Tattoos are weirdly accessible

What tattoo do you want and where would you put it?

I got my first tattoo in December just gone, in memory of my mum, and it was a weirdly accessible experience. I say weirdly not because the way it was made accessible was weird, but simply because I wasn’t sure if the experience would be accessible to me at all.

I wasn’t sure how my body would react to a tattoo, and all the accessibility requirements in the world being met, which they were, would not have changed how my body may have reacted to getting a tatto. I worried about this, that my body wouldn’t play ball, and so I wouldn’t be able to get a tattoo that I really wanted.

Sometimes as disabled people are bodies are the reason that something is inacessible to us. And this can be a very difficult reality to for us to accept.

But luckily it went well, very well. And I now want another tattoo.

I’m debating between paw prints for my dogs, with there names in them or something Winnie the Pooh, what do you think?

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