Use Seat Cushions! Wear Your Braces! Sit On The Floor If You Have To! Ask For Adjustments! Use Your Mobility

Use seat cushions! Wear your braces! Sit on the floor if you have to! Ask for adjustments! Use your mobility aids! Take your meds (even in public)!

These things are not embarrassing. What is embarrassing is grown adults not understanding that young people can be disabled.

You can be disabled and young. Disabled and hot. Disabled and angry. Disabled and a fucking superstar. Don't let the ignorance of others stop you.

MOBILITY AIDS ARE NOT FUCKING TOYS GODDAMN IT. THEY ARE NOT HERE FOR YOU TO PLAY WITH!!!

Non caps: mobility aids are not fucking toys goddamn it. They are not here for you to play with!!!!

Another thing regarding ableism and what not let disabled people be bitter, be depressed, be upset, etc that we have to live with the shit we do don’t say “it’ll get better” or constantly say “you should just look on the bright side” or whatever the fuck they always say about how we should be happy. We are not here to make you feel better. We are not here to be your “inspiration”. We are not here for you to feel better about yourself. We are not here for you to tell us how we should behave/feel. Let us be human

Image description: SpongeBob (cartoon yellow rectangular sponge with large eyes and nose) wearing only tube socks and black shoes standing in the entrance to a cave with a green field behind him. He is out of breath and leaning against the wall of the cave.

Text beneath image: me after a shower where I don’t know if I have the energy to get dressed

Me after a shower where I don’t know if I even have the energy to get dressed.

I HATE cobbled streets with a passion OML my cane and crutches both struggle with them and keep slipping into cracks especially since it rained today

hi ! you ! please don't blame yourself for the secondary effects of your disability. the weight changes are not your fault. the muscle atrophy is not your fault. the malnutrition is not your fault. the new/worsening mental health condition is not your fault. the low hygiene is not your fault. none of it is your fault!

are there areas of your self care that need improvement? of course, that's true for everyone! but it's hard to be kinder to yourself when you're disabled. sometimes we downright can't do things because of our disabilities. and it all snowballs and self perpetuates. that's not a moral failing - that's scary and difficult to go through!

you don't deserve blame, ridicule, or hatred. you just have limits. you just need support. and that's, morally, neutral. it's okay. you're not doing anything wrong, and i hope things get easier soon. give yourself a little more grace, okay?