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TheSarahGothamDeserves :
To look you in your face and say, "You need to learn to walk better" is WILD
2025-07-17 22:42:28
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🏳️🌈✨Jac✨🇨🇦 :
I get it. My arms were not prepared when I used a cane. It’s just trading one for the other.
2025-07-17 22:04:48
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Page Miller-Rhodes :
People seem to think there's a quota of one disability you're allowed to have. They do it with chronic illness as if comorbidity isn't a thing
2025-07-17 21:58:55
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Nerko 🍉 :
Arthritis is an autoimmune disease. I had bad case of initial arthritis 5-6 years ago. Tried lectin free diet few years back and my arthritis symptoms basically went away. Those are the foods causing inflammation and seem to have triggered arthritis for me. Hope that helps.
2025-07-17 21:57:48
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Knicks2025champs :
Very inciteful. Never considered the negative side effects of mobility aids. Is the best solution to use a mix of wheels and crutches?
2025-07-17 21:48:24
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babs_zone :
i keep a cane around because i do need it to be sure, but i try to use it sO sparingly bc my consistently worst spot are my hands & wrists 😵💫 disability is a constant math problem
2025-07-17 22:14:19
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el_mfao :
"are you giving up?" when we arguably are better than before because we don't have that additional burden
2025-07-18 00:29:37
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Willow :
Yeah. It feels like an extension of compartmentalizing by moralizing disabilities. In their minds there has to be SOMETHING that you didn't do, didn't do enough, didn't get enough, all because they don't want to think for one second about the reality of it and how many people do not receive the care or accommodations they deserve as a human.
2025-07-17 22:17:10
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Whitley :
And they also say you’re not using it right. But you literally had specialists/physical therapists teach you.
2025-07-18 16:24:59
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sommers1824 :
It took me two years to accept I needed a power wheelchair. I’d been 20-23 hours a day in flat in bed. One of my best friends said she’s afraid I’m giving up. Um, no, I’d like to go out. Ableism is rampant. I’m sorry you have to deal w clueless people ❤️
2025-07-17 22:03:39
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bubblebath :
Could you imagine if we put even a fraction of the energy into lifting people up as we do tearing each other down? This world is so (needlessly) exhausting. I’ll never understand it.
2025-07-17 22:01:59
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Platanoutre :
I was going to make a point about how people don’t say that about eyeglasses but I recently learned of the contingent that considers corrective lenses ‘giving in to weakness’. 😫 Disablism is a hydra I swear.
2025-07-18 02:59:14
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Creature :
Which is what makes doctors ignoring us or making us buy our own mobility aids so much more damaging. People can’t just go without so they use inappropriate or ill fitting aids because life goes on and people can’t just wait and hope that maybe somebody will give them an appropriate mobility aid that causes less damage
2025-07-17 23:55:13
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Amanda 🍉🇺🇦 :
I had a flare where I had to use a single point cane for about 18 months straight. Immediately got double carpal tunnel. Worse in the dominant hand of course. It’s been 5 years since that flare and I need both wrist surgeries 7/30 and 8/13 😭
2025-07-17 22:11:44
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sometimesasalad :
Cars are a mobility aid. “What, you can’t 50 miles in an hour?”
2025-07-18 20:26:42
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yaisitis :
the hierarchy that non-disabled folks gauge mobility aids by is present in everything, too. I was seen as persevering w/ just a cane, whether that was in academics, career, personal, or often even medical spaces, & saw a definitive shift when I became a full-time 🧑🏼🦼 user 4yrs ago. some of that is due to how accessible places are to begin with, but I'd say that's still somewhat a reflection of that same hierarchy of who is "trying hard enough" to deserve access without being a "burden". (obv it also spills over into our own community as well. we've all p much had someone else w/ our same condition(s) tell us we're just not trying hard enough, too. lateral & internalized ableism are big issue for us disabled folks intracommunally just like as ableism is broadly intercommunally.)
2025-07-17 22:25:27
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Ash Sloth :
My brother also had CP and people would see him knee walking and ask “Why doesn’t he just walk” and being the sarcastic people we are both me and my sister face palmed and said “why didn’t we think of that!” (He was non-Speaking and preferred it when we handled that stuff.)
2025-07-18 00:52:02
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TizzyB Meg 🧿✌️🌎💫🦋🌈 :
I can mostly handle my executive dysfunction without mobility aids. I when I travel, I bring and use a wheelchair. The looks I get when using the chair as a walker and transitioning to or from using it as a wheelchair. Ugh. The abelism of people who could just mind their business... 👀
2025-07-19 11:47:46
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Maddie :
I was taught to use a walker with a body brace and also use a wheelchair as a kid but then there was a choice made for me to have a surgery that led to me not being able to bear any weight in my legs and I am so much worse off being a full time wheelchair user than I was doing both.
2025-07-18 13:28:54
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kaLo :
Thank you for sharing this. 🙏 Accommodations/aids are not a magic pill/mask to make non disabled folks feel better about their proximity to disability! Disability is not some continuum centered on “normal”. I am so grateful for your posts, brilliant brave woman!
2025-07-18 15:41:37
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CVnT :
my current mobility aids are somewhat not immediately recognizable as so (hiking sticks, e-trike). people I know still act a certain way when I use them tho and I dont have the heart to tell them I was actually shopping for a scooter👀
2025-07-18 14:38:32
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Thomas KMB :
My grandmother was a wheelchair user for the vast majority of her life (Polio when she was 14), and there came a point where her rotator cuffs were so worn out that she could not push herself any longer 💛
2025-07-18 04:10:42
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I ignore and block h8rs :
Compensatory injuries are so real. I used to work in work comp (awful system) and sometimes my clients would develop strain on their opposite limbs because their initial injury forced them to overuse their more able hand, foot, w/e. Disability is compounding.
2025-07-17 22:57:14
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the.spazzy.psych :
my left side is paralyzed and I have never heard anyone else talking about this, thank you❤️
2025-07-22 02:52:39
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srslykd :
Ooh ! Wanting to hear about good scooter. I'm looking for one. My arms can't move a manual wheelchair anymore.
2025-07-18 05:58:04
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