My Guilty Pleasures

Well maybe I don’t WANT to work double as hard as abled people!! Maybe I deserve a BREAK!! Maybe I’ve been working MORE THAN double as hard for MY WHOLE LIFE and it’s led me to immense burnout & caused me to develop several MORE disabilities!! Maybe I should be ACCOMMODATED so I don’t have to KILL MY BODY AND BRAIN over trying to do what abled people can do!! Maybe I DON’T have to work double as hard!! Maybe if there’s the option to let me NOT work double as hard, I should have it, because I’m already working double as hard JUST TO SURVIVE!!

If your body is asking you to slow down today, listen.

You don’t have to earn rest by pushing yourself until you crash. You don’t have to justify taking a nap, canceling plans, or leaving the dishes for tomorrow.

For those of us living with chronic illness, rest isn’t a luxury—it’s part of how we survive.

So here’s your Tiny Reminder today:

Rest without guilt.

The world can wait a little while. Your body deserves your kindness.

💜 If this reminder found you at the right time, I hope you carry it with you today.

It's that time of the year again, and I've got all of my pride kitty pins restocked just in time! 💞 It'd be super cool if you checked them out, plus the other goodies I've got in store!

When I'm using my forearm crutches people are a little nicer but not by much. I get less funny looks and more people hold the door for me, but still hardly anyone helps me pick up stuff I drop. And if I'm out alone shopping or something, nobody helps me reach stuff on high shelves unless I ask. I get not wanting to come off as ableist by offering to help, but if you see someone clearly struggling you might want to step in.

Now when I'm using my wheelchair, that's a whole different ballgame. Almost everyone is holding doors, helping me pick up stuff, helping me with high shelves, and being really nice to me. But people often infantilize me when I'm using a wheelchair. They always smile at me, which sounds nice, but it's usually in a way you would smile at a little kid out in public. If I'm with someone then people will talk to them instead of me, and if I'm alone people will talk slowly to me or in a high pitched voice.