home.social

#invisibledisabilities — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #invisibledisabilities, aggregated by home.social.

  1. A few years ago, I developed Achilles tendonopathy. It manifested as a feeling like I had a bad blister on the back of my heels, only there was no blister. Everything looked normal. But it took me a year of daily physio and not being able to jump or move faster than a slow walk before the pain went away.

    It's started to feel like that again recently, and I have no idea what could have caused it.

    When I had it before, it was an overtraining injury. I was practicing Thai kickboxing several times a week. It has a LOT of hopping. And our warmups were lots of rope jumping. Double-unders and such. I loved kickboxing until my tendons wouldn't let me do it anymore.

    This time, I haven't been running. I haven't been jumping. I am not overtraining at all. No idea what is causing it. I really hope it isn't returning, because the pain was often excruciating.

    I'm going to a physiotherapist tomorrow. It's for something else, but hopefully they can check out my Achilles tendons and help me figure out what's going on.

    My body sure loves trolling me. And I sure do miss martial arts.
    #ChronicPain #tendonopathy #AchillesTendon #Injuries #InvisibleDisabilities #MartialArts
    betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health

  2. #MadLiterature
    Available for pre order:

    A Mad Turn
    Edited by Phil Smith

    Written by Mad scholars, A Mad Turn explores the field of Mad Studies in theory and practice, and what Mad Studies can bring to academia and to other social institutions. What does it mean to “do” Mad Studies? What are the field’s intersections with disability justice, Mad justice, and gender and queer studies? This book is a bold step toward the Mad Studies yet-to-come—a Mad Studies that Mad people will build, twisting and turning and singing and dancing, a new realm of thinking-being-doing-knowing. Step into it with us.

    autonomous-press.myshopify.com

    Hashtags & Group mentions below
    #LivingMad
    #Madness #MadMastodon #MadPride #MadThought
    #MadMovement #MadStudies #Mad #Madodon #TransMad

    #Ablesim #DisabilityCommunity #InvisibleDisabilities
    #PsychiatricSurvivor #AntiPsychiatry #DisabilityJustice
    #LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
    #DisabilityMastodon #Neurodivergent #RadicalMentalHealth
    #CripCamp #DisabilityRights #NeuroDiversity
    #Sanism #Disability #DisabilityStudies
    #Stories #isolation #SystemicInjustice #AltMentalHealth #instutionalization #PeerSupport #asylum

    ——

    @MadMovementMastodon @[email protected] @disability @[email protected]
    @disabilityhistory @neurodivergence

  3. #MadLiterature

    Empire of Normality
    Neurodiversity and Capitalism
    by Robert Chapman

    This is a priority read for me!

    I’m looking forward to how Chapman explains the emergence and rise of the pathology paradigm and its entanglement with the fundamental logic of capitalism. Specifically how the medical and scientific definitions of illness, disability, and normality have grown in response to economic and ideological developments.

    plutobooks.com/9780745348667/e

    Hashtags & Group mentions below

    #Madness #MadMastodon #MadPride #MadThought
    #MadMovement #MadStudies #Mad #Madodon #TransMad

    #Ablesim #DisabilityCommunity #InvisibleDisabilities
    #PsychiatricSurvivor #AntiPsychiatry #DisabilityJustice
    #LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
    #DisabilityMastodon #Neurodivergent #RadicalMentalHealth
    #CripCamp #DisabilityRights #NeuroDiversity
    #Sanism #Disability #DisabilityStudies
    #Stories #isolation #SystemicInjustice

    ——

    @MadMovementMastodon
    @[email protected]
    @disability
    @[email protected]
    @disabilityhistory
    @neurodivergence

  4. Philosophy and Madness a combination that makes me smile!!!
    #MadLiterature
    Too mad to be true II - The promises and perils of the first-person perspective

    psychiatrieenfilosofie.nl/too-

    The second Too Mad To Be True conference that was dedicated to exploring the various links between philosophy and madness. The atmosphere was vibrant and it initiated new ways of thinking and communicating around issues of madness and philosophy. The central theme was both relevant to philosophical and mad theories and practices: ' The promises and perils of the first-person perspective'. The conference was hybrid: both in person, in Ghent, Belgium, as well as online. 

    Hashtags & Group mentions below

    #PeerSupport #AltMentalHealth
    #Ablesim #DisabilityCommunity #InvisibleDisabilities
    #PsychiatricSurvivor #AntiPsychiatry #DisabilityJustice
    #LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
    #DisabilityMastodon #Neurodivergent #RadicalMentalHealth
    #CripCamp #DisabilityRights #NeuroDiversity
    #Sanism #Disability #DisabilityStudies
    #Stories #isolation

    ——

    @MadMovementMastodon
    @[email protected]
    @disability
    @[email protected]
    @disabilityhistory
    @neurodivergence

  5. I feel like I’m finally back to normal. I managed to train at the gym every day this week, and my muscles are strong again. My guts are operating the way they should, and my toothache has receded to manageable levels of pain. I wrote a flash fiction, a new chapter for my manuscript, and I did housework. I sure wish I could be this way every week, but my disabilities crop up randomly and grind me to a halt. All I can do is maximize these good days. #spoony #ChronicPainWarrior #ChronicPain #InvisibleDisabilities #FitAfter50

  6. Hashtag Intro.
    Click here 🧠 to expand.
    The Proverbial list Evolved:

    #InvisibleDisabilityRights #IDR
    #LandBack #Indigenous Kahnawá:ke Nia:wen kowa

    Behind and beside: #CivilRights #MentalHealth #EndRacism #LGBTQIA #BLM #WomenRights #EqualPay #StopViolence #StopAsianHate #POC Eater of clean foods Anti-AntiSemitic #EndBigotry for #everyone
    #BeYou #BeKind #BePatient
    #UnityConquers #TearDownTheWall :solidarity: union.place ✊🏽

    Focus: :ir:
    #DisabilitySolidarity #DisabledCommunity #EndAbleism #StopAbleistHate #DisabilityAdvocacy #passionate #DisabledVoicesUnite #CrossDisabilitySupport #inclusion #ListeningEar #Here4All #NeurodivergentThinking #neurodiversity
    #ConcussionAwareness #TBI #ABI #AnoxicBrainInjury #BrainInjury #SpineInjury #fibromyalgia #LimbDifference #ActuallyAutisic #OrthopedicDisabilities #SticksAndStones #BrokenBones #NaturesPharmaceutical #DisabilityAcceptance #EndAbleistHateCrime #StopAbleistSlurs #DisabilityEconomicJustice #CripTheVote #DisabilityLobby #HumanInterest #NonPartisan #research #Education #Knowledge
    #UnityConquers #TearDownTheWall
    ✊🏽 :solidarity:

    Un peu de moi?
    Je ne parle pas couramment Français. I like using #HashtagsNobodyWillEverSearch
    #FilmMaking #Writing #poetry
    Ex-#musician #Songwriter Passé
    💐⚘🌺🏵 #GardenCreator extraordinaire. #FlowerGardens #PhotorealisticImagination
    Et Bien plus encore.

    🙏, ✌️, 💛, :solidarity: #accommodation for "👥👩🏽‍🦯👤👨🏽‍🦽" with #InvisibleDisabilities
    Just like many of us, this list is incomplete and still evolving. (he, him)

    Please read the ALT text.

  7. Mad Crip doula: offering holistic and emotional spiritual bodymind care, mixed with practical and crisis support (and plant medicine). moving from a liberation-centered and anti-oppressive lens. a transition doula with skills in: abortion, death, grief, Madness, and Disability.

    #MadLiterature

    stefaniekaufman.com/madcripdou

    endorsing: non-carceral, peer-led mental health care systems that exist outside of the state, reimagining everything we’ve come to learn about madness, and intervening in systems that oppress, disappear, and kill Disabled and mad folks.

    Please Note: I don’t know Them in any capacity and They sure look bad-ass

    Hashtags & Group mentions below
    #Madness #MadMastodon #MadPride #MadThought
    #MadMovement #MadStudies #Mad #Madodon #TransMad

    #CarceralAbleism
    #instutionalization

    #Ablesim #DisabilityCommunity #InvisibleDisabilities
    #PsychiatricSurvivor #AntiPsychiatry #DisabilityJustice
    #LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
    #DisabilityMastodon #Neurodivergent #RadicalMentalHealth
    #CripCamp #DisabilityRights #NeuroDiversity
    #Sanism #Disability #DisabilityStudies
    #Stories #isolation

    ——

    @MadMovementMastodon
    @[email protected]
    @disability
    @[email protected]
    @disabilityhistory
    @neurodivergence

  8. Open Minded Online
    sharing ideas and resources about holistic approaches to emotional and social wellbeing

    We are two people who both have a great passion for holistic approaches to mental health. This passion has grown out of our own experiences of receiving traditional psychiatric treatment and finding it lacking.

    We believe that it is possible to make sense of intense states of mind often described as psychosis.

    #MadLiterature
    openmindedonline.com/resources

    Hashtags & Group mentions below
    #asylum #instutionalization
    #Madness #MadMastodon #MadPride #MadThought
    #MadMovement #MadStudies #Mad #Madodon #TransMad

    #Ablesim #DisabilityCommunity #InvisibleDisabilities
    #PsychiatricSurvivor #AntiPsychiatry #DisabilityJustice
    #LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
    #DisabilityMastodon #Neurodivergent #RadicalMentalHealth
    #CripCamp #DisabilityRights #NeuroDiversity
    #Sanism #Disability #DisabilityStudies
    #Stories

    @MadMovementMastodon
    @[email protected]
    @disability
    @[email protected]
    @disabilityhistory
    @neurodivergence

  9. “I couldn't really imagine, what it's like to not imagine…” 

    PHOTOREALISTIC IMAGINATION - APHANTASIA - HYPERPHANTASIA

    Imagine…rather picture.. no, visualize a place in your m.....

    What if none of these were an option for your brain?  No going to your happy place, where the flowers are in bloom and the tea is hot?  No being comforted by the golden sunset on the beach, or the vista from atop the mountain in your minds eye.  Yes, “I couldn't really imagine what it's like to not imagine…”

    The experience of those that live with Aphantasia, can be accompanied by memory issues and difficulty remembering faces. This is not to say, that these individuals cannot retain information, or remember intricate detail.  When giving descriptions, people with Aphantasian will often cite detailed facts and data, rather than using imagery. Many are likely to be introverted, as well.

    Some information on Aphantasia, dates back to the1880s but, there hasn’t been a lot of attention on the subject until recent years. The brain’s cerebral cortex is thought to function differently, causing interference with mental visualization. One view on Aphantasia considers, it may only be a different way of thinking; suggesting the Neurodivergent, rather than the neurological.

    With Hyperphantasia, some people experience powerful imagery generation within the mind; or being said to have “Photorealistic Imagination”.

    "Typically, individuals with hyper-imagination are able to construct imagery that is beyond detailed and brightly outlined—resulting in some individuals having the capability even to experience a 360-degree vision.."

    Paul Deretskiy

    The contrast between Aphantasia and Hyperphantasia, is just another fascinating reflection of the human mind.  The links below are definitely a rabbit hole worth exploring. It seems I may know a bit about photorealistic imagery, as well as little more about myself.   Imagining what one with Aphantasia may experience, I’m at a loss...

    I imagine it may feel… like “being blind in your mind”.  I couldn’t imagine, “what it’s like not to imagine”.

    "Brain" Artwork below by John Hain: Buy him a cup?

    pixabay.com/images/id-1000062/

    Paul Deretskiy’s piece:
    memoryos.com/article/hyperphan

    Photorealistic  Imagination:
    magneticmemorymethod.com/hyper

    Aphantasia:
    stemata.org/blog/what-is-the-l

    UK Aphantasia discussion:
    bbc.com/news/health-34039054

    When you are blind in your mind:
    verywellmind.com/aphantasia-ov

    What is Aphantasia:
    aphantasia.com/what-is-aphanta

    #PhotorealisticImagination #Aphantasia #Hyperphantasia #aphasia #WernickesArea #BrocasArea #visualization
    #DisabilitySolidarity #Imagination #CrossDisabilitySupport #ActuallyAutistic #BrainInjury #VisualImpairment #VisualCortex
    #NeurodivergentThinking
    #InvisibleDisabilities #equality
    #InvisibleDisabilityRights #imagine
    #HashtagsNobodyWillEverSearch

  10. CW: (Invisible Disability) ... 🕊

    @OutOfExile_IDR

    💡(Cont''d) ...

    From ^there & ...
    of special further interest to me:

    ▪︎ Interplay/Intersections w:
    #BrocasArea 🧠
    #WernickesArea 🧠
    #TPJ 🧠

    ... as common/tangental w:

    ▪︎⚡🌩 ⛈ Overlapping Issues:
    ¤ #Aphantasia(s)
    ¤ #Aphasia(s)
    ¤ #Dismorphia
    ¤ Phantom #Voices
    ¤ (& more) ...

    ---------
    🥀😔 #Visualization #Image
    #InnerVoice #InnerHearing #Brain #InvisibleDisability
    #InvisibleDisabilities