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if you claim to be handicap friendly/accessible but we are afraid to move around in your store, you are NOT handicap friendly.

PSA to stores:

If a wheelchair user is terrified to move around in your store due to clutter, you’re doing it wrong.

EDIT: Anyone is allowed to reblog, and disabled people are allowed to add on, so long as it doesn’t derail the point of the post! If you’re unsure, feel free to ask me!

Thanks for all the love on the post so far!

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hi fellow disabled people . this shit sucks huh

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Tapping the sign again, the word cripple is a slur to us physically disabled people. Please don’t say you have crippling depression or say that because your leg is hurt that your crippled.

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By the very definition of being disabled, a condition that is debilitating, hindering and DIS-ABLING

Your condition can, will and does stop you from doing things

That doesn't mean you're always entirely incapable, you can still be capable of things

But there's no shame in the cants. Nothing wrong with the can't dos. It's okay to let your disability stop you, that's pretty much the point of calling it a disability, of having one, is that there's some things you can't do.

That's fine.

So next time someone says some shit like "don't let it stop you" or doing something regardless of your condition

Ask them to define the word disability. Or just tell them to go fuck themselves cuz they are not with the spoons you could spend on something better.

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tumblr is great bc I feel a little less alone in my experiences as a disabled person

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men having a God complex is only hot in books. now, go make me a sandwich, bitch boy.

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For a long time, I didn’t feel welcomed within the physical disability community and the cripplepunk community. As someone who is mad, and is higher support needs, it’s a constant struggle with dealing with people who truly don’t understand. My physical disabilities disable me. They are hard to deal with, but my mental and developmental disabilities also disable me. Like, a lot. As an intellectually disabled person, I felt like I couldn’t be apart of these communities because I didn’t understand the politics of it. Because I couldn’t read large articles and journals, and books about disability politics and history.

It was for awhile, unnerving. I for awhile didn’t even identify as crippled, even though my physical disabilities did very much cripple me. I am now a wheelchair user, and before that I was a forearm crutch user.

There is so much…pressure? To be more disabled. Kinda like the disability Olympics that everyone talks about. To be more in pain, to have more conditions, to be more sick. That wasn’t me. Although I am very much suffering and do have several conditions, my life isn’t spent inside of a hospital or doctors offices (although that was my life for awhile). I am very lucky that for now, my health is pretty stable. My life is pretty neutral now. And for awhile, that made me feel very icky. Like I wasn’t enough. Like I wasn’t disabled enough.

I quickly, and more recently realized, that my life is so atypical from an able bodied persons life. I constantly am doing things differently and having to do things that are not the norm, just because I am physically disabled. Hanging and talking to able bodied people made me realize JUST how disabled I am. That isn’t bad. It just took a bit of time to realize that.

Now, I do identify as disabled, and crippled, and apart of the crippledpunk community. It took me a long time though.

For all my young physically disabled people, you don’t owe anyone anything. You’re disabled enough. You ARE enough. Take it one day at a time and you got this. There is room for all of us, and this isn’t the disability Olympics.

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anyway here's to disabled people who are not healing. disabled people who are not recovering, ever. people with disabilities that only get worse and worse over time. people who cannot access treatment for their disabilities or whose disabilities simply aren't treatable. people who know they'll only get more and more disabled as time goes on. people who know their disability will kill them sooner or later. you are seen, you are important, you are not dead weight, and you deserve support.

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Nobody apologized for how they treated me they just blamed me for how I reacted

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㋡🥀

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if your class solidarity doesn’t include people who are on SSI, food stamps, or are unable to work it’s not solidarity

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me when the chronic pain is chronic and painful:

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my phone gets warm when i use it because it loves me so much

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i am unreasonably proud and excited about this

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You don’t stop existing to your loved ones when they aren’t talking to you. It’s very likely they think of you when they see stuff that reminds them of you. Maybe it’s seeing that dog on the street and thinking you’d love it. Maybe it’s them getting to eat a hot dog and remembering that time you hung out all night and ate way too many of them. Maybe it’s them going to see a movie and thinking back on how the last time they saw one was with you.

It’s also likely they think about you and wonder how you’re doing.

I know it can be hard to remember but you do still exist and matter to people when you can’t see each other.

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this is the picture I show any doctor when I have to go.

Anymore, when I get asked about my pain, I just hand the doctor my phone. I've been at a constant 8 on the chronic illness side of the picture for a year and a half now. I hate it but I thought this could be useful. I straight up got the off of Google so I am unsure who to credit for the original but I have been a great help to me so I wanted to share.

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what's your favorite dark romances?? need some really good recommendations