A piece of advice to anyone whoās been considering, avoiding thinking about, or waffling on:
Get the fucking cane.
I am very serious. Get the cane, get the assistive device (Iām going with cane here, because simplicity, but the device youāre thinking about goes here), do it. If youāre thinking ādamn, if these Symptoms get much worse, Iām gonna need to get a caneā, you already need the cane. Youāve probably been in a state that would be improved by it for a while.
I get it, though. I had other disabilities, including physical ones, prior to Getting A Cane, and I heard this advice from other people and I thought āokay, but my situation is not that bad, and Iām sure Iāll know when itās really badā as I lay awake half the night in pain because of a short little walk that afternoon. It turns out, I am not immune to internalized ableism either, like Iām a person in an ableist society or something.
I thought āthis is gonna be a hassle, and they cost money, and people will be weird about itā, and learning to use it did take a minute, thankfully mine was pretty cheap, and yeah, some people are weird but most importantly: fuck āem, I did in fact need the cane. I can do a lot more now, and probably could have prevented some damage if Iād gotten it earlier and it looks cool.
Stop putting it off. Stop worrying about unpleasant people being unpleasant. You donāt have to suffer at the highest pain/difficulty/etc to be allowed to get the cane, youāre allowed to get it now. If you only need it sometimes, thatās okay.
Get the fucking cane.


















