this... this is actually really helpful
notes for my impostor syndrome:
• no, it's not painful to walk for abled-bodied people
• no, healthy people don't usually use every chance they get to lean against walls or sit down
• no, ableds don't dream about shower stool
• no, ableds don't celebrate days when they're not in pain. because usually they're not in pain
• no, ableds don't want to stop walking mid-way, lay down on the ground, curl up and cry and whine from pain
• no, ableds aren't exhausted by their own bodies 24/7
For my American mutuals🫶🏼
Dudes healthcare is so fake. My ADHD meds are $940 without insurance. But they gave me a website of "coupons" which straight up looks like a scam website, and I got it today for $60! Just a coupon from a random website and it was $900 cheaper. America, I am confusion!! America explain!!
I feel like this a lot lately, especially bc uni started again and I'm using a wheelchair now. The other day in anatomy class I was constantly apologising and being just my general awkward self. A friend of mine and fellow med student messaged me later to ask if I felt like I was in the way with my wheelchair and to remind me that I belong there just as much as anyone else🥺 so thankful for the few friends I have found in medschool who are genuinely kind and accepting when it comes to my disabilities.
I'm in medschool and I'm the only visibly disabled student in my semester. I'm not very social outside of classes so I can't be certain, but I'm fairly sure I'm the only visibly physically disabled med student in multiple years. I've heard about one other who is atleast 4 years ahead of me. So, in doing the math I can conclude that I'm 1 out of 2 visibly physically disabled med students out of roughly 3500 med students at my university.....
if you feel like you’re ‘getting in the way’ as a mobility aid user, particularly with larger aids like wheelchairs, rollators/walkers, gait trainers and service dogs, That Is A Fault Of The Space (and potentially the people), not of you. You deserve all the space you take up and more.
“Don’t let your disorder define you”
Okay but do you support the people whose disorders do define them?
Do you support people with the chronic illnesses who have had to develop whole lives around their conditions? Do you support the intellectually disabled people whose whole way of thinking is defined by their disorder? Do you support the people with personality disorders who literally have a disorder as a personality? Do you support the autism/ADHD people whose disorder you can’t separate from who they are? Do you support the DIDOSDD people who have multiple definitions of themselves because of their disorder?
Or are you just saying that because a disorder defining someone means you can’t ignore it.
ukraine: edgy vampire sets whole stage on fire
spain: 3 month anniversary date singing to all of europe
solvenia: pink hair and her gal pals
lithuania: no please no not a ballad
austria: mmmmm heart eyes #bae
estonia: opera? really? okay rainbow dress, they did get the memo after all!
norway: not fairytale (2009)
portugal: they're gay and in love for sure
uk: british katy perry, got sabotaged, liked her more because of it
serbia: cult leader and sister wives feat. Albert Einstein on the pipe
germany: ballad but forgivable because its totes emosh
albania: adam lambert is that you? tattoos so good, china banned them
france: je suis bored
czech republic: backpack boy, sounds like talk dirty to me?
denmark: this viking ballad got me sailing straight to valhalla
australia: shE DOESNT EVEN GO HERE
finland: third time lucky saara?
bulgaria: washed up boyband???
moldova: no led staging? moldova don't need it
sweden: red lights I think? I skipped out for a toilet break lol
hungary: screaming into the void #mood
israel: the birdie song but new and improved (feat. body positivity)
netherlands: america? what are you doing here?
ireland: beautiful gay love story, don't hate us cause you ain't us China xox
cyprus: absolute banger, looks like Queen Bey
italy: absolute tune, powerful lyrics, anti-terrorist
listen I ended up regretting saying anything about this on my old blog because people will interpret literally any and every statement maliciously on this hellsite but I want to start like. a helpline for people who are like “hey I pretty much only read YA but I’m like 22 now and don’t relate to teenagers as much, it’s such a shame that there are no fun books written for adults :(” because boy HOWDY are there some fun books for adults
Your future self is so proud of you!
Living with Chronic pain is so weird.
In every quiet moment there’s pain.
If some asks me how I am I usually say ‘fine’ or ‘good’ or ‘a bit tired’
because those are easier to say than ‘I’m in a lot of pain’ ‘I’m this close to passing out’ ‘if I move to quickly I will throw up’
and sometimes when people say ‘How are things going?’
I shrug and say ‘the usual’
and they assume that means everything’s fine because for them that is the usual
but for me the usual is pain.
@ all the people unfollowing me during eurovision
24, they/them, nonbinary lesbian, disabled. Studying medicine, working on my internalised ableism, prioritising finding out what I like to do. I write, ish, or try to at least and that's something
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