Disability Awareness - Blog Posts

I'm constantly explaining to people, how my skin/joints/bones work. Sometimes people believe me and let me rest through weirdly specific things. Other times they think I'm exaggerating about my constant dislocations and intense pain 24/7.

It's a constant struggle but aome abled people are nice, and genuinely consider your health, I promise!

What not a lot of people know about asthma is that different substances trigger it for different people. And because of this sometimes people without asthma won’t believe you when you tell them something is hurting you.

Like I’m fine around weed smoke and can even take a drag or two off a joint but if my brother catches even a whiff of marijuana smoke he’s already using his inhaler.

I can’t be around floral perfume but some of my friends with asthma can be. I can’t be around tobacco smoke but another friend of mine with asthma is a heavy smoker. Some people can run and exercise fairly easily. If I start running I get an attack fairly quickly.

Some people get attacks more easily in the fog. For some people wet weather helps. Some people get triggered by dust. I don’t. Someone I know does.

So just because your sister with asthma uses perfume doesn’t mean you can spray a bunch of it near your coworker who’s told you it sets off their asthma.

Believe people when they give you info about their chronic conditions, basically.

Blog Update ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ♡

Salutations all! Just letting everyone know that I've gone through all my posts and updated everything with alt text to make it more accessible. ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

Also I now have everything up on my AO3 and will be posting on there alongside this blog. So if you prefer to read on there, thats also an option! о( ˶^▾^˶ )о

Please let me know if there is any tweaks, things I can do, or keep in mind to make this blog easier for you to use. I have a family member and close friend with dyslexia, so I've been trying to use emphasis and colors in my posts to assist with that.

In case anyone is interested, here are some references for blog, website, and graphic designing in a disability friendly way~

PSA

If you have chronically ill and/or immunocompromised friends, you have to tell us when you are sick. Not just with COVID or the Flu. Even a cold can be a massive deal for us. This is not optional.

And if we tell you we cannot be around you for a while for our own health and safety, you should know it's not you, but you also do not get to be offended.

Also, unless you have a really good reason not to, wear a mask when you're sick. It's a small sacrifice to protect those around you, it's really not hard.

Thank you.

My insulin pump doesn't make me unattractive. Neither do my scars, or all the tubes that hang off of me, or the needles and ports and machines that are attached to me at all times. Parts of my body don't work like they should. I have neuropathy in my hands and retinopathy in one eye. My kidneys need help to work. I've been on beta blockers since my 20s because my heart doesn't work right. That doesn't make me undesirable. I'm worth having sex with. I'm worth pursuing romantically and sexually. I am a whole person that deserves love and to feel good about myself.

feeling sexy and being disabled are things that can exist together. I can have medical devices and a feeding tube and still feel sexy, and i really dislike that people think that the two are completely separate and cannot exist together. I'm allowed to feel confident and love myself and the way i look even if i look a little different, and every other disabled person is too. I love myself and i have a feeding tube, not i love myself but i have a feeding tube.

OC art! This is Qibs!

She’s a Holland lop bunny who can’t hear or speak. She forgives herself for her disability.

Her inspiration was from actual lops - many truly are hearing-impaired because rabbit ears are not designed to flop in that position. The canals in the ears can decay over time. Qibs’ ears were so large and heavy that she lost her hearing.

She is Australian and speaks using Auslan, or Australian Sign Language. Her name is pronounced “Kibs”.

I did a thing! I'm going to need my walker for BotCon next week, and it's just so drab. So I got a bunch of flame decals and Transformers stickers and went to town.

Two weeks ago my cane got a similar treatment.

Gaza has a large disabled population. Wissam is just one of tens of thousands, who need medication and care, facing the devastating choice of being slaughtered at home or out on the streets. All districts in Gaza but one have been declared combat zones.

the thing about disability is it really does sometimes boil down to "wow i wish i could do that" and then you can't. and it sucks.