Deformimisia - the oppression of people with deformities. Disfiguremisia - the oppression of people with disfigurements. (Note: Any visible scarring, including SH scars, can be considered disfigurement here.)
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Unnecessary surgeries are being done on children with deformities [link]
When should a child undergo surgery for a deformity? [link]
Who owns this blog?
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Hello! I am Kris, the owner of this blog. I am intersex transmasc non-binary and use they/them pronouns. I am part of @dhddmods system, though I tend to function on my own.
I run five other blogs, known as @this-is-varsexism-transphobia (dedicated to oppression of genderqueers & sexqueers), @this-is-amato-heteronormativity (dedicated to oppression based on amatonormativity and heteronormativity), @this-is-anti-masculinity (dedicated to oppression of non-patriarchal masculinity), @androqueer-struggles (focused on the struggles and/or oppression of intersex mascs, peritrans mascs, butches, etc), and @thisisparamisia (focused on the oppression of people with paraphilias, especially paraphilic disorders.)
What is this blog?
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This blog is dedicated to spreading awareness of the oppressive/negative experiences faced by people who have physical deformities and/or disfigurements. These could be congenital (born) or acquired (ie; scars.) You can submit your own experiences, or things you have witnessed happening to other people (so long as you respect their privacy.)
(Note for submissions: Any visible scarring, including self-harm scars, can be considered disfigurement here.)
These deformities and disfigurements could be related to the limbs, torso, and/or craniofacial.
Am I welcome here?
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This blog is safe for people of any religious and spiritual practices, so long as said practices aren't used to excuse bigoted behavior.
This blog is safe for people of all races and ethnic backgrounds.
This blog is safe for people of any weight or body type, and does not tolerate body shaming.
This blog is safe for people with physical/sensory disabilities and neurodivergence of any kind (including cluster b personality disorders, behavioral disorders, paraphilic disorders, addictive/dependent disorders, etc.)
This blog is safe for non-disordered systems/plurals, non-dissociative systems/plurals, and endogenic systems/plurals.
This blog is safe for alterhumans.
This blog is obviously safe for "contradictory" labels (ie; transfems AFAB, transmascs AMAB, lesboys, turigirls, etc.) Being against these identities is deeply exorsexist, intersexist, and pluralphobic at its core.
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I've lived for a good portion of my life with eczema that's mainly been on my hands; I bring this up here since there was a period of multiple years where it would get really bad every few months since I found it difficult to consistently put medicine on, which resulted in the skin on my hands being very dry, painful (if I scratched at them too much) and visibly kinda scaly-looking. During this time, I'd often get comments like "oh my god, what happened to your hands?!" from both strangers and sometimes even friends. It really bothered me since it costs a grand total of nothing to just.. not be an ass and sound audibly shocked because someone's hands look different? especially since, because they were shocked, they'd often ask kinda loudly. They're just hands could you not
(Disclaimer: I'm a lot better about taking my medicine now, my hands don't hurt at all nowadays and most of the affected areas are doing pretty good as of sending this ask. Some of my hand is scarred from it but I'm okay with this, I just hope people don't comment on it in shock if they notice </3)
This is disfiguremisia. How many times must it be said? Don't bring attention to someone's condition randomly. It's inappropriate, rude, and unnecessary.
Over 100 million children are homeless and/or on the streets.
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That's the numbers estimated back in 2015, and regardless of whether they've grown or shrunk since then, the issue still remains that there are MILLIONS of minors on the streets.
Homelessness and street survival is an intersecting issue for people of all marginalized groups, and that includes the youth.
Homeless youth are very likely to be sex trafficked and targeted by dangerous people to be groomed into criminal activities or otherwise unsafe practices.
Many homeless youth are runaways, usually trying to escape abusive households.
Note for clarity: "Children" and "kids" throughout this post will be referring to teenagers as well, since minors of all ages are grouped together in these statistics.
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What is homelessness and street children?
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Homelessness is defined by a lack of stable housing. This includes living without shelter, in a tent, in a car, in a homeless shelter, couch surfing, or using public locations/transport for shelter.
"Street children" are children who spend a majority of their time on the street due to housing complications. Some of them are not considered "truly homeless", because they technically have a house, but this house is usually inaccessible or unsafe for them, and thus they do not reside in it much, if at all. Usually, they only spend the night there, but the rest of their time is spent outdoors.
When discussing the statistics of both these concepts, I cannot neatly discern between them, because so many of the studies use the statistics interchangeably. Street children have very few distinctions anyways, and thus trying to separate the two is usually not beneficial anyways.
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What are the statistics of homeless youth and street children around the globe?
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Around 30 million children in Africa are homeless/on the street.
There is no overall consensus on how many children in Asia (including The Middle East) as an entirety are homeless/on the street, however it is estimated to be quite high, with individual locations being given statistics (Bangledash having 445,000 homeless/street children, India having 11 million, Pakistan having 1.5 million, Indonesia having over 170,000, Iran having anywhere between 60,000-200,000, the Phillipines having 1.5 million, Turkey having 88,000, etc.)
There is also no overall consensus on how many children in the Oceania are homeless/on the street, however Australia estimates around 76,000, and New Zealand estimates around 33,000.
Around 400,000 children in the EU (European Union) are homeless/on the street. There is no overall consensus on how many children in Europe as a whole (not just the EU) are homeless/on the street, however individual countries also have statistics.
Over 1.2 million children in the USA are homeless/on the street. Over 40,000 children in Canada are homeless/on the street.
Around 40 million children in Latin America are homeless/on the street.
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What ways do homeless youth and street children suffer?
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A higher risk of sex trafficking, rape, assault, and kidnapping.
A higher risk of child labor/slavery.
A higher risk of being poisoned or suffering from oral, throat, or gastrointestinal system damage (as malicious people often put poison, razors/glass/sharp objects, and other dangerous things into the food provided to the homeless.)
A higher risk of sexual, reproductive, urogenital, and gastrointestinal disorders/infections.
A higher risk of respiratory disorders.
A higher risk of nutritional disorders, growth disorders, and starvation.
Higher rates of substance use and addictive disorders.
A higher risk of mental health disorders.
Low or no accessibility to hygiene products or showers/bathing (which significantly increases risks of infections and diseases.)
And, of course, a higher likelihood of death and grave injury, due to weather conditions, untreated disease/injuries, hate crimes, overdose, and/or suicide.
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What about intersectionality? How does that affect homelessness and street survival?
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Note: Whenever the discussion of employment comes up, we think it is important to remember that:
1- Unemployed adults can have children, and thus, the children in the equation will be effected.
2- Teenagers can also get employed in a majority of locations, and in many countries even minors younger than that, meaning their incomes could be contributing to housing as well.
The most obvious - being low income often risks loss of housing. Hell, being "average income" doesn't even afford housing anymore for most people, in the current financial crisis. Classism and homelessness go hand in hand, and the refusal to provide for the lower class their basic needs is the direct cause of homelessness.
Being a foster kid. Discussion:
Being a foster kid greatly increases the likelihood of homelessness, due to the foster system being notoriously abusive, and not providing minors with the proper funds, stability, and education necessary to survive in life. In the USA alone, 23,000 people age out of foster care a year. 25%-50% of those who age out end up homeless. Now imagine the statistics of that worldwide, of how many people are ending up homeless the moment they turn 18 (or younger, in countries where legal adulthood begins sooner)?
Additionally, minors will often run away from foster homes, because it is unsafe for them there. They wish to escape the abuse. A depressing fact is that a majority of sex trafficked youth are from foster care, usually runaways who were living on the street to avoid abuse.
(You can read our post about the statistics of foster kids here [link.])
Being disabled. (Note: Some of these statistics leave out emotional, behavioral, personality, or other mental disabilities, and also often leave out "small" physical disabilities, so the statistics may actually be higher if all disabilities were included.) Discussion:
We could not find any overall statistics on the intersection of homelessness and disability in Africa and Asia, unfortunately.
However, disabled people in Africa often suffer forced evictions and are more likely to be impoverished, and we did find statistics on specific locations of Asia (ie; 42% of homeless people [including adults] in Nagoya Japan are neuropsychologically disabled, 15% of homeless people [including adults] in Hong Kong are physically disabled, in South Asia 85% of disabled people [including adults] are unemployed which greatly risks homelessness, etc.)
We could not find any overall statistics on the intersection of homelessness and disability in the Oceania as a whole, however we did find statistics in Hawai'i, Australia, and New Zealand. in Hawai'i an estimated 62% of homeless people [including adults] are disabled. In Australia, an estimated 9.5% homeless people [including adults] are disabled, and 8.9% have an unknown disability status. In New Zealand, 4.1% of homeless people (including adults) are disabled.
We could not find any overall statistics on the intersection of homelessness and disability in overall Europe, however in the UK alone, 35-39% of homeless people [including adults] are disabled (and for comparison, only 20-22% of the overall UK population are disabled.)
In Canada, there is no minor-specific statistics for disability, however 50-60% of the overall homeless population (including adults) are disabled.
In the USA, 19% of homeless K-12 [pre-college] students are disabled (and for comparison, only 14% of the overall USA student population is disabled.)
We could not find any overall statistics on the intersection of homelessness and disability in South America as a whole, however in Latin America, disabled kids are 15% more likely to not attend school (and those who do attend are more likely to drop out), which inherently leads to employment issues down the line (and thus, housing issues) Additionally, 1 of every 5 households in extreme poverty houses a disabled person. And in some locations, people with disabilities are more likely to be unemployed (ie; in Argentina 91% of disabled people are unemployed), earn less money in work (ie; in Mexico and Costa Rica, disabled people earn 20% less than their abled peers), and/or have no insurance (in Ecuador, 84% of disabled people have no insurance), which can cause or exacerbate housing issues.
Being queer. Discussion:
In Africa, we could not find any statistics of the overall intersection of being LGBTQIA+ and homelessness, however homelessness is highly reported by LGBTQIA+ people (especially youth.)
We could not find any statistics of the overall intersection of being LGBTQIA+ and homeless in Asia, however we did find a few for individual Asian locations (ie; in Singapore 20% of LGBTQIA+ people [including adults] experience homelessness, in the Philippines 12% of people who are 15-25 are homeless, In Japan 4 in 10 LGBTQIA+ people struggle with housing, in India there is a hidden housing crisis within LGBTQIA+ people, etc.)
We could not find any statistics of the overall intersection of being LGBTQIA+ and homeless in the Oceania, however we did find some statistics for Australia and New Zealand. In Australia, queer-oriented people [including adults] are twice as likely to be homeless than nonqueer-oriented people, and 1 in 5 trans & gender diverse people aged 18-25 suffered homelessness (unfortunately we cannot find a statistics for people younger.) In New Zealand, 2.6% LGBQTIA+ people who are 15 and above are homeless, and unfortunately there is not a clearcut estimate on minors under the age of 15.
In Europe, 17.39% of LGBTQIA+ people [including adults] have been homeless, with 1/3rd of intersex people and 1/4th of trans people being homeless.
In the USA, LGBTQ+ minors are 120% more likely to end up homeless. They make up roughly 30-40% of homeless youth (and for comparison, only 9.5% of the overall population are LGBTQ+)
LGBTQ+ minors of color have an 83% higher risk of homelessness than their white peers. 44% of Indigenous LGBTQ+ youth, 16% of LGBTQ+ Asian & Pacific Islander youth, 27% of Latinx LGBTQ+ youth, 26% of Black LGBTQ+ youth, and 36% of multiracial LGBTQ+ youth have experienced homelessness.
38% of trans girl youth, 39% of of trans boy youth, and 35% of non-binary youth have experienced homelessness (compared to 23% of non-trans & non-gender diverse homeless queer-oriented youth.)
39% of intersex youth have experienced homelessness.
In Canada, 25% of homeless youth are LGBTQIA2S+ (and for comparison, only 5-10% of the overall Canadian population are LGBTQIA2S+.)
We could not find any statistics on the overarching intersection of LGBTQIA+ and homeless in South America, however we did find a few in specific locations (ie; 30-40% of homeless youth in Brazil, 30-35% of homeless youth in Argentina, 30-35% of homeless youth in Colombia, 25-30% of homeless youth in Mexico, 15-25% of homeless youth in Chile, etc)
Being a person of color. Discussion:
We could not find any statistics on the overarching intersection of race and homelessness in the Oceania, however we did find some individual statistics for Hawai'i, Australia, and New Zealand.
In Hawai'i, 28-50% of homeless people [including adults] are Native Hawaiian.
In Australia, 1 in every 3 Indigenous Australian is homeless.
In New Zealand, 31% of homeless people [including adults] are Māori, and 6.6% of Pacific Peoples [including adults] (and for comparison, 17% of the overall New Zealand population are Māori, and 8% are Pacific peoples.)
We could not find any statistics of the overall intersection of homelessness and being a BIPOC, however we did find statistics in the England, Ireland, and the EU specifically. In England, Black people [including adults] are 4x more likely to be homeless than white people. In Ireland, 15% of homeless people [including adults] are Romanian, and 6% are Black.
In the USA, Hispanic high schoolers are 2x more likely to experience homelessness than white highschoolers. Black highschoolers are 2.25x more likely to experience homelessness than white highschoolers.
Black and Hispanic people [including adults] make up 64% of the homeless population. Pacific Islanders [including adults] have the highest rate of homelessness in the USA. Native Americans [including adults] have the second highest rate of homelessness in the USA.
In Canada, 10-30% of homeless youth are Indigenous and 15.4% are Black (and for comparison, 5% of the overall Canadian population are Indigenous, and 4.3% are Black.)
We could not find any statistics of the intersection of race and homelessness in Africa or South America, unfortunately.
Other. Discussion:
In the USA, 17% of English learners (which are usually immigrants) in K-12 [pre-college] school are homeless (and for comparison, 10% of the overall student population are English learners.)
Being in areas of the world subject to war, genocide, political violence, and environmental disaster. Discussion:
16% of the population in Sudan had to flee their homes due to conflict.
90% of Gaza [including adults] are homeless right now.
46% of homeless people [including adults] in Ukraine became homeless due to the invasion costing them their homes.
Venezuelan immigration has led to a disproportionate amount of homeless Venezuelans in South America.
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Sources
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General:
Trends and dynamics of homelessness in Hong Kong: evidence from population survey in 2015 and 2021
Housing & Homelessness [link]
Global Homelessness Statistics [link]
Street Children - By Country [link]
Street Children and Homelessness [link]
28 Million Children Homeless [link]
Nearly 50 Million Children Uprooted Worldwide [link]
The Truth of Life in Accra (about Africa) [link]
The Health Profile of Street Children in Africa [link]
Street Children in Asia and the Pacific [link]
Street Children of South Asia [link]
5 Facts About Child Homelessness In India [link]
Understanding the Heart of Homelessness In Hawai'i [link]
Strengthening the European Child Guarantee to address Child Homelessness [link]
Statutory Homelessness in England [link]
Shocking Extent of Family and Child Homelessness in Australia [link]
Our Hidden Child Homelessness Problem (New Zealand) [link]
2023 Census Severe Housing Deprivation (Homelessness) Estimates (about New Zealand) [link]
Nationwide, More Children Live in the State of Homelessness than in Most American States [link]
The "Street Children" of Latin America [link]
Student Homelessness: Quick Facts and Resources for Governors (for the USA) [link]
Disabled homelessness sources:
Challenges and Struggles Faced by Persons with Disabilities Across Africa [link]
Forced Evictions and Disability Rights in Africa [link]
Prevalence of Mental Illness, Cognitive Disability, and Their Overlap Among the Homeless in Nagoya, Japan [link]
Trends and Dynamics of Homelessness in Hong Kong: Evidence From Population Survey in 2015 and 2021 [link]
Disability In South Asia [link]
People With Disability in Australia 2024 [link]
Disabled People Are Disproportionately Affected by Homelessness – And Getting support Feels Nearly Impossible (UK) [link]
Invisible Intersections: Disabilities and Homelessness (Europe) [link]
People With Disabilities in Latin America [link]
Disability In Latin America [link]
LGBTQIA+ homelessness sources:
Global Crisis of LGBTQ+ Homeless Youth: A Call for Inclusive Policies and Accurate Data [link]
Safe Homes for African LGBTQ+ Youth [link]
Experiences Of Conflict, Non-Acceptance and Discrimination are Associated with Poor Mental Well-Being Amongst LGBTQ-identified Individuals in Singapore [link]
2024, Philippines National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People [link]
4 in 10 LGBTQ+ People in Japan Still Face Report Housing Barriers [link]
The Hidden Housing Crisis Within India's LGBTQ+ Community [link]
Housing & Homelessness Transhub (Australia) [Link]
Homelessness Australia LGBTIQ+ People [link]
LGBTIQ+ Experiences of Poverty (Australia) [link]
LGBTIQ+ Population of Aotearoa New Zealand: 2023 [link]
Intersections Report: Homelessness (EU) [link]
LGBTQ+ Youth Homelessness (for the USA) [link]
LGBTIQ+ Population of Aotearoa New Zealand: 2023 [link]
LGBTQ+ Youth Homelessness (for the USA) [link]
LGBTQ+ Youth Homelessness & Housing Instability (for the USA) [link]
Intersex Youth Mental Health Report (for the USA) [link]
2SLGBTQ+ and Homelessness (in Canada) [link]
Homeless POC sources:
Paradise for Tourists, a Struggle for Natives: Native Hawaiian Homelessness in the Hawaiian Islands [link]
Out of Sight is Not a Solution (about New Zealand) [link]
Australia National Homelessness Facts [link]
Racism and Racial Inequality Within the Homelessness System Needs Recognition and Action From Government (England) [link]
Homelessness, Race and Ethnicity Research Programme Finds Shocking Evidence of Inequalities (UK) [link]
Census of Population 2022 Profile 6 - Homelessness (Ireland) [link]
Rooted in Trauma: Homelessness in Native Communities (USA) [link]
State of Homelessness 2025 (USA) [link]
Racial Inequalities in Homelessness by the Numbers (USA) [link]
Racism and Homelessness (USA) [link]
Young People of Color Facing Homelessness (USA & Canada) [link]
Aboriginal Homelessness In Canada [link]
Black Communities and Homelessness (in Canada) [link]
Other sources:
Sudan's humanitarian crisis: The facts and figures [link]
Crisis in Gaza: What to Know and How to Help [link]
46% of Those Experiencing Homelessness in Ukraine Lost Their Homes due to Conflict, Report Finds [link]
Four Years of War in Ukraine: Childhood has ‘Moved Underground’, Displacement Continues – UN humanitarians [link]
Ukraine - Street Child [link]
A Latino Learning About Homelessness in Latin America [link]
Venezuela Situation [link]
Venezuelans Sleep in Cars and Under Trees as They Question Where They’ll Live After the Earthquakes [link]
I have OCD, several other anxiety disorders, and ADHD and I also struggle with skin picking, especially on my back. My mum seems to hate that my back has so many scars and will compliment me when I pick less but tell me off if I pick more, but the problem is that she doesn’t seem to understand that it’s an anxiety thing? Her comments about it always make me feel worse, especially since she’s part of the reason why I started picking at myself (when I was a younger teen, she’d sometimes get spots on my back if she noticed them, so I started trying to get rid of spots before she noticed them because I hated when she’d poke at them). I’ve never had terrible acne either, but it somehow seems like any acne or scarring at all is an issue. If I get a couple spots on my face, she acts as if it’s a major breakout.
This is disfiguremisia, neuropsych ableism, and parental abuse.
This is such a minor example but it speaks to a larger culture of how normalized this type of thing is, I have a mole, It is large but completely benign. It is on my knee, and doesnt bother me at all but MULTIPLE people have told me its gross and I should get it removed. It is just a spot of skin that has more melanin. If this is how people act about a slight difference in "the norm" then how will we as a culture let people with anything else feel accepted and "normal" ??
This is lookism, and definitely speaks to the way that peoples fear of being deformed/disfigured impacts even abled characteristics.
People cannot even handle something as simple as a mole, let alone visible deformities/disfigurements that leave "beauty marks."
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I have skin tags. There are like, three, just on the left side of my neck. I often hide them in pictures and try to avoid letting people near my neck. I also have multiple around my armpits so I don’t like wearing clothing without sleeves. Ik it’s not major, but I’ve had them since I was around ten or eleven.
No big story or anything, I just wanted to share. (Obviously I’ve had people look at them weird and saw “ew” and whatnot, but no stand out cases)
It is lookism for people to react with disgust to your traits, and you feeling as though you need to cover them up is the result of lookism. @this-is-lookism
Disfiguremisia is how at the end of the movie Iron Lung, the protagonist (Simon) looked like THIS, and yet people still draw post-canon Simon with nothing but a little scar across his face.
I'm sure that if he somehow managed to survive everything that happened to him and recover from it all, he would begin to heal and it likely wouldn't be THIS intense, but he would still be HEAVILY scarred. But that's so often ignored in fanart, and it's frustrating.
This is disfiguremisia. People love to erase the scarring or health impacts of characters in a "if they survived" scenario.
is it deformimsia for people to ask me (quite rudely) "why are your teeth yellow?? do you not brush your teeth??" while i have a literal medical condition (enamel hypoplasia) that causes my teeth to be brown/yellow and spotty?
it really gets on my nerves like yes i do brush my teeth i literally have a prescription toothpaste to help with the sensitivity that comes with not having enamel on any of my teeth fuck off
This is deformimisia and also general lookism. Teeth can become yellowed and browned for many reasons, I need people to stop treating teeth as if they are white.
Also, side note - I feel you. I have low enamel, and it's unclear if its from enamel hypoplasia or a result of my dry mouth syndrome leading to a lack of saliva protecting the teeth.
A question, what is the difference between deformisia and disfiguremisia?
Deformimisia is directed at deformities, disfiguremisia is directed at disfigurements.
Deformities are conditions that cause an atypical shape or development of the body (ie; less body parts than typical, more body parts than typical, body parts shaped different than typical, smaller body parts than typical, larger body parts than typical, etc.) Typically a deformity describes something that occurs natally (at birth or from a condition not inflicted by injury.)
Disfigurements are injuries or skin conditions that change the appearance, shape, or size of something.
So for example, a person with lower limb amelia (born with no legs) would be deformed, while a person who experienced disease in their legs and needed it to be amputated would be disfigured.
These categories can overlap and you may see some people using them interchangeably (especially when it comes to skin conditions, since they can fall into either category.)
would bullying/picking on people with acne/acne scars be considered deformimisia?
It's kind of a toss up between disfiguremisia and lookism. The two categories overlap significantly, and there are some grey areas like this. Either way, people's opinions on acne scars reflect the wider views of other types of scarring.
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please wear sunscreen!!! I've seen "fuck the beauty industrial complex" posts about complicated skincare regimens and am 100% with them except sometimes they mention sunscreen and no. no. absolutely not. sunscreen is a wonderful supportive friend who wants to keep you safe, and you should let her do it. throw out all your other cosmetics and skincare products if you want, but keep your sunscreen. and if you're not wearing sunscreen, start wearing it!!!! this is not about terror of aging, this is not about every tiny imperfection our fucked-up culture has made you feel insecure about, this is about protecting yourself from skin cancer. wear the damn sunscreen.
Also, don't follow that pop science idea of black/brown people not needing sunscreen, please. Save yourselves. Because while melanin is [PT: is] a protection from UV rays, you can still very much get skin cancer. And the darker the skin, the less doctors are taught how to see skin cancer. So it's way more common for y'all to be left with it with no diagnosis. Making it easier to have it reach its latest stages with no treatment, and end up dead.
This is especially important with these heat waves we've been seeing. Heat strokes are at an all time high. Protect yourselves.
I was volunteering as a safe stop in a convention, with some prevention health equipment, and in 2 days in a very small venue we had 8 heat strokes that ended up in the ambulance.
I didn't find out until last year, but apparently my kneecap is too small and too high; I also have a wrong turn in my bone. Because of this, I have to use crutches to walk and that inevitably leads to people asking why I need to use them, or more commonly, "what happened to you"
Whenever I tell somebody about my exact problem, I get told, "oh, but you look normal to me". Though if somebody looks at my knee for too long they typically remark that it's "gross" and ask me if it can be fixed (I don't even know if I want to correct my knee)
I'm just sick and tired of people either not believing I'm disabled or thinking my disability looks terrible
This is deformimisia.
I have very similar things happen for a lot of my deformities. I "don't look deformed" but yet I also "look wrong." Pick a fucking lane??
Deformities aren't always starkly visible (some are fully invisible), and I am so tired of them being treated like they must be.
Also, don't ask people why they use mobility aids unprompted? It's none of your (general you) business, you're not that person's doctor, their medical information is their own to bring up when they please.
tumblr flags all my posts about a custom doll I made who's an amputee as Mature Content. Apparently being down a hand = something that must be hidden, lest it disturb those who gaze upon it without warning. Tiktok did one worse and straight-up pulled my videos about her completely, as if being an amputee is so bad that it shouldn't be seen at all.
I have a type 3 underbite. Basically, my lower jaw is significantly larger than my upper jaw to the point where my lower teeth are at the front when my mouth is completely closed. Because my lower jaw is larger, this is a type of underbite that is primarily genetic and isn't caused by things in early childhood.
Is this considered a deformity?
(if so, I'll definitely be sending in some of my experiences surrounding this in my life.)
Yes. A deformity is any body part that is shaped/sized in an atypical way or partially/fully absent, not due to injury.
Disfigurements are scarring, body parts that are shaped/sized in an atypical way due to injury, and/ or partially/fully absent due to injury.
Please, feel free to send whatever experiences with bigotry you have faced!
Rewatching Pound Puppies (the 2010s TV show) for nostalgia and I thought it was pretty great. Until it got to the second episode.
The episode takes place on Halloween. The episide’s title is “Nightmare on Pound Street” and the puppy they’re trying to find a home for is named Freddie.
Freddie has an underbite, hanging tongue syndrome, and ptosis in one eye. He’s also apparently designed to be a xolo mix so I think the tuft on his head and tail are supposed to imply he’s hairless. But with the way the fur is drawn is this style is not really clear.
The person who contacts them to dump Freddie on them is from another pound, and hides him behind a dumpster before dipping out. The Pound Puppies just do not want to deal with Freddie. The entire time, everyone but Lucky is talking about how ugly and unadoptable they think Freddie is behind his back. Both children and adults scream when they see Freddie’s face.
The other dogs, save for Lucky, seem uncomfortable dealing with the dog. And even though Lucky is treating him about the same as he would any puppy, the language he uses when talking about the puppy is softer than the others but still implies he thinks the dog is ugly. He even hopes Freddie will get adopted because people love things that are “creepy” on halloween.
They dress up in costume and go out to find Freddie an owner, but for some reason every prospective owner thinks he’s wearing a costume and then freaks out because they realize its his face. When he overhears that they all think he’s creepy looking, the kid runs away upset declaring that he’s the world’s ugliest dog. In the end, he does find a family who loves him and thinks he’s cute — not because of the Pound Puppies, by the way, Freddie found his family on his own.
I think the episode was trying to have a good message and failed horribly. The bullying was unnecessarily harsh and made the main characters look like out of character pieces of shit who’d abandon their core values — “there’s a pup for every person and a person for every pup” — in a heartbeat if they had any prejudice against a pup. I get that having a character be wrong is a good thing that gives them room to grow, but there’s not really any proper apology given to Freddie — nor is the agent who dumped Freddie on this sector of the Pound Puppies ever given any reprimand. And the end of the story comes off as “someone will love you even if you’re ugly” rather than “no one is a lost cause and it was wrong of us to treat you like one.”
This is deformimisia.
Deformed beings are not ugly. They are not scary. They do not make someone/something less worthy of good things. Deformities are a neutral characteristic.
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Know how in media characters with strabismus are often also have low intelligence? Remembering my time in school, it feels classmates and teachers regarded this as something that is always true, and wrongly perceived me as having low intelligence. I felt being desapized and deautonomized.
Besides having strabismus, I also was fat, already had a visible varsex trait (arm hair) and was the tallest among the girls in class. I had a such low self-esteem…
This is deformimisia, neuropsych ableism, fatphobia, and varsexism.
Strabismus does often co-occur in autism (with an estimated 15% of autistic people having it), and autism often co-occurs with learning disabilities. There's also genetic syndromes that cause both strabismus and intellectual disability. So I understand that in some cases, strabismus is indicative of neurodevelopmental or learning disabilities.
However, strabismus can occur outside of these things. Strabismus has so many causes, and it's not right to make assumptions about why someone has the condition.
It's also just really harrowing to see the way people treat folks with strabismus who they *assume* to have a neurodevelopmental/learning disability. Because clearly, they hold no respect for those who actually *are* disabled in that way.
Youtube marking any video of a person with visible or extreme scars as 'not suitable for all audiences' when the video isn't even about scars 90% of the time.
And
People demanding tws or censors for other people's HEALED scars. I understand getting triggered over fresh cuts but you don't have any right to demand a tw for someone's body.
