Me And @fiftygirls Fr Fr.

Me and @fiftygirls fr fr.

Do any disabled people with fine motor and hand problems have any suggestions for accessibility tools for sewing?

Feeling sad about normal test results.

They say: It’s like you want to be sick.

Me: No I AM sick. I want to know why.  

I salute our fallen legends 🫡

CRIPPLED KID

It's poetry,

The way I limp across

The kitchen floor

To take my hot bag

Out of the microwave

For the sixth time today.

It's poetry,

My crinkled sheet of paper

With the stretches on it

That I always forget to do.

The click and tap

Of my cane and

Those boots with the special insoles

Is music.

A metronome keeping time

Along with my probably too-fast heartbeat.

Every action paints a picture

Of just another crippled kid

Trying to be normal.

I decorate my cane with stickers

And on the bad days I wish it were a wheelchair.

I use empty bottles of painkillers

As decorations.

Scattered here and there,

Ibuprofen,

Acetaminophen,

Aspirin,

Naproxen.

Maybe my liver is shot.

Watching, checking

How I crack my knuckles.

How I walk.

How my posture is.

How my arms are positioned

While I knit and crochet.

I am my own surveillance state

Keeping everything in line.

It's miserable, all this.

Watching, checking,

Empty bottles for decoration.

It's now time to limp

Across the kitchen floor

For a seventh time

To heat up my hot bag

Again.

Again.

My tummy hurts and I don’t know how much longer I can be brave about it folks.