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Welcome to Disabled Systems!

This is an ask blog meant for physically disabled systems to have a safe space to collect and talk! This blog is also meant to start and uplift a conversation about the exclusion of physically disabled systems!

This blogs intentions is not to exclude mentally disabled people, but to have a space exclusive and safe for physically disabled people. Please be respectful of that.

How to submit asks;

This is a formatted blog, but you don't have to stick with the format! The main format is "Disabled system culture is...", but you can also share stories that pertain to being a disabled system, ask questions, look for info, and whatever else!

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Mods;

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DNI;

DNI if... normal dni + proship, (pro)endo, radqueer, transid, antimogai, anti mspec (including anti mspec gay/lesbian), zoophiles, syscourse blogs. people trying to start fights will be blocked!

Further DNI if... you think "crippled" or "cripplepunk" can be reclaimed by phys-abled ment-disabled people, and if you believe a single alter can be disabled when the rest of the system is not.

Claimed Anons;

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Dynamic blindness has been documented in DID multiples for decades. Way less severe but I'm friends with a system who has one redblind alter. I see no reason that certain disabilities.

Can't find the dynamically blind case at this instant but here's another dynamically colorblind system from I think the New York Times

> “a problem that ended with the successful treatment of her… condition”

it is not a physical disability at that point! it would be considered a delusion or a hallucination since color blindness is not something that can just “go away”

also, from what i understand, ADA does not generally consider color blindness a disability (this can change with severity). /info

> “multiple personality condition”

proof that this us a very outdated article as that term is no longer applicable!

a single alter in a system cannot be disordered or disabled individually. alters can present with different severity, however, the whole body and brain is still disordered!

hope this helped :) /g

But pro endo systems often have dissociative disorders themselves. They can have histories of complex trauma. They can have alters who feel one way while the rest of the system feels differently. And they can be physically disabled. It’s weird to have a culture blog for systems that cuts off such a huge swath of systems who could be in need of such a space.

It might be worth considering for you to take the (pro) out of your dni if you actually care about physically disabled systems. Please understand that syscourse is a really touchy and complicated topic for lots of systems, and not everyone will be able to fit neatly into that black and white view of “anti endos good, pro endos bad.”

i genuinely understand where youre coming from here and i really appreciate where your heart is, but i dont agree with you.

the problem with even a pro endo traumagenic system interacting and sending asks is that those system experience could be heavily formed by misinfo and other things like that. while their experience still could be valid, theres nuances that i worry about. the actual symptoms may be real, but the way that they connect them together or talk about them could be entirely wrong or even upsetting to us personally. another issue is, i could be unknowingly promoting misinfo with non-anon asks for people who could go to their blog because i platformed it.

a good analogy is: would you want a pro-transID but fully, validly transgender person interacting with you? a transgender person who agrees witht transracism, transageism, trans-ect, but isnt themself. their ideology is still JUST AS HARMFUL. would you want that community coming into contact with a space you made so that YOU could share your OWN safe space? no. you probably would not.

our goal isnt and never has been exclusion. if you want to be pro endo, or hell, even endo and follow and like our posts, we dont stalk our follower and like tags. go for it. we dont care. where i draw the line is that we have been being sent MULTIPLE asks a DAY when this blog is only near a week old about how we are a terrible person for not allowing pro-endos in OUR OWN SPACE.

no hate to you anon, but please consider our position from someone who just genuinely wanted a space to be safe from every-day ableism.

Sincerely, a physically disabled DID system who is trying to choose kindness in their lives.

Annnd here we go 😐

yes. i want a safe space for physically disabled **systems** to go. I, of course, am not going to call all endos fakers or roleplayers because thats not my place and i dont believe in fakeclaiming. however, i do not want people who commodify and demonize and co-op my disorder to be in a space meant for systems. i already face enough ableism in real life as an obviously disabled person, i will not be subject to it online ^^

if you want to call yourself an endogenic system or support those who do, thats none of my business, but i was very clear i dont want yall around here, so please respect that.

so the line between physically and mentally disabled is blurry here.

Also here's a more recent case of dynamic blindness in DID from 2015: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/24/the-blind-woman-who-switched-personalities-and-could-suddenly-see/

Screenshot because I'm an anticapitalist anarchist:

The part of the article at the bottom proves the point that I made in my original post.

“…blindness wasn’t caused by brain damage, her original diagnosis. [The blindness) was instead… brain directive, a psychological problem”

A psychological problem, hence not physical, hence not a physical disability.

There is no blurriness about what is physical and mental. Mental disorders can have physical symptoms, however that doesn’t necessarily make one physically disabled. In this case, her blindness was likely some form of psychosis.

If you’re going to send me sources, at least read them first. While you are on the topic of reading, please direct yourself to our DNI and read that closer.

hell yeah im gettin shit done >:) 💪

one of those asks is hatemail i havent cleared yet and it was at 15 earlier (including hatemail) today!! so ive clears a lot :)!!

one of the drafts is something super special >:) but you gotta be patient /evil

also!!! thank you so much for halfway to 100!! thats so cool and you guys are the best :3 im so happy w our little community!!

this also gives us a platform to signal boost fundraisers (cough cough Palestine) so if you know any good ones send em our way! we’ll be reblogging them with #ds.signal boost! i cant guarantee i will be reblogging all of them, and also, all i ask is to not send any with moral guilt tripping! we have moral ocd and it fucks with us :( (an example is something like “if you dont reblog youre a terrible person”)

image id under break!

on another note does anyone have any recommendations for what to do with cats in a hurricane /g

our kitten is easily transported but our old man not so much. during the tornado last night we had to leave them in the house for our own safety and it was horrible (they and the house are perfectly fine) so if it happens again im wondering what to do. thanks guys!!