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In case anyone finds it helpful because mobility aids are horrifically expensive and inaccessible…

And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damage…

Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.

He also is working on cheap, open source, accessible designs for beach chairs, off road chairs, motorized attachments (think smart drive), and so on. Plus he skateboards in his wheelchair. Cool dude, helpful info, pass it on.

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me when my disabilities disable me:

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What the actual fuck are you talking about?

My mother’s friend is intersex. When she was born (in the early 60’s) her parents wanted a son so they told to doctors to remove all of her female organs. When she was in her mid 30s she realized she was a woman and began to transition. Her parents disowned her. Her parents disowned her for making the exact same choice that they did, for making a choice that should have been hers to begin with.

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Hey runners (and walkers)! Thought this might be helpful :)

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It’s been a loooonngg day

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Exactly. Im pretty sure an eating disorder can trigger dormant autoimmune diseases you don’t know you have :/

fatphobia and ableism is so insidious. You can look up like, food, and it'll say "eating a lot of food causes diabetes" and you're like oh dang what? I thought we didn't know the cause of diabetes. So you look up what causes diabetes and it says "we still don't know what causes diabetes" bruh they're just making shit up to give people eating disorders

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getting disabled over a period of time is so weird, because sometimes i’ll just see something, let’s say about running, and think “i should do that!” and then i slowly realise that i can’t run anymore. i can barely even walk. it’s weird because there wasn’t one event that happened that made me like it. there wasn’t a day where i woke up and couldn’t run anymore. it was slow and gradual. and sometimes i realise how much ive lost that i didn’t even realise because it all happened so gradually. sometimes it feels like yesterday i could run and today i can’t, and sometimes it feels like forever ago that i could.

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I have come up with a better metaphor than “you can’t pour from an empty cup” for burnout. You can’t boil an empty kettle. Pouring from an empty cup just gets you nowhere. Trying to boil an empty kettle can ruin the kettle, the stove, and burn down your house if you keep trying it.

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The ADHD telling me to stim vs. the Compulsive Autism telling me that I have to do it systemically or I’ll explode

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A lot of people around me are having kids and every day it becomes more apparent that hitting your children to punish them is insane because literally everything can be a horrible punishment in their eyes if you frame it as such.

Like, one family makes their toddler sit on the stairs for three minutes when he hits his brother or whatever. The stairs are well lit and he can see his family the whole time, he’s just not allowed to get up and leave the stairs or the timer starts over. He fucking hates it just because it’s framed as a punishment.

Another family use a baseball cap. It’s just a plain blue cap with nothing on it. When their toddler needs discipline he gets a timeout on a chair and has to put the cap on. When they’re out and about he just has to wear the cap but it gets the same reaction. Nobody around them can tell he’s being punished because it’s in no way an embarrassing cap, but HE knows and just the threat of having to wear it is enough.

And there isn’t the same contempt afterwards I’ve seen with kids whose parents hit them. One time the kid swung a stick at my dog, his mother immediately made him sit on the stairs, he screamed but stayed put, then he came over to my dog and gently said “Sorry Ellie” and went back to playing like nothing happened, but this time without swinging sticks at the nearby animals.

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“feeling like a person again” collection

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“Imagine if Repo! The Genetic Opera was real, wouldn’t that be fucked up?”

It is real for loads of people

a woman had her seizure stopping brain chip forcefully removed after the company went bankrupt, stopped running the chips, and decided they wanted it back to sell to make up for loses

you can’t afford to keep leasing your braces? We’ll just remove them and let your teeth and jaw go back to being fucked up, and if you had them for medical and not just aesthetic reasons, well, that’s not my problem!

Your insurance dropped you and won’t keep paying this off? Well, I’ll just have to take back your electric wheelchair bc I’m not making money for it.

You can’t finish paying off your oxygen compressor? well I’ll be taking it back then

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Most people see kids as dolls, status pieces, or heirs so they usually don’t consider them to be people

My mother’s friend is intersex. When she was born (in the early 60’s) her parents wanted a son so they told to doctors to remove all of her female organs. When she was in her mid 30s she realized she was a woman and began to transition. Her parents disowned her. Her parents disowned her for making the exact same choice that they did, for making a choice that should have been hers to begin with.

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Either it’s absolutely nothing for two days or absolutely shitting my ass tbh

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The more I think about this the angrier I get. She told me I was bipolar. She tried to put me on fucking lithium. Hypothyroidism kills. It can develop into Hashimoto’s disease or cancer (which happened to my great grandmother). And if it doesn’t turn into anything else your thyroid hormone can get so low you slip into a coma and not wake up

Shout out to every doctor that told me i was always sleeping because I had wildly uncontrolled depression, but it was severe hypothyroidism that could have killed me. I hope you get karma for every time I fell asleep driving, every function I had to miss, every class I almost failed, every shift I called out of and every heat stroke I had.

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Finally feeling better, I just have this horrible sinus drainage and sore ribs from coughing it all up but the coughing hasn’t been bad enough to cause bleeding outside of a little nose dribble a couple days ago💪💪