#wheel chair users

[fantasy-frog]

To anybody who might see this, July in the states is disability pride month. As someone who’s past decade plus has been a journey towards understanding, accepting, and advocating for my psychological and physical disabilities and my whole life, aiding disabled family members, I want make it known that: the way many of us feel you can help us the most, is not by “pretending” we’re abled, like we’re just like everyone else, because we’re *not*

When disabilities are ignored, or treated as just “uniquely abled”, it falls on the disabled to maintain abled people’s comfort; to make our disabilities small, to not advocate for equity and the bettering of our lives in a supposedly equal society.

Equality is not equity.

Differences must be acknowledged, understood, and worked around *by abled people* for any true progress to be made.

Most people think this is government related. I know abled people as individuals can’t change that there’s little to no wheel chair access in their bustling city, that the sidewalks are cracked and filled with lips. An abled person can’t make public schools treat autistic kids with humanity, or children with memory-relates disabilities able to always have notes for their exams. They can’t make the employers stop firing us, or the government give us our right to marriage when living under SSI.

What I’m asking for is Empathy. True empathy. The kind that informs your beliefs, and actions. Talk to disabled people. Get to know them. I promise you, you have a disabled person in your family or social circle. Really be inquisitive about their experiences, struggles, and frustrations.

Acknowledge your privilege. Your ease of access to the world. Really sit in it. Absorb it. Your empathy will only grow. And when enough abled people do even just this, the world for us becomes less hostile. It becomes more livable. We become no longer burdens, but cherished by our communities, our families and friends. And trust me, even though the world is not built for me, and I have to consistently jump through 10,000 hoops to achieve even the smallest of victories for an abled person, and my body hurts and breaks down, so I get in a chair on wheels, or get out my cane, or put on my noise cancelling headphones, and just come across obstacle after obstacle -

The majority of the pain comes from the stares. The glances. The questioning. The points when you see the patience leave the eyes of the one who you thought loved you unconditionally, and you remember your place in our collective culture. And fuck man. You recall how workable all the bureaucracy and hurdles felt, how manageable it was to push forward (it’s what you always do) … before you were reminded of where you sit on the totem poll, and how conditional worth is in our society.

Disabled people are worthy. We are valuable. But we need you to believe it, or nothing will ever change.

[harvestheart]

Une chorégraphie Originale par Sadeck Waff

PERFECT HAND BALLET OF SYNCHRONICITY

[nonbinarycollector]

um um. yeah :)

[paintedplum7]

God I forgot how much I missed drawing Gaster

[disabled-dragoon]

Spring on my chair has gone which means I'm out of commission until its fixed

[qbdatabase]

October 20th was International Pronouns Day, so this Saturday we have a special Picture Book Parade that's all about pronouns! These colorful children's books talk about how to use pronouns, introduce kids to the many different pronouns they can use, and talk you through what to do if you don't know which ones are for you 🏷️✏️❓

[aloeverified]

elumax headcanons pLease <3

elumax my beloved

el has a hard time understanding a lot of movies because of all the references to thing she doesn't understand, so when the three have movie night, they turn it into a lesson where they basically explain different parts of life she hasn't been able to experience yet.

this has caused them to make a bucket list with things to do with el; such as go to theme parks or take her to a museum.

after getting a bit of a better understanding of movies, the group usually settles for horror. max likes them the most, whereas lucas hates them but pretends he likes them to seem cool, and el enjoys them because they're easy to understand.

max often talks about how she misses california, and lucas once made her a promise that he'd take them on a roadtrip there once he gets his license. he loves traveling and seeing new places, and el is excited to see more than just hawkins.

after el comes back to hawkins, she tells max that california wasn't nearly as fun without her there. max tells her that they'll just have to replace her bad memories with better ones and lucas subtlety chimes in that he has his license.

max spends a couple of months in a wheelchair as her arms and legs heal. el and lucas worry that she feels left out and do their absolute best to make sure she's still having fun. lucas thought fun meant going on walks with her in parks where she can smell all the flowers and hear what's going on around her — el though fun meant riding down the largest hill in the park. max liked the second idea, lucas did not.

joyce taught el how to sew while they lived in california, and she actually became very good at it. so when max mentioned that she hated how boring her wheelchair must look, el offered to sew some designs into it. it eventually lead to a group family project, with erica and will coming up with designs that fit max, lucas getting all the sewing supplies, and jonathan helping el with the actual sewing. by the end of it, max has a couple rainbows on the sides below her armrests, mad max spelled out on the back in her favorite colors, and jonathan even made some little skulls in construction class that they were able to attach to the middle of her wheels.

with max being blind, lucas and el decide to come up with alternative date night ideas so that she doesn't feel leftout when they watch movies. they eventually agree on reading to max before bed during their sleepovers. el reads while lucas helps to correct her on words she doesn't understand, all while max enjoys listening to the two before falling asleep.

with joyce's expertise from finding jobs, she's able to find a braille reading class. she signs el and max up for it, and lucas' parents cover his classes. already having experience with learning things like morse code, lucas catches on pretty easily, along with max who has always been a fast learner. el struggles a bit, but tries her best in order to support her girlfriend.

joyce and max's mom actually become good friends, as joyce knows what it's like to struggle with money and lost. the two family's eventually start having dinner together once a week, and joyce always allows max over.

hopper off-handly mentions how much he prefers max and lucas to mike, making both el and will blush for separate reasons.

still, hopper is sure to give lucas a stern talking to about how to treat girls, and erica doesn't hold back when threatening max and el to never hurt her brother.

when max is able to start walking again, el and lucas are always there to help her. she finds it a bit overwhelming at first, and the three are able to establish boundaries about what she does or doesn't want help with.

lucas helps her find the best walking cane, and is even able to add a device that beeps when in contact with certain materials so she can navigate easier when alone.

when max decides she's finally ready to start relearning how to skate, the three of them go down to an abandoned parking lot so she doesn't have to worry about being judged. el even brings her rollerskates and borrows a pair from will so lucas can try too. max struggles through a lot of it, but el is there to catch her and lucas helps in reminding her that they have all the time in the world to practice.

when max was still recovering, she listened to lucas' games on the radio and talked back and forth with dustin on the walkie talkies to see how it was going.

once when el was away and especially homesick, she used her powers to watch lucas during his game. she worried she was breaking their boundaries, however, and didn't do it again despite how badly she wanted to watch his games.

knowing that max is more lenient about her using her powers, el would check on her in the hospital and at night sometimes just to make sure she was okay.

el is always cold at night, whereas max and lucas get too hot with a blanket on, so el just sleeps between them for body heat. occasionally she'll use a weighted blanket and have the others sleep onto of it next to her.

[legendoftortor]

okay so somehow I’m still ill and unable to work (and still chilling in my blanket burrito in bed) but I got rim & spoke covers for my wheelchair and I just had to share with you all since I’m not really able to show off irl rn 😅

*runs back to lurk once more*

[cray-cray-anime]

One thing I hate hearing when people talk about disabled adults is smth along

"They're actually a child on the inside"

Ignoring that scientifically can't be a "kid" on the inside. Like trying to compare them being disabled to being a child. It's just so patronising to disabled people and such a wrong way to think about children.

Whether it's neurological or physical or both, being disabled adult will never be the same as being a kid.

One needs support because they're still growing, the other needs support because they literally physically/mentally cannot.

Heck, even this infantilising disabled ppl happens where they talk and act like they're a little kid.

Help them unesscarily when they didn't even asked. Or stopping them from doing things they're capable of doing. Or talking slowly and loudly or not even bothering to talk to them and talk abt them like they're not there.

[peepawsammywammywoo]

Who knew that one random day at 12 I would wake up and just have a chronic illness

I'm 15 now, almost 16 and we don't even know what I have I just know I got somthing.

It's crazy

One day I could run, jump, swing and climb and now I use a cane most days and a wheelchair some days.

I could run, now i can barley stand.

[momojuicepng]

I hate when im complimenting someone who is physically disabled, or noticably at least. Like i give cute compliments often, like. "Omg she is so pretty!" Or "Do you think she thinks im cute-"

And the people who im surrounded by look at me in horror! Noticibakky disabled people derserve attention too! They are pretty and cute and humans (is it so hard for some to understand) and i can have crushes on them!! It does not make me weird or icky and it doesn't make those people feel any better when someone is saying that because of their disability, they can not be pretty.

I am heated, excuse me.

[sarahjaneshearer-blog]

10 comparisons between my electric new chair than my electric old chair

Hey how are you???

This week I got my new chair and I am going to tell you 10 comparisons with my electric old chair and my electric new chair.

My new chair is more comfortable than my old chair!!!

My new ew chair is faster than my old chair!!!

My control panel on my new chair can move around in wards and out wards where my old control panel only moved out words!!!

My new chair is smaller than my old chair so it is easier to go into places.

My new chair has six wheels and then my old chair had four wheels. Having six wheels makes it more stable.

My new chair is easy to move than my old chair.

My new chair is quieter than my old chair.

I can go into my room in my chair.

My aac fits better on my new chair than my old chair.

My foot plate on my new chair is more comfortable than my old chair.

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

naming ur cane is incredibly fun for many reasons but the best one I think is having a name to yell at it whenever it decides to fall the fuck over in the middle of the night

[thatswampthing]

reobsessed with frederick chilton after our hannibal rewatch

[andromedasummer]

me 🤝 the person at the cafe counter 🤝 the person behind me = auditory processing disorder

[disabled-dragoon]

My wheelchair is ordered!

My credit scheme is set up!

And now! We wait!!