Disabled Community Megathread from May 12, 2025 to May 25, 2025

Hello all! All I have to say for now is that the megas must flow

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"Disability" is an umbrella term which encompasses physical disabilities, emotional/psychiatric disabilities, neurodivergence, intellectual/developmental disabilities, sensory disabilities, invisible disabilities, and more. You do not have to have an official diagnosis to consider yourself disabled.

Mask up, love one another, and stay alive for one more week.

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Got my antipsychotic injection today. Been a rough week, but now I can sleep and think again.

- I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
  yewtu.be
  inv.nadeko.net
  yt.artemislena.eu
  piped.video

call disability office
"leave voicemail and we'll get back to you within 1 business day"
leave voicemail
ghosted for 3 days
what the hell
- I swear, there's very funky rules around what certain offices see as "business days", and most of them make zero to no sense. At my uni, for one office, a business day meant that after 8 hours of work, a business day was complete, even if said business day dragged out over two weeks. The office next to this one counted a regular day as a business day.
  
  weird, ill hope they actualyl get back to me then. i really dont want to call again

I am in a local neighborhood discord group and someone needed a medical device as insurance was taking too long. I was trying to set them up with someone who I know is very knowledgeable at getting free loaned devices until insurance comes through and has come through in the past for me and others. I provided their email and telephone number and spoke with them letting them know what this person needed. I thought I was being helpful until I got scolded by the group and the person asking for help for not providing "material support", giving useless resources that go no where, and not understanding what disabled folks go through.
I'm disabled.

I think they were just frustrated at the shitty system we live under, but god damn it did not feel good to get eaten alive by the group.
- sorry that happened, it sounds like you were providing all of the support anyone reasonably could, and your guess about them just being frustrated sounds right

ugh i have a real upper limit when it comes to how much i can learn in one day. only so much information can enter my brain before i get a headache, and that amount of information is not that much. and in ireland adhd meds are extremely controlled so i would have to pay a very expensive psychologist to get on them. for fucks sake

ugh i have a real upper limit when it comes to how much i can learn in one day. only so much information can enter my brain before i get a headache, and that amount of information is not that much.

It’s kind of shocking how much of the American left is anti-adhd medication and routinely parrot the “IT’S THE EXACT SAME AS METH* talking point.
- I know it’s not exactly the same but isn’t it really similar? To me it just shows that if the substance is available in reliable dosage with a doctor to give advice on how much to take for it to be beneficial then it’s not a problematic thing at all.
- It's just like meth, and that why you should be able to buy meth otc
- I typically hear that talk from right-wingers, but that's mostly who live here. I have friends who take stimulant ADHD meds and it helps them function in day-to-day life. I take non-stimulant ADHD meds which they seem not even to know exists.
  
  I’ve unfortunately heard it from too many leftists irl, mostly anarchists. It seems to be a pretty popular opinion with everybody there.
  Edit: funny thing is that I remember right-wingers saying how bad they were while discreetly asking to buy my meds when I lived there.

- Our hospitals are bad enough now, I don't even want to think about what it would be like if we "retvrn". And on top of that, sending in people who don't need medical treatment, but instead need supportive safety nets is appalling. Wish people were just normal about disabled and poor people. Or even people who just choose to be homeless. I don't know that there's a lot of them besides travel bloggers, but still.

Hi, I love you all.

I made a comment in the previous mega that Dead Space was an excellent choice if already psychotic. I want to make it clear that was sarcasm. If any other psychotics out there are looking for a game rec, that is not the one. Love the game, but boy is it hard on people with psychotic symptoms.

Thanks for the new mega
And while I have a couple of very annoying days ahead of me, I wanted to tell you all how much I appreciate the community here and how much I like you all! Feel loved, feel hugged, feel appreciated and understood
- We appreciate you too!

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