Doing Some Casual Reading, Stumbled Across "transabled"if You Want To Be Disabled, Or Feel You "should

Doing some casual reading, stumbled across "transabled" if you want to be disabled, or feel you "should have been disabled"

that's a mental illness

don't try to justify that it's 'like being transgender'

As an actual disabled person, who is also transgender, you do not want this. period.

a quick poem about our host's experience being diagnosed with DID

Diagnosis A pile of papers rest on my lap My history laid bare Yet it reads like fiction

I peer at the white-coat and tilt my head ‘Surely, this is a story?’ He shakes his head and explains

My mind fractured Far before I was old enough to remember it He explains my mind is in little parts ‘alters’ he calls them

The definition reverberates through my consciousness “Alter: a change in character or composition, typically in a comparatively small but significant way.”

I shake my head, a laugh bursting from my chest Humorous; stop messing with me He frowns

‘I’m not.. you have a personality disorder’

If I have a personality disorder, the world is flat He hands me another leaflet Dissociative identity disorder, formerly Multiple personality disorder—

my eyes blur before I can read the rest suddenly it makes sense every day, you’re a different side shame washes through my body

he says they have names and suddenly i feel ill

A kindly voice murmurs reassurance I can’t see her But she’s as real as my beating heart "Welcome to the family, kid"

... *in shaggy voice as scooby jumps into his arms* g g g g gay!!! /lh

This boi is not straight, under any circumstance

HE'S BEING RIDDEN

I'm sorry I'll leave now

The pipeline of growing up in a strict homophobic Christian household to raging queer is so common and 100% iconic

Love y'all <3

extra points if you either retained your Christianity, or became a witch.... or both

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.

following a few 'vaccines cause autism' posts

I'm autistic, and vaccinated.

I was autistic before I was vaccinated. I was autistic before I got my MMR vaccination.

I am autistic.

I am vaccinated.

They're two very different things.

I get vaccinated for my health, and for other's health.

I'm autistic because I was born with it.

For the last time, autism is not caused by a vaccination; if you're autistic, you're born with it.

And the academic paper that was published that cites that vaccines cause autism has been proven time and time again to be false - and the person who published it (Andrew Wakefield) has been discredited and deregistered