the hot new trend is "guard posting"

Some of the people crying about cripplepunk being gatekept haven’t been through this life. You just fucking haven’t. You never will.

You’ve never fed your friend their breakfast. You’ve never held that friends hand and said hey, it’s okay, it’s okay the treatment didn’t work. It’s okay. You’ve never let them curl into you and sob. You’ve never been friends with someone who was terminally ill. You’ve never been friends with someone who has bladder and bowel incontinence. You’ve never changed an adult. You’ve never stood outside of the disabled bathroom desperately trying to bust it open because your friend fell down and started to cry.

You’ve never struggled to chew or swallow, or move. You’ve never sobbed into someone’s chest ‘WHY CAN’T MY BODY BE NORMAL?!’ You’ve never watched a friend die so far before their time. You’ve never had to use adult diapers. You’ve never had to feel the shame of incontinence. You’ve never laid on the floor of a dirty accessible bathroom screaming, sobbing, gasping for air, unable to reach the emergency alarm.

Because if you had. You’d know why we keep this to ourselves.

Abled people like you just don’t fucking get it.

Fuck you.

Use tax dollars to feed children/students who, by law, have to attend schools.

Shut up biiiitch I don't care if you're gonna kill god

no one talk to me i’m thinking about Them again

Had a friend in high school who accidentally kicked me in the balls on three separate occasions.

It hurt at the time, but I realise now he must have known I was trans and was trying to give me a cheap orchiectomy.

God bless you Ben, my first and best ally

I'm trying to think of a way to articulate my feelings on like... what cripplepunk actually means. There's a lot of talk on who can call themselves a cripple but not too much on how like... if someone describes the economy as "crippled" they're saying it doesn't work. If someone is described as having "crippling" social anxiety, they mean that person is so anxious they can't function in society so they might as well be a cripple.

Cripple means broken and useless. We're seen as a bad and redundant part of society, something to be fixed or forgotten about.

CripplePUNK is about taking that place in society, really a not-place, and saying yeah, I AM worthless to most of society, people don't want to be me or be around me because I make them uncomfortable just by existing. We're considered the lowest of the low and the most useless of the useless. We used to be called invalids for a reason. And fuck you my life is worth it anyways. I'm going to give my worthless life the meaning I choose to give it. I'm not going to spend my entire life trying to be a good cripple and do all my physical therapy and eat perfectly and be nice to people who "didn't mean it" and everything else to try and be worthy of respect from people who think my life is worth than death, I'm going to do what I think is worthwhile and if you don't like me or like the way I live then you can go fuck yourself.

If you're not willing to take on all the baggage of being a cripple, cool. A lot of people don't want that, but cripplepunk is about throwing your disability and your 'uselessness' to society back in their face and experiencing disability on your own terms.

It's also acknowledging some people DON'T make it and their lives were just as worthwhile no matter how short.

why is it hard for some able bodied people to realize that physically disabled people talking about the struggles they face specifically as a physically disabled person does not take away or put down the struggles faced by mentally disabled people.

a wheelchair using talking about how it’s near impossible for them to enter many public spaces because they don’t have ramps is not an invitation for you to chime in with an exposition on how you can’t enter public spaces because you have social anxiety. both are valid, but separate struggles. stop derailing posts/discussions/vents/etc that are not about you.

i say this as an autistic able bodied person with bpd, depression and anxiety. it’s not hard for me to see a post about a struggle that i don’t relate to and not bring in my experiences that are not relevant. see a post about an immunocompromised person wishing people would wear masks in public? acknowledge struggle, reblog. DO NOT start talking about how your sensory issues make it difficult to wear masks. separate struggle; separate posts. you can’t ask for solidarity if you don’t care about or respect struggles that are fundamentally different from your own.

“actually, there’s no difference between physical and mental disabilities!!!! uwu”

if only you understood how dangerous and fucking wrong you were. this attitude is literally anti-intellectualism and repulsive ableism.

you being stuck in bed from mental illness is not the “same exact thing” as me being unable to leave my bed from a spinal cord injury. literally what the fuck is wrong with some of you? do you not hear yourself?

I guess I should go to a acupuncturist and a talk therapist for my severe spinal cord injury since it’s “the exact same thing” as your mental health conditions and words don’t mean anything anymore!!!

“I’m helping!!!!!!!” yourself. you’re helping yourself. you don’t give a FUCK about other disabled people. shut the fuck up

is so frustrate frustrate frustrate

people stop trigger warning facial scar , scar , burns , body difference , People Real Body . this include fiction fictonal character

lot lot many time that oc fictional character you trigger warning because scar body different , There is real person who is like , and you is say “it is trigger , it should be hidden” . tell real person with scar “it trigger , should be hidden “

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tell self , Why are you uncomfortable, Why is it “horror grotesque “ to you when no have that body

enforce ugly law in brain , “people different body uncomfortable , should no see , you you make uncomfortable because looks . hide hide it scare mee . “

you are for disable people until body is look different . human body not horror , stop treat like threat

is want specify , This Include Self Harm Scar .

it still scar on body , it still see as unsightly , it worse worse worse it still still still say “your body . Your Body . Your Body trigger Me”

self is see over and over real people with visible sh scar treat like shit shit told “trigger warning Own Body Own Representation Of Self hide hide hide “ whether it drawing of self , pictures of self . make character with self traits .

it person , it still body .

it still fuck up , stop . body is body .

self is lucky self scar barely visible .

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someone scar body , someone different looking body , no matter what reason . body is body .

get shit together

get used to seeing scared body , no matter what reason . that a you problem . not on the living being . get used to seeing it .

it still human body . stop .

i thought cripples needed their own version of the yippee creature so i made this thing. i gave it a wheelie like animals have since the og yippee is quadrupedal and i couldn't figure out how to give it a regular disability aid lmao. it is angry looking cause I'm angry ab being disabled in today's world lolz

feel free to make your own to pertain to your disability! i just wanted to make a fun silly little guy

this guy is for all physically disabled folks :D wahoo

[image id: an ambiguous, white, quadrupedal creature with large black eyes with eyebags. it is using a quadrupedal back-legs walking aid that is black, blue, and orange.]

DASHBOARD UNFUCKER V1.0

as 90% of desktop users have probably found out, today @staff released an update that for some insane reason COMPLETELY remodels the dashboard to replicate twitter's. this is of course in the wake of numerous other thoroughly hated changes and a continued refusal to fix any of the site's actual problems, half of which stem directly from site management.

HOWEVER, thanks to the power of jQuery, i was able to throw together a userscript that remodels the dashboard back to its original look almost perfectly.

here is my dashboard right now, with the script active:

and here is the old dashboard in separate tab container that hasn't received the update:

it's hardly perfect; i had trouble making it force reload to the fixed layout when switching between other pages and the dashboard, and it currently only fixes just the dashboard. it's also completely untested on browsers other than firefox, and chances are it looks a bit screwy on ultrawide monitors. but for now at least, it's a good fix.

the unfucker is a tampermonkey userscript. all you have to do to use it is install the tampermonkey extension, hit "create new script", and replace the default code on the page with the script (link here) and save it.

"everyone suddenly has POTS now so obviously they're faking it"

yeah it's not like there's some sort of illness that causes people to develop POTS or anything. this is just completely unexplainable /sarcasm

Whenever a person walks out of the accessible bathroom stall and sees me, a wheelchair user, sitting outside waiting for the stall, they often apologize.

In the beginning, I said, "No worries!" Because I was too scared to be confrontational.

Then I started saying nothing.

But after a while, I realized that some disabled people may be a portion of the people that apologize. And I never want to make an invisibly disabled person feel bad for using accommodations that they need. There are many different reasons a disabled person would need the stall!

(It is tiring waiting for ages while someone uses the stall to change, or do their makeup. It is not annoying for anyone who needs the stall to use it.)

So, I've decided to start saying, "That's okay! I believe every disabled person should be able to use the accessible stall!"

Because then, if they are invisibly disabled, hopefully that will put them at ease.

And if the person isn't disabled, it will remind them that the accessible stall is not just "the big stall."

Hey, PSA for my fellow disabled people: UPS workers are trying to negotiate a new contract, and it looks like it's leading to a strike soon. Now, I am absolutely all for this, they need safe working conditions and should strike if need be, but for us?

Please contact your doctors and make sure you're prepared in any way possible. This will affect many of you, whether that's through med deliveries, oxygen tanks, or other one-use supplies. If you live in America, try to get in contact with an insurance case worker for resources and advice if you're able.

Stay safe, and hope that the precaution isn't necessary.