I Think Bruce Is A Covert Narcissist - Tumblr Posts

You may not be pregnant, but you always deliver

okay

look

i'm going to be deadass with you

people do not actually behave like this when you acquire a disability. acquiring a disability is traumatic, not just for the disabled individual, but for the people in their life who must re-learn that person's life and reality, yes. that is true.

but they see you continue to live and in time the disability becomes normal, just a feature of life. when you see your friend remove his prosthetic or waggle his stumpie for the first time, it's weird and uncomfortable; if you still find it weird and uncomfortable after a year, you are being a freak. adjusting to a new communication need is frustrating and it's natural to feel distant from someone while you learn the nuances of their aac; but you DO learn, and as you become fluent, the frustration does fade. the first time a friend rolls up in their chair after an injury can be shocking and let's be honest, no, you do not know the right thing to say and neither do they - that is a moment that will always be awkward. that awkwardness does pass, and you see the individual, not the chair.

i NEED bruce and the boys to harden the fuck up about babs' chair because they reduce her to it every single time they see the jonkler and go

noooooooo

babs' leggggs

😭😭😭😭😭😭

in a way, they make themselves the victim of barbara's disability. she's built a life and she's moving on but the men that surround her constantly think of the chair and not the woman in it - with the exception of dick ofc, his flaw is that he thinks cops are human, not that he thinks crips are inhuman.

it's an unexplored nuance of bruce - that, in a way, his sense of guilt for barbara's disability is selfish, and that when he mourns who she was to the partial exclusion of who she has been able to become, he does rob her of that new identity.