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[disabled-culture-is]

Intro post

Disabled folk can tend to be overlooked in Solarpunk, so I wanted to help change that, and make a community and safe space.

Please begin asks and submissions with “Disabled culture is”, “Solarpunk culture is”, or “Disabled Solarpunk culture is”.

“Punk culture is” is also acceptable since Solarpunk is a type of punk. Specify as much as you want.

I won’t add commentary unless you put ‘@mod’

About the Mod

Tag Guide

This blog is open to people of all sorts. Bigotry, including racism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, etc., are not allowed here.

If you are not disabled or Solarpunk, you are still welcome here. Just don’t be rude, and follow the rules.

If I can do something better, or should add something I haven’t, please let me know.

If you’d like to help run this blog, please message or send an ask to me.

This blog is greatly inspired by @disabled-culture-is and @disabled-queer-culture-is

Other culture blogs like this can be found here, in here, and in this caard

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disabled culture is being so angry that you had to drop out of challenging classes, you wanted to take, because of your disabilities, even though you would have been great at them if your body would let you go to school

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Disabled artist culture is getting pissed off at both sides of the generative AI discourse for using you as a gotcha (and leaning towards negative opinions on it yourself due to the ethics of underpaid humans filtering the training data)

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Disabled culture is getting up and making yourself food despite knowing that it’s going to take even longer to stop hurting now

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Disabled culture is taking an hour long shower because you literally can’t be faster without hurting

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Fibromyalgia culture is having a really bad symptom flare up the day after realizing you have fibromyalgia

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Sorry this isn't a 'culture' ask, but I have a question. I have one leg that's slightly shorter than the other. This gives me a bit of an odd walk (Trendelenburg gait) and mild scoliosis. This does not cause me any pain or difficulty. Would this be a disability? I think no because of the lack of pain or difficulty, but my friend (who's physically disabled) said the scoliosis is a disability.

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disabled culture is wishing I could make ballet more accessible because I’d do anything to put on a pair of pointe shoes and dance again like I used to

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disabled culture is oof ouch owie

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Undiagnosed disabled culture is not knowing if you count as disabled or not

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fibromyalgia culture is every tactile sensation just being different levels of pain

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Fibromyalgia culture is saying “owowowowowowowowowowow” all the way to bed

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I need to realise that just because I have 0 joint pain right now doesn't mean it has gone away, so I don't need to worry about not being valid. And also, so what? If it goes away it goes away. I know I'm not very active right now, and when I'm not active my joints hurt way less. Not being diagnosed with anything has made me too worried about being valid. I've had back pain for years. I need to boss up

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disabled culture is thinking everyone else is just better at everything than you for years until you finally get a diagnosis, and recognize a ton of

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disabled culture is finally accepting that you are disabled but then realising that you will need a caretaker and/or that your partner will have problems because of me and feeling really bad about it

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disabled culture is being the person people use as an example when they say "it could be worse, at least you're not ______"

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Undiagnosed disabled culture is not feeling valid. I realised that my chronic pain might be caused by my autism, as I already have low muscle tone which also causes joint pain and is often found in autistic people, and I'm so mad about it. I feel angry that the thing going on with my brain is what's causing me so much pain. And no one will believe me if i tell them that I'm actually in pain all the time because I'm autistic. I feel envious of other disabled people who are diagnosed with things like hEDS or fibromyalgia even though I know that that's unfair and honestly kind of strange. But i don't feel any more validated than before. Possibly even less. I wanted to get diagnosed with something and tell everyone that didn't believe me or said that I just needed to exercise more (including doctors. When i did exercise multiple times a week my pain was so much worse so I'm not just saying that to say that. And they were exercises i was told to do) to suck it. But now I can't do that.

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