Its Hard To Retain Your Autonomy When Your Body And Experiences Are Medicalized And Put Under Constant

it’s hard to retain your autonomy when your body and experiences are medicalized and put under constant scrutiny

get tattoos, get piercings, do what you want with your hair, dress however you want. i’ve found that taking control of one’s appearance works wonders for reminding yourself that you are not just numbers, or tests, or lab files.

i got a wheelchair !!! it’s a helio a6. she’s a beauty

forgive your disabled friends for always being angry with the world. but don’t feel pity for us

i live in an apartment building and i decided to go down to the gym in my wheelchair. but the door that leads to the hallway where the gym is doesn’t have an automatic door so i had to open the door by myself. then the door to the gym itself wasn’t automatic.

seems like for all the shit so many disabled people get to “just exercise”, it’s certainly not easy to get in the place to exercise.

please for the love of god give disabled people jobs

in the life of a disabled person, little things can build up very quickly into something that you just can’t fuckinh deal with

if you missed a bus, and forgot dinner, and didn’t drink enough water, and other things that seem “small” to other people, can be a big deal to a disabled person.

because many of us are living in pain, for me it’s physical pain. so the ability to cope with these things, the ability to move on, is sort of stripped away because i already have to cope with so many things at once.