Why are physically abled people so stuck on getting off of or out of mobility aids????

Please Watch Out For The Disabled

This afternoon my husband took me out for a walk. I can't tell you how many people looked at us, saw me in my wheelchair and continued to stay in our way. Oh, there were people who saw us and took their sweet time getting out of the way. This infuriates to no end. Privileged able-bodied people treating the disabled as second class citizens. One woman even looked at me with contempt.

if i said some of the stuff abled people have said to me about my disability to them about their non disability

"lol did you just open this with your hands? you are so chaotic"

"that picture of you and your partner holding hands is kinda weird. looks like you’re kindergarteners the way you‘re both standing next to each other"

"your knees look so …. basic"

"sorry you need a certificate of capacity to use the stairs"

SO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME

WHEN I'M 💨🌿 AND NOT IN PAIN AND MY JOINTS FEEL FINE

THAT'S HOW ABLE BODIED PEOPLE FEEL ALL DAY???!!

FOR FREE???

*this post is for able bodied people only, I have created the same poll for disabled people on my blog. I want to compare the results so please only vote in one of them*

please reblog

i have a question and idk who to even ask on this and i suppose it will be an opinion no matter what... so i just post it on tumblr ! haha!

but if i have seizures am i still able-bodied?

i feel like i am (able-bodied) so long as i'm not having seizures. as soon as i have seizures, i am not. but usually and thankfully i am not having seizures.

thoughts? is seizures able-bodied disability? or is it like inbetween?? idek !!

Abled-Body Neurodivergents when people with chronic headaches, epilepsy, and brain damage consider themselves neurodivergent: “Our community is no for  you. Go to the forkies or something.“

Abled-Body Neurodivergents when people with chronic headaches, epilepsy, and brain damage consider themselves physically disabled: “Yes!!! All neurodivergent people are physically disabeld!!! The brain is part of the body!!! I don’t have able-bodied privilege!!! Saying I do is like saying I am not disabled!!!”

So I have a question for the disabled pokémon community in regards to designing a character, from an able bodied presenting person. I'm gonna give my sketch of Wally so far below under the cut if that helps.

I'm designing my take on older Wally, and I wanted to make him more visably disabled. I'm aiming for something aligned with cripple punk ideals beyond aesthetics, but I'm not that well read about it and I don't want to betray those values. Since his condition is only loosely implied to be asthma, which from my own limited observations is mostly seen through the use of medical inhalers, I thought I'd take a few creative liberties. I'm giving him a futuristic mask attached to a small cylindrical filter on his back through two large tubes on the side. It's not a permanent fixture, and he can take it off to sleep, eat, talk over tea, etc. It's sort meant to look like a knight mask, reminiscent of gallade. The mask functions as both a filter (since he works in/near the battle factory at the Hoenn battle frontier) and also as a drug administration device when he's having asthma-esque episodes. My idea is meant to invoke images of more villainistic / ableist characters (like the obvious Darth Vader), but once you meet him, Wally's is actually a very soft, sweet guy. He's just is also capable of annihilating you in a pokémon battle, so people talk up how scary he is to battle. I know this in itself is a trope, but I'm unaware of how the disabled community feels about it and if it's initself abeist. The rest of his clothing isn't villainous, just kind of a progress of what he wore when he was younger.

So, is there anything I should do differently or should know before going forward? I'm not going to pretend that I'm immune to being abeist, and I'm not sure if implying that Wally has some form of fictional pokémon asthma is really the proper way to go. But I thought I should at least try to reach out to the disabled community before I do anything that might be speaking for them.

When I say "it's bearable for me" about a certain task, it doesn't mean I can do it without pain. It could still be the case that I have to take a break or lay down. Many able bodied people don't seem to understand this experience, asking "but you said it was bearable?"

Chronic pain doesn't always disappear. For me, it's always there, even if I do something that should be physically able for me to do. I think it really shows how little chronic pains are understood by outsiders.

Disabled People Exist

by Michele Sommerstein

Breaking news! Disabled people exist but not for your pity. Disabled people exist but not to remind you, it could be worse, not to be your inspiration not for your approval your education on demand, to satisfy your curiosity

Disabled people exist but not so you can debate, whether or not, ableism is really a thing, as you ablesplain on how the word lame is not actually oppressive, as you play devil’s advocate as if our oppression was just an intellectual exercise, hypothetical and acrobatic

Disabled people exist but not so you can tell us how to identify, calling us “differently abled” and “handicapable” and “special needs” and anything but… disabled which to you is a negative word as if the word itself was the problem and not this default inferior value that you place on disability

Disabled people exist but not to be your fetish, a novelty, your exotic flavor your noble and charitable deed, your viral video to which we did not consent

Disabled people exist but not to be your political photo op as you smile and pose next to us during Disability Awareness Month as you vote to weaken our rights, behind closed doors we’re not your political prop as you claim to suddenly care about accessibility but are only using the ADA to further your racist agenda (Georgia. 2018), As you forget that within every marginalized community Disabled. People. Exist.

Disabled people exist but not to be your tragic plotline Hollywood: Could you please stop killing us off? Politicians: Can you please, stop killing us off?

Disabled people exist Disabled people, exist Disabled, people, exist, but we don’t exist - for you.

About the poem: In 2018, in Randolph County (Georgia), they tried to close 7 voting locations in predominantly black neighborhoods citing that they weren't ADA compliant, but they had been that way for ages, and it was very suspicious that all of a sudden the county "cared" about accessibility in those particular neighborhoods. Many of us in the disability community were not buying this sudden cause for “solidarity”.

Why is the word lame offensive? The word has two meanings. On one hand, it refers to a mobility related disability, and on the other hand, it means weak and inferior. These days, it's used as an insult “Ugh, this movie is so lame!”, which is an example of casual ableism that has been embedded into our everyday vocabulary, that we don't even realize what we are actually saying. To avoid using the word lame, think of alternative words, such as bizarre, weird, wild, boring, tedious, annoying, and all other instances where the word might be used.

Lastly, some people in the disability community do identify as handicapable, etc. In the end, while I do think it's important that we examine what our choices are rooted in, internalized oppression or liberation, it's important to always respect how a person identifies in these situations. It is also never an able bodied person's place to tell a person from the disability community how they should identify.

Question: when people use the term “abled people”, is that short for “able-bodied people” or just a term for non-disabled (neurotypical and ablebodied) people in general?

It genuinely bothers me that people on here want to use abled to mean not having a physical disability and not having no disability at all. What's the term for neurotypical able bodied people then? What are we going to use to identify the people with absolute privilege?

That's not even what mainly bothers me, what mainly bothers me is that being neurodivergent involves physical differences a lot of the fucking time. Depression and anxiety, two incredibly common disabilities, both can give you fatigue. They've also been shown to weaken the immune system. And what about the disabilities that we don't have a clear label for? Is my ibs physical because it has physical symptoms? Or is it mental because it's strongly related to my anxiety? Sleep disorders are usually taken care of in the field of psychology, but sleep apnea happens from physical structures most of the time.

All because the brain is a part of the physical body! You can't separate the two!

So stop acting like we can!