Tag: Quotes

Does it have to be a real man?

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Describe a man who has positively impacted your life.

Someone told me once, that I can answer the prompts anyway I want so I’m going to.

The first that comes to mind when answering this question is The Doctor from Doctor Who. Now I’m aware this isn’t technically a man or a human and even more technically is a TV character. But they were the first I thought of, and they have definitely had a positive impact on my life.

Doctor who was my first experience of something that acted as a level playing field for me. It didn’t matter I was disabled, all that mattered is I was a fan of Doctor Who. The lessons that the doctor taught really spoke to me, and I will forever be grateful for them.

Image Description: A picture of Peter Capaldi as the 12th Doctor on the right of the image with the start of the face of someone else below. There is a quote on the left of the image that reads:

I DO WHAT I DO BECAUSE IT’S RIGHT! BECAUSE IT’S DECENT.
AND ABOVE ALL, IT’S KIND.
IT’S JUST THAT. JUST KIND.
IF I RUN AWAY TODAY, GOOD PEOPLE WILL DIE.
IF I STAND AND FIGHT, SOME OF THEM MIGHT LIVE … MAYBE NOT MANY, MAYBE NOT FOR LONG.
HEY, MAYBE THERE’S NO POINT IN ANY OF THIS AT ALL, BUT IT’S THE BEST I CAN DO, AND I WILL STAND HERE DOING IT UNTIL IT KILLS ME.

Even more so I will always be grateful for the friends that The Doctor gave me. This is the only Doctor I can honestly say I would trust with my life. And I honestly can’t wait for the special at Christmas.

I’m sorry for not writing more, I want to write more but I’m in one of those places where I want to write until I starting writing. But I’m trying.

Family was in the hospital.

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So obviously while someone was in the hospital I wasn’t focused on this blog. I basically came home and slept then went out very quickly again. So I’m going to do some backdated posts to get me back on track.

Image Description: The image is a figure in a wheelchair with their leg in a cast, the text reads: “Disabled  people deserve the same access that non-disabled people currently have.”

If you disagree this isn’t the blog for you.

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Image Description:
Tumblr post by – sweetsweetemo
Text reads:
“If you had a child by choice, you:
signed up for an autistic child
signed up for a trans child
signed up for a Igbq+ child
signed up for a mentally ill child
signed up for a disabled child
signed up for a child with “conditions”
signed up for a rebellious child
signed up for a kid. in any way, shape, or form of being, it’s your child, and you signed up for it.
And you are not:
the victim in any of these fucking situations for gods sake”

I don’t share posts here for debate. If you have an issue with anything shared in this post I don’t want to hear about it, it’s a you problem. Keep it to yourself.

Today is the last day of Disability Pride Month

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And I had to backdate this post due to having a bad day with my disability yesterday. I literally spent the day crying over something very minor due to my disability. So this seems like a good time to share it.

Image Description: A tweet from @RebelWheelsNYC the text reads “Disability pride is not about loving your symptoms 24/7 or even at all. It’s rejecting the ableist that they make you inferior. But also in the face of system #ableism, it’s reminding yourself as needed that the problem is the system/oppression, not you #disabilityprideMonth

When I tell you I forget I’m disabled.

On By Katy DalyIn My Disability Truth5 Comments
Image Description: Screenshot from a Tumblr post from un-monstre, the text reads: Disability will have you thinking shit like ” I’m not even that disabled. I can manage as long as I limit myself to very specific careers, never go shopping for more than an hour or two at a time, Keep my plans open so I can cancel and stay in if need be, I’m only going out a few nights per week at the most.”

When you look at it like that. It’s kind of sad.

Doctor Who

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Image Description: A Quote from The Doctor, that reads “The way I see it every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad, but vice versa, the bad things don’t necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant” –

As I share this quote this is me holding on to something I enjoy when things are difficult. This feels particularly relevant to what I’m dealing with right now, and who doesn’t love an excuse to quote Doctor Who? If the answer is you then you might want to avoid this blog for a while.

Pride or caution

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Image description: screenshot of a tweet by Alice Wong:

Instead of #DisabilityPrideMonth, how about #DisabilityPrecarityMonth where we organize and fight like hell?

Pride is complicated and flattens out a lot of the joy, love, and care that is intertwined with pain, systemic ableism, and trauma

Source: https://twitter.com/SFdirewolf/status/1675588957793550337?t=CjQQtgtlzktDKXAUhOdruQ&s=19

I really like this quote as I think it speaks well to the complex emotions and practicalities of what it means to be disabled in society today.

Pride, while it means well, can be difficult to feel when you live in a world that tells you you’re wrong is so many ways and so many times.

We deserve to recognise these feelings and the hardships of the world we are faced with. To feel our feelings, whatever they may be without any additional guilt.