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"lol i let the intrusive thoughts win and dyed my hair!!" my intrusive thoughts feel like my eyes are being pried open clockwork orange-style and im being forced to watch csem but im glad you're having fun with them i guess

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I like how people claim that I'm faking it. because yes I obviously love spending hundreds of dollars on tape, braces, mobility aids, and pain medication.

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as an ND able-bodied person, i just wanna say that cpunks are NOT doing anything wrong by not allowing us in their community. its completely okay and im actually very very happy that physically disabled people finally have their own space where they dont have to deal with ableism toward them all the time

able-bodied NDs have it made in this sense. we have TWO communities! we have neuropunk and madpunk, and you can go on any social media platform and easily find hundreds of other NDs on there along with little communities and shit. but physically disabled people dont have it that easy. when they DO find one that isnt just about ND people, it's still full of ableism. i've seen it myself and it makes me sick

so physically disabled people decided to make their OWN community. just for them. no one else. then THATS when able-bodied NDs start getting pissy and call them ableist when they were basically doing the exact same shit before.

you can handle not being allowed in one community. theres two more you can be part of just fine

if youre an able-bodied ND who sees yourself in any of this, maybe you should stop and look at yourself. make some improvements

to the cpunk community, dont let people like this tear you down. stand your ground, push these people out. you deserve your OWN safe space and no one will take that from you

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wheelchairs and canes and glasses and hearing aids and every single other mobility aid should be free btw and if you disagree i hate you

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Please stop using disabilities you don't have as comparisons.

I saw a video trying to explain that autistic people don't make eye contact because it can be painful for them (good, this is true) and telling them to "just do it anyway" is ridiculous, saying "you wouldn't tell a wheelchair user to "just walk, its better for you" so don't tell autistic people to just make eye contact".

But people do. They do all the time. It's well documented that doctors will withhold their ok for patients to get a wheelchair (which is needed unless you're paying out of pocket, because insurance and most public disability services like the NDIS need proof from a doctor). I've known people who can hardly walk and are having to fight because the doctor still insists it better for them to walk, even if it's painful and sevearly limiting their quality of life.

Then in the comments, someone pointed out that people do say that to wheelchair users (good, this is true) but then continued on by saying "unless you just don't have legs" which is just as bad as the origonal.

I had to fight to get my first wheelchair as a double leg amputee, and every wheelchair since then I've had to justify not wanting the "better option" (prosthetics) to the government so they'll approve me for the funding. Doctors and even strangers too, all want to know why I'm not walking, why I'm not using prosthetics all the time. When I go on trips with my family I'm told to "just walk" so they don't have to pack my wheelchair. at my own graduation from university I was chastised by the organisers for not bringing my prosthetics (because wearing them was exceptionally painful back then and i hadnt worn them in nearly 3 months. I had asked before if this would be ok. they knew) because the venue was accessible but not the part of the venue the graduates were in. On the topic of university they also put my class in the only non-wheelchair accessible room and held meetings i was expected to take part in, in the non-accessible lunch room. When I complained, I was told to just use my legs for a few minutes so I could get into my classes. Being an amputee with no legs didn't shield me from these experiences either, it often made it worse.

I have all 3 of the disabilities mentioned (autistic, wheelchair user, amputee). If you don't have the disability you're using for a comparison, don't use it. Please

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They should invent a new kind of body that doesn't do that

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me when the chronic pain is chronic and painful:

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yeah these are my emotional support animals! *points to animals that make my daily life actively harder*

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Just wanted to show off the stickers on my crutches

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"Oh I couldn't ever tell you have OCD" thanks it's cause I'm on the highest legal dose of medication for it

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"It's just all in your head" yeah. It is. That's why it's caused "mental" illness. Of course it's in my head that's where my brain is and the brain is where these diseases live.

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i think every physically disabled person should get 200 dollar whenever someone suggests exercising more btw

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Zionists cannot be Cripplepunk. You cannot support all physically disabled people if you support the occupation and genocide in Palestine. Thousands of Palestinians are being maimed every single fucking day by Israel's war crimes and genocide. You are not fucking Cripplepunk if you support this fucking genocide. You cannot fucking claim you fight for the rights of all physically disabled people while supporting Israel sending bombs with fucking blades designed specifically to maim civilians. Every fucking day little children and adults alike are losing limbs in Gaza because of Israel's genocidal rampage. You are not fucking Cripplepunk if you support this crime against humanity.

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“Don’t let your disorder define you”

Okay but do you support the people whose disorders do define them?

Do you support people with the chronic illnesses who have had to develop whole lives around their conditions? Do you support the intellectually disabled people whose whole way of thinking is defined by their disorder? Do you support the people with personality disorders who literally have a disorder as a personality? Do you support the autism/ADHD people whose disorder you can’t separate from who they are? Do you support the DIDOSDD people who have multiple definitions of themselves because of their disorder?

Or are you just saying that because a disorder defining someone means you can’t ignore it.

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Able-Bodied: "You're too YOUNG to have bad joints!"

Me: "Oh hold on, let me just-" *jumps out of bed and starts dancing like the grandpa in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"

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Thinking about how able-bodied people and physically disabled people think about mobility aids, I saw a video about a little disabled baby who had a baby wheelchair custom made and she'd go so fast in it that the parents had to install speed bumps in their house which is very cute but anyways, it said "this wheelchair isn't slowing her down!" Which, yeah? Without the wheelchair she wouldn't be able to move around, it's actually speeding her up, but that's the thing isn't it? Able-bodied people see it as "being physically disabled and having to use a mobility aid vs being able-bodied" whereas I, a disabled person who uses mobility aids, saw it as "being physically disabled and having a mobility aid vs not having a mobility aid". Idk. Just something I was thinking about.

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apparently people are now purchasing thick water to make slimes with because of a trend on tiktok

thick water is for disabled people who can’t swallow properly. stores usually have extremely limited supplies of it.

please don’t buy thick water for fun or to make slime with. it’s literally the only way some disabled people can drink anything. It’s not a fucking toy