Question Time is a series in which we open up the floor to you, commenters. We invite you to share as you feel comfortable.
What are three words (or phrases) you would use to describe your experience of disability? It can be with regard to what goes on inside you, or responding to other people’s reactions, or whatever you like. (You can explain what each of the three things refers to if you want!)
Question Time is a series in which we open up the floor to you, commenters. We invite you to share as you feel comfortable.
How have your experiences of being disabled changed over your lifetime/the time you’ve been disabled?
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Do you use any personal care items–“frivolous” things included–as part of your self-care? If so, what do you use? How have these items helped you with your condition(s)? Please feel free to include links/information and whatnot if you think other commenters and/or contributors may be interested.
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What’s your favourite disability-related quote? It can be about a particular experience of being disabled, something you keep being reminded of in life, a saying that gets you through tough times, given by a famous disabled person or a little obscure, anything along those lines.
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Well, it’s Gregorian New Year today, and I wish you a very happy new year if you use that calendar system, and a very happy next twelve months in any case!
This year, as in every year, disabled people are going to be having a tough time of things. So, in what respects would you like society to improve its treatment of PWD this year? What concrete things would you like to be done? What nebulous dreams fulfilled?
(Alternatively, as I put it when I threw the idea for this post out to meloukhia: ‘like, what are your wishes for society to improve stuff for PWD this year or something’. Sophistication: I have it.)
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Or, the obvious one, given that this is a blog run by disabled feminists! And, reflecting that duality of identity, the question is also twofold:
How have you experienced the intersection of gender and disability identities? And that of sexism and ableism?
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Tell us about a positive experience you’ve had interacting with abled people.
The question today is: How do you eat?
You might have an energy-stealing condition, chronic pain, atypical concentration or motor function, or something else that means frequent shopping and hours over a hot stove doesn’t work for you.
What are your go-to meals and recipes? Do you have a few three- or four-ingredient meals you bung in the crockpot? (I adore my crockpot!) Do you have meals you can prep and freeze, then throw in the oven when needed? Go-to recipes prepped in ten minutes or less from ingredients you keep in stock? What assistive devices, aids, and appliances help you in the kitchen?
Or do you have a favourite pre-prepared frozen meal, or takeaway meal? Does your local pizza place know you by heart?
Share your notes and recipes here for nourishing your body when your spoons are low.
(No diet or health judgement of others in this thread, please. Food is food. Nutritious food is food that is eaten. End of story.)
OK, so we’ve had the “what assistive devices I use” thread. Now it’s time for…
In My Dreams: Assistive Devices I WANT!
Stealing from meloukhia a little, I’d like a self-powered mobile bed-platform-thingo that contains all of my needs at easy reach: my laptop and all peripherals, assortment of pillows, my teetering bookpile, meds, water bottle, glasses and cleaning cloth, TENS, lip balm, moisturiser, and all the other necessities of life. And I want it to be able to move around corridors, and get outside, and up steps, so I can change scenery whenever I want. And fold down to fit in the car boot. And I want it to be socially acceptable to take it with me and lounge around wherever I go. Oh, and it should fly.
Dream away. Brainstorm. Fantasise. Invent. The sky’s the limit.
[Additional note: Devices, please, commenters. Not servants or slaves or “wives”. Devices.]
Question Time is a series in which we open up the floor to you, commenters. We invite you to share as you feel comfortable.
What are your assistive devices, if any? (‘Assistive device’ defined as broadly as you like.)