“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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I do read your comments and often relate and empathize and feel for you a lot. But my brain makes me struggle to communicate, or sometimes I’m not able to at all, so I usually am not able to reply to comments, even when I REALLY want to. I have thoughts and things I want to say and reply to you with but my brain won’t cooperate. And I really want to reply to your comments but my brain is like “haha, no, fuck you! You will sit here staring at the screen and crying due to your inability to put your thoughts into words that make sense! And people will continue to feel alone!” and I hate it especially because I know how bad it feels when you post a vulnerable comment when you’re suffering and no one says anything… I don’t even know if this makes any sense and I hate that I can’t make the words to match my thoughts in reply to what you’re actually saying and experiencing!!! But I want you to know that I care about you and feel for you and want better for you, because you deserve better, even though I’m not able to be a human and reply and converse and stuff. This is probably a shit-ass comment but I think I’m gonna send it anyway in hopes that you know someone really is fully reading your comments and cares a lot. I am so sorry for your suffering, I hate it. I have so much love for you!! & I hope this doesn’t come off as weird or anything, aaaaaaaa!
I’m guessing I’m not the only one in a situation like this. Just know that the lack of replies likely doesn’t even have anything to do with you, but just that we’re all different levels and types of disabled and lots of us just can’t. But my brain is hard on me, too, like it sounds like yours is, so I understand where you’re coming from. <3 I wish you all the best!!