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A guide to designing wheelchair using characters!
I hope this helps anyone who's trying to design their oc using a wheelchair, it's not a complete guide but I tried my best! deffo do more research if you're writing them as a character
severely disabled intersex trans person needs help saving up for rent
hello there, i am a severely disabled intersex trans person who deals with crohn's disease, arthritis, hypermobile ehlers danlos syndrome, schizophrenia, and other health problems. i have been getting sicker and sicker due to my crohn's disease, it has been very difficult if not impossible to eat most days. i'm struggling with unintended weight loss, nausea, vomiting, diahrrea, constipation, severe pain in my intestines and stomach, and other GI issues daily, which make it very difficult to function. i'm also dealing with severe fatigue due to this- a lot of my days i end up sleeping all day, and i've been bed bound for a few months now. i cannot work a traditional job due to these issues, so i have an online shop where i make ends meet.
$0/$211
my apartment complex did their yearly rent increase, so my rent is a little higher than it was before. if you're interested in helping, you can do so in the following ways:
pay pal: glittergraphicnightmare @ gmail. com cash app: $glitterGraphix venmo: $Equinoxian chime: $Equinoxian
thank you to everyone who reads, shares and supports, the help means the world to us. take care of yourselves
I debated whether or not I should make this post, but decided that I have to, because there are so many people, especially in America who do not know this. And it is SO important. So please take 5 minutes of your time and read this.
Let me explain to you why Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s statements about autism are extremely dangerous and should deeply concern you (not only if you are autistic)
For that you need to understand a bit about the history of autism, so you can see the parallels to what is happening now.
The whole "high functioning autism" thing exists for a reason. Not the one you think though. You have probably heard that "high functioning autism" was called Aspergers Syndrome before. This concept was created during the 1930s and 1940s in Austria (although it was not called Aspergers syndrome back then). There is a lot more to this, but for the purpose of this post I will keep it short.
The nazis saw every disabled or mentally ill person, including children as unworthy to live. The main purpose of the Asperger Syndrome was to separate the children into two groups. The ones they could use for their causes, indoctrinate with the nazi values and force to work. And those we would call people with high support needs today, the group they deemed as not worth to even be alive. (This does not mean that "high functioning autistic people were not also killed, they were.)
This diagnosis was a death sentence for those children. To be clear, the nazis did not only kill autistic children and adults but also mentally ill and disabled children and adults.
The next thing you have to understand is that a shocking amount of people knew about this back then and there were parents who willingly and even gladly handed their children to those institutions, knowing they would kill their children, because they themselves saw their own children as worthless, a burden and not valuable to society.
Back to what Robert F. Kennedy said. One of his first statements was "They will never be able to pay taxes." (Refering to autistic children, especially targeting those with high support needs) And that tells you everything you need to know. Because that is how he and a concerning amount of people determine the worth of a person. If they work, if they pay taxes, if they consume and contribute to the economy. If not, they are seen as worth less than working people.
Sounds familiar, does it? Because the nazis used the same measurements to determine peoples worth. That is no coincidence.
They always come for the vulnerable first.
They always come for the minorities first.
It is this belief that a certain group of people is worth more or less than others that is so dangerous!
Because many people already see neurodivergent, mentally ill and disabled people as less. Less worthy, less useful, less human. So it's easy for him to go ahead with those statements, because it does not concern the majority of people.
So please educate yourself about the topic, read into what happened in Nazi Germany. Read about how it happened, how everything started! Because if we don't pay attention to this now, it might be too late!
Since July is Disability Pride Month
(as opposed to every other month when we're all demure about disability rights /gentle sarcasm)
I wanted to highlight one of my favorite artists: Liberal Jane.
HELL YEAH
DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH!!!!!
This is my first disability pride month with a diagnosis!
"Pride month is over"
WRONG! Your pride month is over! Me and all the other disabled queers are having pride month two: disability edition
Hey! If you want to learn about my journey with having a bleeding disorder you can follow my new blog!/nf
Wait what's a buildings fire evacuation plan if you aren't supposed to use the elevator to get down
Reblogging again to say that disabled people can also make forms of art that isn't "traditional art". Music is art. Literature is art. Acting is art, dancing is art, even making food is art because you made something and it's yours, with your creativity. AI art is not art. It has no soul, no creativity, no life, no intention. AI will never be able to create a painting with emotion or words with true meaning. AI will never write a melody that reflects the deepest inner parts of itself because AI feels nothing. Disabled people are still people. Disabled people still feel, they love and cry and rage and scream, they smile and laugh. They have *imaginations*. At the end of the day it doesn't matter how functional the person's arms are, if they made it with intention and creativity, it is art. All people are capable of feeling, and all people are capable of expressing it, reguardless of skill level or physical ability.
Stating that an artist needs AI art to express their vision even if it is traditional art is, quite frankly, really dumb.
"ai is making it so everyone can make art" Everyone can make art dipshit it came free with your fucking humanity
they are losing a limb, this exact time u decide to ignore this post.
10 children a day lose their limbs in Gaza. All hospitals in Gaza are basically barely functioning and the amputations are done in unsanitary conditions and without anesthesia
Second commission by @wombatking!! Based on this fanfiction by 0zym4nd14s on ao3
(!I apologize if I made any mistakes on the wheelchair its my first time drawing it!)
reminder to people that cripplepunk isnt just ‘punk aesthetic but disabled’
cripplepunk is a disability movement
cripplepunk has its own principals and tenets
its more than just patches, pins, and plaid
The normal amount of pain is zero. I don't know what to say here. The standard abled person amount of pain without injury or significant exhaustion is so low that it will not register to most of you. It's the slightest twinge. I am so unequipped to explain this to y'all but of you experience regular pain you have chronic pain 😭
Them: "Be sure to push your boundaries! Change your routine up! Do things that make you uncomfortable!"
Me: *holds you gently by the cheeks*
Not you. You're autistic. You require routine and boundaries in order to thrive and be healthy. Yes, change will happen and it's important to have a healthy relationship with that possibility. But you do not push yourself. Existing is difficult enough. This one is not for you.
What they don’t tell you: Self care sometimes isn’t fun. It’s going to class even when you want to stay in bed and rest. It’s paying bills on time and running errands even when every strand of your being cant stand it. It’s going to therapy and taking your medicine even when you don’t want to. It’s using coping skills even when going back to self destructive ones seems more appealing.
Recovering sucks. It’s hard. But you have to believe in the light at the end of the tunnel. And even on those days you don’t, you fake it till you make it.
Recovery is still worth it.
Not telling your kid they have a learning disability, chronic illness, mental illness etc. so they can “feel normal” actually does the opposite. They will not feel normal if they do not have the context to understand that their normal will be different from that of their peers.
A guide to designing wheelchair using characters!
I hope this helps anyone who's trying to design their oc using a wheelchair, it's not a complete guide but I tried my best! deffo do more research if you're writing them as a character
you know the piece of art in my last rb made me realize why i dislike most disability related art. and it's that a large portion of it (especially on here) has messaging about ableism. like in the art itself it will have quotes regarding ableism. which is cool and fine, but i am SO tired of the constant trauma and reminders of trauma around my physical disabilities. for once i want to see someone like me just exist. i want to see them happy and peaceful.
it reminds me of how people finally started to view LGBTQ trauma p*rn movies. we as queer people are traumatized constantly. ENOUGH media about queer trauma. where is the queer JOY?
i feel exactly the same about disability portrayed in media/art and otherwise. where is the JOY?
Not my usually post and I apologize for my lack of uploading but a friend needs help!
He risks homelessness and anything helps. I will personally draw an icon for anyone who sends him 15bucks or more. Just dm me proof and it's yours once I get the chance to draw it
Does ANYBODY with pots have any tips on how to make some kind of progress with exercise, or at least not be completely out of spoons after? I miss running sm, and it's driving me crazy
No way I was ever a competitive gymnast
Anyone else sometimes forget the level of disabled they are because it's so normal to yourself?
Sometimes i'll remember something i used to do, something i was able to do and that i definitely wasn't thinking about and i'll have trouble believing it. I know i was walking up and down stairs multiple times a day everyday and oftentimes running them but. It just doesn't true. Like, what do you mean i used to walk a kilometre to school and back every day when i was only half my size?? That can't possibly be right? But somehow it is! I used to jump on those garden trampolines for hours on end. How???
Has anyone cracked the code to not being completely exhausted 24/7? I feel like I can only get my obligations done before it's right back to bed
How'd I dislocate my hip by sleeping 😭
Anybody else with ehlers danlos syndrome have sway back?
Idk how to fix it, but I was wondering if anyone else does this
Any other chronically I'll people have the experience as a kid where they just Didn't Feel Good? That kind where you couldn't describe your symptoms, or pinpoint anything specifically wrong with you, other than just feeling bad. That definitely should've been more of a red flag.
sometimes being chronically ill is laying on the floor in pain while the cat tries his very best to help
The sarcasm here is fucking hilarious 💀 whenever I inevitably end up using mobility aids, imma just tell them my doctor told me to, bcs she did. Even if your doctor denies you a mobility aid, people get uncomfortable if you just say a doctor made you, so you could always just make stuff up.
You shouldn't get a wheelchair, walker, cane, shower chair, or any kind of assistive technology mobility aid because then you might become dependent on them. Just like how you also shouldn't get glasses if you have bad eyesight because then you might become dependent on those.
For instance, if you end up stuck using corrective eyewear, you could actually lose your ability to tell what things are even when they are extremely blurry! You need to get used to having migraines from seeing unclearly because if you wear glasses all the time, you are basically giving up!! You don't need to see things coming at you from far away! You just need to get good at dodging, and if you can't, then you have no one to blame but yourself!!
For example, I read a really heart-worming article recently about a girl who was stuck using glasses - just absolutely, tragically trapped in her eyewear from dawn to dusk, even though she was good and never ever complained; and I heard she trained herself to discern the blurry faces of her loved ones with 60% accuracy! - she was even able to walk down the aisle at her wedding WITHOUT forcing the discomfort of seeing a woman in glasses on all her guests!!
Sure, she had to give her vows with a splitting headache, and she couldn't see her husband's expression when he said "I do," but overall, SO inspi-ration-al!!! So up-lifting!!
(She didn't even have to use a seeing eye cane, which would have been the worst-case scenario, obviously, because she worked hard to make sure she looked LESS disabled, not MORE disabled!!! Everyone knows blind people exist solely to be a cautionary tale to sighted people!!)
Also, did you know some people get glasses when they only need them a little bit?? How selfish of them! Sure, there's not a shortage, and an increase in demand would result in overall increased accessibility to glasses--but emotionally it's like taking glasses away from someone who needs them more! After all, if everyone who needed glasses got them, then...... um...... more people would have glasses! Which is probably bad!!!!
I also had a friend who was trapped in glasses who saved up all her money for laser eye surgery, and I don't know why everyone doesn't just do that! Sure, some doctors say some people don't "qualify" and it "won't help" those people, but that's why you can't give up!! You don't want to be one of those people!
After all, what's the worse thing that could happen with an unnecessary laser surgery to the face that comes with crippling debt??? It's worth the risk to gain your FREEDOM back, and I'm so proud of my friend!!
Tragically, she did die later that year while driving Uber and squinting at street signs, but at least now I know my friend is finally free from the shackles of her terrible eyesight. #ripAshley #rippedAshley #justripit 😌😌😌❤😇😇😇
And that's why you shouldn't get used to using a mobility aid!! Because, like glasses, they are inherently embarrassing to be seen with; and - like glasses - it is more noble to silently suffer than to depend on unnatural technologies that force you to rely on them!!! (Besides, everyone else will be SO much more comfortable if you look normal!)
I hope you learned something today. 💖
Random vent:
I legitimately do not know what is going to happen to me in the future. All I want is to be a firefighter, but two days into emt school and I'm already having a flare up. We went to visit the fire station today, and I nearly passed out just from standing still. I was always such an athletic child, and everyone expected that I would kick ass in this field, yet here I am, struggling to stand. I already knew that I would have a very short, painful career, but now I don't know if I can do it at all.
I always drink a ton of cold water and pour it over my head
Respectfully how the fuck do you take hot baths with pots and not die
Oh trust me, it’s not without consequences. I add cold water to the bath if it gets to be too much, and when I get out I immediately sit down in my towel while my heart calms down that way I don’t eat shit on the bathroom floor (and that’s also why I have to have the door unlocked, love that for me) I didn’t used to have heat intolerance but now I do, and my body hurts enough that I make the decision to walk through the flames of hell each time instead of dealing with my wack ass degenerative joints
Being a disabled person going into the medical field so so weird. Other disabled people are saying "fuck medical practitioners" and I'm like "...sorry? Idk what I did, but srry ig"