#cerebral palsy

[smoov-criminal]

happy disability pride month to those with conditions no one talks about, online or in general:

multiple sclerosis (me lol)

marfans

cerebral palsy

bells palsy

hidradenitis suppurativa

cauda equina syndrome

mixed connective tissue disorder

hyperadrenergic pots

non hypermobile eds types

stickler syndrome

mitochondrial disease

cystic fibrosis

sickle cell disease

myasthenia gravis

post-cholecystectomy syndrome

SWAN (syndromes without a name)

...just to name a few. i see you and you deserve awareness and understanding.

this list is non exhaustive, rb with other conditions you want to see represented!!

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#disability pride month #disability pride #cpunk #cripple punk #multiple sclerosis #marfan syndrome #cerebral palsy #bells palsy #hidradenitis suppurativa #cauda equina syndrome #mixed connective tissue disorder #hyperandrenergic pots #eds #ehlers danlos syndrome #stickler syndrome #mitochondrial disease #cystic fibrosis #sickle cell disease #myasthenia gravis #post-cholecystectomy syndrome #swan #syndrome without a name

[phireads]

Please reblog if you can so I can get a larger sample size

Feel free to put any clarifications in the tags (I’d be very grateful) <3

#mine #polls #not books #disability #disabled #chronic pain #chronic fatigue #physical disability #physically disabled #spoonie #spoon theory #cerebral palsy #mobility issues #physically impaired #christine miserandino #spoons #out of spoons

[endlessdreamerxoxo]

So there is apparently a Tik tok trend for an airport life hack where able-bodied people are requesting wheelchairs to get through TSA and customs faster.

As someone in their twenties who can walk but still needs a wheelchair in an airport because I can't walk long distances or fast with my disability, this trend is very frustrating. I can't tell you how many times I've gotten dirty looks from elderly people or been made to wait for a wheelchair because people assume that I'm fine when I'm sitting down and not moving. Idk. There are a group of disabled persons called ambulatory users who rely on mobility aids while still being able to walk on good days. They are often stigmatized by people's assumptions. Please don’t this! You are making it harder for people who are invalidated on a daily basis for not being "correctly disabled"

#disability awareness #disabled community #disability #cerebral palsy #serious topics #stop being ableist #ableist bullshit

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Cerebral Palsy, and the intra-Community disablism of "Don't treat me like I'm intellectually disabled!"

Thinking about this again, since this post got a fresh reblog, recently.

It's a common presumption in the medical and educational fields that there's a "high level of co-morbidity" of intellectual disability and cerebral palsy. How true that actually is,* and how high is high, is hard to determine, because of confirmation bias among the physicians and educators.

It is also, therefore, a common complaint among people with cerebral palsy that we are not, in fact, intellectually disabled, and we shouldn't be treated as if we are.

It is thirdly true that this complaint can come from a very disablist place, Translation: "I'm not one of those people; don't treat me like one of them!" I'm sad to say that was my attitude for many years, and I'm trying to unlearn it, and keep it unlearned.

But misdiagnosis is still wrong. And I've spent years trying to figure out how to explain that without slipping back into my old. disablist ways of thinking.

And the other day, an analogy popped into my head:

It is important to provide your pet with toys, and to engage with them in play, for the sake of enrichment. However, you should not get your golden retriever a catnip mouse. And you should not get your orange tabby cat a floating chew toy to toss in the pool.

I have more thoughts on this, but I think those thoughts are veering into other topics, and should therefore be in a separate post.

*Frankly, I don't believe it's true at all (not that no one with C.P. is also intellectually disabled, but that intellectual disability is not a result or symptom of C.P.).

#cerebral palsy #medical disablism #educational disablism #intellectual disability #intra-community bigotry

[hussyknee]

PSA: Please for the love of God stop using the word "cretin". It's a slur for people born with congenital hypothyroidism (CHT, that used to be called cretinism) that causes physical and intellectual disability.

I think it's unrealistic to expect a blanket moratorium on insults about intelligence, but words like "mong/mongoloid" (anti-Asian slur later applied to people with Down Syndrome), "spaz", "downie", "midget" and "cretin" refer to people born with specific developmental disorders. If you care enough not to use the "r–word", please steer clear of these as well.

#please reblog #looking at you RWRB fandom #one of the movie's many crimes is how often I now have to see this word in fics #I'll never forget a mother thanking me for tweeting this a few years ago because her daughter with CHT cries whenever she hears it #ableism #ableist slurs #ableist language #disability #congenital hypothyroidism #down syndrome #dwarfism #spasticity #cerebral palsy #disabled lives matter #intellectual disability #writing tips #rwarb #rwrb movie #knee of huss

[caffeineaddict980]

Hi all,

I'm Hannah and i'm 24! I work in an admin job full-time and write part time. I live with mild cerebral palsy, which is a disability I have had since birth.

I'm also starting training to be a mental health counsellor this year!

I'm bisexual and exploring the world of non-monogomy. Massive caffeine addict!

My favourite genres are dark romance, paranormal romance, LGBTQIA+ fiction and thrillers!

I have one novel already self-published and another one being published in 2024.

Nice to meet everyone!

#writeblr #writers on tumblr #writeblr intro #cerebral palsy #disabled #nonmonogamy #polyamory #bisexual

[gr8rainbowpunk]

Chronic pain syndromes really have people doing the weirdest shit to be in 1% less pain

“why are you sleeping on a blanket on the floor”

“Because laying on the floor made my back hurt slightly less and I couldn’t sleep anywhere else cause it hurt too much”

Feel free to add your own

#ehlers danlos syndrome #scoliosis #endometriosis #chronic pain #fibromyalgia #lupus #multiple sclerosis #cerebral palsy #and any other disorders I forgot

[uapbew2]

Disabled women with an amputated leg

#leg amputee #paraplegic #cerebral palsy #polio

[horribleprotagonist]

desperately need more chris centric 911 fic, or even just more fics where chris is a reoccurring character and his cerebral palsy is like,,,actually mentioned. Like buddie trying to get teenage chris to wear a medical alert bracelet and he's Dramatic about it or pt! Buck au and chris decides to parent trap them bc buck is Actually Cool compared to his previous pts and chris thinks they should stop pining and maybe just kiss,,like getting cp rep is so rare!!!! I want to see myself represented in the fanfics too!!!

#if anyone has recs please share I love Chris sm #corley says stuff #911 abc #buddie #actuallydisabled #cerebral Palsy #911 fox #evan buckley #eddie diaz #christopher diaz #911

[ashmackenzie]

Cover illustration for Farther Than The Moon by Lindsay Lackey!

This was my first middlegrade book cover and the story hit close to home. My little sister is also someone with special needs so the process of making this illustration was definitely an emotional journey. Lindsay did an incredible job capturing that sibling relationship and I did my best to match it with the same care and tact. Thanks so much to AD Samira Iravani for trusting me with this one!

#illustration #artists on tumblr #book cover #middle grade #space #astronauts #cerebral palsy #disability awareness

[rock-a-noodle]

PLEASE NORMALIZE

Doing/having friends who do Special Olympics

Having a PASS/direct support worker

Living in a group home/shared living arrangement (willingly!!)

Receiving services from the state/US government.

Having friends who were in special ed/have higher support needs than ya! FRIENDS WHO DON'T USE WORDS TO TALK!! FRIENDS IN WHEELCHAIRS! FRIENDS WHO MAY HAVE DIFFICULTY WITH EATING AND MOTOR STUFF AND SOMETIMES THEY GET A BIT OF SALIVA HERE AND THERE!

Growing up in special ed and having accommodations in college!

OCs with Down Syndrome

Hanging out and meeting friends in Best Buddies/other social skills groups! EVEN WHEN YOU STILL UTILIZE THEM AFTER AGE THIRTY OR WHATEVER!!

People of all different support levels vibing together and not seeing this stuff as "babyish" or "cheesy" or other shit! Take that internalized ableism and SHOVE IT-into the trash.

#shut up kelly #BUT SERIOUSLY #actuallyautistic #actuallyadhd #actuallyanxious #down syndrome #autism #cerebral palsy #like I love the autism community here and while there are people who stick up for more visibly disabled people but....where ARE the people #who like me SWIM and HANG OUT in the disability world!? #psa #public service announcement #venting a tad #okay more than a tad #like sometimes even I feel weird or different because of my more in depth experience in the disability world compared to other people here #with “shiny” autism or whatever #special olympics

[wheeliecuties]

Woman with cerebral palsy drools

#crippled girl #disabled girls #handicapped girl #wheelchair girl #wheelchairgirl #cerebral palsy

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Full Transcript up at the link.

Quote:

MARSHALL: They did. So I was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at 18 months. But growing up, they just said I had tight tendons. And when I kind of pressed them as I got older and that explanation didn't carry water anymore, they told me I had hemiplegia or hemiparesis, so essentially symptoms of cerebral palsy that indicate paralysis on parts of the body. So they really tried to sidestep the kind of loaded term of cerebral palsy.

Dear Parents, Teachers, Babysitters (and other well-meaning authority figures in a kid's life):

Do Not Do This.

For crying out loud... Why else do you think "Cerebral Palsy" is a loaded term, in the first place?! Jeez Louise! You're not sparing anyone from stigma. You're the ones loading the word with stigma, like filling a wheelbarrow with bovine manure.

#NPR Weekend Edition: 10 June 2023 #cerebral palsy #memoir #growing up disabled #well-meaning parents #but #ableism #gay

[thehmn]

I love when people with any sort of physical or mental handicap/illness/whatever you want to call it use it to jokingly insist they are allowed to do something.

A girl with cerebral palsy used to visit me at my table at conventions. We got close enough to joke around and one day she rolled up in her wheelchair and said “It’s my birthday! I want a free gift!” I laughed and told her to fuck off and she responded by bumping into my table and overacting “I’m HANDICAPPED you MONSTER!!!” “Yeah, with SUCKING!” She knocked into my table a few more times exclaiming “I can’t help it! I can’t control my movements!” while I swatted at her like crazy from the other side while my friend looked on in horror. She ended up getting her damn gift btw and I think she’s the main reason I find that sort of humor hilarious today. If you ever hear me jokingly say “I have ADHD. Im allowed” after doing something stupid that isn’t even necessarily related to having ADHD you can blame her.

#humontalks #cerebral palsy #adhd #as we say in Denmark #we only have the fun we create

[911firefox]

Happy National Cerebal Palsy Day.

Sending love to @yelenasbuddie @chrisbuckleydiaz @outrunningthedark especially

#cerebral palsy #Gavin Mchugh #cerebal palsy awareness #Christopher Diaz #911 on abc #ryan guzman #eddie diaz #911

[genderqueerdykes]

i have cerebral palsy, and i’m a forearm crutch user. i’m also bigender and bisexual. i feel like people see me as more of a child or “innocent minded”, as i’ve been told. they don’t expect me to have the weird gender or any queerness at all.

i struggle a lot with passing, as i’m biologically male and want nothing more than to seem totally androgynous. but my disability prevents me from dressing how i’d like. when i use she/her pronoun pins, people go out of their way to misgender me. when i use he/him pins, they all call me she. it just sucks being a queer disabled person because it feels like no one takes you seriously for either thing because of the other.

hello there, i'm sorry this took so long to reply to, as well as to hear what you're going through

i understand where you're coming from for sure with feeling as though people infantilize you for using mobility aids. people do the same to me with my wheelchair, and when i used a walker. i'm sorry that people treat you poorly for your disability and then push that treatment on to your gender as well. people seem to find reasons to tear every part of you down when they see that you're disabled. it's sickening

i'm sorry to hear that people are going out of their way to misgender you no matter what. i find that i've had that experience around the wrong people, too. i think due to my autism a lot of people view me the same way, as "innocent minded" and go out of their way to see me as the opposite of what i want at any given time. people argue with my for being genderfluid and multigender and bisexual as well, people refuse to trust my own word for my experience and will become fixated on my birth sex for some reason

i'm sorry that people disrespect your pronouns whenever you try to express them, and i'm sorry they refuse to see you as who you tell them you are at that given moment. it's not fair to you that they treat you poorly because they know you're disabled. it happens to many of us, you're not alone, and people need to learn to trust us to be the arbiters of our lived experiences instead of forcing their views on us because they think we're incapable of thinking for ourselves just because we're disabled folk

take care of yourself. i know i'm not there for you in person, but i see you for who you are. your disability does not take away your ability to know who you are. you will always know yourself better than anyone else. i hope things get better for you. stay safe out there, you are valued

#asks #answers #bigender #bisexual #androgyny #androgynous #disability #disabled #cerebral palsy #misgendering