Wheelchair Vibes

Wheelchair vibes

Cripple vibes

Fuck yeah chronic pain

Fuck my life lmao

YOU hate Christopher Columbus.

Her name is Valentina Petrillo and she is a visually-impaired sprinter.

Time to support her, because even without the racism element I expect she will be getting some flak from Awful, Awful People.

I distinctly remember a nurse telling me whenever I got my spinal cord injury after my first big seizure,

"it's just a CSF leak, it'll be better before you're married."

Now I'm 29, I've been divorced for 5 years, and my spinal cord injury still fucks with my life on a regular basis, and even though my seizures have gone from multiple a day to just one or two episodes per year they're still a fucking problem, and I kind of want to go back to that nurse and just tell her,

"it wasn't better before I got married the first time and isn't better after the divorce. Do you think if I get married again it'll cure me?"

Medical fucking gaslighting...

This.

When I was 16 (5'7" and 150lbs, 3 months pregnant) my stepdad (40s, 6'4" 250lb ex body builder with an opiate addiction) hit me in the face, and I hit him back to give myself enough space to escape to a nearby shopping mall to call the police.

Staties showed up. Cuffed me, took me to the hospital for a psych eval, and then charged me with simple assault.

Then they took me home where my mom was arranging for her husband to move into his brother's house. The chargers were dropped because he missed court due to being in a psych hospital for attacking someone while high on Vicodin.

But that doesn't change that cops will literally arrest abused kids and then send them back because they value legal guardianship over safety.

if you want to actually materially address child abuse, the single most important thing you can do to start is give children the legally enforceable right to leave any situation they no longer want to be in.

church, extracurriculars, summer camps, school classes, their biological family's houses. notably, these are the places that child abuse is enabled by the child's inability to just fucking leave if they need to. they can't walk out of church if their youth pastor touches them inappropriately; they'll get punished for leaving. if they walk out of their house because their dad hits them, the cops pick them up and give them right back to their dad.

children need the legal autonomy to leave abusive situations in order to even begin to usefully materially address child abuse.

original post by qweerhet because it's unrebloggable but very important