It's a beauty of a day out there!

THURSDAY, MARCH 20: ONE WEEK POST-SURGERY We received a call yesterday from AVC with the results of last week’s surgery, the removal of a mast cell tumour (MCT) on Ripley's neck. gofundme.com/manage/service…

If you want to help disabled people fight New York's proposed mask ban... wear a mask. If more people would mask up in solidarity, these important accessibility tools would be harder to ban. Help us normalize masking and protect your health in the process!

Awesome. My smile of the morning.

Thank you, Kelly.

In case you needed reminding.

Sorry to all R4/R5s going through this...😂 Meme Credit to: tedbr ============================= 👉 Discord: discord.gg/whiteoutsurviv… #whiteoutsurvival

You won't understand autism until you understand how something seemingly tiny and completely insignificant (to you) could give someone such intense anxiety that they literally can't move on with their day until the thing is "fixed".

On a related but separate note, 60% of late diagnosed autistic adults reported suicide ideation compared to just 42% of individuals who were diagnosed earlier in life. This tells me that the problem of adults remaining undiagnosed is way worse than anyone is willing to recognize.

"there are moments where helena is authentically being changed, primarily by the way mark looks at her and treats her. i think it's something that's altering her from the inside out." – britt lower.

Helpful list from the CBC on which ridings remain too close to call. Liberals would need to flip 4 of these without losing any other seats in order to get to a majority. cbc.ca/news/politics/…

“You don’t look that sick to me” No kidding. I’ve got an invisible illness and have spent most of my life learning to hide it. Why? Because people don’t want to see it. They expect you to hide the pain, fatigue & loss of function. To put on a happy face for their comfort

“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.” ― Frida Kahlo Kahlo lived with #fibromyalgia after an accident at age 18. She had many surgeries on her spine and legs and was left with #ChronicPain. She did most important works of art from bed.

The inconvenient truth is that everyone becomes disabled if they live long enough. And COVID accelerates that timeline considerably with every subsequent infection.

Welp.

“No One Mourns the Wicked” by Ariana Grande and Wicked Movie Cast saw a 50% surge in streams on Spotify yesterday.

Between the October Slide & the 24/7 news cycle…it’s hard to be online without causing a flare For people with chronic illness, social media is our way of connecting with others It’s comfort, but it can also be triggering My guide to saving spoons: disabledginger.com/p/spoon-saving…

I spend 100% of my time in public masked. Indoors, outdoors, anywhere the air is shared. My respie is a practical tool but also a symbol. The canary in the coal mine represents an early warning system. That’s us, my canaries.