Getting a respiratory virus when you’re already immunocompromised and on oxygen is truly a special kind of hell.

To be disabled is to have to spend ridiculous amounts of money on things we need to survive when stuck in a system that keeps us in poverty. Being forced into poverty and pushed out of Medicaid will make it so that many of us will die. The system isn’t broken, it’s working as designed.

Lots of takes like “wait until grandma can’t get her kidney meds!” And it’s like, this situation is already very real to millions of (young!) disabled people. The “grandma” trope shows how much not-currently-disabled people think they’re immune to chance. Disability can happen to anyone at any time.

A disabled person can burn out without being in paid employment.
Just managing our health conditions can (often does) become totally overwhelming, takes nearly all our time, and burns us out.

Issue is we can’t have time off to recover.

I am so fucking sick of hearing able bodied people say, “we’ll get through it just like we did last time!”… yeah, YOU might; fuck disabled people though, huh?

Just a reminder that if you tell a disabled person to move out of the US if they’re scared of living here, other countries don’t want us either. Countries will turn you away because you’re disabled. We’re seen as a burden and that’s so normalized that it’s okay to turn us away.

i can’t fix anything that’s going on right now, but i can show you some beauty that’s out there… 🌌✨

Never forget for many people lockdowns NEVER ended. We’re still isolated - only now we’re shunned and mocked and told it’s a “choice”.

When you are trying to maintain a baseline and no one will make public spaces safe for you - it’s not a choice

We’ve been excluded & forgotten.

Wear a mask.

We saw it coming.

The reason you THINK that we’re more “unhealthy” now is because disabled people who would have either died or been institutionalized in prior generations are visible.

You don’t want to “make America healthy again”. You want us to not exist.

I mean, hello from another disabled person who feels even *more* isolated now. Thank god we made sure there was another barrier to communication and community, amirite?