Totally relate to the household chores, washing dishes and sweeping are my mortal enemies.
About the fetishisation, it's so annoying to see how glasses are so not considered medical devices anymore.
Like excuse me, i can't let your child touch my glasses maam, they are not a freaking toy, i use these to live.
My best friend at school got decorative glasses and I don't know how to feel about that. I'm wearing glasses because I'm chronically ill and can't live without it.
It's not that I'm mad at her for it (she wouldn't understand that, this isn't a thing in my country) but she is contributing to the normalisation of an illness that costs a tooth and a dime to cure.
When i told my sister about it, she told me she personally doesn't care if someone wears decorative glasses and she doesn't understand where I'm coming from,
I told her it's like if someone used cane because it's "fashionable" or used a wheelchair because it's "cool" wouldn't that be disrespectful?? What makes our disability different??
Anyways, thank you so much for answering my previous ask and I hope you feel better soon <333
Have you seen those videos about people realising you don't have to bend over to hoover/mop/sweep? I feel like disabled people could benefit from that. We can just stand. Fuck it, sit down and sweep from there. Conserve the energy wherever you can.
The whole glasses things are a recent realisation to me, along with the sweeping wave of other people (ignore that I've worn them since I was a tween I'm bad at thinking). We are literally paying to see the world. If that isn't the most dystopian shit ever.
Me+my unavoidable urge to rant whenever I get reminded of the fact that the NHS was an all encompasing welfare service at its conception, and over time they've stolen opthamology and dentistry from us. We are paying to eat. We are paying to see.
I was in a conversation in class some time back, and one of the girls was talking about how she wanted glasses. My teacher looked to me, because I'm the only glasses-wearer in the class, and when I described all the downsides to wearing glasses, she just shrugged and went "yeah but they're so cute" ma'am I spend 40 minutes every two years deciding what accessory I want to permanently install on myself. You can take yours off, you vapid, soul-sucking— sorry I have issues with her.
Side note! I forgot to take my glassess off before getting into the shower last night and genuinely had to stop and calculate what was wrong with my vision.
Glasses are not a fun little thing, they dictate your life.
On that last part, I mentioned earlier I'm only a recent walking-stick user, but I think if I saw someone accessorising with one (cosplay is different) I would probably explode on the spot. And I know there are people out there that probably do, and I hope they get exactly what they deserve.
You feel better too anon, you deserve it.