I found an extremely dope disability survival guide for those who are homebound, bedbound, in need of disability accommodations, or would otherwise like resources for how to manage your life as a disabled person. (Link is safe)

It has some great articles and resources and while written by people with ME/CFS, it keeps all disabilities in mind. A lot of it is specific to the USA but even if you're from somewhere else, there are many guides that can still help you. Some really good ones are:

How to live a great disabled life- A guide full of resources to make your life easier and probably the best place to start (including links to some of the below resources). Everything from applying for good quality affordable housing to getting free transportation, affordable medication, how to get enough food stamps, how to get a free phone that doesn't suck, how to find housemates and caregivers, how to be homebound, support groups and Facebook pages (including for specific illnesses), how to help with social change from home, and so many more.

Turning a "no" into a "yes"- A guide on what to say when denied for disability aid/accommodations of many types, particularly over the phone. "Never take no for an answer over the phone. If you have not been turned down in writing, you have not been turned down. Period."

How to be poor in America- A very expansive and helpful guide including things from a directory to find your nearest food bank to resources for getting free home modifications, how to get cheap or free eye and dental care, extremely cheap internet, and financial assistance with vet bills

How to be homebound- This is pretty helpful even if you're not homebound. It includes guides on how to save spoons, getting free and low cost transportation, disability resources in your area, home meals, how to have fun/keep busy while in bed, and a severe bedbound activity master list which includes a link to an audio version of the list on Soundcloud

Master List of Disability Accommodation Letters For Housing- Guides on how to request accommodations and housing as well as your rights, laws, and prewritten sample letters to help you get whatever you need. Includes information on how to request additional bedrooms, stop evictions, request meetings via phone, mail, and email if you can't in person, what you can do if a request is denied, and many other helpful guides

Special Laws to Help Domestic Violence Survivors (Vouchers & Low Income Housing)- Protections, laws, and housing rights for survivors of DV (any gender), and how to get support and protection under the VAWA laws to help you and/or loved ones receive housing and assistance

Dealing With Debt & Disability- Information to assist with debt including student loans, medical debt, how to deal with debt collectors as well as an article with a step by step guide that helped the author cut her overwhelming medical bills by 80%!

There are so many more articles, guides, and tools here that have helped a lot of people. And there are a lot of rights, resources, and protections that people don't know they have and guides that can help you manage your life as a disabled person regardless of income, energy levels, and other factors.

Please boost!

me when i got the “sits in painful silence because idk how to introject into the conversation when its litterally my favorite subject” autism and not the “thinking about fictional characters all the time” autism

this is a way better model... you'll still get transphobic & intersexist drs of course but i prefer this to male / female or even having separate questions for gender & sex.

[we can't see the full form, but i'd suggest having a "something else" option and dominant hormone question too.]

as a cis woman who's had a hysterectomy and partial oophorectomy, this would be helpful for me, too! it'd be pointless to try to diagnose me for disorders that affect organs I don't have anymore, after all.

being inclusive helps us ALL. 💖

we could probably calculate the amount of man hours wasted on testing trans women and women who have had hysterectomies or oophorectomies for pregnancy every time they're admitted to the emergency room and justify it on that basis alone.

it really is crazy how women abusing men is still regularly (if "jokingly") viewed as a positive thing. like literally today i was talking to someone about having watched both misery & sunset boulevard in a film class & both of those being about men being abused by women & the person's response was smth like. haha yeah that's so empowering. like obviously these are fictional characters but y'all realize that treating individual human men like poppets to punish Mankind for it's Sins is fucked up and evil yeah. also this directly translates into how trans men are treated as free punching bags for people to take out their anger at more powerful cis men. idk call me crazy but i feel like if you can't hear about men being abused by women without making a "joke" about it maybe you just have a deep problem you need to work on

Someone tell me where to send my partner, they need a job so bad

$122,000. And the thing is so shodily designed that the accelerator can become that easily stuck. It isn't even all one piece.

$122,000. That's more than my entire household income, and we're 3 adults with full-time jobs.

If you gave that $122,000 to Feeding America, that would provide over 1 million meals.

That's $122,000 more than Tesla paid in taxes.

i guess the thing for me is that like. if you want to put an end to domestic abuse you have to be open to rethinking prisons, wage labour and the family unit. like if you're gonna drill down and really get to grips with what abuse and compulsion actually mean and prevent them wherever they arise, then that puts a lot of how our society is organised under scrutiny.

i'll exemplify. we have a society where it is acceptable to have an employment relationship that makes people think "well i don't want to be here, but because of economic forces i am forced to be comply". as long as we have that sort of society, we will also have romantic and sexual relationships where people think "well i don't want to be here, but because of economic forces i am forced to comply".

it's the same thing! we consider it acceptable for the market to force people to do things they don't want to do. that's the basis of our present society. and as long as that is the basis of our society, we will have situations where the market forces women to stay with their shitty boyfriends.

so when the allos say that they are marrying their best friend thats all fine and dandy but when the aroaces say they are marrying their best friend somehow THATS a problem

I like Cohost more and more every time I log on. It’s not in the Fediverse/Mastodon like I thought it was (maybe I mixed it up with Bluesky, but I haven’t actually looked at that yet at all so that might be its own thing too) but it’s soooo similar to Tumblr except way more trans women every where.

I don’t want to lose my mutuals here but I’m so disappointed with Tumblr deciding to sell data to AI companies and apparently leaving it to those companies to not collect from users who have opted out, rather than only handing over data from users who have opted in and not letting the company do their own collection from the user-end of the site. I’m genuinely considering leaving, and even thinking about deleting my blogs and account and not just abandoning them like I do for other sites. The only other accounts I’ve wiped entirely was my Twitter that I hadn’t used in years when Elon took over. It stresses me out even being online here now, but the idea of my blog just being gone is stressful as well.

I’d love to see you all there. I have the same username there as here. My Cohost dashboard is really quiet still, I’m relying on my bookmarked tags to keep new posts coming, and regularly finding new tags to bookmark to refresh that feed even more.

I’ll post if I make up my mind to delete entirely. Give people a chance to get my usernames other places if you want them. Even if we haven’t really talked before. I don’t initiate conversations easily and only started posting more verbosely in the last couple years.

Follow me on Cohost to get regular pics of my cats!

fanfic where they both turn into coniferous trees. mutual pining

the usa shouldn’t be the political and economic focal point of the entire fucking planet, actually

I just learned that my medication is out of stock COUNTRYWIDE because America is restricting how much ADHD medication Australia is allowed to make... and they're just flat out ignoring Australia's request to meet to negotiate more.

America's Federal Trade Commission is taking public comments on this exact situation right now.

If you've been affected by the actions of US-based regulation in regards to accessing your ADHD medication, please submit a comment! Even if you're outside of the United States. The fact this has such far-reaching consequences is something that needs to be known!

You have until April 15th, 2024 to submit a comment. Please make your voice heard!

For people who don't understand how the US can stop other countries from making ADHD medication: the active ingredient in most ADHD medication is a form of methamphetamine, which is a highly restricted substance worldwide. There are only 4 factories in the world that produce this active ingredient, located in India, Iran, Norway and the US. The DEA put limits on how much the US factory can produce and those levels are way below the level of demand, so there is not enough of the active ingredient to export to other countries so they can produce their own ADHD medication. This is the root cause of the current ADHD medication shortage as the other factories cannot ramp up supply to meet the demand.

So it's not that America is just ordering other nations not to produce ADHD meds, it's that they are artificially reducing the supply of the ingredients necessary for other nations to produce ADHD meds.

Minor correction: while many of the common ADHD medications are amphetamines, they're not methamphetamine specifically. The main amphetamines used therapeutically are dextroamphetamine (dexedrine and equivalent generics) and levoamphetamine (adderall is a mix of dextro- and levoamphetamines). Methamphetamine is used therapeutically in certain cases of treatment-resistant ADHD and for weight loss that's considered medically necessary, but it's generally considered a last resort because it's neurotoxic at substantially lower doses than most amphetamines.

excellent recent story (with a both-sides-ist imposed subhead, but the DEA is clearly the bad actor)

the situation is appalling, go give them hell

i’ve figured out how to connect my airpods to my monitor. i do not yet know what this will accomplish but i think i might be on to something

Why

no no i am ON to something here. im so close just gotta figure it out

Listening to images

ok ok yeah i like the energy here but i think we aren’t thinking big picture enough. like this could revolutionize everything

omg you beautiful bastard you’ve done it. this could replace tumblr

sayonara you weaboo shits