December 2011
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Anonymous asked: why are you in a wheelchair?
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lifeless-muse asked: I am extremely shocked that you use the word 'cripple' so openly. The word is very degrading. Speaking from life experience, it's hurtful being called a cripple. I've been living with my disability since birth and there's only two words I absolutely hate. Cripple and the 'R' word. I do find your blog interesting but your use of the word has resulted in you losing...
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Sex positive cripple stories
gimpunk:
My good friend has opened a small publishing company and I’m helping with their first release which is an anthology of romance stories featuring disabled people.
If any of you write please check out the submission guidelines; I want to make this a great contribution to the normalization of sexual and romantic aspects of disabled people…AND YOU GET PAID!!!
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holycripitsacrapple:
Just told Wikipedia off cuz they said that Jason Street from Friday Night Lights is a paraplegic after his accident. Bull shit! He’s a quadriplegic, not a paraplegic.
I’m rather proud of the fact that unlike the a.b. (able bodied) who wrote that bull shit, I know the difference between a quad and a para. And dear Tumblr, Jason Street was not a para!
Take that Wikipedia!
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Sexual Aspects of Disability- Stanley H. Ducharme
fuckthedisabled:
Social/historical attitudes towards disability and sexuality:
“For people with disabilities, the acceptance of sexuality as a justifiable and sanctioned area of rehabilitation has been much more controversial (3). Historically, people with disabilities received little information on sexuality and were often regarded as nonsexual and incapable of an intimate relationship. This...
Stages of Death and Dying the same for Chronic...
chroniccurve:
How many of you know of the Five Steps of Grief proposed by the renowned psychologist Elizabeth Kubler-Ross?
Proposed in her 1969 book “On Death and Dying,” she explores the various stages people go through after being diagnosed with a terminal illness or experiencing the death of a loved one.Stages that I have found to be the exact ones I am myself going through dealing with a...
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Talking sex with a cripple.
Sex is a topic that seems to get a lot of attention. Though add disabled in front of sex and it tends to get avoided. I suppose this is not so surprising considering people tend to not like confronting things that make them uncomfortable. It has been my experience that simply being a cripple makes a whole lot of people uncomfortable. Add that to the prude attitude that is rampant in the US...