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chat i'm gonna put stuff in my car for when college starts for myself my loved ones & people i meet . we already have these things planned now i need the publics advice. tagging many groups so i can hear what y'all need

od kit/narcan

various bandages/bandaids & whatnot

a cane of sorts

jacket

easy food/water/sugar/electrolyte stuff

probably an activity book

blanket

stuffed animal of sorts

sterile gloves

wipes

clean needles

cups & plates

glucometer [the kind you can clean & reuse]

headphones/sunglasses

a large portion of my college & most people i know are disabled in some way so i wanna cover my bases. if y'all can think of anything especially anything 'atypical' that would fit in a car. Please tell me

@cpunkwitch feel free to ignore but if you/your follows have any ideas i would be. very thankful

#everyone makes jokes (affectionately) about how heavy my backpack is #and it's because i am basically a walking pharmacy #a whole first aid kit. like 8 different kinds of otc medication. snacks. extra gloves headphones and hats. etc etc #and anything that isn't in my bag is always in my car #im a go-to person for almost any emergency now because i always have something to help #it's absolutely worth it #💚💚💚 #i do need to pick up narcan though #most of my friends have an od kit already so it hasn't been very pressing but it's pretty high up on my list

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Alternative responses to the question ‘How’s it going?’ For physically disabled people:

- ‘The going is heavily assisted.’

-‘On without me.’

-‘It uses wheels’

-‘It’s not.’

-‘Against my will.’

-‘With frequent breaks’

-‘On pure spite’

-*That was a verbal question and I couldn’t hear you*

-‘We don’t have all day to go through enough medical history to give you enough context to understand exactly how it is going.’

Feel free to add your own

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Geniuenly like. So many people claim support disability. But then say something completely untrue

Y’all support autism? So what about when the person has intellectual disability or need help walk talk eat bath use bathroom? Does your support end when you see someone with higher needs?? Someone who actually genuinely won’t survive without support from others n that support is sometimes having other people do everything for them.

Y’all support depression? What about when the person can’t bring themself to get out of bed for days on end? What about when that person goes days weeks months without cleaning self because can’t get up even though need to?

Yall support schizo-spec disorders & psychosis? What about what the person get violent because of their delusions n hallucinations? The ones know are fake but still can’t help but believe in? The ones genuinely believe in their delusions/ hallucinations? What about the ones don’t don’t get violent to self n other because of the disorder? Those that just sit scared about the hallucinations n delusions. The ones that won’t leave their room/ house out of fear of their delusions/ hallucinations?

Y’all support those with physical disabilities? What about the housebound bedbound ones? The ones need gait trainers walkers wheelchairs? What about the ones who full time users? Or the ones that need power chairs to independently move around? What about the ones crying screaming throwing up from their pain?

What about the disabled that always have a horrible attitude because tired of yhr disrespect? Tired of having to explain everything about them to everyone even if personal? Tired being told get over it n just educate others?

The disabled ones tired telling people not use certain terms. Tired of being spoken over n for without being thought about or asked. Tired of hearing their communication isn’t valid for ‘xyz’

Y’all support but act very picky about who deserves support and who’s not worthy of it. It’s not support if you pickin n choosing

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i am unreasonably proud and excited about this

#👀👀👀 #HELL YEAH

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me: tries to time messages so that people are all asleep when they get them so i don't immediately get responses

the gay people im messaging: immediately respond because all of our sleep schedules are fucked

#this is very funny to me #there was like 4 of them and my immediate response was to yell WHY ARE YOU ALL AWAKE #it's 1am. #they're all wonderful i have just had an eventful week and was stressed out

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Like a good portion of cripplepunk is "my physical disability is not for your consumption. I'm not going to perform disability in the way you want me to, I'm going to live on my own terms"

That's kinda the opposite of what the discourse blogs trying to "critique" us want. We're not going to perform for your approval, that's like... the whole point.

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got a rollator that someone was throwing away for one of my friend's

repairs are way cheaper that buying a new one (it definitely needs some repairs), and thriftstores usually don't have good ones

#mostly just needs some wd-40 #disability #chronic pain #mobility aid #rollator

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*Sees someone on twitter arguing that DoorDash is necessary for the disabled because microwave food is too much to handle.*

...What. That seems absurdly specific.

There are a lot of reasons someone might not be able to microwave food. "I literally cannot get out of bed", "i need nutrients you can't just microwave", "my dumb brain has put up 18 billion barriers to try and stop me from eating and this is the loophole I have" "the microwave in this apartment is out of reach/not labeled properly/not ADA friendly in another way" "for x or y reason microwave food is a one way ticket to severe burns", etc. I found a lot of reasons someone might need DoorDash and I also found this cool article about food sharing in the disabled community and how the author had to rely on an abusive partner once because she was either in bed or barely able to crawl and they were among the few people bringing food.

Just saying, there's a reason disabled people have higher chances of food insecurity and there's a reason meal trains, meals on wheels, and other programs focus on bringing food to people in need and not just assuming "they have a microwave and money, why bother?". Sometimes you don't have a family or friends or mutual aid group to bring you meals when you can't even pop something in the microwave.

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Complication of posts from CrippleCharacters, as well as other blogs providing advice on writing disabled characters!

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Last update: 15/04/2024

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How to Start Doing Research When Writing a Disabled Character Ideas for disabled characters: crutch users Ideas for disabled characters: facial differences Ideas for disabled characters: rollator users Ideas for portraying characters with Dwarfism General Ideas

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Blindness Tropes: the "Blank Look" Describing Characters with Facial Differences as Pretty First Description: when to mention the Facial Difference

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Tips for Drawing Characters with Facial Differences Drawing Blind Characters Drawing Amputees

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Writing a Newly Disabled Character Writing a Visibly Different Character Including Disabled Communities Disabled Characters in Historical Fiction Tokenism Discussion Disability and Superpowers Curing and "Fixing" Disabled Characters Is It Realistic to Have Multiple Disabled Characters? "Jaws Effect": how media affect the real world Worldbuilding with Accessibility in Mind How to Let Readers Figure Out the Character's Disability

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"Super-Crip": Magic and Disability I Did a Trope but It's Too Late - What You Should Do - made with the mask trope in mind, but could be applied more widely

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General Overview Overview, but with More Options - not writing advice, educational Magic Mobility Aids Tips on Writing Wheelchair Users How Often Should You Mention Mobility Aids? "But Mobility Aids Wouldn't Exist in my Fantasy World"

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Constructing Characters with Limb Differences: Discussing Fetishization Do Amputees Always Wear Prosthetics? Does a Character with Amputation Need a Prosthetic? Does a Character with Upper Limb Amputation Need a Prosthetic? Designing a Prosthetic Arm Making a Character with Upper Limb Amputation Genius Amputee Mechanic: Discussing the DIY Prosthetic Trope Causes of Amputation

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Introduction to Facial Difference: basics, tropes, what I want to see Constructing a Character with an FD: Discussing Disfiguremisia and the "Mask Trope" Does My Character Need a Prosthetic Eye?: alternatives What Would Happen to A Character with a Scar Through the Eye? Personal Opinion on the Scar Through the Eye Trope How Scars Affect the Character, and How the Character Affects the Scar (in the technical sense)

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Introduction to Writing Intellectually Disabled Characters: basics, tropes, how it actually works Writing Characters with Tourette's Syndrome Writing and Drawing Burn Survivors: basics and resources Writing Characters with ASPD Dwarfism and Fantasy Stories Stereotypes around Characters with Dwarfism Writing a Character with Russel-Silver Syndrome

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Life in an Autism World

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All it means when people say “you’re speaking from a place of privilege” is that you’re likely to underestimate how bad the problem is by default because you are never personally exposed to that problem. It’s not a moral judgement of how difficult your life is.

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The crippled urge to go "nice cane" to every other cane user you see

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One thing about me is that I will Publicly Have A Mobility Aid.

I will decorate my cane with lots of visible stickers

I will stop using it for a second so I can send a text

I will switch sides while using it if I need to

I will take steps without it

I will pull it out of my bag and start using it when I wasn't a second ago

Maybe that will change as I use it more and potentially face more backlash, but right now, it didn't even come to mind that I "should" have any shame about it. People thinking I don't need it won't make my joints hurt less, so fuck em.

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I'm moderately immunocompromised due to the medications I'm on that suppress my immune system

I'm also...

a university student. I'm in your classes

a community member. I'm in your public spaces

someone who does my own groceries. I'm in your grocery stores

someone who takes medications. I'm in your pharmacies

someone who likes to eat out with friends. I'm in your restaurants

someone who shops. I'm in your malls and shopping centers

someone who appreciates local artists. I'm at your markets

I am not elderly. you cannot look at me and see that I am high risk. You can't know to avoid me if you leave the house with covid or the flu but covid or the flu could kill me

new covid guidelines are suggesting that you can leave isolation while you're sick but that you should avoid high risk people. you cannot do this, we are everywhere. we look like elderly people on ventilators but we also look like fit young adults and energetic children. you cannot spot someone high risk. you cannot avoid us. if you're sick stay home

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I think the reason why people want to know what's "wrong" with disabled people is because they want to reassure themselves.

They want you to say you were in a horrific accident or that you have a well known and treatable disease because they think they can stop it happening to them.

They think their health is a given because they aren't a dangerous driver/ an alcoholic/a drug user/obese/an unhealthy eater etc. Obviously this isn't true but it's easier for them to think of it like that.

Until one day they meet someone who did nothing. They're not really asking "what's wrong with you". They're asking "what went wrong" because they think they can avoid it.

So when they meet someone who made all the right choices, who was healthy, who was safe and one day woke up sick and never got better, it scares them because some part of them realises that it could happen to them.

They can exercise and eat a balanced diet and be as careful as possible and it doesn't do a thing and they can't do a thing about it. That terrifies able bodied people.

People like to look for something or someone to blame and they hate it when there's nothing there.

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The idea that aac fixes everything for everyone is kinda annoying. Because most nonverbal nonspeaking semiverbal people’s speech problems root further from just verbal voice.

Not understanding have right communicate. Not understanding how work. Not understanding how to say what feel or want or think. Not understanding certain words or phrases so say one thing and mean another. Many have speech or communication disorders, it’s not just the inability to speak, aac won’t fix everything for everyone.

Even if some get aac, an option to communicate, they just can’t. Sometimes no matter how much want to, just can’t.