hey before you call something wheelchair accessible just go ahead and invite a wheelchair user or two over because I almost guarantee you that an able-bodied person is not capable of guessing what is accessible without having ever used a wheelchair solo before
some but not all cool things nobody ever thinks of:
put hand sanitizer or a sink in the accessible bathroom stall, or alcohol wipes outside of it. people who cannot use their legs have to use unwashed hands to roll to the sink, and people who can use their legs are afraid to walk out of stalls because they get harassed and even assaulted.
enough space for wheelchair in doorway…AND ARMS. HOW DO YOU THINK THE WHEELCHAIR MOVES! if I cannot roll through it without scraping my arms it is not accessible
brick paths suck the end
gravel paths suck. make it smooth
a ramp is not accessible if it is too steep. not every wheelchair user is ripped enough or capable of using muscles enough to propel themselves up a steep angle safely. some wheelchair users have heart issues. you want heart attacks? this is how you get them
perfect 90 degree turns suck and are often impossible to turn through
some wheelchairs have foot rests. account for them
wheelchair accessible means wheelchair accessible while alone. if you expect someone to have to be helped out to use your facility, that is not acceptable or accessible
yeah
If I can’t turn my wheelchair around to navigate from the toilet to the sink then it isn’t wheelchair accessible.
i would like to point out that sneezing into your elbow and washing your hands (soaping for 20 seconds and rinsing in warm water) is something everyone should be doing all the time as part of basic hygiene and not just when a global pandemic is happening
Considering how commonplace the advice of “just LET your children TALK TO YOU about their INTERESTS” is on Tumblr, it’s astonishing to me how few people seem to realize/accept that that’s a two-way street, especially as adults.
I’m not telling you how to relate to parents who were shitty/abusive to you, obviously, but given a relatively healthy relationship or the ATTEMPT to build one as adults, you’ve genuinely got to let your older relatives talk to you in their own way about the things they’re interested in. Yes, sometimes it is painfully boring, yes, sometimes they do it in a slow or round-about manner or tell you way too much, but sometimes it’s boring listening to a twelve year old talk about fortnite. I still do it, because people, adult or child, need and want people to talk to about their interests.
My dad is into the cringiest possible anime. I am halfway to dissociation every time he spends 30-60 minutes walking me through the entire plot of an anime, one episode at a time. One time we had an eight hour car ride and that was the ENTIRE trip and by the end I wanted to DIE. But I still let him do it! Because he needs someone to talk to his passions about, and I care about him and know that being that person for him makes him happy and improves our relationship. Because of that, we spent the SECOND eight hour car ride talking about the history of unions, something I spent 27 years not even knowing my father had an interest in!
Let your parents talk to you about the dumb facebook videos they saw or the funny ancient wine mom memes they like or that time they went to korea and over-reacted to kimchi. Kids aren’t the only ones who just want their family to be interested in what they have to say.
No. You dont pay people to exist for the same reason you dont feed the bears.
Yeah man if I give the 50 year old lady at my bus stop some spare change for fare and a meal she’ll lose interest in foraging for desiccated salmon carcasses and lose her natural fear of people. Next thing you know she’s in the suburbs, running around on all fours trying to eat a corgi
Or she’ll spend it on a forty ounce bottle of swill or some smack to put in a needle and inject into her arm. But hey as long as you feel like you’re doing something, right? That’s what’s important.
I’d rather be duped out of my money a dozen times than withhold assistance from someone out of cynicism.
Fucking grow up and develop some compassion for the people you share a world with.
Fucking zip your cock holster shut you virtue signaling piece of feces.
wow nice comeback, so intellectual and grown up lmfao
anyway, deciding to deny everyone the couple of bucks they need to afford, say, a meal, a shower, a ride, a place to sleep for a night, a new piece of clothing, entrance to a place with wifi (because internet is a necessity for the job application process, for example), one of those prepaid phone situations with a certain amount of minutes on it (because a phone number is also often a necessity for job applications on top of general emergency services or just straight up communication with loved ones), or any number of other similar low cost things that go toward bettering one’s situation just because you’ve got it stuck in one of your three brain cells that homeless automatically equals drug addict (and hard drugs are apparently that cheap lmfao) so they MIGHT do choose to do some drugs is absolutely fucking idiotic and wildly ignorant, you’ve clearly never once in your life actually considered what the situation is like beyond what you saw on cartoons and internet memes
just say you don’t like the idea of helping others and go
I mean, frankly, if someone’s first impulse is to take the two bucks I can spare them and save it up for a shot of heroin, I already know one thing about them, which is: their life sucks considerably more than mine, or anything I have heretofore faced, and they deserve my sympathy far more than my scorn. Homeless people, surprisingly enough, are people. Pull your head out for a moment and try to imagine what it would take for you to choose heroin over food and shelter. If you’re honest, you will admit to yourself that the most likely answer adds up to life-destroying problems in one way or another.
You do a disservice both to your fellow humans and to your own soul if you look at someone with life-destroying problems and decide to view them as an animal.
Friendly reminder that instead of deleting captions on posts to fit your aesthetic needs, find a theme that has the option to hide captions on photo posts. Most themes I come across have the option to do so but if you don’t want to change your theme or you find a theme that you like that doesn’t have the option to remove captions… look in your code for {block:photo} and somewhere close to that should be something along the lines of {block:caption} {caption} {/block:caption} , delete everything from the opening to closing caption blocks. Do the same for {block:photoset}
Now you can have a pretty blog without captions and you’re not taking away credit from the creator :)))
There’s this kid at my school and he has autism. His special interest is Five Night’s at Freddy’s. He loves it, he spends a lot of time drawing art of it and making characters of it and watching videos of it. He has all the games and knows all the secrets and he’s really passionate about it.
Now, as another kid with autism, my special interest is computers. I’m known at my school for having hacked the wifi and gotten the password to the fast wifi over and over and even getting around to downloading games like Minecraft and other games on the school computers and get passed blocked sites.
My friends are fucking exhausted of me constantly talking about computers and going off on long programming rants and they don’t understand a single fucking thing.
Who gets bullied more? He does. Because of his special interest whilst I’m praised for it. People come up to me and pay me to help them with their game programming class assignments and projects. But him? He is constantly harassed for it. Why? Because FnaF is “cringe culture”
People constantly say “if it was middle school he’d be normal but now he’s just cringy.” and “wow he’s the embodiment of cringe culture”
it’s dumb as fuck ?? He’s literally just enjoying a game ?? Him knowing all the secrets in that one fnaf game is literally the same as all these other kids in class knowing all the hacks in COD or Black Ops or people knowing the ins and outs of some book.
But because it’s “cringe culture” he gets bullied every day. Yes, sometimes he goes off on it and doesn’t stop talking, but he’s so passionate about it and he’s smiling wide the entire time because it makes him happy.
But now he rarely even wants to talk about it. Instead of on the computers, he’s on his phone with the brightness all the way down. He doesn’t draw his ocs or fan art anymore, because he’s ashamed of it because of all the bullying he’s received.
anyway long story short cringe culture is dumb as fuck and it hurting autistic kids who have “cringy” things as their special interest.
THIS!!!
the fact that this only has 3k+ notes is sad. I’m not into Undertale, Fnaf, or any other popular Horror or RPG game because of THIS VERY REASON!
People (FULLY GROWN ADULTS) told me, 15 or 16 at the time, (A CHILD) to commit suicide! What the fuck is wrong with you people!?
That is bad. Cringe culture is bullshit. Fucking pathetic.
Nothing is ‘cringe’.
I hope the poor boy keeps doing what he loves. He should never hide it.
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