This is Disabled Joy

Hello! Welcome to "this is disabled joy", a place where disabled people can share their positive experiences!

Disabled joy is the nurses listening to us when we tell them we are scared of needles, and reminding us to look away while drawing our blood. They also often don't mind chatting during the process while we turn our head to the side to avoid looking at the needle. It's a little sliver of joy and hope in the reality of having to have blood drawn a lot for many reasons and bruising easily from it.

I've set up an aac board for myself after feeling like I shouldn't use it for ages but it's helping so much

I recorded words for my AAC on a day, where my voice chords worked well enough. So now I can use my own recordings when I want to call people or my voice isn't working, which feels great.

I have autism and adhd and have recently developed a major hyperfixation (pending special interest… not sure yet) in nature and animals! And last weekend I got my very first pair of binoculars so now I get to wander around looking at all the birds and sometimes even sea creatures!!! :D

Its so cool to see a disability joy page!!