Spoonies are people with chronic illness. What is a chronic illness? It’s a persistent condition; simplified it means getting sick and never being able to
Category: Cripple life
What being a disabled millennial like
I guess it’s been exactly a year since I started blogging. I started writing with the intention of gaining some perspective in my life and
Unrest, a visual handbook for the loved ones of disabled people
The award-winning documentary Unrest by Jennifer Brea was released on Netflix this week, introducing chronic illness to the larger public. Brea is described as a
What I say and what I do are very different things
I have this incredible shame of not being who people want me to be. Not just the ones who want me dead or want me
What is cripple punk? #cpunk
I saw Kevin or Chad or whatever; he’s an aryan dude who was captain of the basketball team but then he got drunk or fell off something he was climbing or some other dumb shit and now was paralyzed and he was constantly telling everyone how he was proof that you should treat disabled kids like they’re real people.
I mean, yeah, duh, he was one of them who accidentally became one of us so of course he was like them.
