consider-your-potatoes-mashed

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she/they/any pronouns|| 21 || lesbian || disabled || chronic pain and hypermobility || POTS and LongCovid || autistic and adhd ||

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Yall. Forearm Crutches Are Fucking Amazing Holy Shit

Y’all. Forearm crutches are fucking amazing holy shit

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2 years ago

picture through a cars windshield of two concrete domes with some cars driving in front of them

ITS THE TITTIES

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California road-trip yiddies

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2 years ago

Thank you @autism_sketches

"STIMMING: What it feels like from the inside"

In the beautiful images that follow, Autistic artist & storyteller Anouk of @Autism_Sketches depicts the experiences of some of their Autistic followers on Instagram. It is so important to learn from Autistic voices. These descriptions are exquisite.

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2 years ago

an image of a black Apple Watch on a light tan wrist reading heart rate at 156 beats per minute

All I did was stand up wtf body wtf

Sorry the photos blurry I’m hella dizzy and shaky

Image description: a black Apple Watch reading heart rate of the wearer at 156 beats per minute

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pots pots syndrome chronic illness heart rate all I did was stand up wtf is this disabled disability actually disabled physical disability disability awareness postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome tachycardia seriously why does it do this

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2 years ago

Universal Studios Hollywood was an amazing experience yesterday! And honestly was super disability friendly (from my perspective at least). Accommodations were easy to get and we’re not a hassle at all!! All the staff was super nice and always made sure I would be able to ride the rides/experiences. I’m so happy that it is the way it is. Also, having my crutches was LIFE CHANGING omg sure I was in pain yesterday, but it didn’t get to a point where I couldn’t handle it and today im not in a flare which is AMAZING!!!

Tl;dr: Universal studios Hollywood was an amazing experience and super accommodating and holy shit having my forearm crutches made my life so much easier.

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chronic illness chronic pain disabled disability actually disabled physical disability pots hypermobility pots syndrome autistic autism accommodations universal studios hollywood universal studios Accessibility disability accommodations theme park accommodations forearm crutches crutch user crutches mobility aids mobility aid mobility aids are life changing

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2 years ago

Me: “my pain and fatigue and everything else is getting worse and doctors still don’t know what to do about it”

My mom: “ well the problem will fix itself and you’ll get better and then it won’t matter”

Me (internally yelling in my head): THATS NOT HOW CHRONIC ILLNESS/PAIN FUCKING WORKS MOM I HAVE TO USE A CANE (AND NOW CRUTCHES) TO GET AROUND OTHERWISE ID BE STUCK INSIDE

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chronic pain chronic illness disabled disability actually disabled hypermobility physical disability pots disabled community chronic fatigue pain ouch chronic pain syndrome why is it always people saying you’ll get better when it’s really only been getting worse let me cope with my life as it is so that I can fucking survive damnit saying it’ll get better as in you’ll be cured doesn’t help that just minimizes what I’m going through

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