#dissability

[the-flower32]

Coining a personal term (anyone can use, just be sure to credit me if it goes on any wikis or archives)

Dolfusiare! (Doll-fu-s-air)

from: dolor- pain, confusio- confusion, mutare- change

When you've got a changing gender, but you cant tell what gender your feeling due to persisting pain from an illness/disability/disorder/condition. It can be any illness, chronic illness, physical disability, or mental disability.

Even undiagnosed disabilities/illnesses. Or just anything that causes a persistent pain that causes you to struggle to identify your gender in any way. It can even be from menstrual pain if you menstruate.

Color meanings:

Dull dark green- Illnesses of all kinds

Dull red- Pain of all types

Pale blue- Sadness pain can cause

Light grey- Confusion from pain

Deep Purple- Confusion in general

Symbol meaning: bright red for pain, primarily intense pain, and exclamation point for the sudden pains that can happen as well as the feeling of (negative) shock pain can cause, and a lightning bolt for how pain can spike through the body or feel sharp, and i made the intersecting area white so it would stand out.

(I also drew the symbol by hand 😊)

As i said above, this is based of my personal experiences but if it resonates feel free to use it, or even make an alt flag. and if a term like this already exists, consider it a alt flag/name

[spidertwine]

I've NEVER felt pity for my conditions and dissabilities, always lived as I should. Even as I got more and more pills added throughout adulthood, more news, more possibilities, more health issues, I stayed.. almost apathetic, really! Except for my blind left eye - it's just super cool to feel unique, yknow? All the creative ways I could make my sonas and personal characters half blind is fun.

Today, though, I saw a post on twitter. It was the mane six (MLP fim), and they were drawn so well and so cute, and as I scanned across, I noticed they all had dissabiltys! That made me super happy, it must feel great to be represented, to see yourself, your struggles, and to feel like you're not alone! It was so well done.

And then it all went away, because I realised that SOD, chiari malformations, and even to an extent blindness in general is never really represented, because it's so rare! For the case of SOD, it's mostly parents who are proud of their kid, but it's always leaning towards pity than individual pride. For once, I felt alone and invisible. I want to see more SOD and included people be proud of themselves! It's a part of you, you shouldn't have to just DEAL with it, celebrate it and everything you've dealt with!!!

'Oh, but we might as well be alone! We're 1 in 10,000! / We ARE proud, we're just rare!'

That just makes us cooler. And even if we are proud of it.. maybe there's just not that many sod people who are interested in pride that way, or even artists.

I'm gonna make a redesign for either pinkie or fluttershy (cause they're my favourites :)) with SOD. maybe not Rn as I have owed art but it'll be fun!!

[heart-stars]

I appreciate able people wanting to be helpful, but it is so funny that when I actually bring my cane into work, everyone wants to suggest me something that will help my knee feel better... as if having the cane there isn't already the accommodation to make my knee feel better.

[shamballalin]

The New Colossus from IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS subtitled THE RED BAG OF COURAGE SURVIVAL WISDOM ~book 3 in this series not yet published

“Social justice became another life contract I made. I was to have a very busy life standing up for the life, liberty, and justice for all that the United States of America was supposed to stand. “Much of humanity at the turn of the century claimed to stand for the flag, life, liberty, and freedom while ignorantly supporting those with racist, xenophobic, and authoritarian ideologies. I thought…

[grungegobbler]

its crazy that i can barely be able to breath, have crazy amounts of pain and feel like my chest is gonna explode and i STIILL have to go work at my shitty fast food job for 6 hours. Please i just wanna nap

[alxor-of-hellsite]

Just because you can stand up, doesn’t mean you should. If standing up right now will make everything worse & what you need to do is rest, then rest.

[stagkingswife]

We sure as hell aren’t going to be at the club. It’s not accessible.

yes, there are that many really disabled people on the internet actually

When I was less sick I used to think, "It seems like such a large portion of people on the internet are disabled, it can't possibly be that large of a percentage of the population" and then let my ableism demons tell me it was because they were faking (the same ones that told me I was faking, until I made myself really ill.)

But now that I'm sicker and wiser I realize I was logically just wrong because

The internet is disabled people's lifeline. There are more disabled people on the internet because OF COURSE. People who aren't disabled can be less chronically online because they don't have to be. This is textbook selection bias!

But actually also I was almost right, because there are way more disabled people in society than you would think! They're just systematically hidden and excluded from public spaces for abled peoples' convenience! 🙃

Anyway maybe this will help you understand and/or explain to abled friends and family.

[50044w44s]

Hey, i see that you're drowning. Here's some arm floaties, hope they help.

Oh, I see they are really helping huh?

"Why is that person using arm floaties? they're not drowning..."

I see that you're not drowning, you're doing good so I'm gonna take the arm floaties away from you. Wait, why are you drowning again? You were fine one second ago, you must be faking it.

"Can I please have some arm floaties?"

"But you haven't entered the pool yet."

"Yeah but I can't swim, I know that I can't swim, so some arm floaties would really help me not to drown."

"You're asking for arm floaties without even trying to swim, you're just lazy and you want more help than the others have, the others are doing just fine..."

"I don't need to get into the watter to know that I can't swim. You're telling me I can't have arm floaties unless I'm actively drowning? You won't give them to me even though I warned you I will drown?"

This post was never about arm floaties.

[damien-devil-art]

[gt-wierdo]

Something I want to see more is giants with disabilities

Like what if your friend has a siezure but they are the size of a building

Or what if the giant is blind obiously they can't get a service dog since its small compaired to them but how would they make sure they don't step on anything??

Or what if a giant needs a cane? A tiny would just use a stick but most giant art i've seen the giant is building size do they just use a whole tree??

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

Under capitalism, if you cannot contribute to the wealth of the few you are a liability that needs to be disposed of. They call this the “cost of living”.

[whatshouldwecallchronicillness]

Meeting someone else with the same mobility aid...

[y0urn3ighb0rsc4t]

Hey, I've never posted on here before but I don't know what else to do. I'm trying here and reddit.

I want to ask u guys for advice.

Mainly on the topics of:

Dissability(mainly undiagnosed cptsd or bipolar, neurological and possible ortho in my knees) + ptsd and ~fibromialgia~

Remote jobs

OHP

So I have been working at a restaurant that is very busy as a host, bus, where I bus tables and greet people + get them drinks. It's complicated, but long story short my boss got burned by my ex parents (part of the cause of the ptsd and cptsd) and is understanding of my situation with them. She works us on a skeleton crew all year round because of us being in a small tourist town, where the summers are busy and the wunters are a flood of layoffs due to lack of customers. So she keeps on only what she can during the winter ALL YEAR. which when we have 3-4 waitress/host busses for the restaurant with multiple large rooms it is intense on even the most able bodied and minds.

Basically the trade off is he'll in the summer for job security in the winter.

Which i would totally be in for, except my body and brain don't seem to be down for the ride of 36hr weeks >:[

And I'm worsening, fast. Especially with the secuall assaults related trauma, making it increasingly dangerous for me to drive to and from work, which is almost 30 min away.

I want to quit so bad, I technically already have and said that I'll try to work 2-3 weeks more, mostly out of guilt.

The second main problem is that my ohp, oregon Healthcare could be taken from me if I quit a job without already securing another. Which I have not.

I'm going to keep applying to Amazon, and other large companies and a few small ones for a remote job and search a but on the area to for an office job (which would not be ideal, but still better).

But I'm quitting today, school just let out which means even more than what I already have had and I'm pretty sure that I met my replacement yesterday.

I honestly don't know what to do, I'm legally homeless and couch surfing and have to wait a week or two to even try to get my fafsa approved. (Which I might be able to get a job at the community college, IF I take at least one class)

I want to get a degree like paralegal, but thats after I fix my credit.

Lil vent:

It's so frustrating when it feels like my body and mind are holding me back from who I should've been... I should've been the person who worked hard despite her past and made a good savings and future for herself. I'm trying to get into a therapist and pursue a specialist who can help, but if I loose my health insurance I'm screwed. Gods, this sucks.

But seriously, the heck am I supposed to do ʕಠᴥಠʔ

[svamppp]

The fact that, the only non mood altering/allergic reaction causing treatment that consistently treats my pain is something I do not trust people to do, is evil actually.

[bad-but-sad-boi]

I dont think I've ever wanted anything more then i wanted a dissabled heartstopper AU:

• charlie gets his right leg amputaded from the knee down when he was 10 so for his and nick's aniverserry nick got him a peg leg and a piret outfit and took him to the beach so he could run in the sand while that one really bad flute cover of that one song from pirets of the carabian plays from nicks phone on full volum

• blind charlie au where nick takes him to a museam and describes all the art to him in an extreamly detailed mannor, he also painted the edge of all the 'hard' furniture and stairs/steps in his apartment in bright neon yellow when they started dating since charlie can see contrast better and all of nick's floors are a purply shade of gray, he did it so charlie wouldnt trip or fall while he was getting used to living with nick and to the layout of the apartment

• adhd charlie × autistic nick where charlie knows nick shows affection with phisical contact and the warmth it give calms him so he gets him a plushie with a heart shaped microwave heat pad so he can sleep better, nick likes bluey so charlie buys him murch and charlie has a deadpool and woolverine hyperfixation so nick took him to watch the movie when it came out

• au where charlie was born with nothing below his right elbow and nick carries him around bc he likes being carried and charlie holds onto him with his legs and left arm like a koala

I NEED THIS!!!

(I forgot this but)

• deaf nick × selectivly mute and shy charlie, need i say more?

[begaydoslay]

Me to myself: pick yourself up! What would idgie Threadgode do?

Me: give her 11 year old whiskey

Me: give her 11 year old whiskey?