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[anonymouslydisabled]

choosing to allocate spoons to hanging out and having a good time at the cost of perfectly completing all your work is not a failing it is in fact an act of survival. “too sick to work = too sick to play” is in fact ableist bullshit that you don��t have to buy into. and the fact that leisure time is treated like a privilege is a fucking travesty

[anonymouslydisabled]

100% fully agree! I think that people really struggle to understand that various disability accommodations (especially ADA requirements in public spaces) are NOT just for wheelchair users! Abled people for some reason decide to choose harassing and looking down upon disabled people instead of simply educating themself or seeing nuance.

I can't believe people still want to debate this in 2025, but go off, I guess.

If your doctor thinks you need a disabled parking permit and signs off on one, then you should have one and use it.

If there are multiple accessible parking spots, then I try to park in one of the smaller ones and leave the bigger ones for the wheelchair vans. But if they're all the same, then the options are equal.

With or without a mobility aid, I use my placard and park in an accessible spot whenever possible. It reduces the exertions on my disabled body, any little bit counts. Just because it looks like I have two working legs, doesn't mean they function like an able-bodied person's.

Anybody who says I shouldn't use an accessible parking spot because I technically am able to walk can shove it.

It's no disabled person's fault when there are too few accommodations.

[anonymouslydisabled]

stop using drooling to indicate a lack of cognitive ability. also stop treating people with cognitive impairments like shit

[anonymouslydisabled]

Making some patches for an upcoming zine fair I’m participating in! Still need to do some more clean up and then put some UV protectant and mod podge on so they hold up to the weather. Then I need to make a ton more.

[anonymouslydisabled]

in the same vein, just as it doesn't matter why or how someone is disabled, it doesn't matter why or how someone became homeless or addicted to something. support that's conditional on the reason being acceptable to you isn't real support.

[anonymouslydisabled]

The feeling of wanting hyper independence because of childhood trauma but also being disabled and needing to accept people's help

[anonymouslydisabled]

THANK YOU OH MY GOD

"Actually many disabled people do contribute to society" is not a great argument against eugenics, by the way.

[anonymouslydisabled]

GET THEIR ASSES !!!!

If you clog up tags with “cures” for chronic pain and permanent disabilities I should be able to beat your ass myself

[anonymouslydisabled]

*ableist statement*

"hey you shouldn't say that, that's pretty ableist"

"well you don't know that I'm actually a WHEELCHAIR USER"

"okay? you should know better then?"

[anonymouslydisabled]

Guys to clarify I'm not only talking about traumatic accidents, I'm just giving an example at the bottom.

Asking someone you barely know what their disability is equatable to just coming up to someone and saying “hey what’s the most traumatic thing that’s ever happened to you?”

Able-bodied people assume most people with mobility aids ESPECIALLY wheelchairs, have been in some sort of traumatic accident, and yet y’all still come up to us asking.

[anonymouslydisabled]

The ableists who they're saying would care if it was this group of people are the same people making excuses for inadequate ramps and frequent lift/elevator breakdowns. They're the same people excusing institutionalization and special education abuse. Just because those ableists look at 'xyz group of disabled people' and say "aw what a poor thing" does not mean they actually care about freedom, rights, or common human decency. Just means they'll probably say some "I'll pray for you" type shit.

some of yous don't recognise ableism as long as it's veiled in pity

"they believe this group of disabled people". "they would care about someone who's got this disability". "people take this type of disability seriously". no, no they don't. pity isn't caring. a concession granted from up on high isn't respect. seeing someone as poor, pitiful, or in need of help isn't taking them seriously. bro they are not even seeing us as human

[anonymouslydisabled]

I saw a mum of a disabled child and she was replying to someone who said her child wont ever help society, and she said he does help society he makes the people caring for him more compassionate and learn to be more accepting and i think that is really nice and i wanted to share that perspective

[anonymouslydisabled]

oh how I love cosplaying, it gives me a chance to forget that things suck ass and lose myself in pretty characters.

I will also say though that disabled cosplayers are treated like shit, please give us space and don’t be ableist.

I’ve been at meets where I’ve been put at the back or literally pushed out of the photo so that you can’t see me and hello?? I’m still in cosplay and still deserve to be in the pictures?? I often go to meets just because I’ll have no photos of myself otherwise so let disabled cosplayers in the photos. We’re just as entitled to them as all the abled people there.

[anonymouslydisabled]

[ID: a screenshot of the header for a Tumblr community. it says "Chronic Pain Gang 448 members 363 posts Public for ppl w chronic pain to hang out and commiserate 💪✨ YES emotional pain counts"]

that is... not what chronic pain means. I hate that physical disability terms constantly get watered down to the point they're meaningless. chronic pain refers to physical pain. emotional pain is a real struggle but it's not chronic pain.

[anonymouslydisabled]

By the by, I’ve been diagnosed with non-epileptic seizures and am currently in the FND diagnosis process which would explain a lotttt of my issues since September.

Any advice or experiences from people with FND/NEAD is highly appreciated!

[anonymouslydisabled]

“Hey what’s with that thing on your head?”

It’s a seizure helmet because I have these fun little hobbies such as bashing my head into a brick wall in front of my *entire* high school art class, falling down the stairs with glasses in my hands, and falling onto pavement in front of my school, and collapsing into a 15 minute seizure in the upper hallway.

And then when I tell people that it’s for seizures they just kind of stand there mortified. You came up to a boy with a cane and a very medical-looking helmet and asked his medical history, what the fuck were you expecting 💀

That’s why I don’t tell people at my school what my disabilities are when they ask because literally nobody benefits from it. They get uncomfortable, go home and never research my condition or think about it again and I have to sit there and explain my disability to them which *has* caused traumatic events.

TL;DR asking people to share their trauma and then getting uncomfortable when they say their condition is weird and benefits nobody!

Asking someone you barely know what their disability is equatable to just coming up to someone and saying “hey what’s the most traumatic thing that’s ever happened to you?”

Able-bodied people assume most people with mobility aids ESPECIALLY wheelchairs, have been in some sort of traumatic accident, and yet y’all still come up to us asking.

[anonymouslydisabled]

Asking someone you barely know what their disability is equatable to just coming up to someone and saying “hey what’s the most traumatic thing that’s ever happened to you?”

Able-bodied people assume most people with mobility aids ESPECIALLY wheelchairs, have been in some sort of traumatic accident, and yet y’all still come up to us asking.