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Roxi Horror 💀🌸@roxiqt.com |
For Disability Pride Month, one thing I'd love abled bodied people to figure out is how to speak to someone with chronic health issues without implying that if they themselves had the disabled person's health conditions, they would end it all. I promise you life goes on- even with health issues.
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Ian/Iana Spencer (they/she/he)
@ianianaspencer.bsky.social
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Not to take away from the specifics of your core request, but if they could also find time to work on figuring a response to "yeah I have ADHD/Autism" without implying I'm some kind of superhuman savant and not someone who struggles with a complex neurological disability
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Kimista
@kimista.bsky.social
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Fucking Amen.
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Cats of Yore
@catsofyore.bsky.social
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I wish people I care about would be more comfortable complaining. Like they’ll be telling me they had a headache or something and suddenly look STRICKEN and be like “oh god but it’s nothing compared to what you go through!” It’s okay! We’re not competing. I’m not internally rolling my eyes at you. ❤️
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Maggie K
@maggiekpaints.bsky.social
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Lol one that sticks with me isn't even a disability but my husband has an allium allergy and so we cook most things at home from scratch to avoid them. Someone told me they'd kill themselves if they couldn't eat garlic. Like are you a child?
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🌷Skippy The Bush Kangaroo🌷
@skippythekangaroo.bsky.social
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Good lord I’m fortunate not to have run across that one. That’s awful.
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Elana Levin
@levin.bsky.social
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“You have long covid? Oh you know since I had covid a year ago I get winded climbing up the stairs. And I get these headaches” guess what— you have long covid too buddy and I’m happy to refer you to some resources. This being the only time it’s appropriate to offer advice.
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Chuck Sanders
@chucksanders.org
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As someone who is undergoing cancer treatment and the associated sickness and compromised immunity, the thing that I get from people is "OMG you are so brave" and I'm like I am scared to death some days. No bravery involved, just doing what the doctors want me to do and trying to stay alive.
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Crockett Houghton
@crockettforreal.bsky.social
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It’s not the compliment people think it is.
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Fetch
@ameliafetch.bsky.social
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Reading this post was one of those "JFC, people say WHAT?!" moments for me. đź«‚
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Purple Queen Publishing đź“šđź’ś
@purplequeenpub.bsky.social
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Gosh that's like telling someone with a disability to kill themselves! Horrible. And also people who never honestly consider suicide see it as this easy thing to do too. Like some whimsical get-out clause. They have no idea.
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cat-attack (she/her)
@cat-attack.bsky.social
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I feel like these are the same folks who tell someone they’re “brave” for various fashion choices when they’re above a size 6.
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Doom_371 đź”°
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Is it really that hard for ppeople to keep statements like that to themselves? Maybe I'm biased, but I feel like it takes a fairly low level of emotional intelligence to know that it's rude and ableist to say something like that
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Hipster Sasquatch
@hipstersasquatch.bsky.social
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I hate that! Ppl will try to come at if from an angle, but once in a blue moon, someone just comes out and SAYS IT. Yeah I get it, you think I'm brave - because you can't see living a life like mine without killing yourself. FUCK YOU. (Except I didn't say that, because it was my professor)
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AF the Virologist
@afthescientist.bsky.social
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And to also not give us unsolicited advice. I assure you, we have likely tried nearly every suggestion you may have.
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Leonoliomonolio
@lolrigole.bsky.social
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Ugh yes. “Omg, I could never do what you do, never!” - You could, honey, if your life depended on it.
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JONATHAN
@laredo2014.bsky.social
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Excellent advice, treat them like they are able bodied people get to know them and listen to what they have to say
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