#i have fibromyalgia

[sunnycanwrite]

What is fibromyalgia (did i spell that right?) And why do you think tim and cass have it?

im actually so happy someone asked this! Fibromyalgia (you spelled it right!), commonly just called Fibro, is a chronic pain condition. It causes pain in 18 central points across the body, chronic fatigue, and brain fog. Many doctors think it is caused by traumatic events, stress, or depression. Though the root cause is unknown. It can can be mild with pain that is manageable, but flare ups often leave people bedridden. Or like me, a wheelchair user.

Tim's canon issued with falling asleep in odd places scream chronic fatigued to me. And I can just see him hiding chronic pain for years, not wanting to mention it. Ad someone with fibro so many thingsabout him, just screams that he has it as well. It's honestly hard to explain.

It's pretty similar with Cass. I see her as growing up with it and thinking consent pain was normal. Due to the way she was treated by her biological father. So she just got used to the pain, and bonded with Tim over it, and they got diagnosed around the same time.

[chadepitanga]

there's something so raw and soul crushing about spending your late childhood+teen years suicidal then growing up and actually wanting to live, after an ungodly effort, only to see your health deteriorate because of chronic illness.

[thedisablednaturalist]

We need to talk about how so many queer spaces are inaccessible and even actively hostile to physically disabled people.

[boycritter]

silly little comic about chronic pain

[image id: an 8 panel comic

the first panel has a conversation between two people. the one on the right is a light gray, and facing away from the viewer. they are meant to represent a generic person. they are saying, "wow, chronic pain sounds like it sucks." sucks is written in a dark pink. the person on the right has tan skin, a pink shirt, and pink hair. he responds "haha yeah."

the second panel shows the same two people, with the first person saying "how do you tolerate it? i'd go crazy!" tolerate is written in a dark pink. the second person responsed "um..." and trails off

the third panel shifts to a drawing of the second person sitting curled into himself. it is entirely grayscale, except for his pink hair, which is a little more muted. the text around him reads "i tolerate it because not doing so isn't an option". 'isn't an option' is written in dark pink.

the fourth panel shows him sitting and leaning against the left edge of the frame, with his legs stretched out. it reads "because what else am i supposed to do?" supposed is in all caps and written in dark pink.

the fifth panel shows a torso up drawing of him in the bottom right corner. the text reads "i can't hope for a day i'll wake up and be better." better is written in dark pink and all caps on the left half of the panel.

the sixth panel shows him sleeping, with a brown dog near his head. the text above him reads "all i can do is make sure i wake up." wake up is written in dark pink.

the seventh panel is all text, reading "i tolerate it because it needs to be tolerable". tolerable is written in dark pink.

the eighth panel shifts back to the conversation between the two people. the man finishes his response to the other person's question with "i don't know".

end image id]

[themathomhouse]

this disability pride month, stop making jokes about people in wheelchairs standing up or walking.

can I stand and walk? sure, for a short while and with pain. the consequences for trying to be out all day without a wheelchair are that I'll be in bed for the rest of the week, too tired and in too much pain to move.

but the government won't give me my own wheelchair because they have the same attitude as these jokes - I can stand up, so I don't need one. exercise is good for you, you should walk!

it keeps me trapped in the house, unable to do anything more than short stints anywhere without borrowing or hiring a wheelchair - one that causes me pain to sit in and relies on someone to push me (usually with difficulty), because they're not going to have a high-end chair for that sort of thing.

it's not a miracle that a wheelchair user can stand or walk. it's something we should aspire to see more often.

[like-i-was-an-old-cardigan]

ykw. shout out to everyone who is both too disabled and not enough.

i wonder if i am disabled enough for cripplepunk, but at the end of the day, scrolling through the cripplepunk tag makes me feel better.

i am not quite disabled enough to be who a post for people who have been deemed scary or weird is for, but i do deal with those feelings. and i bite my arm because it makes me feel less like i’m dying and then i wonder if maybe they would think i am weird and scary.

i guess what this boils down to is: i feel like i am not disabled enough for disabled community. and if anyone else sees this who feels the same way, you deserve community. you deserve not to feel alone.

[cherrysnax]

hi so our last post died, and things have gotten kinda worse with the arrival of our other cat, my elder brothers homelessness, and the racial abuse getting hurled my way

we’re two disabled black lesbians trying to navigate employment discrimination and the American healthcare system, and tbh we’re losing. we originally had to split everything between 6 people, but due to my brothers getting evicted, everything we have (and everything we don’t) also goes to them

like last time, I’m still waiting for a doctor but recently they told me to call back in November. I’ve been calling since April. I believe the stress of everything is causing a flare up of something and I have no idea how to manage it, on top of my new seemingly random food sensitivities that keep popping up. I’m exhausted all the time and sometimes can’t even get out of bed.

on a brighter note, my girlfriend applied to five jobs, but their phone was shut off this morning so it’s urgent that they pay their bill.

we were able to get some necessities early last month due to peoples help, but we can’t make it stretch with 8 people. it’s a shitty situation all around and I wish we didn’t have to ask but until my gf can get a job and I can find out exactly what’s wrong with me, this is literally all we have.

I’m not gonna link my PayPal anymore because people are harassing me with my deadname

my cashapp is $silvertheestallion and my gfs is $Peachjammn

my Venmo is cherryadventure2

thank you so much for reading

[plague-parade]

able bodied people will decide you’re not disabled over *checks notes* the shoes you wear

[annamelia-art]

[sunnycanwrite]

The Batfamily, and the majority of vigilantes are disabled in at least one way. That fight to protect their city's and the planet, sometimes the universe. No one gets away from that unmarred physically or mentally.

Bruce Wayne, has bad knees it ran in his family to begin with, but they got bad fighting crime. Now he supports metal ones, and has a cane that he normally refuses to touch.

Tim, and Cass are fibromyalgia buddies. Understanding that they're both in constant pain, all over. It's trauma based but neither of them can pin point when theirs started. Just that Cass can hardly remember a time before pain, and it started for Tim during that weird time period where everyone he cared about was dropping dead. Tim also has no spleen, and whenever he gets fibro flares up there's panic.

Steph has POTs, she keeps a salt shaker in her utility belt. Sometimes Spoiler can be spotted with purple forearm crutches. In daily life she uses a cane, a plain purple one cover in doodles and stickers. Damian keeps handing her pamphlets about service dogs.

Barbara Gordon is paralyzed from the waist down (not a hc lol), and had to adjust to life without her legs. She has the coolest sleek low back wheelchair, and a whole drawer full of colorful wheelchair gloves.

[stars-and-branches]

god save me from the dumb shit i say when hit with brain fog

[herba-mysticas]

More magenta au because I could not stop thinking about it

Shitty sketch bc its all I have the energy for

Context: arven got hurt in area zero as well as mabosstiff and ended up with a chronic illness

[hoshi-kawaii]

Failure to meet expectations because of your disability is not your failure it's theirs.

Even if you didn't know you were sick/disabled yet.

[acid-lovecore]

For the folks with chronic pain/illness/fatigue

Your F/o checking in first thing in the morning to see how your feeling. If you slept ok, if your back or hips or neck or anything hurts. Offering to massage wherever it may be sore. Taking extra care to avoid tender spots.

Gently clicking their tongue at you when you exhaust yourself cus you overdid it on a low-pain day and are now flaring up. Carrying you (if they can) to bed, already having your heating pad prepared. They make sure you stay hydrated, fed, and fetching you things when walking is just too hard.

Your fatigue or pain does not make you any less loveable. It does not make you harder to love. They do not think you are faking it nor that you are lazy. Everyone’s body is different, and every body should get that chance to feel accommodated. They love you through your pain, your tiredness, your everything

[sybilhallward]

being too embarassed to look disabled leads to so much more disability :(

[thedisablednaturalist]

One day I will get one of those desks that rolls over your bed (as well as an adjustable bed) and I will be unstoppable