#sam.disabled

[tortiefrancis]

Nobody talks about the hard parts about autism.

Nobody talks about not knowing when you need to eat, drink or pee. Not knowing when you're in pain, or why you're in pain. Not being able to communicate what you need.

Or when change is so hard to deal with you have meltdowns and outbursts. When you can't control your anger and hurt yourself or others. When you can't emote unless you're breaking down.

Or when you can't understand what someone is saying, what you're reading, anything. When you can't even try because trying makes it worse. When you ask for help but not getting what they say just makes you more frustrated.

And so many more difficult experiences we have to deal with that no one likes.

[tortiefrancis]

Happy disability pride month! I decided to draw some disabled Barbies, most, if not all, from the fashionista line!

note: I'm not fluent in Brazilian Sign Language, please let me know if I messed this up in any way!!

[ ID: a digital, stylized drawing of five women sitting around a brown table and talking to each other. The background is transparent, and there's some shading. The women are, from left to right:

A woman a wheelchair and has dark skin, black eyes and long, coily, black hair, and wears pink heart glasses and a short, sleek, rainbow striped dress. Then, a woman with Down Syndrome with tanned skin, hazel eyes and long, wavy, blonde hair, and wears a white dress puffy sleeves, pink, yellow and purple flowers, a pink necklace and pink orthopedic shoes. They both smile.

Then, a Deaf woman with pale skin, green eyes and long, straight, red-ish brown hair in a high ponytail, and wears hot pink hearing aids, a short, black dress with a white collar and hot pink, white and purple flowers and dark hot pink shoes. She does the sign for bus in Brazilian Sign Language, her two hands close to her chest, curved inwards, then going forward, breaking apart, like a bus door opening.

Next to her is a woman with vitiligo with dark skin, dark brown eyes and long, dark brown, coily hair in a large bun, wearing a long, pink, yellow and white striped dress and white shoes. Finally, a woman with alopecia with medium tone skin, brown eyes and no hair, wearing a hot pink dress with puffy sleeves and purple flowers, golden hoop earrings and white shoes. They both have neutral expressions. /End id ]

[tortiefrancis]

every single time a post says "unmute" and there's no cc or audio transcript or whatever i feel like committing a felony

[tortiefrancis]

I don't know how to say this but adults with autism can have meltdowns and very much do. It's not just a thing in children. And yes I mean even old adults and elderly

[tortiefrancis]

For new year's, I'd like to send love to:

- people with autism

- people with epilepsy

- people with sensory processing disorder

- people with misophonia

- people with post-traumatic stress disorder

- people with heart conditions

- people with photophobia/light sensitivity

and anyone else trying to enjoy the new year without having to worry about loud noises or lights

[tortiefrancis]

shoutout to people with intellectual disabilities, you guys deserve the world

[tortiefrancis]

shoutout to people who were diagnosed early, but never told about it, or didn't find out until much later.

people who didn't have access to their medical records, or whose parents or guardians hid this information from them.

to people whose doctors, therapists and such lied to them, and to those who weren't told everything about their results.

to people who lost these records or results, or who had them stolen.

you're enough. you're valid.

[tortiefrancis]

Happy disability pride month to him <3 (heart)

[ id: a cropped screenshot from the 3D animated movie "Nimona" showing Ballister Boldheart, a broad man with medium tone skin, short, wavy, black hair that's slicked back, brown eyes, a thin face, a mustache and a goatee. He wears a black armor and cape. He also has a black prosthetic arm, with some wires exposed. /End id ]

[tortiefrancis]

It's disability pride month again! Let Watson be disabled, for the love of God

[tortiefrancis]

disabled arab friends ^-^ (smile)

wanted to draw more arab people but also more disabled people, so i decided to draw both. i didn't have many ideas for this drawing so i'm open to suggestions! :3 (cat smile)

this also my first time drawing people walking so i hope this is good

[ ID in alt text and plain text ]

[ ID: Digital, stylized art of four Arab friends walking together next to each other against a transparent background, with colorful lineart and some shading. From left to right:

A thin man with medium tone skin, brown eyes, short, straight, black hair, a unibrow and a thin beard. He's a leg amputee, has vitiligo on his hands and walks with a pair of green crutches. He wears a white shirt with green sleeves, swamp green pants and light swamp green shoes. He looks to the woman next to him.

The woman is fat and has medium tone skin, brown eyes, a scarred eyebrow and a cleft lip. She wears a dark red hijab, two yellow heart hair clips, an orange shirt with yellow hems and a heart, dark red pants and yellow shoes with light yellow hearts. She talks to the man.

Next, a man with light skin with a lighter patch on his forehead, brown eyes, short, curly, blonde hair with a light patch and a beard. He has dwarfism. He wears glasses, a gray polo shirt, navy blue denim pants and blue shoes. He talks to the woman next to him.

The woman is chubby and broad with light-medium tone skin, a port wine stain on the left side of her face, green eyes, one droopier than the other, and long, curly, light brown hair. She wears a red t-shirt with white stripes, black denim pants and light pink shoes. She looks at the man, her hands in her pockets and her head low. /End ID ]

[tortiefrancis]

Nimona reminds me a lot about growing up disabled and neurodivergent.

Being seen as a disgusting thing, a monster without having to do anything, the people around you begging for answers on why you're this way, 'how' did you 'turn up' this way, asking for you to hide who you are. The weird looks over your symptoms or behaviors, the most minor ones, too.

And when it all comes crashing down, when you can't hide it anymore, when you're just so full of pain, and anger, and sadness, people are scared of you. People see you as an even more dangerous and frightening monster.

[tortiefrancis]

Shoutout to people with photophobia this disability pride month, don't let people shame you out of using your aids when you need them, and don't listen to people who don't believe you when you talk about your condition.

[tortiefrancis]

Does anyone have tips on how to read when you have autism and possibly intellectual disability? I just can't get the meaning of the text or comprehend the words and often get lost, and so it takes me a really long time to read, but I have to read academic texts for my univerisity

Audio versions and text to speech don't work and I already read with the text on a larger setting if it's online

Edit: made the post unrebloggable for personal reasons

[tortiefrancis]

disability stimboard ♿️🌈

there aren't enough gifs and stimboards related to disability, so i wanted to try and make one myself.

one . two . three

four . five . six

seven . eight . nine

( ID: a stimboard with nine images centered around the disability flag. it is dark gray with five diagonal stripes, from top to bottom: green, blue, white, yellow and red.

From left to right, top row to bottom row: first gif is of a person with light skin moving their fingers, their palm facing the viewer. Two fingers are prosthetics.

Second gif is a person with pale skin holding a resin infinity symbol with rainbow colours. Third gif is of a person wearing gray pants and black shoes walking slowly with a gray cane.

Fourth gif is a person moving fabric above their hand. The fabric is muted, glittery rainbow. Then, the disabled flag. Fifth gif is of a person with pale skin turning around on their wheelchair, which has rainbow wheels.

Sixth gif is of a person with light skin passing their fingers through the braille in three elevator buttons, one by one. Seventh gif is of a person with dark skin using a rainbow pop it, holding it up to the camera.

Lastly, eighth gif is of a person with light skin passing their finger through the braille on a black surface. /End ID )

[tortiefrancis]

Also if anyone has tips for dealing with routine changes and how to make new routines when you lose others... please? Share? I can't find anything online and everyone I've asked just tells me I should learn to deal with my feelings, but I literally just stay inside all day and watch videos when I don't have a routine and it's not healthy at all

[tortiefrancis]

I feel bad for not being able to read and understand text

I feel bad for not being able to tell how far something is from me, and never being able to guess

I feel bad for doing things out of impulse and not actually thinking them through, and either making a huge mistake or quickly forgetting how I did it

I feel bad for not being able to do basic math on my head without feeling physically tired and strained

I feel bad for not being able to follow instructions correctly without someone by my side to help

I feel bad for not always knowing how to write something

I feel bad for not being able to explain what I feel or think, or really not feeling or thinking at all

And most of all, I feel bad that I don't know why that is