Tired of Lyme

are disabled

are chronically ill

can't celebrate for health reasons

disability gets in the way of their gender representation

disability got in the way of a relationship

don't have anyone to celebrate with

have homophobic caretakers

i think what happened was i recently took out my snake bite lip piercings and ive been absentmindedly playing with the scar tissue on the inside of my lip where the piercings used to be, so with that on top of clenching my jaw all the time like i have since i was a kid and heightened pain and a lot of issues with my cptsd and ocd this week just all came together to make the right side TMJ area spasm and overwork itself which then made me overcompensate on the left and then it got cyclical.

i don’t have nearly as much pressure in my ears, sounds are easier to hear again, and i don’t feel so dizzy that i have to stop and lay down on the floor randomly. i didn’t have access to my anxiety meds this week because the pharmacy was out of stock, but i got them today and after taking some extra strength tylenol and the lorazepam i can actually open my mouth completely again and the actual TMJ area is much less tender to the touch

i’m gonna keep this up for a few more days and hopefully it’ll go back to normal.

The TMJ muscles run next to your ear and when they're stressed, they can put pressure on your ear and mess it all up, which is probably what you've had going on. Except I didn't know to get a mouthguard until it was Bad™. When I was in my early 20s and Going Through Shit, I didn't have a mouthguard, and I was grinding and clenching my teeth so bad that I actually started to lose my hearing. The ENT guy was told me to get a mouthguard and it cleared up in a couple weeks. Same guy was also like 'why tf are your teeth so flat?' (my lower incisors don't have points) and I was like 'my dude, the grinding.'

i am a little person. i am 4'0, i have ccd and achondroplasia. i have various other genetic conditions that affect me but i will be mentioning my identity as a little person mostly.

quit using little people as the butt of your jokes. no, you cant use the m slur it is a slur, no you cant call us gnomes or elves or dwarves or whatever the fuck you call us. we are real people, we arent little characters or creatures. we are LIVING BREATHING PEOPLE. quit treating us like kids or idiots. you dont have to baby us. quit making fun of little people's heights, ESPECIALLY PEOPLE WITH DISPROPORTIONATE DWARFISM. you are fucking ableist if you make fun of little people, you dont see us as people you see us a joke. im sick and tired of people i love and care for treating me as if im a joke and making fun of my height. fuck off

i dont care if we "look funny" or "haha tiny" its so fucking annoying and disrespectful to be treated as if the body isnt a living, breathing, full grown adult.

as a kid in hs, my teacher literally came up to me, holding my 40 page essay on the intersection of the European witch hunts and capitalism/exploitation/gender roles (it was supposed to be 7 pages...whoops) and went like "this is literally a master's-degree level thesis. what are you doing?? you could literally use this as your final dissertation in a master's program, what the fuck."

I have been through something similar a few times in my life with writing, yoga, studying...

Admittedly, my life is always financially and socially precarious, so my notion of stability currently just means "enough money to pay the rent and food for the next few months."

@revenantscholar

Hatred is just one possible symptom of the problem. Sometimes it’s pity. Or creepy dehumanising fascination. Or indifference to their suffering, when you’d care about that same kind of suffering if someone less oppressed were to experience it. Or - very often - ignorance and a self-absorbed refusal to learn to be better.

But those feelings are also just symptoms of the core problem. The problem is not about your feelings at all - it’s about actions and whether your actions support an oppressive system.

white

low support needs

not need 24/7 support

can work independently

can pay taxes

language privileged

intellectual & cognitive privileged

who can fit in societal definition of useful & productive (yes, even if hard)

when fight back against eugenics & ableism, you NEED to fight alongside, fight with, n fight for autistics who

radicalized & POC

from places of world where there critically lack autism knowledge n support

visibly autistic

higher support needs

need 24/7 care

can’t work independently or even work at all

can’t pay taxes

nonverbal, nonspeaking, minimally verbal, without functional communication, or cannot communicate via language at all even AAC

w intellectual disability or cognitive disabilities

who cannot fit into society definition of useful n productive, no matter how hard we try

because we always are & always will be primary target.

because we most vulnerable most marginalized within our, OUR community, which you belong in.