“There are days when there is nothing beautiful about me. Days when my thoughts are so heavy I can’t lift my head up. There are days when it feels like every last ounce of courage I had is gone. Disappeared. Vanished into thin air and I am left like a ghost looking at the corpse of the person I once was. Days like that leave me a little bit lost, I come out of them in a hellish sort of hangover. There are days when there is nothing beautiful about me. That doesn’t mean there aren’t good days though, days when I can look past everything that happened, and see only good things in this world. I refuse to stop seeing the good just because I’ve felt the bad. I’ve met the bad, I’ve had the bad whisper romantic things in my ears, and kiss me. There were days when the bad and I were so close I couldn’t tell which one I was anymore. There are days when there is nothing beautiful about me, but I am just as lovable on those days as I am on the good ones.”laceerainspoetry , Will You Hold Me Tight On The Days I’m Not Beautiful? (via wnq-writers)
Saying you child is your “kid” is an insult to goats everywhere.
I’ll insult moms everywhere. Fight me Pam.
Fuck you, Barbara
You want to do this now, Helen?
Oh it is on Brenda
Eight o clock after the PTA meeting, Joan
Uhm, my kids will be going to bed at 8, Sandy, because unlike SOME mothers I put my children to bed at a responsible time!
Don’t you bring my kids into this, Janet
You’re right Sandy, we shouldn’t bring your C- average kids into this. We should, however, bring your 2013 Honda Odyssey that reeks of failure and cigarettes from your midnight affairs with the mail man.
At least I have a man touching me, unlike SOMEONE I know. When was the last time Frank so much as looked at you, Jackie?
C-Carol, you’ve gone t-t-too far!
NONE OF YOU ARE INVITED TO THE CASSEROLE POTLUCK! That includes you, Cynthia…
This graphic is just amazing. Picturing what most most people are trying to say in words is a great way to reach out to more people. The Anorexia picture and the child abuse picture was the one that broke me the most even if all of these pictures tells us a very important story.
I don’t expect this to go viral or to get millions of likes because, I don’t want it, liking won’t help. Please, embrace it and take action. Re blog so others can see it and talk about these world spread issues.
We have to work together to make the world a better and safer environment for everyone.
People use wheelchairs for a lot of different reasons.
Some people use wheelchairs because they are paralyzed and completely unable to walk. That is not the only reason people use wheelchairs, and many wheelchair users have some ability to walk.
Here are some reasons some people who can walk use wheelchairs:
They can walk, but it’s very difficult and not an efficient way of getting around
Walking causes them severe pain
Walking is medically inadvisable because of the strain it would put on their heart
They have cognitive problems that make walking more difficult than wheeling
Falling causes them to break bones, and they are unsteady on their feet and fall easily
They can’t stand in place because they need to be moving to stay upright
They can walk some days but not others
If you see someone use a wheelchair sometimes and walk other times, don’t assume they don’t need their chair. If you see a wheelchair user stand up to reach something, don’t assume that they don’t need their chair.
People use wheelchairs for a lot of different reasons, and many people who can walk some absolutely depend on wheelchairs for mobility.
Disability is complicated, and personal. There are a lot of reasons that people use various types of adaptive equipment. (None of which are the business of strangers). Knowing one reason people use something doesn’t mean you know all the reasons, or that you are in a position to assume you know what’s going on with everyone you see using adaptive equipment.
tl;dr: Many wheelchair users can walk some. They still need their wheelchairs. Don’t assume that someone isn’t really disabled just because you see them walk or stand sometimes.
