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Open housing

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How would you design the city of the future?

Obviously, if I were to design a city of the future I would design an accessible city, as accessibility benefits everyone not just disabled people. 

The best way to design accessible housing I believe would be to design open housing, then give those living in them an allowance to design things which can easily be changed in the person’s home.

Completely accessible public transport systems would also be a must. And all businesses must be accessible as well. I am also a big fan of 15 minute cities, so would design something like that.

People who misunderstand 15-minute cities think that they would be trapped in them, but in reality, it would just mean that the necessities are close enough for people to easily travel on foot (or by wheels) or via public transport. You can still travel to other areas if you wish.

Accessibility for all would be my biggest priority in the future if that wasn’t very clear. But I would also focus on building a tech-focused city, as this is the way society seems to be going anyway. As well as this technology can also help to make a city more accessible. Think of lights at the crossing as a good example, and how much easier and safer this makes things. 

I could go into a lot more detail about the way I would design an open city, and I may do at some point in the future. But right now I’m really struggling to write more than this, due to energy and everything else going on right now.

Potatoes.

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What foods would you like to make?

To be fair I was going to write something a lot more interesting than this, but despite everything going on in my head I’m struggling to put words to screen as it were. So I looked through my drafts and decided to answer this old writing prompt, so potatoes.

I would honestly like to do anything with potatoes. I honestly don’t think there is a bad way you can cook potatoes, they’re h just amazing foods.

In convinced if it wouldn’t kill me I could live off them.

But as you’ll know by now cooking is difficult for me. So while I would like to make some lovely potatoes I can’t, and that’s a bit sad. They’re so good.

How would you cook potatoes?

My phone

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What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time?

I know how that sounds but bare with me.

My phone, the internet, and social media, it is how I access the world. There’s no other way I can do so without help, there’s no other place I can be me the way I want to.

My phone also gets me help when I need it.

It’s not unfair to say that it’s my lifeline.

So don’t judge people who live through the Internet, judge the rest of the world for making it there only option.

Music.

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Which activities make you lose track of time?

Given this is a backdated post it seems like a perfect opportunity to talk about something called Maladaptive Daydreaming.

If you click the link it’ll Explain more about it, but essentially it is harmful and unconcontrolable daydreaming. This is something that I have done for as long as I can remember, and is definitely an activity that makes me lose track of time the most.

It is characterised by very vivid and repeated Daydreaming scenarios. They might play on a loop, and can triggered by TV or real-life events, or it can just happen.

While it is not yet a recognised medical condition, this doesn’t mean it isn’t a medical condition. Only that medical science has yet to catch up with the condition, and I hope this changes one day. As it is one I certainly believe I have.

If you read the link at the top of this page I’d be happy to answer any questions you might have.

But to answer this question I would have to say that alongside listening to music which often triggers me, sleeping, or just scrolling can make me loose track of time as well. How about you?

Oh that’s a question

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If you won two free plane tickets, where would you go?

I’ve always wondered if I were to ever win a competition where something like this is offered what would practically happen? Just because I won a trip like this doesn’t mean it would be accessible to me.

Are used to think about answering those competitions where you could win a car. I always wondered if I’d be able to sell the car if I want it because I knew it wouldn’t be a prize that would have any value to me.

But let’s just assume this holiday would be completely accessible, like it would be for any non-disabled person that won it.

Vegas probably.

Or somewhere warm at least.

Where would you go?

I could do with doing this more let’s be honest.

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What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being?

I’m struggling to focus on this at the moment, it’s almost 5am as I write this so that should be obvious.

While I guess I struggle with this a lot of the time, it’s hard to pinpoint what I do at these time, and if the things I think I do are even for the best.

I think I give myself the time and space to sleep and rest. But maybe that does me more harm than good, maybe it’s just me trying to escape everything and why I’m up at 5am.

Music can be helpful, but can also hurt, as it can trigger memorises of things I’m trying to get away from.

Watching my favourite shows or my comfort shows can be a nice escape, but if I finish a show it can be upsetting for me emotionally. I haven’t really considered properly why this might be.

Writing can help but often I fall into the trap of putting to much pressure on myself to complete a goal, so this stops becoming helpful.

Anything else that I may like to do to help my own wellbeing, I generally need help with. And besides not wanting to be more to burden to those around me, this can also be a trigger for me. A reminder of the things I’m trying to escape from.

I don’t know if this makes sense at all. And I’m even less sure, I might just of wrote it as an escape from going to sleep, which I should really do as I have plans in a few hours. Plans that I now don’t really want to do. I’m so tired but can’t sleep.

But maybe I should take the fact that I felt drawn to writing this prompt, as a sign that I’m getting myself back into writing a little bit. And maybe now I’m putting too much pressure on myself to start writhing again. I don’t know anymore.

I can’t really travel.

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What are your future travel plans?

Yes for the reasons you’re thinking of, but also not really for those reasons.

Let’s just say that money can solve most problems and if you really don’t believe that then you’re not paying attention to how privileged financially you are. Money could definitely solve the problem with travel for me. While much of the world is inaccessible, many of those inaccessibilities can be overcome with money.

Money the world does not want me to have because it does not want me to make a living for myself and have to see people like me in the real world. Money the world does not want me to have because I would not confirm to the useless disabled person they believe I should be. Money they’re able to keep from me.

Society wants me to be poor, and so I cannot travel. It is that simple.

That said, I would love to go to Vegas.

I know I said I was going to write much and I think I’m still going to keep this short and sweet but this one was to good not to answer

Not being the easy option.

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What bothers you and why?

Take now as I start this post, I am on a bus, and the people I’m with decided to go sit at the back. I know there are supposed to be the better seats on the bus, but I can only sit in one place on the bus, and there were seats near me when we got on, I’d be lying if I said their choice doesn’t bother me. How can it not?

They could have chosen to sit with me, but they didn’t. And every little time someone makes this choice, it reinforces what I think I’ve always known, I’m not more important than the better option.

My disability is an inconvenience to them, to be honest, it is to me as well, but I can’t escape it. They can though, and worse than that, they choose to. I don’t know if it’s made better or worse by the fact I can’t blame them though.

I just wish society made being with me the easier option.

What a claim it is to know something is definitely true.

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List 10 things you know to be absolutely certain.

I’m a person who definitely believes that most things in life are subjective. I said most things because I am aware that there are often exceptions to a statement like this. That said I’m going to give this writing prompt a go:

  • Disability is a matter of when not if, one day it will be you, unless you die first.
  • Whether others view you as disabled or not, will have a massive impact on your life, whether you are disabled or not.
  • Disability / Disabled is not a bad word.
  • Confidence is half the battle, except from when dealing with stairs.
  • People will always judge you for doing what you enjoy, so long as it doesn’t hurt anyone, do it anyway.
  • Sex has no relation to your value as a person.
  • Money doesn’t solve all the problems in the world, but it would make a lot of them easier.
  • How important something is, is relative to the person. Just because you don’t understand why something is important, doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter. It cannot matter to you, and still matter to them.
  • That said, your faith is about you not other people.  You can live by whatever rules you want,  so long as they don’t hurt others,  but you can’t force others to live by your rules.
  • Everyone is important. “In 900 years of space and time I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t important before.” – 11th Doctor.

I know that many of these are about disability, and that’s because disability restated things are currently on my mind. Maybe that has something to do with it being Disability Pride Month, or more likely it’s just because I’m disabled, so these things are always important to me.

Whatever the reasoning behind the focus of the list, everything I’ve said is true. And you’ve got to love when you’re able to get a Doctor Who quote in to something and it still makes perfect sense, that’s just a double win.

Do you have any objections to anything I’ve included on the list? I’d love to know what you think.

Dinner ?

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If you could host a dinner and anyone you invite was sure to come, who would you invite?

Damn. I take these questions way too seriously.

Erm. My mum.

Seriously.

But celebrity wise which I’m sure is what this actually means. I would absolutely love to have dinner with John Barrowman. I love him as a person and in Doctor Who as Jack. I also think he wouldn’t care when I inevitably spill food on myself.

To be honest this question was harder to answer than I thought it would be.