#disability

[genderqueerdykes]

to every medical professional ever who complains about how working with fat patients is "harder":

why the hell did you go into medicine thinking it would be easy? for anyone, in any case? why the hell did you go into medicine thinking it would be an "Easy" career choice?

you're literally there to prevent people from dying, falling sick, or becoming permanently injured. that's an extremely difficult job no matter who you're working with. someone who can't keep on enough weight to survive is just as "hard" to deal with as someone whose weight genuinely impacts their health. all health issues are complicated and thus "hard"

even treating a cold can be difficult when someone has autoimmune issues. people literally die from the flu every single year due to complications. medicine is not and will never be "easy". claiming that fat people are "harder" to work with is a bullshit excuse that isn't even true. there are "average" weight people out there who struggle with extremely intense health issues that are not "easy" to deal with.

skinny and "average" weight people still can deal with horrific and difficult health issues. skinny and "average" weight people can develop cancer. they can have diseased organs. they can have issues with their red and white blood cell count. they can have life threatening allergies. they can frequently need surgery for a variety of reasons

surgery will never be "easy" no matter who you're operating on. a simple or "easy" surgery is still difficult. blaming fat people for medicine being difficult is taking the coward's way out. fat people do not make practicing medicine any more difficult- it's an inherently difficult field to get into

if you seriously get into the medical field because you believe it will be "easy" you're an idiot. it doesn't matter if your patients are critically thin, average weight, or fat- all of their problems will be "hard" to deal with because human health is scary. even if someone is dealing with a less "difficult" issue it's still going to be hard. don't go into medicine if you want a free ride through life: you're the one who's wrong if you seriously thought medicine would be easy.

[five-thousand-loaves-of-bread]

people think severely disabled people get support needs met because

1. they never actually met not to mention talk to get to know one single severely disabled person

2. unsupported severely disabled people just. die

3. or, we stuck somewhere where we locked from society somewhere you not able see us (feature not a bug)

if we die or hidden, we assumed not exist. so you assume us not exist. so you define us out of existence.

[radiotrophicfungi]

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[bibipins]

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[compassionatereminders]

It's valid if hygiene is really important to you, and you absolutely get to reject being intimate with people who don't live up to your standards for personal hygiene - but is publicly shaming everyone with bad hygiene and talking about how they're so disgusting they're making you lose faith in humanity REALLY a necessary part of it? Considering that struggles with personal hygiene isn't just a character flaw, but a common consequence of many mental and physical health issues

[watcherwingedcat]

So! I wanna talk about essas again because why not?

What even are essas?

Essa stands for Emotional Support Stuffed Animal! As a said before, they are plushies, any size or type, any animal, don't have to be dogs, that bring confort to the user. It can help with disorders such as anxiety, social anxiety, autism, adhd, ocd, panic disorders, and more! Or even loneliness.

They don't have rules, if they may halp them, you can have an ESSA!

They can have gear, like collars or harnesses, or not. You can use labels for people not to touch them or take them or not, is up to you!

How can ESSAs help?

Essas can help with anxiety attacks, meltdowns, panic attacks, social discomfort, grounding, and more! Bringing Ramen with me, for example, help me calm down, and petting him is so satisfying.

There's not a right or wrong way to use or have an ESSA. If it may help you just having it with you, then it's being used.

Where can I buy an ESSA?

Literally anywhere where a plushie is sold. Toy stores, essential items shops, dollar stores, online, etc.

I see a lot of people from the community buy the dogs on Douglass Cuddle Toys shops, but I feel like they are overrated. They don't have to be expensive either, I bought mibe for less than ten euros. I think he was seven.

Who can use ESSAs?

Like I said, literally anyone. Children, adults, teens, it doesn't matter. You don't have to be disabled either. Even if you don't have any disorders, you can use them. They are confort items, friends, or just tools. They are for anyone, and they can be for you.

My ESSA, Ramen, goes everywhere with me, and comforts me a lot. He's my friend, my best boy, and I love him

[spooniestrong]

[bobbi-bee]

Something I think people who don’t live with chronic illness don’t understand is that there is a big difference between resting to get better and resting to avoid getting worse.

[stay-afraid-but-do-it-anyway]

did you know that approximately 20% of people on the schizophrenia spectrum never hear voices?

also: 20% may never experience any hallucinations at all.

it's really important to mention because not knowing that really hindered me in accepting my diagnosis, and it's likely that there are others out there on the schizophrenia spectrum who may not realise it or accept what they're experiencing (a common thing for people w/ schizophrenia).

i thought that in order to be schizophrenic you needed to constantly hear voices, like my uncle (and like the media often represented), so i kept denying the diagnosis when my psychologist, doctor, and later a psychiatrist, were trying to convince me that it's what i have.

even when i felt like maybe i had accepted it, i was still also really dismissive and in denial because of such a lack of public awareness over how much it really is a spectrum condition.

i experience auditory and visual hallucinations when i'm under stress (and am very sensitive to even the slightest stress too), but overall they are certainly not what i consider my most common symptom.

paranoid delusions, cognitive problems, as well as avolition and what's called the negative symptoms of schizophrenia, are what i experience every day.

hoping that maybe speaking about this will help raise awareness about how people's experiences can be different.

[five-thousand-loaves-of-bread]

am deserve support!! deserve have ALL support need met!! deserve have safety prioritized! deserve dignity of risk but also deserve freely choose when to use dignity of risk, not be put in risk put in harm be forced in it n use that one or few lucky instances where came out okay as evidence against us. deserve have support needs other people see as “unimportant” “suck it up” met! deserve comfort, deserve autonomy, deserve choice - choice of when stay in comfort zone!! when so many part of life of world force us out of comfort zone constantly!! deserve listened to. deserve have our assessment of self valued, “this not safe. cannot safely do this. cannot do this.” deserve dignity, deserve respect. deserve be human - be ugly human, be imperfect human, be moody human, be messy human, be emotional human, be human with wants n whims. deserve not need be grateful for mere alive, for mere have fundamental support needs met, for not be abused or neglected. deserve not be abused or neglected. deserve be out in world. deserve be seen. deserve be seen as full self.

[mortalityplays]

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[radiotrophicfungi]

BLINKIE SET #71 . . . CHRONIC PAIN RECOLORS

[cheerfullycatholic]

Actress and activist Liz Carr, who described the prospect of legalising assisted suicide in the UK as “terrifying” in her BBC documentary Better Off Dead?, shared her fears about its effect on vulnerable people. She said “For many disabled people the assumption that we’d be ‘Better Off Dead’ is something that we get used to hearing. We do not believe that any safeguard can adequately protect us from coercion, abuse, mistake and discrimination. We believe that if assisted suicide is legalised, disabled, ill and older people risk being devalued to death”.

[jenny-94]

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[dressuprat]

Why is adhd so stupid like oh why cant you do anything r you in pain or tired NO!!!! I CANNOT STOP THINKING ABOUT GODDAMN PARKOUR CIVILIZATION TO THE POINT THAT ITS HARMFUL TO MY LIFE. And that sounds fucking fake even to ME who's GOING THROUGH THAT

[tumble-tv]

The ballet dancer to disabled pipeline is fuckin rough