fuck it, mega thread of my best content.

i am also an addict in the chronic pain community and i also find a lit of the discourse to be very disheartening. this is a brilliant thread and i hope you read it.

RT @sicc_bitch: abled people get home from work, make and eat dinner, walk the dog, shower, brush their teeth, watch tv & go to bed, then….

RT @sicc_bitch: “learn to ask for help” is such a poor way of saying “develop a completely new conceptual understanding of worthiness and w….

RT @sicc_bitch: #DisabilityCultureIs. sustainability at EVERY level. how many abled activists do you know who preach sustainability, but….

RT @sicc_bitch: if you have self esteem issues or trauma stemming from schooling, please know that what you experienced was ableism.

RT @sicc_bitch: i cannot believe how much of my life i spent saying things like “i hate being in public” or “i just don’t like activities”….

RT @sicc_bitch: “its all in your head” and “its coming from a problem in your brain” are, hypothetically, describing the same thing. the i….

RT @sicc_bitch: “i’m not disabled, i can still work” isn’t just vaguely capitalist. it means disabled people don’t gain the context they ne….

RT @sicc_bitch: it would be so easy for health class to teach kids about chronic illness, except that it would literally undermine the rest….

RT @sicc_bitch: having a job doesn’t disqualify you from saying you’re too sick or disabled to have a job. you can be working and unable to….

RT @sicc_bitch: “plastic goods for disabled people are bad for the environment” um. that’s pretty rich coming from someone who showers ev….

RT @sicc_bitch: i don’t know who needs to hear this but if someone didnt really need a mobility aid and decided to use one anyway for whate….

RT @sicc_bitch: care is not transactional, it’s generative. when i give you my care, i don’t leave with any less. if you care for me too, w….

RT @sicc_bitch: kids who don’t do their homework aren’t bad kids. they are disabled kids, abused kids, poor kids. no child is ever walking….

RT @sicc_bitch: a definition of lazy that is more like “someone who isn’t doing what i want them to when i feel so profoundly entitled to t….

RT @sicc_bitch: a great way to be less ableist is simply to introduce the thought “maybe this is way harder for them than it is for me” int….

RT @sicc_bitch: doctors responding to “rude” patient behavior by withholding care is blatant abuse of power. its using their authority as a….

RT @sicc_bitch: no, abled person, you wouldn’t kill yourself if you became disabled. you just tell yourself you would to avoid facing the r….

RT @sicc_bitch: doctors will be like “you look well” after finding you in the waiting room like this

RT @sicc_bitch: doctors will really be like “oh, you can’t walk? well, have you tried— uhh. [checks notes] . walking?”.