abled people really don’t understand how lucky they are that all their muscles work because i don’t think most people realize why you need muscles that badly like i think for most people it’s “i need muscles to be able to walk and lift things” when it’s more like “you need muscles to be able to blow your nose, use the bathroom, and cough”. if your chest hurts lifting your arms will make it hurt worse. if your ass atrophies you can’t walk. you need your ass muscles to walk. it’s all connected
not being able to swallow pills means you have access to less medication and insurance, if you have it, is less likely to pay for alternatives to tablets. also a lot of people are just not going to believe that you can’t swallow pills and when they do so often it’s “yeah i used to have swallowing anxiety too. when i was like 6. what you do is *unsolicited advice*” and this includes other disabled people
you need your diaphragm to blow your nose and cough up mucus and if you don’t cough up mucus or find some other way to get it out it builds up and chokes you. not being able to blow your nose probably contributes to this but mostly it’s 1 just annoying 2 can’t really breathe thru your nose if it’s just totally plugged
plus your diaphragm and esophagus are connected but i don’t personally understand how. you get inadequate air distribution. i get like, gas going down my esophagus and i can’t do anything about it
and if your eyelids are too heavy, if they droop too badly, you have to compensate by lifting your eyebrows. which leads to forehead wrinkles (probably)
or if you have one weaker leg you may become masterful at flinging yourself around like you’re in a boat or a dance or something, just so you can stay on your feet at all. because you have no choice. i used to be really good at not falling until i started literally collapsing because i knew how to like, i guess work gravity to my advantage, because my right leg is weak and my left leg is weird
and i mean honestly your heart is a muscle. the stomach is a muscle. the uterus is a muscle. lungs are muscles
you need muscle strength to pee i really don’t think people even know that. and to get rid of gas. ffs
like i just think abled people take their ability to use their muscles for granted
wearing your gákti turned inside out is a sámi way to show resistance to/disagreeing with something. drawn in march 2023, after the demonstrations. I’m keeping mine inside out until there’s a real solution.
trying to keep the colors a little bit dark and not as saturated to have stronger contrast with the gold and silver, it was fun to do i hope it worked
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:
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and here is the old dashboard in separate tab container that hasn’t received the update:
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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.
need to find a neurologist that will work but i am too exhausted !
oh. also. the air conditioning is dead. again. i think this is the fourth year in a row
pain management appointment triggered me so hard i’m floating in space. i don’t think the pain management field is going to help me in the long term. they want to look at my body like every piece is disconnected from the others and treat each one individually as though that could ever work for me. i think i need a neurologist. i think i need a sfn diagnosis. this isn’t working
just minor complaining but i don’t really understand why my org’s leaders continue to compare “what we have” to “what they [blind and deaf people] have” because (a) none of us get resources and (b) saying “aac is clunky and expensive and ineffective in comparison to braille and sign” is just. a fundamental misunderstanding of what braille and sign are? braille is a method of printing? sign is a language that developed naturally? neither one is even remotely comparable to aac in terms of development or usage, literally the Only things they have in common are that they are alternative ways to communicate information than the nondeafdisabled norm AND they’re affected by ableism.
i try to be polite and thoughtful about arguments that seem bad because sometimes i am just misunderstanding them. but i really do not see any way this could shake out as a useful or even respectful argument and it’s frustrating that i continue to have to demur.
[id: a black and white photograph of a waterslide occupied by two alligators. it is an actual waterslide. they’re sliding down into a circular pool, which is itself surrounded by several more alligators. tourists watch from outside the fenced enclosure. although some appear to be standing inside, too? /end id.]
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