I've had chronic constipation for a few years now (unsure if it's caused by another condition or if it's its own thing) and I've always felt really gross talking about it and how it effects me. In most disability spaces I'm scared to mention my experiences due to fear of being called "gross".

I've noticed some other blogs talking about gi issues, and it really means a lot to me. I really do appreciate this blog talking about it without calling peoples' experiences gross

The stigma attached to GI disabilities is physisensory ableism.

We have a GI disability, specifically connected to our pelvic disability. People act really rude or weird about it ever coming up in discussions.

Defecating, urinating, and menstruating deserve to be treated as normal bodily functions - because they are. People need to stop attaching the concept of disgust to it.*

(*I don't blame people if they have specific phobias over it, thats entirely different. I'm specifically referring to the societal stigma built around it.)

I am not gross for being unable to defecate properly, and for having to get my fingers involved to get it out.

I am not gross for urinating against my will sometimes.

I am not gross for menstruating.

It’s not as uncomfortable as i imagined but mine is very long for some reason

ID: a mirror selfie of a pale person with brown hair in a spider web pattern sweater in a bathroom with blue walls, her ni tube is tucked back behind her ear and still falls to the top of her waist. End ID

There are those like me, and those who have those other food intolerances that I don’t, and those who have *both*, everywhere — including in all demographics that need food aid.

I don’t know what food is there in food aid. But I know that I cannot eat oranges, like the ones that were thrown onto that truck heading to Gaza, and tomato soup about which I’ve heard I think quite a lot of times when hearing about food banks. And just the vast majority of things that everyone eats. And I know that digestive disabilities are not a thing that is considered a lot. And, again, I know that they exist everywhere.