teaching yourself how to deal with mildly annoying inconveniences is imo an essential part of treating the disabled people around you with compassion and no i’m not kidding
sometimes you have to share a public space with someone who has loud verbal tics. sometimes a chronically ill friend will have to cancel plans because of a flare up even if you were really looking forward to hanging out with them. sometimes an autistic person will talk over you or interrupt you because they missed a particular cue. sometimes people who struggle to take care of themselves will smell bad. sometimes people with intellectual disabilities will need you to give them more detailed, patient instructions, even if it seems simple to you. sometimes you will need to give up your seat on the bus for a physically disabled person even if you don’t want to move.
accommodating disabled people is not always easy or comfortable; being an ally means doing it anyway.
my mum forbade me to say anything to my dad about the top surgery thing, and it’s just hit me how funny it would be if i got it done and didn’t tell him and just waited for him to notice. i mean, what’s he gonna say? “didn’t you used to have tits?”
“reverted based on user feedback” is possibly the best way to refer to top surgery i have ever heard
When my partner had top surgery, as he was coming out of anesthesia in the recovery room, I dumped two of these out of a paper bag onto his bedside table and said “The doctor said you can keep these, if you want. Like when you get wisdom teeth pulled.” The nurse laughed so hard she cried.
Here’s my contribution to the Spread the Love challenge animation collab. Had a lot of fun with this one. I’ll be sharing a process video of this soon.
the motions and expressions here feel like golden-age Don Bluth, and I mean that in the best possible way
This is still one of my favorite pieces of animation of all time.
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