What a painful week. I've been sick since Monday. I pushed through my work day, but driving home that evening was agonising. I could barely focus and wanted to just go to bed. My hips have been killing me and cost me most of my sleep nearly every night. Hope you all had a great week and weekend! 💜
I’m nervous about asking my rheumatologist if I can order a custom wheelchair for days when I have muscle weakness and pain. My pride is making me hesitate to ask.
today my mom suprised me by telling me to drive home and i nearly started crying
i moved into the driver’s seat, started hyperventilating, and started uncontrollably shaking until my mom finally let me get up and sit in the passenger seat
So I dress pretty alternative, fishnets, ripped tights, it's just what I like. I also wear my tights under my shorts for sensory reasons (I'm autistic and I really don't like how my legs feel when they're bare, and it's too hot for pants, so I've found that tights and fishnes help) and because it's my style. So I went out with my boyfriend today and his mom and mine hung out cuz they're friends. So everything goes good but he texted me after a whole bunch of shit she was saying about the way I was dressed. Like a whole paragraph about how she's so glad her daughter can't dress like that and overall just questioning why I dress like that, and now I'm literally sobbing because wtf lady. I genuinely rarely care about people's comments on my outfits cuz who tf would, but she just went into me and it hurt like crazy. Cuz it's not just some random bitch it's my boyfriends mom. Like GODDAMN she's got me questioning my entire style (part of which has to do with my autism), so yeah idk I just needed to get this out there
arin really wanted to rewatch finding nemo ever since she ran out of her meds for a week so we're watching it tonight cuz I'm too sleepy to fuckin do stuff Again and wow I forgot how like. exhausting it is. it's an exhausting movie. there's a lot of ableism to deal with although it is ostensibly an inspirational narrative. marlin's helicopter parenting, his anxiety being treated so dismissively, the seahorse is allergic to water presented exclusively as a joke, it's only been 5 minutes.
Something that has always annoyed me are supposedly "handicapped accessible" areas that- just really arent. I have a brother who's physically disabled and wheelchair bound and finding an entrance for him is for some reason always a hassle and a half
The worst contender I can think of was when my family visited San diego. We were trying to get into a museum and couldn't find the handicap entrance. Wanna know where it was? All the way in the back of the museum.
It was near some handicap parking spots but my family came from a completely different side. We started at other areas in the park and made our way to the museum. Not to mention when we did finally find it, my dad had to bring the van over from where we originally parked and it took about 30 minutes to do so- from walking all the way back and driving to the museum.
It annoys me so much just how much of an after thought disabled people are. It takes minimum effort to make life easier for them, and everyone else really! and I hate the stigma that taking the easier way is seen as weak, let people have the easier way! It'll benefit both society and disabled people!!