#full time wheelchair user

[anonpositivityforu]

Making a positivity post for the non-ambulatory wheelchair users!

I hope you have a super good day, especially if you:

Can't walk even with other mobility aids besides wheelchairs

Need heavy-duty stuff to transfer like hoists

Need to use the extra wheelchair features like tilt-in-place or elevate

Are bedbound without your wheelchair

Never learned to walk

Or anything like that!

We are super awesome and cool, even without the walking, and sometimes even the standing!

[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.

[briarpatch-kids]

I wish wheelchair bound wasn't a point of contention. I'm literally strapped into my wheelchair and so are a lot of other full-time chair users, so while they mean freedom, there's also a high level of restriction and like... actual binding involved and the feelings that brings up. There's a lot more logistics involved in it too, I have to have someone help me in and out of bed and on and off the toilet, into and out of my shower chair that's also on wheels. We need specialty cushions to prevent our skin from breaking down or our bodies permanently changing in a way that causes more pain. Some people have to be moved on slings that hang from the ceiling and can only leave their wheelchairs if they're in a place with ceiling hoists so even routine medical care is different. It's complicated and weird, and a lot of people just don't Get that.

Please don't forget non-ambulatory wheelchair users in your disabled activism.

[cripple-council]

i love u full time wheelchair users💚

[flowercrowncrip]

I feel like I’m getting somewhere medically. My GP reckons my symptoms are mostly because my current borrowed wheelchair isn’t (and to a lesser extent my old wheelchair wasn’t) meeting my postural needs and my breathing has been more restricted which is causing more issues (because oxygen is important). We’re running some tests to check there’s nothing more sinister going on but it’s a pretty good explanation I probably should have thought of myself.

Which means that hopefully my new wheelchair will make things easier when it eventually gets here. I was initially told that it would be around May time, but I still haven’t had the letter with the appointment date so I’m suspecting that it might be a longer wait than anticipated.

And also fuck the tories for taking funding away from the nhs and wheelchair services causing horrendous waiting times with people trapped in bed or inadequate wheelchairs for months or years at a time and all the health problems that causes.

[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.

[losergirlranboolive]

quick reminder that just because someone's powerchair/wheelchair is an object doesn't mean you should treat it like one!!!

[thedisablednaturalist]

I think some of us ambulatory wheelchair users are getting pretty close to (or already are) throwing full time users and higher support needs disableds under the bus. And that shit needs to be shut down NOW.

It's the problem of: "how dare they treat us like those people!"

The problem with ableists isn't that they assume we can't walk The problem is they assume we don't need our wheelchairs if we can. That we don't need our handicapped placards or transport vehicles. That we are taking advantage of other "actually" disabled people, that the ableists also don't give a shit about unless they're using them as an excuse to be ableist.

The problem with ableists isn't that they assume we are intellectually and/or developmentally disabled. The problem is they assume that every intellectually/developmentally disabled person needs to be treated with baby talk, dismissal, and ignorance. That they don't see them as people and refuse to listen to intellectually and developmentally disabled voices without making fun of them.

Stop throwing people with higher support needs under the bus. Stop doing what the abled neurodivergent community did to all physically disabled people. Us cripples gotta stick together and fight for one another, not push one down to make ourselves somehow look better to ableist fucks.

[moonhibs]

Au where Julian is a child of divorce

[heroesriseandfall]

I really do get that individual writers and artists don’t necessarily have the power to change Babs back into a full time wheelchair user on their own. But at bare minimum I really wish that they would at least just write/draw her in her wheelchair all the time when they have the power to.

Even if they can’t make her a full time wheelchair user across all of DC, why can’t they have her be a full time wheelchair user within their own works? Is it really that hard to just have her do this sitting down, like she did before DC magicured her?

Batman (2016) #128

Image description: A comic panel of Barbara Gordon standing and leaning over a computer desk with several monitors. She’s messing with wires on a laptop, her face tilted and eyebrows knit in concentration. The top half of the panel is drawn to show a glimpse of Gotham outside, where Nightwing is. Babs says, “…I’m trying to increase transmission power to override Failsafe’s comms blocking! Do you have something?” Nightwing, over the glitchy comms where his voice is cutting out, says, “chtt—looks like it—no sign of Batman—” End ID.

[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:

[detectivenightwing]

I'm sorry but Kelly Thompson saying the reason Babs could not be in the Birds of Prey book is because she would die on a mission is such a stupid writing choice.

If only when Babs founded and lead the Birds of Prey she did so remotely if only people respected Babs time as Oracle.

If only a single damn writer at DC respected disability representation and made the smallest push for Babs to be Oracle.

But no instead Babs gets sidelined from the team she created and lead as a disabled woman cause she potentially gets shot in the field.

Beyond frustrating at this point the way DC has all but destroyed Oracle's legacy and any hope I had as a disabled person that this book might maybe be different is gone.

[briarpatch-kids]

Can't fuckin walk club

[flowercrowncrip]

ID: A cropped photo of text from a letter reading “EPIOC Delivery. Date: Wednesday,May 8, 2024 at Before 1:00pm”

The excitement on reading this was joyous and overwhelming – I was like one of those videos of children opening Disney tickets and happy stimming with a huge grin

[gxos]

im just. auuuuuuuuuh

[lilacqueerr]

give it up for month 5 of people asking me when i'm gonna be able to walk again/"get out of that wheelchair" and being shocked and upset when i say that's not my goal, my goal is functionality