..being 1,000 Words Over The Word Limit When Your Word Limit Is 2,000 Words

..being 1,000 words over the word limit when your word limit is 2,000 words

maybe got a bit excited there.. that's just... a third of the amount of work you needed to do....

oh yeah but I'm done yet

Phones are banned nation wide in schools in my country and it's been an absolute ASS. I have a phone exemption for medical reasons, I still get harassed by students and teachers when I use it.

Phone; tracking symptoms, photographing clots/blood amounts etc (yeah I know it's gross), tracking switches and talking with system members, along with music to control sensory input

Watch: similar things as phone + tracking POTS symptoms, heart rate, blood oxygen etc

We also use a TENS machine that has been threatened multiple times with confiscation, as it looks "like a music device"

Someone tried to cut the cables once, that wasn't great

Hey can we talk about the non-traditional ways digital devices can be disability aids? Like yes screen readers AACs digital health monitors all incredibly important, and I've heard far too many stories of how teachers and those in positions of authority over disabled people have confiscated, refused access to or damaged these devices, most famously that one person on reddit whose teacher cut the line for their insulin pump thinking it was earphone wires, but I also want to talk about the less traditional uses of digital devices like cellphones in aiding disability and how 'phone-free' areas like schools or exams or some crazy businesses and company offices, is terribly discriminatory.

Before fights break out in the comments people who use traditional digital devices and aids are allowed to still share their experiences, it is in fact encouraged, because while I do want to focus the discussion on how people use regular ol smartphones etc. to aid in managing their disabilities and why denying them access to said phones or shaming, harassing or assaulting them for using a phone in "inappropriate settings" to manage their disability, people who use things like AACs, smart watches and other monitors and digital insulin pumps etc. Are also affected by hard bans on the use of digital devices in certain settings because, as with the above example, insulin pumps can be mistaken for earphone cables and smart watches used for disabilities like pots can also be banned because they "make it easy to cheat on tests" etc.

So sound off in the notes. How do you use digital devices in a non-traditional way to help you manage your disability? And in what ways have being denied access to these devices impacted your health and well-being? The reason I want to have this discussion is because I want people reading the notes and reblogs to learn ways that they can use these devices to manage their own disabilities and conditions, work against internalized shame surrounding being dependent on devices and create conversation that will empower disabled and chronically ill people to advocate for the allowance of digital devices such as cellphones into spaces where they're explicitly banned because they are being used as disability aids. I mean allow devices because they're being used as aids not devices banned because they're used as aids.

Avoiding syscourse is nearly impossible in system spaces, and everyone expects you to have an opinion on it.

I don't want to take a side. The majority of my system do.

It's not black and white. Mental health, mental wellness, and saying yay or nay to the possibility of non trauma sourced 'plural' experience looses the natural nuance in human experience.

There are things that haven't been researched about DID... It's completely possible (and likely) that the same goes for those who claim to be non trauma based systems. We know barely anything about the human brain.

I do have issues with some of the bullying, misinformation and other harmful behaviours that I've observed from both sides of the syscourse argument. It’s never okay to send death threats.

The fandom attitude, misinformation, immaturity and other rampant issues in both traumagenic and endogenic spaces need to be addressed before any kind of possible growth can happen.

Seperating the possibility of non trauma sourced plurality from trauma sourced is important, and both groups should have an ability to express themselves without being attacked.

I'm not neutral, nor pro endo, nor anti endo.. there's research that goes both ways (for/against) around endogenic experience... So I'm undecided. All I see are people who've had experiences who should be listened to.

~ Kyle 💜

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and this is why i keep my account balance on my home screen next to the application with my membership cards in it

it's there when i need it

it's dangerous that you have to log into your bank account to see your balance i should have it in the corner of my vision at all times like a video game