Happy Disability Pride Month — and here's a reminder that you don't need to push yourself to do something for it.
You can let your disability pride be in accommodating your disability. That is very important.
Greetings Tumblr!
I present you another do-you-know-this-thing blog, but this one is dedicated to characters who stutter. I’ve noticed an extreme lack of stuttering representation both in media and here on Tumblr, and my goal is to change it with this blog.
First, a little about me.
I’m a stutterer myself. I’ve been stuttering since childhood, and now when I’m an adult, my stutter starts to severely affecting the quality of my life. It made me actively fight it since last year, I was in therapy and took medication, but there were no visible improvements. Currently, I’m learning how to accept my stutter and live a full life in spite of it.
I don’t know whether this blog will become a thing, so I’d prefer not to reveal either my main blog or my nickname for now, but you can refer to me by using she/her pronouns. I also want to point out that English is not my first language, so if I mess up or use the wrong terminology, forgive me, I’m genuinely sorry. Feel free to correct me, though.
And now, about the blog.
For now, my plan is to post one poll weekly. I’ll wait until the middle of June, and if there are no submissions, I’ll start posting the characters that I find myself in hope more people will learn about the blog and get interested in it.
I haven’t created a google form yet, since I want to start gathering submissions through my askbox. However, if more people prefer google forms, I can always create it. I can work with whatever.
Submission requirements.
Your submission needs to include the character’s name, the character’s picture, and the name of media they’re from. If you can also provide a video fragment where it’s clearly heard that your character is indeed a stutterer, that would be great (but it’s optional, so please, don’t feel pressured).
I will not accept real people unless they’re from a movie/book about a historical figure. My priority is fictional characters. However, your character can be from any kind of media, whether it’s a movie, a book, a video game, or anything else.
I will not accept characters who just pretend to be a stutterer. Their stutter must be real otherwise it’s just pointless.
A few things to add.
I haven’t met a single person on Tumblr who stutters, so I also want to create sort of a stuttering community here. If you’re comfortable with sharing your experience about your stutter with me and everyone else here, feel free to send a message! Really, I’ll gladly listen to all of your stories and I’m sure that other stutterers will be happy to know that they’re not alone.
For now, my profile picture is Bill Denbrough from It. I know nothing about this guy except for the fact that he stutters, so if he’s not good representation, let me know and feel free to suggest any other character that you want to see as this blog profile picture. My header is the sea, and it has nothing to do with stuttering, I just love the sea.
I was inspired to create this blog by:
If you can spread the word, I will highly appreciate it!
That’s it! Thank you everyone for your attention, I’m really excited to start working on this blog and meet all of you.
“How do I explain to abled people [a (sometimes very) specific disabled experience]” how do I explain to disabled people that not everyone who doesn’t share their exact disabled experience to a bit is abled, and other disabled people very much can be ableist to them, and them to other disabled people.
A narc abuse believer has reblogged from me so here's your Fucking reminder that no disorder is an abuser disorder. Your abuser(s) did/do not abuse you because they have an Abuser Disorder, they abuse(d) you because they believe(d) in their right to control you and had the means. And no, no disorder fucking creates that.
To abuse is a choice, and it's a carefully protected bolt in all the larger systems of oppression. To have a disability born out of being abused, that fucks You up, is not a fucking choice. And is certainly not a fucking protected bolt in the larger systems of oppression, rather the fucking opposite.
Yes, people with Any disorder Can choose to abuse. As well as people without that disorder! And people with that disorder are not fucking More Likely to abuse! And don't fucking armchair diagnose other people!
And the fucking case of parental abuse. You were not "raised by narcissists", you were raised by people whose literal societal role is to abuse you. Which Very Much does not absolve them. Parents are cops, and more. Read up on youth liberation and stop throwing *other survivors* into the fucking meat grinder.
And the fucking nerve to put anti-narc shit into the *npd* tags. You know well it's a Disorder, not an Abuser Personality Type that the abuser Chooses, and still demonize us.
No but you know what it’s so fucking *painful* to be literally severely disabled and then get told every once in a while by your own community that you deserve no voice on disability because you support folx talking about their disabled experiences that and in ways that those who tell you that don’t want to admit the existence of.
Today in disability discourse: got told that I cannot be not distinguishing between my experience of two of my disabilities because they have them too and experience them differently and because they are in different systems and their diagnostic criteria doesn’t intersect, then got fakeclaimed about being severely disabled because I’m pro-transid.
They ended up blocking me before I blocked them (I did then, anyway), but not before all this and more, I feel very sick.
Edit: they also seem to have implied autism cannot be a severe disability.
The plaintext version of this post is under the second underscore divider.
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I think the best option for text accessibility is to first include a formatted version, and then include a plaintext version, and preface it with the note that there is a plaintext version after the formatted one, like I'm doing here.
Formatted first because it will then grab the attention of those who need formatting for accessibility.
I have gotten into a habit of making everything that is possible into plaintext right away and exclusively. It's not a good habit, it literally makes my things less accessible to my own self, and possibly for many others.
Just putting plaintext after every individual instance of formatting can also make text much less accessible.
Ideally, there should be a tool that makes any text plaintext, for any device. Perhaps retaining some means of accentuation, like asterisks instead of italics.
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I think the best option for text accessibility is to first include a formatted version, and then include a plaintext version, and preface it with the note that there is a plaintext version after the formatted one, like I'm doing here.
Formatted first because it will then grab the attention of those who need formatting for accessibility.
I have gotten into a habit of making everything that is possible into plaintext right away. It's not a good habit, it literally makes my things less accessible to my own self, and possibly for many others.
Just putting plaintext after every individual instance of formatting can also make text *much* less accessible.
Ideally, there should be a tool that makes any text plaintext, for any device. Perhaps retaining some means of accentuation, like asterisks instead of italics.
Use words for their actual fucking meanings.
No, that random person who was ableist about wheelchair accessibility isn't "abled" or "able-bodied" just because they aren't using a wheelchair. You can say "non wheelchair users" when that is what you mean. Disabled people, shocker, are capable of being ableist. And you if you call random people abled just because they don't have a specific disability being immediately obvious, are doing exactly that, too.
Yes, that ADHDer who posts about social theory of disability and how in non-ableist world their ADHD would not cause them any problems is developmentally disabled. You can say "severe/profound developmental disability", "medium/high support needs", etc, when that is what you mean.
Yes, psychologically-traumagenic mental illness is cognitive disability. You can say "developmental cognitive disability" when that is what you mean. You can say "brain damage" when that is what you mean.
No, literally fucking no disabled person is "able-bodied" because central nervous system is a fucking part of the body. Throw that entire term in the trash.
No, "nervous system" does not mean "central nervous system". Stop it. Stop. It. Say "central nervous system" when that is what you mean. Stop only using "neurological" to refer to central nervous system.
Might later do more. For now will post this like this.
Fucking screaming begging you all to stop separating "physical" and "mental", and whatever other kinds have you, disability entirely.
This is *especially* aimed at unitists, because full-on divisionists certainly have a bigger problem about them. But how the fuck do you acknowledge that there isn't a divide, talk about it.... and still draw it.
Nervous. System. Is. A fucking. Part. Of the body.
And if you want to talk about cognitive specifically, say cognitive!
And if you want to talk about any specifics, use those specifics, say what system it is, what manifestations those are. But don't fucking draw a divide between "physical" and "mental", between "physical" and "neurological" (what the fuck???), anything else like that.
Some of us actually do want to “fix” our disabilities, without pushing that goal onto anyone else, and we deserve to not be treated like exclusively a product of ableism.
Fellow disableds for whom disability is suffering, stop going after transabled folkel, who are not saying anything about *others’* lives, and start going after cisdisabled folkel who roll around insisting that disabled suffering is ableist stereotype.
(And don’t you dare to gatekeep disability from them either)
Some folkel seem to really not want to acknowledge that you don’t always know where one of your disabilities ends and another begins, and that they can overlap massively.
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This post is not about “ableds”, it’s about the disabled community, perhaps especially about the insistence on the difference between “mental” and “physical” disabilities.
Title plaintext:
What is the best option to signify the start and end of an image description?
Option plaintext:
A: Image description | /End image description
B: Image description | /End description
C: Image description | /End ID
D: ID | /End ID
C: Other (please say in the tags / reblogs / replies)
I honestly feel like beings are starting to forget about the entire concept of competing access needs.
Things that make something accessible to some can make it inaccessible to others, and including both versions will not always work.
Someone with language problems writing something can be inaccessible to someone with language problems reading it.
Providing accessibility even when one is technically able to do that can be a strain too much for them, and they should not be pushed to put others’ needs above their own, especially if/when it is by far not as important for others to see than for them not to strain themself.
And more.
Stop saying “disabled or chronically ill” and all other variations of it.
Chronic illnesses are disabilities.
What are you even defining disability as if you are not including chronic illness.
Stop.
A very important message to all disabled beings this disability pride month:
You don’t have to push yourself to do something for pride month.
[Plaintext: You don’t have to push yourself to do something for pride month.]
This is the entire post, because otherwise I would also be a disabled being pushing himself to do something for disability pride month!
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Please help me to find videos on forearm crutch use with both legs affected? Especially for walking up and down stairs.
So far I only seem to find videos for unilateral leg injury. I have chronic pain in both legs. Currently a cane user but it’s not enough, recently I tried forearm crutches for a few steps and it made so much difference.