Tag: TV

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.

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?

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.

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.

Access

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When the wheelchair accessibility of a venue is so rubbish but they won’t let me leave without making my carer leave to who likes who we were supposed to see as well so you end up sitting in the corner watching How I Met Your Mother. This is why I go everywhere prepared to sit alone in the corner 😂😢

Image Description: picture of a clip from How I Met Your Mother on a phone, showing Lily and Marshall the captions read “there occurred a game-changing emergency.”

Make of this what you will. May or may not explain more later.

Doctor who💙💙.

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Image Description: A photo of a cinema screen showing the BBC Doctor Who logo with “interval 15 minutes, special message commences in” written on it and a timer counting down.

So this is another backdated post. Yesterday turned out to be quite busy day. After I posted a similar post to my recent Train post on this blog, on TikTok. That got a little popular so I mainly spent the day replying to those comments and getting ready to watch Doctor Who.

No, this is not a blog about Doctor Who so I’ll just say it was an experience and I recommend you watch it. I will definitely be watching it again.

And I don’t really have the energy now to write about the backlash I have faced from the Train post. But I wanted to sort summarise some things up.

First of all, children are optional. You choose to have them, or you choose to keep them. if you are in a situation where this is not optional for you this is because the option has been taken from you not because the act of having children isn’t optional. If you disagree with the statement, I don’t think this blog is for you, and that’s okay.

Second of all, wheelchair spaces are not also also buggy spaces. They can be used by people with buggies if no one in a wheelchair needs them, but they are intended for use by people in wheelchairs therefore they should and often do in policy get priority in these spaces. They are certainly not storage spaces. Again, if you disagree with this, this isn’t the blog for you.

If anyone would like me to share more on this issue, let me know. I’m happy to share links to my posts on TikTok if you would like to see them.

Thank you, and remember to watch Doctor Who 💙💙

Why is it better that I watch TV alone?

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So I’ve scheduled this post to be added to the blog at a time, I’m hopefully asleep. you’ll understand why if you read my previous post.

But as I write this post, I’m watching a tv show, due to the whole not sleeping thing. In fact that’s probably part of why I’m still awake, but that’s not something we’re going to touch right now.

As I watch this program, I’ve stopped, started, muted and googled things many times. And this is how I generally watch tv when alone. It’s obviously not appropriate to do this when watching tv with others. When I’m doing that I’m just usually on my phone.

I think it’s a control thing. I think it’s wanting to know the future but not experiencing the emotions that come with that. And I obviously have the most control over TV when I watch it alone.

It’s a silly thing to want control over. But when you feel as if you don’t have a lot of control in your life, you’ll take any control you can get, and that includes TV. Controlling the rest of the world, the rest of my life, feels inaccessible to me. Controlling watch I watch on TV and how exactly I watch it, is not.

Sometimes getting a little bit of control back can help. And I think as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone, including yourself controlling the little things can’t be bad.

But all of this really means that it’s just better that I watch TV alone. So I can do it at the speed that I want to do it.

I’m tired.

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There was yet again, many things I wanted to post about today. But fatigue decided to beat me as it often does.

I know that I shared on hear a post recently to be honest with you I think it was yesterday, but I’m not sure about accessibility in Doctor Who. and the one thing I can bring myself to write about right now, is that again.

I think it shocked me how much I’ve had to fight people on this ramp being needed in the Tardis. The excuse for why it’s not as probably an unusual one. they say that given the tardis is always adapting, it should be able to adapt not to need a ramp. they’re overlooking the symbolisation of having the ramp present, whether it technically would be needed or not. And just so you know it is needed.

That’s all I can really say on this one. I apologies for the sporadic nature of this post, but I need to go back to bed.