When you've got ADHD, an internet connection, and a lot of downtime...

Ask me how many times I went to go put on my shoes before leaving the house for this appointment...

No drug they've given me in hospital has had the same disorienting thrill as some surgical resident barging in at 6 am, ripping off my dressings, and declaring "EVERYTHING LOOKS GREAT YOU'RE READY LET'S SEND YOU HOME IT COULD EVEN BE TODAY", and then swanning out of the room.

"Yeah, your pets can visit! I am surprised no one has told you that." -- my favourite nurse

Things are still going great, but if I don't do some proper convalescing, things are not going to *keep* going great, so this is it for today's update. ❤️🦵🏻🦵🏻

Recovery is going really well! Pain is Iow, morale is high, and I have so much support. The nurses are super sweet,and I'm on a relatively quiet ward.

Thanks for the support and well wishes. ❤️

friends > legs

Next week, I will be having surgery to amputate both legs above the knee due to complications from EDS and erythromelalgia. My sister has kindly put together a GFM. Please share and consider donating if you are in a position to do so! www.gofundme.com/f/corins-sur...

My paraplegic cat doesn't understand windows. My old place was a basement suite and there wasn't a way for her to safely access the windows; however, my new place has full-length windows -- or what she calls The Devil's Forcefield.

"The weirdest thing about testosterone is--" No but tell me why I suddenly have wavy hair??

Its not that using ableist language is "offensive" alone, it is in that using ableist epithets, we normalize the idea that disability is a state of undesirable, laughable inferiority and otherness, and that disabled people deserve to the butt of the joke for some intrinsic reason--its insidious

I recently moved into social housing in a super wealthy part of town and istg I just saw a man wearing three (3) navy blue quarter zips layered one on top of the other.

The grocery stores are playing "O Canada" in case any US Americans are wondering how things are going up here.

Me, a 40-year-old man, picking up a U-Haul: ok Corin you are a strong, independent woman. You can do this. You can drive this big truck. 💪🏻💅🏻

THEY DETRANSED PLEAKLEY?!

Someone tried to explain "undue hardship" on my post about the absurdity of gatekeeping accommodations, so here's my hot take: undue hardship is manufactured scarcity for the purposes of justifying disability exclusion.

I'm moving this weekend to an actually wheelchair accessible apartment, which is great -- but my cat is furious with me. His space has been upended, I've sold some of his favourite furniture because it won't fit, and there are boxes everywhere but they're all taped shut.

Gatekeeping accommodations is so weird. Most accommodations are a bother unless you need them, so if someone says "wow [x accommodation] would really improve my life", they need it. Meanwhile, if an accommodation could in fact benefit everyone, not just disabled people, then everyone should have it.

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"

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Research from 2022 that every Democrat apologist should chew on: “We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.“ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“Our message to the university is that now is the time to stand against the new segregationists & stand up for your marginalized faculty, staff and students. If you don’t, you will have reminded us that you have never intended to do right by us” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Hey disabled family, can anyone give me a good recommendation for a website to buy a reliable, affordable cane (ideally in a fun color or pattern?). I am 28 with EDS and have dislocated a kneecap and my knees are losing stability rapidly. I appreciate it immensely!

With an aging population, an ongoing mass-disabling event (COVID), and our belligerent neighbour threatening multiple additional mass-disabling events every day, why is protecting developers' profits the primary concern??

If you’re feeling demoralized, know that psychological warfare is part of the enemy’s tactics and manage your PUBLIC response accordingly

Since the start of COVID, the number of people reporting a disability soared. Yet the majority of the world acts like COVID is over, and Long COVID doesn't exist.

It’s the five year anniversary of the pandemic. Five years that disabled people have been abandoned. Five years where many have excused our deaths as acceptable. Five years that we can’t even access safe healthcare. By you excluding disabled people, you’re aiding in fascism and eugenics.

Many disabled people cannot legally immigrate to other countries. Many countries have disability excluding criteria for legal immigrants. Please keep this in mind as more and more people flee the US.

For months, I wasn't able to go anywhere in Vancouver without seeing at least one cybertruck, and last night it dawned on me that I haven't seen a single cybertruck in weeks -- which is as it should be.

A disproportionate number of men with "moderate" in their profiles try to match with me on dating apps. I'm definitely not inviting their attention, so I've been left wondering whether I have MAGA face or whether it's the fact that my bio says I'm trans...

Cheers to everyone who has come to my door to pick up things that I'm selling in preparation to move, looked at the stairs into my unit, looked at me in my wheelchair, and then asked "sorry but how do you--?" Babes that's *why* I'm moving.

"We're living in 1930s Germany." "No, we're living in 1999 Russia." "No, we're living in The Gilded Age." Me: [seeing option "D, all of the above", drives the tip of my number two pencil straight though the Scantron sheet, the desk, my thigh, the floor, the Earth's mantle

I just got Ms.'d over the phone by a customer service rep, which resurrected the ghost of my former gender, who then gave my name as "Amand--er Corin", to which they replied "sir, I mean ma'am", so I stammered "sir is correct", and they proceeded to use "sir" in every single sentence thereafter. 😅

I love the conversation happening across social media platforms about how creating and sustaining community requires us to be annoyed and inconvenienced by one another and how isolation and alienation are the result of refusing to go out of your way for other people...

I was talking to a pal about how lonely navigating public space as a trans guy can feel when you "pass" and women start keeping more distance, avoiding eye contact, etc. for their own safety and peace, and he gently suggested opening my mouth and saying literally anything because I sound *that* gay.

Put on some early 2000s pop punk while packing up my apartment and came to the realization that this is my generation's "dad rock".

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a wheelchair, must be in want of a stranger to comment on their disability.

Apropos of nothing I was just thinking about how, in the end, Sam got everything The One Ring tried to tempt him with -- but through care, not domination and exploitation.

If you oppose DEI you should have to use the full phrase, “I oppose diversity, equity and inclusion.” Bonus points if you add your points, “I oppose disabled veterans equal access to employment.” “I oppose mothers having jobs.” Making it an acronym turns it into a thought-terminating cliche.

Folks keep talking about the need to build community now more than ever... and then go on to describe a friend group.

A lot of US Americans don't realize that the War of 1812 is Canada's "Roman Empire".

Why does being AuDHD mean I am either 20 minutes late or a full hour early 🫤

I'm struck by the near-total failure of leadership across civil society, in a country that fetishizes the concept. Whole sections of leadership books at every bookstore. Named, endowed "leadership" institutes and curricula across higher ed. Awards and special recognition for "leaders." AND YET

This right here.

My brother in Christ, one of us is in the Senate confirming his nominees. And it is not me.

Disabled people are consistently asked to do things to "prove" that we "deserve" support. And the things we are asked to do are always the very things that we need support with. Like, if I could do those things, I wouldn't need support in the first place.

DEI is a corporate term, CRT is a legal framework, Black Lives Matter was a political slogan, Staying woke was a colloquialism. It’s not individual terms at fault here, people aren’t being confused into racism.

Over on TikTok @imanibarbarin.bsky.social was talking about wanting to make a documentary on the relationship between disabled people and their tattoos, and can I just say: yes please.

When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests. We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason. ALSO.