’s repeated by someone without those needs, you’re not being inclusive.

You’re just comfortable with erasing us.

[the-angry-acrobat]

they hate when you serve disabled person using their mobility aid

[toffeeteapot]

As I'm in hospital rn, here are some pics of Paddington bear in hospital for all the hospital kids ❤️‍🩹

[lifeonkylesfarm]

Extremely happy to see my disability posts going around. We're so often invisible. Thank you all for promoting visibility <3 Please always remember to uplift disabled voices y'all!

[mostly-myles-kennedy]

☝️More proof Myles is just an overall awesome guy.

Growing up with a sister who is both physically and mentally disabled, I've seen time and time again how people with disabilities are often pushed to the sidelines and ignored. The fact that Myles has taken the time to greet and physically reach out to this fan speaks volumes to his character ❤️

[satellites-halo]

yeah you're "punk" but are you normal about deformed people?

Edit: reblogs are off because my notes have been filled with this post for months. the correct term is 'people with limb/facial differences' and this post was originally about the cripplepunk movement not punk as a whole

[nightmaretour]

Reminder that people with invisible disabilities aren't the only ones who get ignored and accused of lying by doctors. People with visible and severe, even deadly disabilities aren't automatically believed. Some severely and visibly disabled people die because doctors won't believe that they're really sick, accuse them of faking or exaggerating and deny them treatment. This kind of treatment isn't unique to any one kind of disability, it's something that most or perhaps even all of us have faced at one point or another.

[zebulontheplanet]

Just a reminder that people who still live with their parents as adults deserve respect and for you to stop being ableist. There are multiple reasons someone could still live with their parents! From invisible to visible disabilities, finance issues, and more!

Stop using the “well they’re gonna turn into a creep living in their parents basement” punchline! It’s disgusting. STOP. BEING. ABLEIST. STOP. FORGETTING. THE. POOR.

[mochasucculent]

Was looking at refs and since Viktor has two different leg braces I was wondering, do we think he wears them simultaneously?? The refs don't perfectly line up perspective-wise so it's hard to tell but parts of the one he wears during the Hexcore scenes look like they could maybe line up with the brace that he wears over his clothes, but also some parts really don't and look like they'd be super uncomfy. Also HOW does he take these on and off. Experts weigh in

[drdemonprince]

remains utterly CRAZY to me how many trans mascs did not have gay boys for friends as kids, or simply did not notice their faggotized experiences. gay boys get called ma'am on the phone, gay boys get sexually assaulted in locker rooms, gay boys get told they can't run fast enough or lift heavy things, gay boys cultivate lots of weird private nerdy interests and become bookish and introverted, gay boys have only girls for friends and feel safest among women, gay boys sometimes are the "eldest daughter" in their families, gay boys are horse girls and spent their summers pretending to be mermaids, gay boys are used for emotional support by adult relatives and strange older men, gay boys get catcalled, gay boys have so many of your so called female socialization experiences did you not notice did you not care

[cryptkeepersshadow]

Disabled people are only “believable” once someone without our struggles decides our pain is real enough to echo. We’re only visible when someone more palatable repeats our words. Until then? We're treated as inconvenient, dramatic, or just not trying hard enough.

You don’t get to call a space inclusive when it only starts listening once an abled voice speaks. That’s not allyship. That’s erasure.

Band spaces aren’t truly safe for disabled people - not until someone without those struggles barges in, speaks over them, and decides how accessibility should be handled.

Because it’s never about listening. It’s about control.

[mythicalcoolkid]

You don't wish your disability was worse or more visible, you wish your disability was taken seriously. Please stop confusing the two, I guarantee you would not get the support you need JUST by being more severe or more visible. Please listen to visibly disabled people when we tell you it isn't better on our side

[balthazarslostlibrary]

Dan Piraro, Bizarro Comics 2006

[theamphibianmen]

"low support needs disabled people are often not believed to have a disability at all and therefore struggle to get accommodations."

"high support needs disabled people's accommodations are often seen as 'too much' and therefore are not met."

"neurodivergent people's needs are often dismissed because nothing is physically wrong with them."

"physically disabled people people often cannot physically access buildings and people refuse to do anything about it."

"invisibly disabled people are seen as lazy by society."

"visibly disabled people are ostracized from society."

IT'S ALMOST LIKE THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE DISABILITY

[sushisusii]

Not all disabilities are visable. Even I need help sometimes

[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.