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¿Will It Shall Never Have Been *I*, For Forevermore?
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*looks at books* too tired for you *looks at films* too tired for you *looks at art supplies* too tired for you *eyes fall on tumblr* oho ho
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now is not the time.....
Holy mother of curb theory those are GOOD
See what happens when we do things for disabled people? We get shot like this that's just better for *everyone* AND accommodates for wheelchair users
The hoodies are $59. That is straight up a normal hoodie price that is AMAZING
Also noting that this line has a lot of clothing that works for people who need easy chest access or have limited upper body mobility, like if you are recovering from surgery or doing chemo
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About 6 years ago, I was in the hospital with awful pain… I was asked where it hit on the 0-10 scale and I said a 9… because I was told “10 is the worst pain you can imagine”.
I have a pretty vivid imagination. I was in the worst pain of my life, but I imagined that having my limbs torn off by a gator would probably hurt more. So I said “9”.
Turned out I had 6 simultaneous kidney stones. As anyone who’s ever had one can tell you, even a single kidney stone is monumentally painful- famously so.
I had 6 at once. 4 in one kidney, and 2 in the other.
When the doctor figured out what was wrong with me, he was floored that I hadn’t said “10”. Floored that I wasn’t screaming.
I told him about my imagination. He asked if I had chronic pain. I told him yeah, and that the reason I waited almost 10hrs to come to the hospital when I started was because “it felt like period cramps”.
His advice? “Any time anyone asks you where you’re at on the 0-10 scale? Add four to account for my chronic pain daily threshold.
This pain scale isn’t as useful, but it’s funny.
I saw it in my orthopedic surgeon’s office.
A useful pain scale:
If you have chronic pain, your baseline may be 6. A good day may be 5.
Don't downplay that for the doctor. If your recent bad day was 8 or 9 - if you regularly have days that hit 8 or 9 - say so.
Part of the problem with doctors ignoring women's pain and people of color's pain, is that people who are disadvantaged are told to "suck it up" a lot, and they downgrade their baseline at 2-4 to zero.
Fuck that.
Describe your pain as if you were an overprivileged white guy who's never actually done 8 hours of manual labor in his life.
You can't fake something unintentionally or unconsciously.
Faking an experience is done with full knowledge and conscious intent on your part of what you are doing.
If something is happening to you unintentionally, if you are doing something and unconsciously, you are having a legitimate experience of some kind.
If you're faking something, you're doing it deliberately. Faking something isn't something that just happens to you. An experience is something that just happens to you.
No no you don't understand! I want to watch this show/movie, read this book, listen to this podcast, etc.! But I must be in the right mindset and the exact head space to begin, or I just can't!
“gale is disabled with chronic pain” i say into the mic. the crowd boos and jeers.
“no she’s right” a voice calls from the back. i look up. it’s gale dekarios himself.
One of the many things I love about this game is that MOST of our companions are disabled in one way, shape, or form. This is appropriate for a story so much about bodily autonomy and its limits, a story that begins with a quest for a cure. Our companions' disabilities vary dramatically from more metaphorical to more literal, more chronic to more acute, disabilities of the body vs. mind vs. a bit of both. Likewise, each companion varies on whether the happy ending for them is cure for the disability or care for the disability and whether that disability is treated as inherently traumatic or as a neutral fact about the body and mind. The result is a game with a very nuanced and thorough exploration of disability, one that I think deserves more love. Some companion disability breakdowns under the read-more, because apparently I am obsessed with this.
the neurodivergent experience:
20% of the time: wowwieee!!! i love my passions and interests!!!!! they make me so happy i want to jump up and down!!!!! weee!!!!!!! :3333333333
80% of the time: this mind is a prison
you’d be surprised at how many doctors will tell you that schizophrenics shouldn’t masturbate, have sexual fantasies or write/draw erotica, let alone date or have actual sex, because it “distracts them from recovery”, as if schizophrenia is a two week course of antibiotics and not a lifelong neurotype and disability
in general I notice this attitude in the schizophrenia and bipolar treatment community that people with these DXes are never allowed to do anything non-constructive that normal people can do in moderation, no alcohol, no caffeine, no thc, no going to late concerts or parties, no unplanned trips, no spontaneous situationships, not even junk food. the only thing we’re really allowed to partake in is nicotine, I assume because cigarettes and gum are good incentives for controlling our behavior. our lives have to be All Working On Ourselves, All The Time, because we have Erratic Crazy Person Who Can’t Make Their Own Decisions Disorder, and it’s an endless, thankless task because there’s no actual cure.
sane person goes through a depression era in high school and does one bad thing that wasn’t illegal or even really mean-spirited, just irresponsible: wow I’m so glad you’re through that, that was a tough time but you pulled through
insane person goes through a depression era in high school and does one bad thing that wasn’t illegal or even really mean-spirited, just irresponsible: sorry but we just don’t ever feel like we can trust you alone again even though you haven’t done anything like that in over a decade. this is why you can’t go to a party on your own at 32.
This is a named phenomenon, it's called the dignity of risk. Essentially, neurotypical and non-disabled people are allowed to make "bad" decisions. They're allowed to stay up late and drink too much and whatever else, even though those things could have negative impacts. However, people who aren't those things aren't afforded the ability to make "bad" decisions and do detrimental things. There's more to it than that but my shift is about to start, sorry.
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i dream of having a regulated nervous system
ALTEdited from something else I whipped up and apparently lost all of its pixels. Whatevs.
Hey everyone, remember that being sick or healing from injuries is a hard time for your body. You have to eat a lot and lay still and be kind to yourself! [large neon sign that says HYPOCRITE descends from the ceiling and points at me] Hey what the heck what's this who put that there
ow. ow. pain. ow
It persisteth.
I would get a hammer but that's too heavy and no brain want work
New pain. Hammer is not applicable to it.
Pain has retreated into its corner like a hissing animal, vanquished for an unknown duration.
Its disappearance made me realized Crushing Unwellness has been stalking me for ages.
Over a month later and I need my hammer again owwwwwww
FUCK YOU PAIN
you can always give your blorbos mobility aids btw . you can always make them disabled its always morally correct
Thats what i mean with this now . Fuckign commit violence against that beast until they have your disability we're getting representation the hard way 2night
