#babes with mobility aids

[creatrixcymraes]

Unless you live with (or are) a disabled person, your perception of what disability looks like and how it affects people is going to be seriously skewed.

The disabled people you see in the world, at work or social events, are the ones who are functional enough and having a good enough day to be there.

You *do not see* the worst aspects of disability, and you *can not understand* disability fully, other than through lived experience.

That's why it's so important for disabled people to be involved in decisions and planning processes.

Nothing about us without us!

[indiecrowarts]

Meet the artist circa 2023 ❤️

[cassadyflies]

After four months on crutches, six months in a power chair, and then two months in a hospital chair- allow me to introduce my new ride. The moment I transferred into this I could tell it was made for me. What a shocking difference between a standard chair and this custom fit! I feel like I’m flying, and now I will be able to go so many more places on my own and keeping up with my friends is easy peasy.

[crazycatsiren]

A gentle reminder to all disabled women that you are beautiful! 🩷

[hermeticbridgetroll]

Happy Halloween Everybody! 🎃💀🍁🍭

I'm a witch this year & dressed my cane up as a broom!

[mermaid-beemo]

Just putting a picture on here so y’all know I’m still alive.

[yoikami]

I miss them. Hair's growing too fast!

[gayaest]

Darya, in her lightweight manual wheelchair - rather than her beach (water-floaty) chair 🐬⭐️🐠🪼🦐🐚🌊

[plague-parade]

today for disability pride month, i’d like to discuss something not many able-bodied people know about: ambulatory wheelchair users!

first, “what is an ambulatory wheelchair user?”

it’s a term used to describe people who use wheelchairs that can stand and or walk in some capacity. the amount a person can walk can vary greatly between ambulatory wheelchair users, some may need their wheelchair 60% of the time, some may need theirs 90% of the time.

“why would someone use a wheelchair if they can walk?”

there are tons of reasons someone who can walk might use a wheelchair, such as fatigue, balance, heart problems, pain, fainting, and many, many more. it could be dangerous for them to walk.

“isn’t that being lazy?”

nope! take shoes, for example. you *could* walk without them, but it would be painful, and could give you cuts or blisters. would you consider wearing shoes to be lazy? also, many disabilities and conditions are progressive, using a wheelchair can help slow progression and damage to your body.

so next time you see a wheelchair user move their leg, remember that ambulatory wheelchair users exist!

[mochabeanzz]

front or back? 😈

[em-the-nem]

How we feel about butches with mobility aids, Tumblr?

[cosmiccripple]

if there's one thing i ask all parents to do, it's to teach their children about disability from an early age. i cannot leave my house without every child i come across staring at me and/or my mobility aid. as much as i understand children are curious, it's extremely humiliating to feel as though i'm an exhibition for able-bodied people to gawk at.

[cassadyflies]

Dang the mobility aid journey has been real. I’m a cyborg, huh? XD

[yrfemmehusband]

something i don't see talked about much is how people treating disabled people like we are abled can actually be harmful.

i was leaving work and had my cane, i was very tired and in pain. people outside of my store advertising for the world wildlife fund tried to stop me to talk about the environment until they saw i worked there, which is nice, but you probably shouldn’t stop anyone with a mobility aid who is walking. please don’t guilt us into taking extra time to stand in a hot sun, we actually need to go sit down, or it takes us longer to get somewhere so we really don’t have the time to.

don’t infantilize me, but also acknowledge i need extra help or rest. why is that so hard?

[rorynova]

Leather and wheels 🔥

[crazycatsiren]

My dear fellow cripples: Use mobility assistance services at airports. Take elevators. Sit in the priority seats on public transportations. Get in the priority lines. Your lives deserve to be easier and I love you so much!