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psa: you actually are worth it. you are worth the trouble. you are not too much to put up with. your disability doesn’t make you unlovable. you’re not too much of a burden to “put up with”.
you are amazing and lovely and the right person will come and see just how wonderful of a person you are. your disability changes nothing about that
This is probably one of the most depressingly heart-wrenching photos I’ve ever seen. Native American children taken from their families and put into school to assimilate them into white society. the slogan for this governmental campaign ’“kill the Indian to save the man”. no official apology has ever been issued. never forgotten.
"Love taking an 8 minute route that takes an abled 2 minutes"
one thing i wish ableds would remember is that, unfortunately disability doesn't magically pause for holidays, special events, or celebrations. just because it happens only once a year or you saved up for it doesn't mean that people are not disabled. the fact that a member of your group is disabled should have been included in the planning in the very first place because we can't just wing it or push through.
can we talk abt disabled people without a concrete diagnosis. how diagnosis can be a privilege inaccessible for dozens of reasons. how even if you do happen to be fortunate enough to have access to doctors and specialists, it isnt easy to figure things out. how people dismiss invisible and undiagnosed disabilities. how the posibility of the issue being psychosomatic is used as a weapon to invalidate experiences. can we talk about how disabled people don't have to know why they're struggling for them to struggle.
The US Military in Hawaii
talking to my supervisor about individualist models of disability and the moralising of disability. he says “I think you describing it in those terms gives disabled people more agency than many people are willing to give them”
and I don’t know how to explain that being disabled often means having schrödinger’s agency. there are circumstances where we are given agency for the purpose of blaming us for our disabilities. people with diabetes are told they have no self-control, disabled people who aren’t perfect patients are blamed for their ill health, addicts are told they don’t care enough about their own health, etc etc. those are examples of disabled people being allocated more agency than they actually have
and the perceived solution to this is to remove our agency. “well, they misused the agency they had, so they clearly need someone to come along and make them better” and such. when people pity us, we have a lack of agency. when they dislike us, we have too much. either way, it is for the purposes of justifying our medicalisation and oppression. it may sound inconsistent and nonsensical, but I promise it makes sense to the people parroting this shit
Do you know anything i can donate to for palestine that's not the gofundmes because the idea of having to choose who needs my money more is just. scary to me they all need it 3: maybe there's a thing that splits/distributes money evenly???? idk but help would be appreciated
Gazafunds actually deals with this anxiety and makes a decision for you if you want. Their home page has a spotlighted fundraiser and the code consider things like how close the gfm is to finishing, when the most recent donation is, etc. So it's randomized to help as many people as possible.
There's also @helpgazachildren which if you donate, you can help multiple people at once since it's a whole mutual aid fund, or at least close to it. Hussam distributes money to people who need it when he's asked.
theres something about being disabled and needing to sit down constantly in public spaces that makes you notice how often benches are put up as tributes and memorials. and before i hit an age where i really started to need them as frequently i think i never fully understood the sentiment but now its become very endearing to me. a bit of relief and care for you in the name of someone who offered us the same… i dont think i had a point with this post but i hope everyone thats been memorialized as such knows how loved they were to become synonymous with respite even to total strangers
shoutout to offputting autistic people
you need to get it out of your mind that psychosomatic illness is just “making up symptoms” when it’s actually much more like your body is being actively poisoned by chemicals released from your brain
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happy disability pride month to anyone who has a disability from a condition that “usually isn’t a disability”. happy disability pride month to people with disabilities that aren’t often understood by able-bodied people. happy disability pride month to people who don’t have any official diagnosis yet. happy disability to people whose “labs look completely fine”. wishing you peace this july.
guy who has chronic pain and fatigue: man why can't i do more stuff
how to donate an eSIM