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to any disabled person starting school soon, remember to take it easy on yourself. the education system was designed for, and by, abled people and is incredibly inaccessible, especially for physically disabled students.

advocate for yourself and each other. put spikes and stickers on your mobility aid. tell people to fuck off when they touch you without asking. demand your teachers and school accommodate you. find people like you and stick close to them. remember to put your safety and health above all else.

i know the school year is just starting, but it's important to remember to take care of yourself. drink water, eat plenty of food, wear a mask (if you don't homeschool), and don't compare yourself to your abled peers. what you can do is enough.

what you can do is enough.

let's survive this semester.

just imagine a boy flirting with a girl in ancient greece and he tells her "you're prettier than aphrodite" and instead of blushing and saying "thank you" she goes BRO ARE YOU KIDDING ME ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND WHY THE F*CK DID YOU SAY THAT DO YOU WANT ME F*CKING DEAD OR WHAT

of course you have cannibalistic tendencies and pronouns

The 2024 Gender Census is now open!

[ Link to survey ]

The 11th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th June 2024.

It’s short and easy, about 5 minutes probably.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 40,000 responses last year.

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

For the curious, you can also spy on some graphs and demographic data for the incoming responses here.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

Image credit: Malachite and rhodochrosite.

This would absolutely fix my mental illnesses

(kinda a vent? Idk I'm in pain and no one believes me so this kinda a rant, TLDR at the bottom)

Some of the worst things about being disabled with like arthritis at a young age, is when you tell your parents or just any old person in general and they don't believe that you're in pain. I'll tell my mom my back hurts so bad that it's spreading to my legs, and she'll just roll her eyes and say sorry in a condescending voice. Her and my stepdad think just cause I'm young that equals no pain. My mom was there when I got my diagnosis! She knows that I got my arthritis from my dad and how bad it was when he was my age! But noooooo since I'm not up and working for 40+ years I can't have back pain. I mean gods, I've even thought about buying a cane/wheelchair with my own fuckin money! But just cause I'm young means I can't have pain.

TLDR: If there's a young person in your life with a disability please believe them when they say they're in pain. Age does NOT equal no pain.

I think the first sign that I was werewolfkin was the fact every full moon my mental health plummets farther than hell itself

I’m not canonically autistic but it’s strongly implied

This is so funny lmao

The much anticipated sequel to Pride Month: Into the disability-verse

COMING TO A THEATER NEAR YOU!

(based off of spiderman: into the multiverse lolol)

"Pride month is over"

WRONG! Your pride month is over! Me and all the other disabled queers are having pride month two: disability edition

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