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tiredsn0w · 1 day

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If nobody has told you yet, or this year, or even this day, I want you to know that what you can do is enough.

If all you can do is an hour or two of school/work, that's enough. If all you can do is go to medical appointments, that's enough. If all you can do is tidy up your room, that's enough. If all you can do is take a shower, that's enough. If all you can do is your hobbies/things that make you happy, that's enough.

If you can't do any of that, and have to lie in bed most days, or every day, and other people take care of you, you're living despite a world that is so hostile, you are suffering so much and still living. You are doing enough.

You don't owe anyone productivity. You don't need to have a job, go to school, or write or draw, or do anything else in order to have inherent worth and value. You deserve to be taken care of. You deserve to be loved. No matter what you can or can't do.

#chronic illness #chronic pain #chronic fatigue #fibromyalgia #myalgic encephalomyelitis #autoimmune disease #disability positivity #personal post

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uncanny-tranny · 7 months

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May your pain medication always kick in right after you take them. May your compression garments always slip on your body with ease. May you always find your footing when you walk. May you wake up with energy and zest. May your sinuses always be clear

#disability #disability positivity #it felt like my acetaminophen kicked in right away and i am so so happy right now 😮‍💨#feel free to add onto this

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neuroticboyfriend · 4 months

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relapse is not a moral failure. substance use and addiction are not a moral failure. mental illness is not a moral failure. disability is not a moral failure. you have a health condition. you are struggling. recovery is not mean to be perfect, and if you're not in recovery, surviving is good too. i'm glad you're here, and i hope life treats you better soon. please know this is not your fault. you do not need to feel guilty over your own health.

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hiiragi7 · 2 months

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Here's some positivity towards people with medical devices that others view as "gross", or "shouldn't be seen in public". It's bullshit the way this gets treated and I want more positivity about it, so I'm making it myself.

People with catheters. People with stoma bags. People with feeding tubes. People who have tubing or medical alterations they can't hide. People who otherwise have medical devices which are deemed "not socially acceptable" and "gross".

Your medical devices deserve to take up space. We should not be made to feel ashamed for devices which keep us alive. We should not be made to feel insecure for the ways our bodies function and the assistance we need to live. You deserve to be yourself, you deserve to exist in public as a disabled person, and you deserve to be accepted and celebrated as yourself, medical devices included.

#disability #disability aids #disability positivity #medical devices #physically disabled #physical disability #actually disabled #chronic illness #chronically ill

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trick-of-the-troubles · 5 months

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hey, you're allowed to take up space and make noise

it's okay if your mobility aids click or squeak

it's okay if you need more space to pass because of your aids or the way you walk

it's okay if you need to ask more questions

it's okay if you need to ask for help with things, either for physical or mental limitations

it's okay if the way your body is means you need more room

it's okay to exist and to take up space

ily /p

#disability #disabled #physical disability #physically disabled #cpunk #cripple punk #chronic illness #mobility aid #neurodivergent #positivity #disability positivity

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a-common-wybie · 3 months

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i appreciate you

people with Deaf accent

people with speech impediments

people who are semi speaking

people who are non speaking

people who are unable to be understood

people who use AAC

people who need help to speak

people who are selectively mute

people who need surgeries for speech

people who use signed language

people who communicate through sounds

people with electrolarynx

disabled people with speech problems or accents as a result of their disability

<3

#actually disabled #disability #wybie speaks #deaf #hoh #disability positivity #positivity #autism #disability rights #disabled community

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headaching · 2 years

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i love you lisp i love you stutter i love you pressured speech i love you damaged vocal cords i love you aphasia i love you mutism i love you selective mutism i love you deaf voice i love you apraxia i love you speech delay i love you vocal tic i love you articulation disorder i love you sign language

i hate you societal norm to make fun of speech impediments i hate you “get it fixed” mentality i hate you mocking someone for the way they communicate i hate you “go to speech therapy so your kid won’t be bullied” i hate you i hate you i hate you

#happy disability pride month!#disability #repetition #ableism #disability positivity

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saszor · 1 month

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Happy World Down Syndrome Day !!!

People with Down Syndrome are an irreplaceable part of the disability and neurodivergent communities, and we need to do a better job at including them! Don't forget about them in your activism!

[Image description: Digital drawing of two smiling people with Down Syndrome standing next to each other, interlocking hands in the air. The person on the left is a teenage white boy with long brown hair, wearing a yellow sweater. The person on the left is a young Black woman with braided hair, wearing a yellow shirt and jeans. Behind their hands is a yellow star shape. In the bottom left corner, "#EndTheStereotypes" is written in all caps. Between the characters is the date "21/3". Background is light blue. End image description.]

#my art #disabled artist #artists on tumblr #digital art #id in alt text #personal art #art #down syndrome #world down syndrome day #neurodiversity #disability positivity #disability pride #neurodiversity positivity

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anonpositivityforu · 6 months

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Making a positivity post for the non-ambulatory wheelchair users!

I hope you have a super good day, especially if you:

Can't walk even with other mobility aids besides wheelchairs

Need heavy-duty stuff to transfer like hoists

Need to use the extra wheelchair features like tilt-in-place or elevate

Are bedbound without your wheelchair

Never learned to walk

Or anything like that!

We are super awesome and cool, even without the walking, and sometimes even the standing!

#positivity for anon and for you #non ambulatory wheelchair user #full time wheelchair user #wheelchair user #physical disability #actually disabled #disability positivity #disability pride #disabled positivity

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t06y · 2 years

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I love you people with shaky limbs. I love you people with motor tics. I love you people with leg problems. I love you people who use mobility aids. I love you people who have chronic muscle pain. I love you people with chronic muscle spasms. I love you people with foot problems. I love you people who have prosthetic limbs. I love you wheelchair users. I love you people who have more problems walking then what society consider “normal”. I love you people who have mobility issues.

#body posititivity #disability positivity #this is because my legs hate crimed me #op has chronic leg pain #and shaky limbs #and motor tics #I am posting this in class #my legs decided to make school hallways #worse then they already are

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disabledunitypunk · 10 months

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Happy disability pride month to:

Physically disabled people

Mentally ill people

Mentally disabled people

Neurodivergent people

Psychotic people

Multiply disabled people

Visibly disabled people

Invisibly disabled people

Mobility aid users

People with chronic pain

People with chronic fatigue

People with neurodevelopmental disabilities

People with neurocognitive disabilities

People with intellectual disability

People with neurogenic disability

People with cognitive disability

People with motor disorders

People with rare disabilities

People with common disabilities

People who were born with disability

People who acquired a disability/disorder later in life

People with bodily differences

Nonverbal people

Semiverbal people

People who experience speech lose

AAC users

People with ‘gross’ symptoms

People with sensory disabilities

People who aren’t sure if they are disabled

Disabled people who don’t know they are disabled

Disabled people who want treatment

Disabled people who do not want treatment

Disabled people with disorders that ‘don’t match’ their assigned gender

Zebras

Spoonies

Cripples

Happy Disability Pride Month to all disabled people!

May your tomorrow be kinder than today.

#mod cloud #unitypunk #neuropunk #madpunk #cripplepunk #disability #actually disabled #disability positivity #disability pride month #disabledunitypunk #dyspunktional

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uncanny-tranny · 7 months

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I love you, trans people with intellectual disabilities. You deserve to have the same opportunities as everybody else, and that's because you are a person. You deserve to be happy. Intellectually disabled trans people deserve the exact same respect, recognition, and love that (should be) afforded to everybody else.

Intellectually disabled trans people, you deserve to make your own decisions about your transness. You are allowed to want for transition or to change your name, clothes, hair, pronouns, or anything else. You deserve support and understanding. I hope you are able to receive that. You belong in this world as your true self. Your transness and your disability/disabilities are not bad things - they are good, and they are important.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #intellectual disability #disability #disability positivity #trans positivity #absolutely *so* tired of people 'forgetting' that intellectually disabled trans people; 1) exist and 2) are autonomous human beings #absolutely hate hate hate the ableism of 'but we have to protect ID trans people from themselves :('#no. YOU deserve to have a say in your life intellectually disabled trans person. you are a person first and foremost #you don't need to be 'saved' from the 'tragedy' of having an ID or from being trans...#...these things are neutral at worst. you deserve whatever support you want and/or need...#...but you aren't ever a bad person for that. you are loved. you are worthy. you are cherished. you deserve to be you

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neuroticboyfriend · 1 month

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if you're a recovering addict, i want you to know you're doing good.

you didn't use today? you're doing good. you used recently and you're still recovering? you're doing good. you sought support today? you're doing good. you practiced harm reduction? you're doing good. you want to relapse and haven't? you're doing good. you're getting involved, even if others are doing more? you're doing good. you're resting today? you're doing good. you're alive? you're doing good.

this shit takes time. you have spent a considerable amount of time doing harmful things to yourself, or others. you're not going to change overnight. all you can reasonably do is get through the day, adding as much good to your life/the lives of others as you can. it doesn't matter what happened yesterday, or what's going to happen tomorrow.

all you have is this moment, and if you're on the path of recovery... you're doing good. this is your story. not someone else's. not some idealized version of yourself. it's yours, just as you exist, right now. that's all you have, and all you need.

keep going. you got this. i'm glad you're here (and so is everyone else who interacted with this post).

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duality-disability · 1 month

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Completely unrelated to my previous post: I had an older lady come up to me as I was exiting my therapy appointment and waiting for my ride, I had my rollator with all my stickers and my butterfly bag on it. She also had a rollator- and as she got closer;

She grinned and said "Race ya."

yall it was the highlight of my day. I didn't get to thank her for the giggle it got out of me before she was already inside the hospital building. But it was one of the first positive interactions I had with taking my rollator with me out of the house.

maybe things will be alright.

#chronic illness #disability #physical disability #rollator user #disabled positivity #disability positivity #mobility aid

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cartoonscientist · 4 months

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i won’t deny that the modern world has tons of miraculous medication and accessibility aids and stuff, but also like, if people imply you’re less of a person because “you’d die instantly in medieval/caveman times”, I just want you to know that isn’t necessarily true. if schizophrenia, autism, asthma, etc. were such death sentences, they wouldn’t be nearly as common in the human population as they are now.

if you’re schizophrenic, maybe you would have been a mad cave hermit or a fortune teller, or an eccentric rich person known for responding to their own statements in different voices and sleeping under a pile of cats. if you have severe gastrointestinal illness, maybe you would have found a specific pool in the forest that you like to drink from to neutralize the acidity in your stomach, or maybe you’d be a local character who only eats barley soaked in milk. if you have congenital bone deformities in your knee and pelvis, maybe you would have had a beautiful walking stick. if you suffer from debilitating chronic fatigue, maybe you would have been a poet who writes from their bed about their fantastical dreams.

#disability positivity #mad pride #chronic illness

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batwynn · 1 year

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It’s ok to be disabled and happy. Being disabled does not mean you have to constantly suffer.

#disability #disability positivity #disability rights #disability justice #it’s also ok to NOT be happy #like you don’t have to perform happiness for other people’s comfort #but if you’re disabled and feeling good about yourself?#that’s really ok #you deserve happiness and people expecting you to be unhappy because you’re disabled #are shitheads #you do not have to be miserable to be disabled #and you don’t have to be happy to exist in society #two things existing at once #♥️#tw: animal #tw: bird

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