#MyCoin
I'm gonna heal everyone who sees this post for 30 I have so many spells dont worry about it
everyone wants to complain about old people being bad drivers but not the systems in place that mandate it so many people who are potential a danger to themselves and others on the road still have no choice but to try and drive anyway because we live in a car-centric society where 90% of the time you have to drive to have access to basic necessities and there are so few alternative systems in place for those who can't and also don't have a support network to substitute (which is expected to be the person's family of course) it's not "old people shouldn't be driving" it should be "old people shouldn't have to drive"
The internet is a weird place because I just stumbled across one of my own posts on Facebook, and a few people underneath were talking about how they follow me and love my “content” because I don’t let my multiple disabilities stop me, and I’d just like to say becauseI can’t say it on Facebook without giving away my govt name: what a crock of shit.
I post constantly about how my multiple disabilities hinder me and have actively prevented me from working consistently.
My disabilities prevent me from doing things constantly, because they are disabling. That’s the reality of being disabled.
I don’t do things to overcome my disabilities; I achieve things alongside my disabilities at a pace that does not harm me mentally or physically because I am done with pushing limits. I tried. It almost killed me. I will not do it again, so that temporarily abled people will think better of me for keeping pace with them, or can feel inspired, or whatever the fuck.
And maybe you didn't mean it to come across like that, but please don’t erase what I accomplish alongside my disabilities, not in spite them. And especially please, if you’re also disabled, chronically ill, or just plain old struggling because the world is a dumpsterfire, don’t use me to guilt yourself into doing more.
I would never tell you to push through pain or fatigue for the sake of wildly unsustainable productivity because that shit’ll kill you.
If you do not rest, your body will make you rest. Trust me. I get to live in the ruins of what's left of mine.
It’a so funny when people get upset over being called “able-bodied” because you just know what they’re really upset about is not being called “normal.”
“Why do we have to label everyone?” when what they really mean is, “no, you’re the freak, I’m normal.”
Anyway, you can’t begin to imagine the gasket they blow when you start calling them “temporarily abled.”
“Are you threatening me?”
At this point? Yes.