#full time aide

[clownrecess]

Talk to me, not about me.

You want to know my name? Ask me. Not the abled person I am with.

I can answer myself. I am not a baby.

People need to stop assuming disabled people cannot answer for themself. Please, stop asking peoples carers and just ask us.

Sometimes we might not be able to answer (example: I usually can't order for myself at restaurants), but we very very well might. So please, just ask us. We arent babies. We are grown people, who are tired of being infantilized and ignored.

[five-thousand-loaves-of-bread]

being full time wheelchair user terrifying because. you’re totally dependent on this thing. this thing that often you don’t have control over. something breaking can be put it and you out of commission for weeks at best & usually months. can’t use it “carefully” & “sparingly” because you depend on it to go essential places. to perform “basic” life functions. its maintainance & repair & production quality, totally out of your control. “if production bad quality go downhill, boycott & hurt company profit to show consumer voice.” don’t really apply here. because you. can’t exactly go without it. n companies know.

[cripple-council]

i love u full time wheelchair users💚

[salthien]

you may!! i figured if i was going to get one request at all, it would be for mister circus vampire himself. i still haven't even attempted NKG yet, but troupe master is a very fun fight! i like how birdlike he is for a bug(?). very fun design.

[december-rains]

Disabled people reblog this and put your donation info

[wwolflesbian]

bah. I really hoped I'd never need to do another one of these but here we are. I lost my job recently and while I have been searching really hard to find another one nobody around my area is hiring for anything but the most demeaning work that wouldn't even be able to pay my bills. that plus me requiring that companies accommodate my disability makes me less hireable in general. I've been trying to get my unemployment checks but they are fighting me at every turn. basically, I'm running out of time to pay my rent and I need help again.

paypal link here

20/1400

[bambeebirdie]

This is for @bluepeachstudios ‘s Ghost in a Shell. It’s really good you should read it.

I looked at exactly one picture of Jupiter Jim and went “yeah this should be enough to draw him.” I will not be answering if it actually was

Have some bonus content under the cut!

And sketches

(I love any character who can say “I don’t want to go back to prison” it’s like the funniest thing to me)

[glittergroovy]

hi I need groceries! can't find work, broke, disabled, trans & hungry

if you can throw a few bucks my way it's super appreciated!

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k0fi (goes thru p@ypal)

v3nmo: @Grubcore

throne will ship things on my wishlist directly to me; I really need a new Brita filter in particular

[disabled-disaster-king]

Ambulatory wheelchair used does not mean that they can just get up and stand or walk for a lot of people. Ambulatory just means that in some capacity you can stand or walk even if it is only with extensive support and only for a few seconds. Not all ambulatory wheelchair users have a choice to use a wheelchair or when encountering inaccessibility can just get out of their wheelchair to deal with it. Some ambulatory people are full time wheelchair users.

[serethespider]

dont even have the energy to make an attention grabbing post or anything so nobody's going to respond to this but i am flat broke and my water is going to get cut off in four days and i still have nothing to eat because almost all the money i got from this paycheck went to other bills and overdraft fees and i'd really appreciate it if someone could drop me even a few dollars

venmo is serethespider, kofi is here, paypal available upon dm

[survivinghellandhistoricalevents]

Ambulatory Wheelchair user Vil Schoenheit, AU

As a dancer and a highly active person the stress put on his joints and injuries to the hip and torso area gave him chronic pain. Formed a pars fracture and sprains became fairly common. With the additional injuries from his overblot it was decided that he would benefit from a mobility aid.

References below cut:

[andthebeanstalk]

Learning Blender as an experienced artist is so galling like

😤😤😤 "I have spent 21 years of my life learning how to be a better artist, from copying the pictures in my Pokémon handbook at age 9 to finally reaching a point around age 30 where I can pretty much create almost any image I have in my head if I have enough time. Even though there's always so much more to learn, it is extremely gratifying for all that hard work to be paying off in the way it is. I am, finally, becoming the artist I'd always hoped I'd be." ❤❤❤

And then I open Blender, and it's like, "I CAN MOVE A SINGLE CUBE IN ONE DIRECTION. SOMETIMES. LAST NIGHT, I BUILT A WASTEPAPER BASKET BY TAKING 20 MINUTES TO GET THROUGH A 3-MINUTE TUTORIAL. MY 3D ARTISTRY SKILLS ARE COMPLETE SO LONG AS MY SUBJECT MATTER IS CUBES AND OCCASIONALLY LITERAL GARBAGE. WHAT IS HAPPENING." 🙃😬⁉️😫☠🥸🤡🤡🤡

(I'm still proud of my art and of the progress I'm making learning a new program, but it's an ego check for sure. 😅)

[soldier-poet-king]

Jesus wept.

[phantasyhalation]

it's very easy to go onto the website for transgender grad students and complain about the pay/conditions of a typical PhD—and yeah, they're not great. that said, you should never take up a doctorate without full funding, stipends and preferably some work opportunities—outside the physical sciences, which generally have it best with funding, it's rare that you'll need to for decent work in the field.

with that said, what bothers me worse is how many fields poor people are institutionally barred from: specifically, which fields they tend to be. unpaid internships are pretty commonplace everywhere. that said: medicine. law. teaching. fields which could really use talent from the lower rung of the economic ladder! and all of them require lengthy, grueling blocks of unpaid internships working long hours and juggling commitments to become accredited in. doing unpaid work is one shitty thing—sucks, but it's so commonplace that a general critique has to work on grounds too abstract and universal. but where i'm from? students in social work programs need to do 1000 hours of unpaid internship to graduate. in two blocks. low flexibility, of course. i'm talking undergraduates. 3.5 months full time. that would have buried me when i was younger, and it'd still bury me now.

all the pissy loan schemes and small competitive grants can't make up for that. i've no desire to enter that field myself, but when i think about the population of social workers i've known factoring in that context? yeah. makes sense why i so universally wanted them exiled.

[an--artistic--autistic]

It's really entertaining to me that I am (apparently??) cis passing only because people are scared to be ableist.

They see my height and they see my cane and make the assumption that I am Very Short because I am disabled (which, yeah probably... most of my family members are over 5'6 and I'm 4'11 and haven't grown at all in 8 years so...)

But I have had several people at both work and school be genuinely surprised that I was trans, and they didn't want to ask because it could've been related to my disabilities.

I genuinely forgot that passing as cis was a thing and assumed I am just like a queer beacon and everyone could immediately tell.

It's very strange that multiple people in queer spaces were actually surprised to find out I am trans. Nobody wants to ask about the cane or other aids or anything (which, good don't do that unless you know someone well, but also I am so open about everything as long as people are polite so I assumed it had come up)

It's still hard to wrap my head around. However, showing people pictures of me from highschool is very funny because they can never figure out which person is me

[semiverbal-culture-is]

semiverbal culture not knowing if 'allowed' use AAC since hard but can talk enough talk get through most days but still lots difficulty and stop once home, but not want give people false impression AAC users because can talk get through day most days

Semiverbal culture