Phantom Comic Ch.4

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i love how sometimes, despite all the medical advancements of the 21st century, the only thing that relieves pain is sitting/laying/standing in a weird position because it places/doesn't place pressure on certain spots

When people think of amnesia, they think of an accident that happened that caused it. Like a car accident, a fall, a head injury, etc etc. Which is completely valid and a very common thing!

However, there are people like me who do have amnesia and there’s nothing that physically caused it. It just is. Through trauma, through a dissociative disorder, through a cognitive disorder, the list is endless with the causes.

I have Amnesia. I cannot remember my past, and my present. I can’t remember important events, birthdays, weddings, my own memories with my partner. It’s disheartening and hurts so much to not remember key things that build a relationship. To not remember things that help you.

I do have some memories, but they’re broken up, and almost most of them aren’t what feels mine. They’re fragments, fragments of things I can remember and things that people tell me about that event.

Some memories are weird. I can’t physically see them, I can’t remember them, but it’s in my head like it’s muscle memory. Like it’s implanted in my brain and i somehow know it.

Amnesia is scary. It’s disheartening. It’s hard to deal with and it’s not fun. Please be kind to those with amnesia from any type of cause.

Assistive Technology Survey

Hey y'all! I'm a student of psychology, and I'm looking at doing some research on the customization of assistive technology (like mobility aids and medical gear) and its effects on self-esteem and public interactions. Before I do any official research, I"m doing a survey to gather some preliminary information to get an idea of what themes/ideas we should focus on, so I've made a survey and it would be great if folks could fill it out! It's pretty short, so it shouldn't take very long to do.

https://forms.gle/hhpqZPsi7oU9f8BC9

There's no reward for participating, and no information will be collected about you if you fill it out. The results of the survey won't be published, but it will help guide us when we start official research and will help us with our proposal! Thanks to anyone who fills it out! (It would also be super helpful if y'all could share this with other disabled/chronically ill people you know!)

In all honesty-

-as much as im glad that this twitter user (not calling it X.) felt validated by this scene in particular. But as who is also disabled since I am someone with a mental disability and a mental illness: I find the scene itself to he written in a disingenuous way since it was written by the same creators that:

1. Calls people with mental disorders unnecessary things or outright used the r word in their script to describe a character who’s genuinely autistic coded.

2. Called a literal illiterate person, someone with a disability, “a reeee (cuts off before the r word is said)” and placed them in sloth to call them “lazy” for not being able to read.

3. The creator called people with depression “not genuine” for feeling any happiness or passion in the same sentence where she insulted that person for being agender by calling them a “trender.”

(-all of the evidence is in my pinned post in the document that I made about Vivziepop.)

People with mental disabilities are not less deserving of validity or a “joke” for it being mental. We’re human too, we deserve good representation as well. Period. -and if Vivienne can’t accept that im afriad that she’s not being honest with what she was writing here in the slightest. Just another “Loona in the first season compared to the second season” level of inconsistency in script morality that honestly puts a bad taste in my mouth the more that I think about it. Yikes.

I want y'all to imagine someone in a wheelchair saying they're gonna head upstairs. Just, put that picture in your head. Because that was me a few days ago and as soon as I said that my sibling and mum just did a lil' double-take and laughed.

Apparently that's not what they expected me to say when I was in my wheelchair.

Btw, I was totally just gonna grab my legs and move them individually. I look so demented when I do this, but it's an effective way of going upstairs when you don't have a lift.

Mobility aids that Frances uses throughout the story 🥰

@myers-meadow-selfship

Link to their account:

dont forget:

autsitic children become autsitic adults

disabled children become disbaled adults

I don't know how many other kids with IEPS/504s or any sort of disability experienced this. But it was so isolating. I wasn't able to experience a lot of things other kids did or I was pulled out of class so much, that I missed stuff. It was a lonely experience.

I wish disabled accommodations were more about providing help in the classroom, not "let's make these few kids have to go to a completely separate room and be isolated from their peers" So much of it is just making kids just have more work, less time with friends/peers, and just literally driving toxic mindsets into these kids.

When you force kids to the "others" their peers will other them. Because guess what? the school, the teachers and staff, they already did that. They are weird and creepy, and literally not allowed to grow up socially around everyone else. They are just seen as the kids that never in class because you pull them out.

So many disabled students are already struggling to connect to their neurotypical and abled classmates, then you put in so many other factors, that just make it 100x harder. Disabled kids deserve more.

People don't see me as disabled because I am not disabled enough for them??? They class me as having learning difficulties not disabilities as if that makes sense

The legal definition of a disability, under the Equality Act of 2010 in the UK, is "if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a 'substantial' and 'long-term' negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities"

By that definition I am disabled, yet people wanna act like that's debatable

Dyslexia has a substantial and long-term negative effect on my ability to engage with language, that's sort of what makes it dyslexia

Dyspraxia has a substantial and long-term effect on my coordination, it is why I always have a bruise or minor injury somewhere

ADHD does not directly impact any task like dyslexia or dyspraxia, but it sure does make doing tasks more difficult

My dyscalculia means that doing simple addition and subtraction takes actual effort and time for me

And you want to debate whether or not these have a 'substantial' and 'long-term'effect on me, on whether these count as disabilities

What more do you want

Do you want me to be so disabled that I need extra help from other people, because I already need that, and I already get it

Or do you only count it as a disability when a carer is required, when the person can't function on their own

Because I hate to be the bearer of bad news but only a very small minority of the disabled need a full time carer and treating someone like me as if I am not disabled because I don't, ignores the very real help I need just to get around this world

invisible disabilities are still disabilities.

think before you speak.

Don’t believe someone should be using the c slur unless they’re physically disabled. I don’t believe someone should be using it to describe mental disabilities or disorders either. It’s a word for the physically disabled community. That’s all.

Why are you considered bad or lazy when you’re disabled and don’t want to work? I see a lot of posts saying that there are disabled people who don’t want to not be able to work. If they could, they would and so on. But, what if you’re disabled and you really can’t do it anymore? Why can’t you consider the time off a “vacation” or whatever you want to describe it as? What if it’s truly what you needed? I’m mentally disabled, having severe anxiety, major depressive disorder, and c-ptsd (currently working on getting an AuDHD diagnosis) and a lot of my stress comes from work. I feel like I’ve been hurt and targeted by managers abs customers so much that most times I’d rather kill myself than to work or even leave my home.

Why is wanting that down time bad when you’re disabled? Why do I have to want to do the thing that hurts me when resting at home so I don’t desire to be dead helps me?

I even get people in my family that argue with me when I say I don’t want to work anymore. They tell me that I need to contribute. I can’t be lazy. But they are hurting too but would rather make me feel bad for understanding I am disabled and need accommodation. I’ve been hospitalised from TWO suicide attempts because I am STRUGGLING to cope and navigate life and society the way it is now.

I think we need to reassess how we look at disabled individuals in general and that includes disabled people as well. We’re not a monolith. What works for one of us doesn’t help the next.

Solidarity with disabled people should not be optional to organizers who claim to care at all about intersectionality.

This may not be crochet related but as a disabled artist it would be wild to not advocate for conscious change toward community care and protection.

I KEEP FUCKING FORGETTING THAT STRETCHING CAUSES BLOOD FLOW TO THE MUSCLES!!!

I am embarrassed to admit how many times I’ve passed out from stretching because of my POTs.