#disability

[externalmemorycomic]

In honour of webcomic day, here's one of my favourite longer comics I've made, called "the worst ice cream in town". As always, you can find many more comics on my patreon, which is linked in my pinned post.

[purrfurnax]

[cowsabungus]

It's ME awareness day and next week is ME awareness week, so here's a post about ME that you may find interesting or helpful!

I have ME it's one of my diagnoses, and I struggle with it on the daily! I wish more people understood how my body works and feels but sometimes the best I can do is a post like this

Edit: I wrote women but I mean AFAB people!!!!!! So sorry about that guys it's a silly mistake on my part!

Anyway enjoy!

ID in Alt

[chronicallyavoidant]

Ah yes, It’s a “splurge” to spend money on keeping your house livable.

just like how it’s a splurge to buy groceries

[beranibear]

Something that I will never understand is how accessibility is always an afterthought. Wouldn’t it just be easier and cheaper to build accessible unisex toilets rather than a bunch of random gendered ones?

Gendered toilets is such a bizarre concept to me. Some people claim it’s for safety but if a creep wants to go into a toilet and creep on some people nothing is stopping them? Plus I know a lot of my guy friends wouldn’t hesitate to kick out and call out someone creeping on a woman for example.

It’s just like how TERFs don’t want transgender people in bathrooms. Hello?? Don’t you realise there is literally no law that is preventing anyone of the opposite sex from walking into the others bathroom. It’s a public toilet, a guy could walk into the woman’s bathroom if he wanted too, there is no laws or rules. God forbid “someone pretending to be a certain gender” walks in and uses the bathroom.

Plus why do I have to go walk to the other side of the shopping centre to find one that’s accessible and has a handrail, seems pretty stupid to make people who are assumably physically disabled travel to some random corner out of the way to use a bathroom.

Fucking weirdos.

Edit: I’m talking about the laws (or lack of laws) exclusive to Australia. I have not been to other countries while legally (or otherwise) identifying as Nonbinary so I can not speak on experiences elsewhere.

[positivelyqueer]

hey, if you’re feeling upset or grieving over your disability or chronic illness, I’m here to sit with you. It’s okay if all you feel is hurt right now. You don’t have to rush to look for silver linings and disabled joy. Those things will be there when you’re ready. Right now we can just sit together and grieve what could have been, what was lost, and the hurt that we experience in the now. We’re going to get through this together.

[bebsi-cola]

i love disabled people. i really do. it's not like no other disabled person has annoyed me or that i agree with everything other disabled people say. but when i think about disabled people i'm so happy we're here on this earth

[youngchronicpain]

next time someone tells me I could "do so much more" because I'm "so smart despite my...difficulties" I'm going to tell them that I was going to do more but then I saw how their life turned out and it inspired me to just settle ❤

[rebirthgarments]

Go to GiveButter.com/mogaza to support a disabled teen and his family! 

Two generous donors have offered to do matching donations for Mohammed Hammad and his family for up to a total of $3,000 if people contribute $3k to his give butter by May 15! Truly double your contribution

One of the donors already got us started with $1k just because they are so confident we will meet the goal, so that means we are only $8k away from him being able to register his whole family for evacuation. Even though the border is currently closed, registration is still open. I follow a telegram channel with real time updates about the border, and the updates are hopeful that the border will open again soon. 

Even if the border were not to open back up, anyone who is fundraising for evacuations still gets their money, and it would just go towards the high survival costs that just get higher everyday!

We hope to be able to get him to meet his goal ASAP so that he can register as soon as the border opens again. If we meet this goal from the matching donors, then we will only be $3k away! 

Mohammed told us a while ago that his Give Butter needs $50k for him to be able to evacuate along with his mother and 5 younger siblings. The amount is more than we thought initially because of the high commissions  that the merchants who control the cash flow take out. Moha says that where he is, the commission is 50%. You can read more about this in my post titled “can people in Gah-zah receive money?”

Check out Mohammed’s updates and stay connected with him at @moh.2090727 on IG

[image description: a pink ombre text graphic that reads: “$3k matching donation! Donate to 17yo disabled Mohammed Hammad + his family from now until May 15 and two generous donors will match everyone’s donations up to $3k! givebutter.com/mogaza “ there is a QR code that goes to the link on the right, the most recent photo of Mohammed using crutches from the day he got his fixator taken off in the center, and the queercrip symbol with a Palestinian flag filling it in on the left. There are little black sparkles around the graphic.]

[alethianightsong]

The quiet lore and worldbuilding of Fullmetal Alchemist

I read the entire manga & it's never infodumped why prosthetics are so commonplace. We learn that Amestris is a martial country always at war. We know that war creates cripples. We know that war creates innovation. If Fullmetal Alchemist was a western work of fiction, a character woulda flat out stated, "Amestris heavily invested in prosthetics cuz it was more cost-effective than training new soldiers to replace all the ones who lost limbs fighting." The writer simply lets us draw that conclusion from all the details she set before us. In our world, soldiers who lose limbs get a cheap replacement and discharged. In Amestris, they give you a new limb almost as good as the old one, a little physical therapy, then send you back into the fray to fight some more.

[spacedocmom]

Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom You deserve a doctor who is good enough to readily admit that it's impossible for them to know everything about every condition, and will instead commit to researching the current best practices for your needs. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked, spoon 3:15 PM · May 13, 2024

[moonpool-system]

Your disability is real even if it's not causing you suffering 100% of the time. Your disability is real even if you don't bare your suffering constantly to the masses to gain acceptance. Your disability is real even if you wouldn't trade it for being abled. People on the outside cannot see you, and cannot see how the intricacies of your disabilities affect your daily life. They can't see all the details of what makes your disability real because, quite frankly, they don't want to. You needn't debase yourself at the altar of public opinion in order to treat your disability as real. You know your body and your mind best, and your experiences are real. You are allowed to understand and accommodate your bodies and minds for yourselves.

We don't need to be their suffering idol in order to be disabled.

[crippledpunks]

for disabled & neurodivergent folks who struggle with staying hydrated, Jelly Drops might be a good option for you

originally designed for the inventor's grandmother who struggled with hydration, these have become very popular with dementia and alzheimer's patients, as well as the elderly. while this tends to be the primary advertising market for these, i believe these can significantly help a lot of disabled people and neurodivergent people, especially people who struggle with being able to tell when they need fluids.

they are made of 95% water, sugar-free (though they due use sucralose so be cautious if that is not good for you), and contain 6 different electrolytes in each drop. they also have different flavors which can help if you don't like plain water. obviously these are not intended to replace drinking water/liquids, but can give you a boost if struggle to drink plain water, or struggle with being able to tell when you are thirsty, or even folks who become too depressed to get adequate liquid intake.

the website also has Canadian and UK versions as well, they can be accessed in the upper right corner of the website.

[18thcenturythirsttrap]

Welcome to the UK, the world's sixth largest economy, where there are 171 billionaires and the Prime Minister and his wife have a combined fortune of £730m.

[kitthenameless]

I made this other post about the Emperor and Ansur once, but I had more things I wanted to say and couldn't quite fit in without muddying my point.

This is perhaps a bit of a reach, but this is not the first time I've found a portrayal of turning into a monster that I relate to as a chronically ill / disabled person who became ill later in life. It has nothing to do with feeling monstrous (I don't feel monstrous) or even body horror, and everything to do with how disabled people are treated by society and even those closest to us.

Obviously disabled people don't go around eating brains. We are not dangerous any more than abled people are. But becoming a mindflayer (or whatever monster) is comparable in the sense that, it can happen suddenly, and then your whole life is different, your body is not what it used to be (maybe visually, maybe the way it works or doesn't work now), and you need certain accommodations in order to thrive or even just survive. But people treat you differently now, you're not really given any help, and truthfully a lot of people would rather you just be dead. You're abandoned by society to figure out your new life and all its difficulties on your own. If you're lucky, you have some people who care enough to help you. If you're not lucky, you do the best you can in your desperation.

And that's why it feels so messed up to me that Ansur just gave up on Balduran/Emperor once he couldn't cure him. He clearly believes this is still Balduran, as shown by how he speaks to him when you meet him. So in his mind, he wasn't even trying to kill some creature that just had Balduran's memories. He was trying to kill Balduran. Who forcibly underwent a change to his body and accepted it and decided he still wanted a chance at living.

Edit to add: I'm pretty sure the Emperor even says it wasn't easy at first, so he didn't immediately embrace being a mindflayer. He came to accept it with some time, and that feels even more significant to me.

Like I said, I know becoming a mindflayer is not exactly the same as becoming disabled because mindflayers are dangerous. But also like I said, in my other post, the game shows us there are options to living ethically as a mindflayer. It's just that no one even helped the Emperor try to find them. And even so, he did his best on his own by eating criminals (which there is proof of, in a transcript).

I don't even blame him for disguising himself to the player at first. Look at how society treats freed mindflayers. Look at how the Emperor's own best friend and lover treated him. It makes perfect sense to assume we would hurt him or refuse to help him too.

Some people are so quick to forgive the companions for all the messed up things they've done because they have trauma. The Emperor has been through shit too though. He wouldn't admit to having trauma, but he was kidnapped, had his body forcibly changed, had his mind enslaved, had his lover try to kill him, had to kill his lover in self-defense, and was enslaved a second time. Sounds pretty traumatic to me.

Anyway. It's probably random to end this by talking about books, but that's what I do (literally, I also have a book blog), so. The other stories I also related to in this way were Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman (vampires) and Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella (werewolves). Maybe look 'em up, if you like that sorta thing.

[justabunny]

i love seeing other young disabled people out and about. it makes me feel more normal