“All bodies are unique and essential. All bodies have strengths and needs that must be met. We are powerful, not despite the complexities of our bodies, but because of them. All bodies are confined by ability, race, gender, sexuality, class, nation state, religion, and more, and we cannot separate them.”

From “What is Disability Justice” (Adapted from Patty Berne’s “Disability Justice – A Working Draft”, Published in Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People, A Disability Justice Primer, Second Edition.

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“Disability” is an umbrella term which encompasses physical disabilities, emotional/psychiatric disabilities, neurodivergence, intellectual/developmental disabilities, sensory disabilities, invisible disabilities, and more. You do not have to have an official diagnosis to consider yourself disabled.

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  • DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    23 days ago

    Haven’t been too active in this thread lately as I’ve been feeling absolutely terrible. Not only exhausted from my lowered thyroxine dose but had a bad reaction to my new migraine pills which left me basically bedridden for several days. My landlady and her guests didn’t even check on me to see if I needed anything, or if I was still alive. I was just in bed, hungry and ill for several days. So i won’t be taking the migraine pills any more, which sucks because they actually drastically reduced the migraines. After like 10 posts on mutual aid and lemmy, someone finally sent me a justeat giftcard so i could order some ready made food, and getting to eat helped a bit. (One of the side effects of the migraine pills was a huge amount of excess stomach acid to the point I was writing around in bed, unable to get up, feeling like I was being burned alive from the inside. So giving the acid some food to digest helped.

    I felt a tiny bit better today and managed a short walk outside, just a few minutes. I needed that so much. haven’t heard any more from dignitas, they’re taking so long to respond. But now I’m feeling a little physically better I don’t feel so immediately desperate for assisted suicide. But the universe hates me and so I’ve probably jinxed myself by saying that.

    btw has anyone seen the film “Me before You,” about a man going to Dignitas? It’s really good!