May 2012
155 posts
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(tw: anxiety)
secretsofthedisabled:
disabilityconfessions:
[Image: A diagram of human lungs. Text reads, “I’m really tired of anxiety advice that focuses on breathing. I know how to breathe. I’ve pretty much been doing it my whole life.]
This.
This. A far better tactic is to just distract yourself from whatever is making you anxious. Watch some mindless TV. Works every time.
April 2012
146 posts
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What is cerebral palsy?
talkingmatters:
Between 600 and 700 children are born with cerebral palsy in Australia each year. That is one in every 400 births or one baby every 18 hours. So what is cerebral palsy and what can be done to help children with this?
Cerebral palsy is the name for a group of non-progressive disorders of movement and posture. “Cerebral” refers to the brain and “palsy” refers to muscle...
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“Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so...”
– Audre Lorde, ‘Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface’, in Sister/Outsider, p. 63. (via feministquotes)
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Oh, I'm sorry, did you mean MY LIFE??
Non-disabled person: Oh you poor, poor disabled person, you must be so miserable! After all, you can't do the same things that WE can. It's so tragic!
Disabled person: Oh no no no, it's okay, really, as long as our needs are accommodated we can do just as much as --
Non-disabled person: ACCOMMODATIONS!? FUCK THOSE
Disabled person: !?
Non-disabled person: WHY SHOULD WE BE EXPECTED TO BEND OVER BACKWARDS FOR YOU
Disabled person: Wait, weren't you just saying --
Non-disabled person: DON'T YOU KNOW THE NEEDS OF THE MANY OUTWEIGH THE NEEDS OF THE FEW
Disabled person:
Non-disabled person:
Disabled person:
Non-disabled person: But it's okay, I totally know how awful your life must be.
Disabled person: Please go hurdle yourself into space.
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Blogging Against Disablism Day is Tuesday, May 1 →
tal9000:
Since May 1 is also the day I’m going to be going back to my regular icon, I think I’m going to pledge that my BADD post will be up before I switch out of lighting it up orange mode.
Yes, this means I’m going to be actually posting something on my long-form blog again.
If college stops eating my very soul, I will have a post up. About something. Somehow. *cries* Damn you,...
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“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
– David Tyson Gentry (via aaanxious)
@cpmeanscrazyperson
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What to do with a catheter during sex?
cripple-fabulous:
fuckthedisabled:
Q&A with Diane Rowles:
So, what do you do with a catheter during sex? For people who are on intermittent catheterization, the in-and-out catheterization, I usually recommend to catheterize prior to having sex. Because we talked about those Sacral Arc reflexes, well the bladder has a reflex, and the bowel has a reflex, sex has a reflex. So, remembering...
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“The Power of Disability Justice
Disability justice activists are engaged in...”
– Mia Mingus, Changing the Framework: Disability Justice, How our communities can move beyond access to wholeness
(via disabledbyculture)
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Planned Parenthood is on Tumblr!
barackobama:
plannedparenthood:
Planned Parenthood is excited to be launching our new Tumblr that’s all about sexual and reproductive health – bodies, birth control, relationship issues, “is it normal for this to do this?” type things. In the coming weeks and months we’ll be sharing what we know, answering questions, and just… tumblring.
We hope you like it! And we hope it helps.
Welcome to...
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List of privileges (permanently in progress)
secretsofthedisabled:
privilege101:
white - privilege checklist
male - privilege checklist
Masculine (under discussion, feel free to send your input)
cis - privilege checklist
heterosexual - privilege checklist
sexual - tumblog creating a privilege checklist
monosexual
binary gender - privilege checklist (imperfect)
dyadic (non-intersex people are dyadically sexed )
temporarily able...
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“The reality is that fat people are often supported in hating their bodies, in...”
– Lesley Kinzel (via curvesahead)
I will always reblog this because it is so so important.
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I just want to nail this to every stable surface I can find. I cannot count the amount of times that I’ve seen fat folks being encouraged, cajoled, and even forced into behaviors that...
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To all my fellow cripples-
neeeenaaaah:
I have made a blog, and I would appreciate it if you checked it out!
http://crippleproblems.tumblr.com/
MUST. REBLOG. ALL THE CRIPPLE PROBLEMS!!!!!!
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You Know You Have CP When...
youknowyouhavecphwhen:
You are part of “The Baclofen Club”
LMAO, I posted this one in the group….I’m a new club member!
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“The clearest example is the repeated use of the word “tolerate.” Students would...”
– “Sociology of Deviancy” - Liazos (via br3nnando0o)
Fuck tolerance. I want more. I want to be embraced as I am. And I don’t want it to be a big fucking “gimme cookies, I accept you!” thing. It should just be the way it is.
(via sherlocksflataffect)
Why I hate the word “tolerance”.
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You Know You Have CP When...
youknowyouhavecphwhen:
You’re in the ER and the nurse asks if you ever had any surgeries and it takes over 10 minutes to go through everything.
My favorite is the “difficult birth” question.
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Not every disabled person uses a wheelchair. Not...
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“The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations...”
– Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider, p.123 (via strugglingtobeheard)
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One day I will have my own fictional characters of...
flutter-sassy:
They will beat all your asses.
Damn it all.
Ooh, can I help write????!! :D
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44.Having so many things wrong with you, you only...
disabledproblems:
Submitted by: Secretsofthedisabled.tumblr.com
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avatarsnowy:
or maybe Aang already knows and has been sitting in a corner of the Spirit World for the last ten years with his face in his hands just muttering to himself, “I leave them one order, I leave them one fucking order and this is what happens”
And Sokka is sitting next to Aang patting his shoulder and eating a drumstick that everyone is too afraid to ask the origins of and saying “I...
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“You guys know about vampires? … You know, vampires have no reflections in a...”
– Junot Diaz (via vulturechow)
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“Microaggression is the idea that specific interactions between those of...”
– Wikipedia (via disabledbyculture)
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Submit your stims to FY Stimming →
takebacksexuality:
flapjackstate:
fuckyeahstimming:
It’s time to start submitting your stims and getting the conversation rolling! The idea of this blog is to explore how stimming is experienced by autistic people, and to build a database of behaviour types. What are your stims? How do they feel? What parameters of the stim are the most relaxing? What music is best for stimming?
I want to...
How One North Woodmere Family Continues to Defy... →
The Feintuches are very close family friends and I consider all four girls to be my little sisters. I don’t ask for much on here, but please, please donate so that Evie can finally come home. It would make a huge difference and I know that Eric and Penni appreciate every single cent. http://www.gofundme.com/FIGAS
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“Disabled people - men and women - have little opportunity to portray our own...”
– Jenny Morris, Pride Against Prejudice (1993)
THIS. WHENEVER THE FRICKEN’ FEMINISTS TELL ME I CAN’T CONTRIBUTE BECAUSE “OTHER PEOPLE HAVE YOUR DISABILITY WORSE” OR “YOUR DISABILITY IS TOO VARIED FOR YOU TO SPEAK IN SUCH A GENERAL MANNER…”
(via secretsofthedisabled)
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"if you just *tried*..."
static-nonsense:
velocicrafter:
if you just thought about how much energy it took me to even think about trying
if you just thought about how many times I *have* tried & gotten no response
if you just thought about the possibility that what I’m saying is the truth & not an excuse
if you just considered that maybe your platitudes don’t magickally work for everyone
if you just...
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OK, the very worst part about online friends:
cpmeanscrazyperson:
anedumacation:
youarenotyou:
When they’re in crisis, you can’t go and see them in person. You can’t let them spend the night at your house. You can’t cook them dinner. You can’t go with them to a job interview. You can’t take them out for coffee. You can’t hold their hand or hug them. You can’t let them use your shower. You can’t be a physical contrast to the abusive...
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Call Me Maybe, RENT style
Mimi: Hey I just met you
Mimi: and this is crazy
Mimi: so could you light my candle
Mimi: and have Christmas brunch with me maybe
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Reblog if you want your followers to leave one... →
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Disability Politics and Daniel Radcliffe →
notacountryclub:
Anyone in the Potter-Sphere knows about Daniel Radcliffe’s dyspraxia, first talked about in this interview (around 4:50)around the time he was acting in Equus. I’m calling this disability politics because of the way disability is treated by the public eye, but it’s important to note that Radcliffe’s personal policy is to not be considered disabled. That’s his choice, and I...
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Autistic activism: the radical notion that...
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FYI
static-nonsense:
kiriamaya:
ouyangdan:
impressioniste:
If you see a link being reblogged titled, “I was a fan of Obama, but not after reading this.”
Do not click the damned thing.
I’m sorry if I’m ruining anybody’s fun in trying to fuck with people, but it’s one of those jump scare things and I actually got physically ill from accientally clicking on one earlier, because there were no...
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is there like a blog on how to eat when you are...
secretsofthedisabled:
girl-in-a-wheelchair:
lum-uk:
weaselherder:
kiriamaya:
youarenotyou:
maybe i should have specified…. i need things that are basically instant meals
when i say no spoons i mean like
something as basic as making rice isn’t something i can always do.
i don’t even buy fresh produce anymore because i often am unable to actually turn it into a meal before it spoils....
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On privilege
flutter-sassy:
I was trying to come up with an anology of privilege denying mostly because it bothers me. I’m a white disabled cis-gendered female. So I have some privileges but not some others. I don’t know when privilege became like this evil dirty word. When people stopped realising that you can say or do something racist or homphobic without constantly being a racist or homophobic person....
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daisyduk3s:
i’m sick of hearing people say “sorry i startled you”
i’m even more sick of hearing people say “sorry i scared you!”. no, you did not scare me, you startled me. there’s a difference. it is a reflex I can’t help.
wander1ng asked: BY THE WAY I'M RENT OBSESSED TOO!!! i've watched it so many times! :P
wander1ng asked: hey! sorry i didn't message you sooner, but thanks a billion for your response to my post about cp a couple weeks back. it is nice to meet new people like you even if it is just tumblr. so thank you so much <3 xxx.
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“Not being racist is not some default starting position. You don’t simply get to...”
– PostBourgie (via barbiehighheels, meow-sense) (via locomotives)
This is super fucking relevant. So I’m reblogging this again.
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