Me when my able-bodied friends walk too fast

my fucking impostor syndrome. some sketches + pain level rating.

me, sitting still for an hour: i'm barely in pain (2/10). i'm actually healthy.

me, when i walk with a cane and it's tolerable (4/10): so do i really need a cane? i can walk fine without it?

me, taking a few steps without a cane and whimpering in pain (7.5/10): i just made up that pain to find an excuse to use a cane.

me, in the middle of the night, getting up to take a piss, grabbing my cane and holding onto walls, i can barely walk (5.5/10): yeah, a play without an audience. okay. you'll get there just fine, calm down and stop pretending.

me, unable to get off the toilet without grabbing the doorjamb (3.5/10): well, i just came up with a cool way to move in a cool way. nothing unhealthy.

As of today I am a cane owner. Now I need to figure out how to become a cane user...

How to use it the most effective way without harming myself.

How not to feel like a fraud or a faker while using it.

How to handle ableist people outside or the comments from family.

“crippling anxiety” “crippling depression” “crippled by mental health” THE WORD DEBILITATING IS RIGHT THERE STOP USING A SLUR YOU CANT RECLAIM

i feel like my entire life is dictated by trying to be standing/moving as little as possible. i try and spend as much time as possible laying in bed and try and go down the stairs as little as possible

The amount of people from my neuropunk/madpunk/cpunk post that are like "Umm... well all of these EXCEPT paraphilias because those are BAD!" Do you realize the harm you're doing? That IS ableism my dude. Mad pride includes all stigmatized disabilities. If you can't align yourself with the liberation and support of all disabled people then DON'T align yourself with madpunk or cpunk or punk to begin with.

I won't even get into how not all paraphilias are disabilities rn either because then I'll have to explain all of that and watch it completely go over everyone's heads.

The body isn't body-ing

yeah you're "punk" but are you normal about deformed people?

In case the esim process confuses you or you aren't able to buy them yourself for any other reason, crips for esims for Gaza is collecting donations, they've almost met their goal of $150,000 raised. Donating allows them to buy esims in bulk which allows them to obtain more than individuals would be able to. I just donated and it was super easy as you can use paypal.

when the “10 tips on how to make showering easy for disabled people” list doesn’t include a shower chair or a shower/changing table or grab bars etc, i know they don’t care about us physically disabled people.

good for u that turning off the lights and lighting a scented candle instead and listening to music or put on a show and using a bath bomb etc etc helps u but like none of those tips are that beneficial for physically disabled ppl specifically.

it’s good that those tips are there but for once we’d love to be included.

Going to start wearing a sign that says "I don't yield to ableds" as I refuse to move for the people trying to get on through the accessible bus entrance/exit before I've gotten off.

Be disabled. Take up space. Demand your accommodations. Make them wait, make them move, and don't feel sorry about it.

curious

Ok so at this point I've had two people roll up to me in manual wheelchairs, well, one of them was somebody pushing somebody who was nonverbal at the time, but it still counts. They asked me why I had zip ties around my tires.

It's winter where I'm living and we have really bad snow. And the snow plow people are really bad at their jobs probably because there aren't snow plow people who clean sidewalks. As a solution I got to thinking about how I could increase the traction on my wheels. And the most redneck thing I could think of was taking a bunch of zip ties and tying them around my wheels. They last surprisingly long, and work surprisingly well. It's basically the same premise as chains for your tires during the winter.

I chose to space them out pretty evenly so there's about one for every spoke. You could probably do more or less depending on how many you want and how much traction you get but I wouldn't go more than three per spoke. I realize that it's a bit later in the winter, and I probably should have made a post about this sooner, but I came up with it about a week ago. So please share this, even if you're not disabled, because there are tons of people I know who are stuck in their houses because they can't get around in the snow. A pack of zip ties costs about $5, which compared to $200 knobby snow tires is a big save, and if you want to invest you could get colored zip ties.

wanted to do my photo project this semester on the notion of mobility aids being extensions of our bodies, the yarn was done by a friend

sure there’s a ramp, but is it steep? is there a curb at the top? is the ground uneven? do i need a key for the elevator? are the aisles and doorways wide enough? do i have room to turn? is there furniture and clutter in my way? is the carpet difficult to wheel on? can i open the doors myself?

accessibility to wheelchairs is more than just a ramp.

Disabled people should be allowed to exist in public. Yes, I mean all disabled people.

That includes people with tic disorders.

That includes people who smell ‘bad’.

That includes people who can’t help being loud.

That includes people who move ‘strangely’.

That includes people with bulky mobility aids.

That includes people who drool.

That includes people who struggle with incontinence.

We all should get to exist, however that looks, and go out in public, use public transport, do activities outside our homes. And we should be allowed to do those things without being glared at or having ableist things said to us.