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It should be said more often that bipolar disorder and many other serious mental disorders CANNOT be cured.

Which means struggling with symptoms WHILE medicated is actually expected and common.

MANAGING symptoms does not mean being free from illness.

Mental disorders are more often than not chronic, so NORMALISE recovery that is not linear and symptoms-free.

Lastly, comparing yourself and your functioning with those around you only SEEMS to work because our conditions are invisible.

As someone who is somewhat of a “veteran” of the online ND community, I’m disappointed in the lack of positivity and love for lesser known diverse cognitive conditions, and the opposing abundance of posts about “cures” or outdated criteria or treatments for those conditions. So, without further ado, I want to say hello to anyone with any of the disorders I’m listing, and give them the love and support that hardly anyone else in our community has… Shoutout to:

People with Down syndrome

People with Fragile X

People with William’s syndrome

People with dyslexia

People with dyspraxia

People with dyscalculia

People with dysgraphia

People with Prader-Willi syndrome

People with PANS or PANDAS

People with aphasia

People with a TBI (traumatic brain injury)

People with chronic/early onset mental illnesses

People with cerebral palsy

People with FASD or were otherwise disabled via other substances in utero

And many, many more I may have forgotten to list (but still support and love, I will add more to my list)

You are all beautiful and wonderful, and you all deserve so more love, appreciation, acceptance and support. You are just as neurodiverse as the rest of us, and your voices deserve to be heard and amplified.

I love you all ❤️

Man I can't believe that my incurable lots of pain disease is being really painful and not going away

Sorry for infodumping about my special interest out of nowhere, you said a keyword and it activated my unskippable dialogue

whats with you lately

my piece for the reddiesance 5 year anniversary event !!! here's the second piece i made for the event

cerebro

the silliest ever

Ques & Jackie frfr

@basils-dreamhouse

One question, why don't you lighten up?

I wish there was a Heartstopper but for like,,, disabled young people.

As a queer person, I absolutely adore Heartstopper with all my heart and soul. As a disabled queer person, I especially adore Elle’s friend from art school, Felix.

I wish we had a Heartstopper for us disabled / chronically ill queer people. Like. A cute romcom about a group of disabled queers navigating life and love.

Like; a young visually impaired lesbian falling in love with a nonbinary wheelchair user. A cane user queer trans man falling in love with an autistic gay guy. A DISABLED PLOYCULE‼️

Tell me you can see the vision. I would cry.

i feel like, with the onset of disability, i’ve lost so many opportunities for second chances.

like, as an able-bodied person, if I tried a new meal & didnt like it or it turns out badly, that sucks, but all i really lost was an hour of my life. as a person with chronic fatigue & pain, i’ve lost all my spoons for the day, on top of the time it took to make the food. if i cant afford takeout or cant get someone to make me something new, then i’m probably not going to be able to have a meal that day.

if i forget something at the grocery store, i can’t just turn back and go get it. if i go to an event i don’t end up liking, i’ve lost a whole week’s worth of being able to get out of bed. trying new things as a disabled person is so much scarier than i could have guessed when i was able-bodied. i want to so badly, but i have so much more to lose now than i ever did before :(