Month: December 2015

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rosalindrobertson:

fysw:

Carrie Fisher and Gary – Star Wars: The Force Awakens Premiere at Leicester Square on December 16, 2015 in London.

So, this is important. Carrie Fisher has an invisible illness and disability – severe mental illness – and she’s been really open about it. Open to the point where she has her service animal Gary out on the press tours.

Yeah, a service animal. Not a guide dog, a therapy dog. Fisher has almost died because of her illness – and the reason she could DO Star Wars is because she has accommodations that work for her.

Everyone is talking about how Gary has stolen the show – but he is *important*. He is working. He is what she needs to go out and do this shit.

Next time someone with a disability asks for you to do something simple to accommodate them I want you to think of this. This is Princess Leia and this is her accommodation for her illness.

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allsamallthetime:

Ten years ago, I was about to get sick
I cannot remember it
I cannot remember waking up at 7am, 5 days in a row
Week after week after week
I don’t remember if it was easy but I remember it was possible
I cannot remember when nothing ached
When if I didn’t walk, it was because I was lazy
Not because I couldn’t

I cannot remember
When taking a shower
Was relaxing
Instead of exhausting

I cannot remember
When I wasn’t a burden
When I was fun
And energetic
And up for anything
And no one had to slow down or miss out
Because of me

I cannot remember
How it is to remember
When I didn’t need to write anything down
And didn’t break promises
And didn’t forget my own name
When I knew all the words I needed
When everyone said
How eloquent I was
I can remember everyone said it
But I can’t remember being it

I cannot remember
Being upright all day
And never lying down
Or counting the hours
From painkiller to painkiller

I cannot remember
Reading page after page for hours
For fun
And understanding every word
Without reading a line twice over
Or three times, or five
And without feeling like a failure

I cannot remember
No pain
I cannot remember it
What did I do?
Did I walk faster? Or further?
Did I stay out all night?
Or did I just sit around?
Without knowing that one day
Just sitting around would be all there was
And even then
The pain wouldn’t end

I cannot remember
Having energy instead of pain
I cannot remember
Concentration and memory
And still knowing how my sentence had started
When I got to the end

Two thirds of my life, I was healthy
And I cannot remember

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aniceoldfashionedcupofequality:

xtremecaffeine:

swamp-spirit:

thatscorpionbitch:

Like, 90% of infomercial style products were designed by/for disabled people, but you wouldn’t know that, because there is no viable market for them. THey have to be marketted and sold to abled people just so that any money can be made of off them and so the people who actually need them will have access.

I think snuggies are the one example almost everyone knows. They were invented for wheelchair users (Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a coat on and off of someone in a wheelchair? Cause it’s PRETTY FUCKIN HARD.) But now everyone just acts like they’re some ~quirky, white people thing~ and not A PRODUCT DESIGNED TO MAKE PEOPLES DAY TO DAY LIVES 10000X EASIER.

But if at any point you were to take your head out of your own ass and go “Hey, who would a product like this benefit,” that would be really cool.

This makes informational make so much sense now.

Like… of course there’s no reason for that guy to knock over that bowl of chips. However, the person it was actually designed for has constant hand tremors that would make this pretty rad, but since we don’t want to show that in a commercial, here’s an able bodied guy who can’t remember how gravity works.

Shit. Those commercials suddenly get a lot less funny when you realize it’s pretty much just people ineptly trying to mimic disability.

Or like the thing for the eggs? Like, oh, it cracks eggs perfectly, you only need one hand?

IT WAS DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE WHO ONLY HAVE THE USE OF ONE HAND.

Or the juice bottle pourer? For people who’re TOO LAZY TO POUR THEIR OWN JUICE? Or FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIFFICULTY BEARING WEIGHT IN THE HANDS.

After years of wondering about this completely useless product (for able-bodied people with two useable hands who are WASHING THEIR HANDS WITH SOAP DIRECTLY AFTER TOUCHING THE PUMP OF A NORMAL STYLE SOAP DISPENSER) I think this post has finally explained to me why it exists. It’s so obvious why have I never considered any of this before?

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nieceoftheserpent:

FInally got my shrines put together, for the most part.  As usual they are slightly different than they were before, but I Think that’s only appropriate as I am different than I was before.  And they’re taking up 4 of the 5 shelves on my shelf now! O_O Sigyn demanded Her own shrine again (and I Held the Bowl physically for the first time in over a year and that felt so damn good) and Jormungandr wanted to be on there again! 😀 

Hel still has Her own shelf for the most part, Loki does still have a little corner though. The top shelf is shared by me and NaruKami-sama.  And Loki, the prick, demanded His giant champagne candle be way on the top with me and Naru-sama.  He demanded so forcefully Naru-sama, the Queen of fucking Lightening backed down and said okay! O_O So, needless to say it’s fucking up there looking all ridiculous but He’s happy which for now is just perfectly fine.  Until I move the fucking thing down to His corner.

Lakshmi still has half a shelf.  The other half is empty, sort of, for now.  Her candle is empty so there’s a back up money-ish candle for Her right now until I can make Her a new one.  Sigyn’s Bowl candle is pretty much done for too so I need to make another new one for that too.  I think tomorrow will be a craft day between homework spells.  

I don’t have my two storage cabinets that I used to have so a lot of the little bits and such are on the covered bottom shelf and also in the two drawer sets next to my shrine.  I have no idea where I’m going to put my herbs so I’m just not going to worry about it right now LOL

For any lesbian, gay, bi, transgender folks alone for the holidays…

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transphysics:

http://www.yourholidaymom.com/ is a blog run by a bunch of moms (and sometimes other parents) who will post a letter to you daily until Christmas with words of acceptance and welcome.  It was designed specifically as a project for kids and adults who face rejection over the holidays because of their sexuality or gender.  This meant a lot to me the first year that I was isolated by my family, and I wanted to share it with all of you.