In Case Anyone Finds It Helpful Because Mobility Aids Are Horrifically Expensive And Inaccessible…

In case anyone finds it helpful because mobility aids are horrifically expensive and inaccessible…

And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damage…

Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.

He also is working on cheap, open source, accessible designs for beach chairs, off road chairs, motorized attachments (think smart drive), and so on. Plus he skateboards in his wheelchair. Cool dude, helpful info, pass it on.

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1 year ago

i got cut off my health insurance without warning yesterday. there are meds i can't go without while i'm trying to get back on it. so things are going to get very expensive.

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5 months ago

Your periodic reminder that in people who have been subject to threats and punishment for having emotional responses or ‘inappropriate’ facial expressions, panic attacks look different.

They may look like the person has become calmer and less involved, dismissive, even. Some people become intensely subservient and silent. Some become catatonic.

Panic doesn’t always involve screaming, crying, and obvious signs of distress. It involves an extreme form of the person’s fear response – which can be altered by circumstance, ability, and what they’ve learnt to fear.

Which is to say, it’s not your place to decide someone isn’t having a panic attack, when they’ve told you that’s what’s happening.

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yeahhh relatable

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1 year ago

Black and white comic with simple digital drawings.
Text: It's nice sometimes to think that a person's pain can be as real as flowers growing in their lungs
Panel 1: A hand holding a smartphone that glows in the dark. It's open on a fanfiction titled "hanahaki au"
Text: That it's really really there, can't you see it?
Panel 2: Blood dripping in thin streams and petals falling downwards.
Text: The flowers? The blood?
Page fades into black background.

Panel 1: The silhouette of a person looks at their open hand. They have blood dribbling down their chin and on their hand.
Panel 2: The person's red heart is cracked and spiked thorny vines emerge, leading to a large cluster of varied flowers.
Text: That this is a hurt so big it can kill you.
Page fades from black to white background.
Panel 3: Close-up on the hand in the dark holding the phone. The screen shows the end of the fanfiction in a similar format to Ao3.
Panel 4: Same shot but with small liquid drops falling down and splatting on the screen.

Panel 1: Person crying with tears dripping down their face as they read off their phone. Inside their chest is a cracked red heart.
Text: Sometimes it's good to rest there when you're somewhere safe.
Panel 2: The cracked red heart in white space.
Text: Even if you know nobody owes love to anyone
Spacing shapes to convey time.
Text: But

Text: I hope one day you will wake up and know
Panel 1: The person yawning as they sit up in bed. There is a window on the wall behind them.
Panel 2: The person sleepily brushing their teeth while holding a cup of water. Foam falls out of their mouth.
Panel 3: Close-up of the person putting on shoes with laces.
Panel 4: The person running outside, leaving behind a door on top of stairs and a window on the wall. They're smiling.
Text: Your pain still counted even without flowers, even without blood

Panel 1: Closer view of the person's torso as they run, showing a red heart now whole with bandaids over it.
Text: Even after you leave it behind and feel okay again
Watermark: @yeehawpim
Text: Trope: Hanahaki Disease
"Hanahaki Disease is a fictional disease where someone begins coughing up flower petals because they have unrequited feelings for someone. If not treated, the disease is fatal. It's primarily an online phenomenon that appears in Fan Works, but it has appeared in original works as well."
—From Hanahaki Disease, tvtropes.org

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6 months ago

quick are you mythologizing sex again? are you making it seem like a special category of human behavior rather than just a thing people do? are you forgetting that it can be silly or fun or simply pedestrian? are you forgetting that it requires conversation and negotiation just like every other human activity that involves other people?

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3 weeks ago

Idk how to use a Tumblr but this is my cat, Grandma

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GRANDMA GRANDMA GRANDMA

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5 months ago

Big Ole Comic About Adult ADHD Diagnosis + Big Feelings + Making Sure Childhood Me Is Okay

big ole comic about adult ADHD diagnosis + big feelings + making sure childhood me is okay

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11 months ago

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