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I also think that there’s a lot that nondisabled people or differently disabled people can do for each other to both help out each other and the environment. When I’m having a really bad flare up and can’t wash dishes, a friend coming over and washing dishes for me means that I use less disposable dishes. If you make extra soup and take it to your elderly neighbor, he’s using less packaged ready-made food. If someone with mobility issues can’t keep up their native garden anymore, having someone help out can keep the city from spraying the whole yard with pesticides and losing that whole habitat. A disabled person with a backyard can keep a compost pile for a themselves and the people they know in nearby apartments. Someone who knows chronically ill people and needs a lot of little containers can get loads of pill bottles to reuse instead of buying something new. Everybody working together can achieve a lot more than each of us alone

nobody talks about how exhausting it is to live in that space between "things will get better" and "i can't handle this anymore." it's like your emotions are constantly swinging. leaving you both hopeful and defeated in the same day.

people will say “they’re only friends” and then show me two people who would crawl through broken glass to hear the other laugh once. two people who have memorized each other’s coffee orders, fears, childhood stories, and emergency contacts. two people who would haunt each other’s houses as ghosts. be serious.

Just an FYI—the original intention of this post was to challenge the way people say only friends, as though friendship is somehow lesser than other forms of love. As if being deeply known, cherished, and chosen by another person could ever be a small thing. Normalize profound platonic love. Some of the most fulfilling, transformative, and enduring relationships we will ever have are friendships. 🫶🏼

there are places in the world today that are experiencing 40°C for the first time in recorded history. of course there's no way to know whether chucking billionaires into volcanos will appease the sun god but i feel we're doing the scientific method a disservice if we don't at least try

pick up that non-fiction book

"representation matters!" but you wont read or engage with non-fiction works about any demographic outside your own

this version of the post doesnt seem to be getting much traction but this is arguably the most important reason why we should be reading nonfiction in addition to fiction

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funny how normal human rights don’t have to apply to you if your parents don’t want them to

I was going to say “if you’re a child” but remembered when I turned 18 and realised I was still stuck at home and nothing was going to change if my parents didn’t want it to