The World Of Disability Is Often One Of Absolute Loneliness And Destroying Sadness. This Loneliness And

the world of disability is often one of absolute loneliness and destroying sadness. this loneliness and sadness is not from the hands of the disabled, but rather the abled. we, as the disabled, blur the lines of their understandings of joy, experience, and self -- they cannot imagine being disabled and the struggle accompanied with it until they become disabled themselves, as they all will. in the meantime, we must find meaning and joy within our communities because it is difficult to find belonging elsewhere.

Hallucinating is normal, many people experience it. You have most likely at least passed someone in the street who was hallucinating once. Or you've worked alongside a coworker who was actively hallucinating and you didn't even notice. Or your loved one hallucinated while you were in the room, but they were afraid to tell you.

Hallucinating is common, it's just not commonly talked about in everyday situations. If you don't experience it, or don't know someone who does and tells you about it, you've probably only heard it in the news or on TV. And they only really represent the worst possible outcome for shock value. But that isn't representative of how most of us who hallucinate experience it.

Most of us are just like everybody else, living our lives, just with the addition of hallucinations. We may need to take pills every day, or need therapy, or need to stay in mental hospitals sometimes, or need to be checked on by loved ones, but so do a lot of other people who don't hallucinate.

Hallucinations are just a symptom. Just like anxiety, or trouble concentrating, or tiredness. A lot of people experience it and have to learn to cope overtime. The only difference is we don't generally talk about it to people in casual settings. And it's because of the stigma. If you don't hallucinate, or know someone who does, you probably don't see hallucinations as a normal part of life, a symptom, just a thing plenty of people experience. But it is, it's not special, it isn't more dangerous, it doesn't have to be a huge deal.

Obviously hallucinations can be life changing and horrific, but so can other mental health symptoms. Hallucinations can also be neutral, or just annoying or even a positive experience. It's just a symptom, it doesn't automatically mean someone is in the worst mental state possible if they are hallucinating. It doesn't automatically mean someone is dangerous or unpredictable. It just means a person is experiencing senses that the people around them are not.

You have to learn to accept that it's just a symptom, and that people around you experience it, and they deserve to complain or talk about it just like anyone else gets to with other things in their lives. All you have to do is listen, and try to be understanding. Hallucinating is normal, you just need to stop treating it like it's abnormal.

i would like it if people stopped assuming that all progressions of physical symptoms are due to deconditioning and that if you just worked harder to "push through" your disability and "stay active" you would not have symptom progression. it is Not Always True and it just comes off as you blaming me for aspects of my health that i Cannot Control that are already Actively Distressing to me. this is something that i see a lot in disability spaces. like i'm already struggling with A) my condition itself worsening & B) the mental toll & implications of that. i don't need to see a ton of people who should be understanding make assumptions about my health and tell me that actually it's my fault for not continuing to be active in ways i am physically unable to, especially when this is just not true in my case.

if you are able to recondition yourself and be more healthy through that, that's so cool for you. i mean that genuinely, and i hope that you are able to maintain your lifestyle and be as healthy as you desire. but you are not every disabled person. i have tried that, many, many times, and it has only caused more flare ups that i've never fully recovered from, leading me to end up feeling worse than i felt beforehand. i should not be barred from compassion because of this.

also, even if my condition had worsened due to deconditioning, consider that some disabled people cannot recondition themselves due to other factors in their life. maybe they have other non-physically-active obligations that take up too much time and energy. maybe they have a comorbid condition that gets in the way of reconditioning. maybe they literally just don't think the outcome will be worth the process. and consider that these people have the autonomy to do whatever with their own health & body and that they still deserve compassion and support even if they're "choosing" to be deconditioned. okay thanks

“ew thick water gross and weird” ITS NOT FUCKING FOR YOU!!!!! “ew why buy pre-cut vegetables when you can cut your own” ITS NOT FUCKING FOR YOU!!!!!! “I don’t need a device to help me put my socks on I’m not lazy” ITS NOT FUCKING FOR YOU !!!!!!!!! “Why drink liquid meals when you can cook them” ITS!!!!! NOT!!!!!! FOR!!!!!! YOU!!!!!!!!

“Everything is ableism these days”

Have you considered the fact that disabled people seeing ableism in every day language and life says more about society and its culture/history than it does about disabled people as a whole?

the way people online talk about autism is getting really weird, like do they know that neurotypicals still have interests? that someone being passionate about a hobby doesn't mean they're autistic? you guys know that right