#disabled community

[sayruq]

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #disability rights #disabled community #disability justice #genocide #gaza genocide

[neuroticboyfriend]

IM GOING TO CRY THEY MIGHT INCREASE THE SSI ASSETS LIMIT TO $10,000.

it's a bipartisan bill too! and for anyone unaware, people on SSI (which is different from SSDI), can only have $2,000 in assets (unless they have an ABLE account, which comes with its own rules). this assets limit has been in place for FORTY YEARS and is a giant part of why being on SSI keeps people incredibly impoverished.

i've also heard they might remove the marriage penalty but i don't have the spoons to read or explain it so someone else please add on!

this is huge! please spread the word and do what you can to help ensure this happens!

#softspoonie #disabled #disability #disability rights #disability advocacy #disability activism #disabled rights #disabled community #marriage equality #equality #usa #us politics #us congress #usa politics

[crazycatsiren]

Disabled people deserve to fall in love. Disabled people should be able to marry without repercussions, without losing anything. It's almost 2023 and why is this still a hot take.

#disabled #spoonie #cripple punk #disabled rights #marriage equality #ableism #disabled community

[alex2xander]

Be nice and don't mock tumblr users that communicate differently.

Examples:

1.) Typing quirks

2.) No punctuation

3.) Random Capitalisation

4.) Long run on sentences

5.) Frequently misspelled words

6.) Missing spaces between words

7.) Repeating words and sentences

8.) Posts audios and videos instead of typing

9.) Express themselves through custom emojis

10.) Use an AAC (Augmentative and alternative communication) device

Some users have intellectual disabilities, use speech to text, struggle with grammar, have hand tremmers, have high support needs, etc.

Regardless of how they communicate and their reason why, they still deserve respect. They are trying their best.

#intellectual disability #disability #communication styles #disabled community #communication #aac user #aac device #autism awareness #disability awareness #typing quirk #disability advocacy #poor grammar #grammar nerd #actually neurodivergent #actually neurodiverse #its the neurodivergency #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #autistic #autism #disability community #neurodivergent community #judgment free zone #no judgement #adhd #adhd brain

[froggiethelesbian]

I found a guide for a no tape, easy to unwrap wrapping tutorial to make Christmas a little more accessible, wish I just found it sooner

#christmas #disabled #disability #disabilties #accessibility #gift wrapping ideas #physically disabled #spoonie #chronically ill #chronic illness #disabled community #disability awareness

[chronicallyillandcoping]

wishing everyone a low pain and manageable symptom day youve got this.

#chronically ill #disabled #chronic fatigue #chronic pain #disability #actually disabled #chronic disability #disabled community #spoonie problems #disablity #disabled positivity

[chronically-evie]

my mom keeps trying to get me to go to the ER when im having a flare up and i have no idea what to tell her.

because ive BEEN to the ER before. you wanna know what they did? while i was sweating, shaking, and sobbing, curled in a ball of pain?

they asked me if i was on my period. when i told them no, they asked me if i was pregnant.

when i told them no, because i wasn't sexually active, they forcibly tested me anyways, and then when it came back negative said, "well maybe you should just take a few deep breaths", gave me liquid ibuprofen, and sent me home.

disabled people, in this particular situation disabled afabs, are never fucking listened to.

the ER staff literally LAUGHED at me multiple times. they pointed at me when i was having one of the worst episodes of my life and snickered.

so no, i do not want to go to the fucking ER. my heating pad, ice packs, and nausea meds are going to help me more than anything a hospital could do.

#postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome #pots syndrome #disability #disabled #pots #potsie #spoonie #ehlers danlos zebra #chronic pain #hypermobile ehlers danlos #actually disabled #physically disabled #disabled community #disabled life #chronic disability #physical disability #disability advocacy #disability awareness #disability rights #disabilties #invisible disability

[jemineye]

for the record, disabled people don't have to automatically know their limits. we are allowed to push ourselves and learn our limitations. what is not allowed is able bodied or even other disabled people who think they know us tell us that we have to keep going. my disability and body are not science projects for anyone to play with.

#disabled #disability #physical disability #chronic illness #chronic disability #cripple punk #physically disabled #disabled community #disabled life #chronic life #chronic pain #chronic fatigue

[chronicallycouchbound]

Sometimes you’re gonna have access needs that are incompatible with another disabled person’s and that’s valid.

Neither of you are inherently ableist for not being able to accommodate each other’s needs.

#disability #chronically couchbound #disabled #disability pride month #disabled pride #disabled pride month #disability pride #accessibility #access needs #accomodation #disabled rights #disabled community #affirmations #ableism

[cripple-punk-dad]

Hey since it's getting colder in the US for the next couple months here's your reminder that a lot of physically disabled people who use mobility aids are going to get stuck inside because of snow and ice. This is your reminder that the world, while it is always inaccessible, is about to become even more so especially for those who use wheelchairs and electric chairs. If you have a friend who uses a wheelchair or an electric chair please check in on them and see if they perhaps need some groceries or even just a visit (make sure they know you're coming especially if they're immunocompromised.)

#cpunk #cripple punk #disabled community #physical disability

[a-common-wybie]

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

[crippledpunks]

shoutout to every disabled person who has to spend a lot or most of their time in bed, on the couch, or laying down. here's to everyone with any kind of mental illnesses or neurodivergence that can cause depressive episodes, migraines and sleep disruption, here's to everyone with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis, here's to everyone with chronic pain, fibromyalgia, lupus, arthritis and multiple sclerosis, here's to everyone with bad backs, here's to everyone with chronic gastrointestinal issues, here's to everyone with chronic reproductive health problems. many of us have to spend most of our waking hours resting and we're not here by choice, but we're making the best of things. here's to us bedbound bitches

#cripple punk #crip punk #disability advocacy #disability rights #disabled rights #disabled #disability #disabled community #chronically chill #chronic pain #actually disabled #disability problems #disability culture #disabled culture #chronic pain culture #fibromyalgia

[neuroticboyfriend]

once again thinking about how fucked up it is that special ed used me and other disabled children as unpaid, coerced labor. i worked enough to be making $100 a week. i was "paid" in fake money redeemable only at the school cafeteria, which i worked at, and was forced to do things that distressed me. they gave us $1 a week, if they remembered to give it to us at all.

this was while i would sometimes go the entire day without eating because i didn't have the money to buy food and the free food was not sensory safe. we also worked outside the community - grocery stores, warehouses, shoe stores security tagging items. all under the guise of job skill development, we did $100 of labor a week without ever getting paid. and we were demeaned while we did it. and we were just teens.

so no, i don't want to hear about how special education is good. not with the way me and my peers were treated and taken advantage of. death to institutionalization, in all forms.

#softspoonie #disabled #special education #special ed #disability #disability rights #disabled community #neurodivergent #special needs #autistic #autistic spectrum #autism spectrum disorder #autism spectrum #autism #neurodivergency #ableism #sanism #systemic ableism #unpaid labor #labor rights #workers rights #anticapitalism #anticapitalist #working class #leftist #leftism

[crazycatsiren]

I'm not worried about people faking disabilities. I'm worried about disabled people constantly not being believed.

#disabled #spoonie #cripple punk #chronic illness warrior #disabled community #disability advocacy

[yeehawtist]

i think a lot of people miss out on this but spending time with diverse groups of disabled people makes you realize that people's needs will constantly contradict each other. if one person stims, tics, speaks, breathes, etc. loudly, then there will be at least one other person who can’t stand the sound of it. they need to be able to leave if they need it. the loud person cannot be forced to stop being loud but the one who is sensitive to loudness cannot be forced to tolerate something they can’t either. maybe there’s a person who needs aromatherapy to cope with or reduce problems that their disability causes them. but there may also be a person who gets seizures or migraines from strong scents. you cannot deny that coping skill but you cannot let it trigger someone either. someone who struggles to sit might need a standing desk, someone who needs to sit will need a chair, some people might need alternative seating or flexible seating, and all of those options need to be available. one standing desk in the corner isn’t going to cut it most of the time and people need to be able to accept that and do better.

i could give endless examples of times when people's needs will contradict each other. most of which i’ve seen happen in real life spaces. physical, processing, communicating, everything can be contradictory to someone else's need. everything. a truly accessible space will try to accommodate to all those who exist within it.

#disability acceptance #disabilties #actually autistic #autistic community #actually neurodiverse #disability #disabled community #actually disabled #conflicting access needs #shit i make and say

[cy-cyborg]

Limb difference vs amputee

I've been seeing a rise in people using the term limb difference and also rise in (what I think are well meaning) folks shouting "Amputee is not a dirty word, stop talking over disabled people, just say amputee" and while I love the energy, that's not what's going on here lol.

Amputee refers to anyone who has lost a limb or was born without one/multiple of their limbs.

Limb difference is a broader umbrella term to refer to anyone with a physical disability the effects the person's limbs specifically, usually (but not always) in ways that are visible to others to some degree. It can refer to amputees, but also people with single-limb paralysis, people who's limbs didn't develop properly (even if it's not severe enough to be considered an amputation) and more!

All amputees have a type of limb difference, but not everyone with a limb difference is an amputee.

As far as I'm aware, the term actually started in congenital amputee circles (people who were born without a limb) because they felt the word amputee didn't really fit them properly. amputee implies they had the limb but it was removed, but they never had it to begin with. It eventually spread to become an umbrella term, but it was created by and for disabled people.

I do understand some people's hesitation with the word, it does sound kind of similar to "differently abled" but I promise, it's not.

#disability #disabled #disabled stuff #visible disability #amputee #limb difference #amputee life #physical disability #physically disabled #actually disabled #disabled community #listen to disabled people #nothing about us without us