Posts Tagged ‘disability’

22
Apr
2021

This isn’t cute, and it isn’t funny, so…

categories: personal; word count: 248 words

This is the new “game” that’s going around to “bring awareness to autism”.

You shouldn’t have liked or commented on my last status. Now you have to pick from one of the below and post it as your status. This is the 2021 Autism Awareness game. Don’t be a spoil sport. Pick your poison from one of these and post it as your status.

Just found a squirrel in my car!
Just used my kids to get out of a speeding ticket.
How do you get rid of foot fungus?
All of my bras are missing!
I think I just accepted a marriage proposal online?!
I’ve decided to stop wearing underwear.
It’s confirmed I’m going to be a mommy/daddy.
Just won a chance audition on America’s got talent!
I’ve been accepted on master chef.
I’m getting a pet monkey!
I just peed myself!
Really thinking about getting butt implants!
Just won 700 on a scratcher!
We’re moving to Vermont at the end of the year!
Mayonnaise on Reese’s peanut butter cups is sooo good!
I’ve just been accepted on come dine with me whoop whoop.

Post with no explanations. Sorry, I fell for it too. Looking forward to your post. Ah don’t ruin it. (Don’t let the secret out). And remember it’s all for the 2021 Autism Awareness. Have fun!”

Please tell me how any of that brings awareness or acceptance to autistic people. I’ll wait.

09
Apr
2021

I am still fighting to get disability, folks.

categories: consoles, personal; word count: 263 words

Even though my disabilities are physical, it is almost always thrown in my face that I am “intelligent, so I can adapt to work”. Okay then, let me know how I can consistently work in spite of nearly blinding pain (or so the saying seems to go). I’ve had to take bursts of prednisone to break migraines that have lasted for days. I’ve had to wear sunglasses in the house to be able to cope with sources of light. But I’m “intelligent, so I can adapt to work”. I think not. The fact that this is even an excuse here just blows my mind in a really bad way.

At any rate, our stimulus check came just before everyone else that I know got theirs, and they actually counted both of my dependents and gave me the correct amount. That blew my mind in a good way. My rule with these is that as long as we don’t need anything that it can buy (since none of us are working and two of us actually get disability checks), I’ll spoil us with them. It’s the least I can do after we put up with Trump for four years. I was actually able to scalp us a PlayStation 5 for a great price given their shortage, and I got us some games that Bub is sure to enjoy. I also got myself some more cyberlox to wear. I mean, really, why not?

Soon I’ll make a list of the things that I’ve spent it on. I think I did that with the past two checks.

06
Apr
2021

Should this really surprise anyone at this point?

categories: personal; word count: 189 words

I’ve had to abort two separate migraine headaches now with prednisone… the wrecking ball.

Surprisingly, this doesn’t work extremely well on my lungs any more, but it does work reasonably well on my migraines, helping me restore some semblance of normalcy to my life after I’ve literally tried everything else at my arsenal. Since my insurance rejected my pain management clinic’s request for me to start Botox treatments to the tune of us having to play around with them appealing that, I’m going to ask about starting prednisone “long-term”, either every day or every other day, in the interim as we fight insurance for Botox…

I’m well aware of the side effects of prednisone, having needed it for my asthma as much as I have in the past. But there are days when I don’t want to be confined to bed (or extremely close to that), not being able to do much of anything or what I really want to do that day, so if that means literally sucking it up and starting oral steroid treatment for my migraines, I am amenable, moon face and weight gain be damned.

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