#crip punk

There are so many people that are pro disability rights until they find out disabilities can be gross sometimes. It's so wild seeing the same people advocating for more mental health talk losing their shit over a depressed person not brushing their teeth or cleaning their spaces, or people who totally support physically disabled people until they find out I once pissed in a cup because I was in too much agony to get out of my bed, or that sometimes cups and food sit in my room longer than they should because I physically can't get up to put them away. Disabled people sometimes have incontinence, disabled people sometimes have bad hygiene, and still deserve to be supported. It's so fucking performative and it pisses me off. Even other disabled people act like this. Shaming people for stuff they can't control doesn't help anyone, just makes you an insufferable person.

"Nobody finds it difficult to-" I assure you there's at least one disability that exists that make that particular task difficult.

“Normal” test results are not the relief people think they are. When you wake up in pain and continue to be in pain for hours every day and your tests come back normal you don’t stop being in pain.

For folks who don’t know 504 is the U.S.A’s law that requires institutions to make accommodations so disabled people can live in their community instead of institutions. Every where from the Walmart, the bus stop, and schools. Currently multiple states are suing the federal government to get rid of this protection. Why are they doing this you ask? Well a student in Texas was looking to receive accommodations at their school for the gender affirming care. The state decide the risk of trans people having medical accommodations was just too much to bear and so we should just keep all disabled people inside again just to be safe.

Disabled people are allowed to be angry btw. We don't owe anyone a perfect and angelic attitude. We're allowed to call out shit that's ableist. We're allowed to tell bigots to fuck off. We're allowed to swear, to demand access that should've been provided in the first place, to be frustrated with the systemic inequities we face everyday. We're human.