People love to talk about whether or not disabled people can work
but if you can work just fine and your disability is destroying your ability to have a life outside of work (because work takes all your energy and more)
Dead silence. Nobody cares.
File this under, oh you can be active for 4 hours? You can work part-time. Um no, I have to get ready for work (30 min) get to work (15 min) get home from work (15 min) feed myself all day (30 min) maintain myself, my home and my life (15 min, yeah right), which leaves 15 min for work and absolutely nothing else.
This is so accurate, back after I’d relapsed I wanted to try and go in for one class at school so I could still stay in contact with the education system. I let slip during a meeting that I managed to drag myself to that I could manage about 4 hours of activity a week, which the teacher sprang on to mean I was being lazy for just trying to get to 1 hour class. Never matter that it was 30 minutes travel, that I would have to get washed and dressed, that I would probably still need to recover for 3 days from it.
Far too often abled people see the things they do easily as “non activities”, they don’t realise that for many disabled people these things have to be carefully planned and measured, and sometimes they simply can’t be done.
reblog bc the non activities thing seems really important words
I get X number of pain-free steps per day right now, which means that, for large conventions (like SDCC), I need to be in a mobility device. I had someone ask if I used up my steps every day before transferring to the scooter, and look surprised and a little horrified when I said “no, I save them so I can go to the bathroom unassisted.” Like, they had never considered that walking is involved in peeing.
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Reblogging for the important point that the term “activity” may mean something very different and much broader for a disabled person with a chronic pain or fatigue related condition compared to its meaning for a non disabled person. If you’re tired enough, simply sitting up in a chair rather than lying in bed is an activity that drains energy otherwise usable for other things. A thing I knew from other people with pain and fatigue related conditions, but worth reinforcing for followers who didnt know or had forgotten.
I’m a page
designer for my school’s newspaper. We cover our printing cost with ads, and
usually that doesn’t cover all expenses. Since we have little income we try to
please our customers so they will buy an ad space again. I had two ads from the
same company going on my spread. Our ad manager had designed one ad and we were
waiting on the other from the company. I put placeholders on my page until the
ad was sent.
I received two
ads instead of one: they were both in neon script font over stock images, and
were in awkward, non-standard dimensions that didn’t fit our page, and were
larger than the spots they paid for.
The email insisted we use these ads exactly as they are.
Me: (via email) The
ads you sent us are in the
wrong dimensions for what you paid for, and we have already designed an ad
for you. Can you either send us a reworked version, or let us edit these
ourselves?
Client: I would like for
you to use the ads I sent. You can rearrange the paper.
I put the ads on the page as is. It was ugly and horrible. I felt
ashamed.
I am barely over 18 and can meet
deadlines and requirements better than the business owning adults in my city.
Sigh… Somebody used my art in their youtube video. I wouldn’t mind so much if it wasn’t some dime a dozen stupid ‘worst of DA’ video by a hack who can’t even draw with MS Paint.
So yeah, I’m offering him the chance to remove my art, take the video, and actually get permission from the artists and properly credit them… Or I’ll do a copyright strike.
I know it’s petty. But I feel it’s my obligation to shut down people who think they can just showcase the works of other artists under some kind of mocking title without asking for permission first. Or at least not even bothering to link to the original.
I saw the video and most of the art isn’t bad per say, its mostly just fetish art that the douchebag feels the need to shame for some reason.
i am 150% DONE with hearing all you non-asian bitches call your nail techs “ling ling”.
dont fucking think that shit is okay. im constantly hearing this shit, along with you bitches complaining about how people who work in nail salon’s speak their own language while in your holy presence. its their first language for god’s sake. it comes much more easier and naturally to them, why wouldnt they speak it? if youre so uncomfortable with it, take your fucking business elsewhere because these women work way too hard to get disrespected with crude, racist comments.
“ling ling needs to hurry up with my nails” shut. the. entire. fuck. up.
^^^^^^
I worked at a nail salon last year and when the nail techs spoke to each other in their native languages, it was almost always to coordinate things like “hey you, make sure to help that customer gets some slippers on” or “that customer needs to pay 25 dollars” or “hey can you cover the front desk?”… or even just talking… about their weekend or something…. like you’d talk to your co-workers yk?
Yet non asian customers are always so rude and suspicious that we are somehow talking shit about them. Like… trust me. They have got better shit to talk about.
When laughter bubbles up after an exchange of excited vietnamese or chinese words, customers are so quick to assume that they are talking shit when they’re literally just talking about something funny that happened last night. Or something silly one of their kids or spouses did. Or a pun.
And honestly, if they -were- talking shit about you, you probably deserved it bc you were a rude or unpleasant customer.
Asian workers get ridiculed by non asians so much for how our language sounds smh.
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yeah and they have the audacity to mock their accents….childish bullshit i swear
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
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