#disability aid

i was filling up gas and was paying inside, and when i came out, there was one of those comfort-ride harleys* and it had a disability parking placard! i did a proper double take/stop in my tracks for a second, before checking myself and being like "babe you are a fierce advocate of people taking advantage of this resource when they need it and telling people to fuck off when they question it/if the users disability is valid, and you're doing the same?"

and then i had a fun little game with myself while driving for the next little bit trying to figure out what type of disability would allow you to ride a motorcycle freely and it was just a neat little thought practice

💙 - directly based on the flag by @fantasy-store

ID1 a photo of an active hands small item gripping aid layed out on a surface. It’s a blue neoprene fingerless glove with a green acrylic marker held to it with a Velcro palm pad. A second Velcro palm pad is next to it holding a pink marker. The palm pads can be swapped out. /end ID1

ID 2: a photo of a guided hand device being used with a flat hand piece. It is an arm rest that moves over a flat board to help with painting and writing /end ID 2

I used the flat hand piece as an armrest which worked well with the gripping aid. The different pens can be put in the palm pads for the gripping aid and then changing between them is quite simple – the pads are designed to be used by people with poor hand function and have lots of big loops which really helps move them and get them into place. After that they just Velcro onto the gripping aid.

The hardest part was the pen lids, but I am getting much better with those with practice.

Our sole focus now is saving my brother Samer. Securing his vital medications and evacuating him for treatment is our only hope.

Please share our story and encourage others to donate

@hazemsuhail

a substitute teacher came up to me at the end of class and asked me if he was "allowed to ask about the crutches" and when my response was "well I use them" he asked something else i don't remember but didn't like

someone i had never met before sat down behind me and accidentally kicked my crutches and looked up, dumbfounded, and goes "are you a cripple!?" (when i didn't answer he turned to someone next to me and asked if i spoke english. also the rest of the hour or so i sat there he was talking about how he would starve and torture fat people)

random person comes up to me and my friend who was using a cane and asked if we used them for fun or for a part of our outfits.

when my dad first found out i used them he started talking about how terrible and guilty he felt and i was just kinda like ???