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flowercrowncrip · 2 days
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My wheelchair has given up the ghost (again) so I’m in an ancient borrowed wheelchair that doesn’t fit anywhere and is really quite painful to be in. Hopefully I won’t be in it for too long, but it could be until I get my new wheelchair around May time.
We’ve had to be creative to try and solve the most immediate causes of pain and pressure, and I would like to introduce you to my snail friends
I’m really enjoying people’s reaction to them – old people in particular seem to love them and I love making people smile!
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ID: a photo of Echo’s legs in a beaten up looking powered wheelchair. The footplates are sloping inwards causing the angles in Echo’s legs and ankles to be completely wrong. Holding Echo’s legs in a slightly better position and protecting them from the metal bars of the footplates are two large snail shaped cuddly toys which have purple shells and are smiling. /end ID
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crippledpunks · 10 hours
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this is your daily reminder to stop being abusive and mean toward people with bladder and bowel issues.
im tired of hearing people mock those who struggle with bladder/bowl control, for people who can't tell when they need to go until it's too late or at all, for people who have uncontrollable voidings and leaking, for people who need to wear incontinence products around the clock, for people who need them influctuating amounts and need different kinds of products, for those who bedwet, for those who can't afford incontinence products so their clothes get dirty- to everyone with bowel and bladder issues.
we are human. we are still people. we are not gross, we are disabled. we are struggling with a disability. if you make cutesy posts about canes and wheelchairs, you need to include people who wear diapers, people who need plastic pants, plastic bedsheets and absorbent bed pads. you need to include people who can't tell when they need to go. people who need/use catheters. people who have colostomy bags. people with stained and dirty clothing. people who have to change their incontinence products in public.
you need to include autistic and ADHD and ND and disabled people who feel unsafe without diapers. you need to include people with spinal injuries and ehlers danlos syndrome and muscular control disorders with need incontinence products and feel safe with them. you need to include people who like their diapers and not just tragic stories where it's never discussed or doesn't negatively impact their life and livelihood.
please include all disabilities in your disability positivity posts, and please be kind and treat all disabled people with respect and humility, including those of us with symptoms you may find "gross".
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wheelie-sick · 1 day
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I picked out a color for my hearing aids!
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[ID: An arrangement of color swatched for hearing aids. the two in the center are black and pink. an arrow points to the pink color sample]
I literally flipped a coin to pick because I couldn't decide between black or pink
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cpunkwitch · 3 days
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dear doctors and others who want to 'cure' or 'fix' our disability. to people who think the goal is to get us off our mobility aids.
do you actually care about us or are you just trying to make us normal like you? do you find us unsightly to be around, or do you genuinely want us to live happy with our bodies?
there is a damn big difference between thinking its your responsibility to make a disabled person abled and making a future completely free of disabled folk, and actually giving a damn about the health, lives and comfort of disabled people.
if you dont actually give a fuck about us and just want us to be abled and normal like you without asstance of any kind, stop lying to yourself trying to play hero. get your head out of your ass and treat us like living beings.
sincerly a rightfully angry cripple.
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crippleculture · 2 days
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Just wanted to show off the stickers on my crutches
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chronic-lee-lizard · 14 hours
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“Disabled bodies are beautiful” until you have to look at them in a bathing suit. Until they ARENT hiding their deformities and differences from the world.
-someone with chest/rib deformities who’s bitter at the water park
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Shout out to the ten year old who just got diagnosed. Shout out to the housebound fourteen year old. Shout out to the eighteen year old who can’t go to the university they wanted. Shout out to the twenty two year old who can’t get a job. Shout out to the twenty six year old with a caretaker. Shout out to the thirty year old who can’t buy their own house.
Shout out to young disabled people. We exist.
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chthonic-pain · 8 months
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put spikes on your wheelchair's handles. wrap barbed wire around your cane or crutch so it'll hurt like a motherfucker if someone kicks or grabs it from under your hand. wear a personal alarm and pull the pin every time someone moves you without your consent, leans on your chair, takes a seat on your rollator, taps your hearing aid, steals your AAC device. scream for help when you're abducted. wail like you're in agony when people trip you up or knock into you. take pepper spray to the grocery store. take a knife to the club. leave cards that say "fuck you" under the wipers of inconsiderately parked cars and scratch access codes for bathrooms on the outside of the door. we are not begging for mercy, we're fighting dirty. we have to.
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pinkdovess · 26 days
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this meme is so niche
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mosspapi · 7 months
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It should be illegal to have a bus stop without a bench I am 1000% serious rn
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satellites-halo · 4 months
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yeah you're "punk" but are you normal about deformed people?
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flowercrowncrip · 2 days
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I just had to ask my carer to position me in bed. Usually I can do it myself with aids but tonight I just couldn’t do it.
I’m hoping it’s a one off but it feels pretty crap. I hate it when I find new things I can no longer do. Especially things like this where it has potentially serious implications (in this case changes to my pressure sore risk and overnight care need)
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thedisablednaturalist · 2 months
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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.
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wheelie-sick · 1 day
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I was in the grocery store, minding my own business in my wheelchair, and this woman starts shouting to her kids "CAREFUL CAREFUL MOVE OUT THE WAY BE CAREFUL" because I was vaguely near them. that was uncomfortable....
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4rk-in-the-road · 2 months
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I think the reason a lot of leftists struggle with disability justice is that they haven't moved past the concept that discrimination isn't bad because it's objectively "wrong." yes, sexists are objectively wrong when they try to claim women are dumber than men. yes, antisemites are objectively wrong that jewish people are inherently greedy and run the state. yes, racists are wrong when they try to claim that white people are the superior race. and so on.
but then with disabled people, there are a lot of objective truths to the discrimination we face. people with IDs/LDs do fall behind and struggle with certain concepts. physically disabled people are often weaker and less capable of performing demanding tasks than able bodied people. many of us with mental illnesses are more reckless and less responsible. a lot of us are dependent on others and do not contribute much "worth".
and guess what? disabled people still deserve a place in the world. disabled people still deserve the supports they need. because they are people, and that should be enough to support them and believe they deserve a place at the table.
if your only rebuttal against discrimination is its objective inaccuracies, you are meeting bigots where they are at. you are validating the very concept that if and when people are truly incapable of being equal to the majority, that means they are worth less. this causes some leftists to then try to deny the objective realities of disabled people and/or become ableist themselves.
your rallying behind marginalized groups should start and end with the fact that people are completely worthy of life and equity, because they are fellow human beings and that should, frankly, be enough.
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nondivisable · 2 months
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some of yall need to understand that "my body, my choice" also applies to:
addicts in active addiction with no intention of quitting
phys disabled people who deny medical treatment
neurodivergent people who deny psychiatric treatment (yes, including schizophrenic people and people with personality disorders)
trans people who want or don't want to medically transition (yes, including trans masc lesbians with top surgery and trans women without bottom surgery, yall are so weird to them wtf)
and if you can't understand that, then you don't get to use the phrase
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