My friend sent a text, and he...is...cross as fuck!

Let me tell able-bodied people what a #disabledqueer friend of mine told me, after his last shopping trip.

#DisabledPeople are capable of thinking and doing for themselves. If they need our help, they will ask for it.

It is ableist to assume that anyone walking with a cane and wearing a mask is elderly, (when, in this case, this man is 29 years old and disabled after a #gaybashing).

Whether someone is elderly or a young disabled person or an elderly disabled person, don't create a narrative about who and what they are.

Do not assume they are 'feeble'.

Don't speak in a condescending tone. They are not children!

How DARE anyone wince at the sight of a physically disabled person.

i’m a 28yo disabled queerean woman trying to crowdfund for my survival fund bc of increases in essential bills, decreases in benefits (), & bc in the midst of all this i still can’t work in my current state of health.

you see 7yrs ago i had 2 near-fatal attempts, a month apart, that resulted in a 3-day coma, 2 traumatic involuntary stays & 6mo later i was sexually assaulted. all of which resulted in ptsd which combined w/my chronic pain, adhd, eating disorder, & severe treatment-resistant depression made going to my undergrad classes nearly impossible. i ended up going from a scholarship-winning, 4.0 gpa student to a student who was academically dismissed bc she couldn’t even leave her apt or read a few pages of schoolwork. luckily with some hard work on treatment & explaining my circumstances with my college, i was able to reenroll for the fall semester right before the pandemic started anyways, that & issues w/medicaid that caused major setbacks in treatment & recovery progress.

since then, i’ve been trying real hard to get my health/wellbeing back to a state where i am recovered, manage my chronic health issues & can study again to pursue my degrees.

PLS donate &/or boost to help me raise $$$ for my survival fund ♡ no amount is too small & i wouldn’t be begging like this if i didn’t need to 

cashapp: $jazzafraz
https://gofund.me/069deda8

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hellooo

so i was working on my #introduction post when i got a text & when i finally got bck here…the whole post was gone no drafts, nothing. but intro take 2! anyways, i put off writing this & trying to learn the ins/outs of mastodon cause that would mean fully accepting the #twittermigration

you see, 6yrs ago, i went from tumblr fb & ig twitter. i left the community i built on tumblr due to a big friendship fallout (or rather falloutS). but after a while, as my health deteriorated…my disability became harder & harder to ignore or make light of. i couldn’t work. i couldn’t go to school. i couldn’t even do activism work anymore. it was difficult accepting these changes & i found myself looking to twitter to try find a community like the one i had on tumblr. i didn’t expect that much but i ended up not just finding ppl to learn from & peers, i found friends & chosen fam too :’) which is why the whole switch over here still has my head spinning. mainly just cause i’m worried abt how this is gonna effect everyone within’ our communities

i’m still not sure how this app/site works but i’m ready to learn. i go by jazz, jazzy or 효원이 but pls do not use my krn name if you’re not krn. my name was given to me specially by my paternal grandfather (rip ) & i don’t take light of ppl not respecting my boundaries, ppl, culture &/or language. i’m a bi-queerean femme that’s somewhere on the ace spectrum (i have to have some kind of emotional attachment for sexual attraction to occur). i have several co-morbid mental illnesses like *extremely* treatment resistant #depression (i get #ECT & meds to help), #ptsd , #bdd , #bpd , #DPDR , #adhd , & an #eatingdisorder . i also have #fibromyalgia and possibly #ME/CFS (have to see another round of pain & fatigue focused neurologists bc the MRIs came out okay). i love #astrology & #astromemes . i used to read a lot—several books a day smtimes but…the past 6-7yrs have really changed everything. i love cooking & baking…tho i can do v little of it now . i doodle & create things sometimes. i also write. i’m currently working on a poetry & doodle book. but health’s been so that it’s being completed in whatever speed is slower than a snail

i did write several pieces for The Mighty tho & you can check it out here:
https://themighty.com/u/jazzthefraz