#disabilityisnormal
Caption by f.vargas.art on Instagram:
Art in progress.
Caption by mutant_robot on Instagram:
taxes. [image: taken from my viewpoint so that arm and joystick of my powerchair are visible. Across from me is a desk with papers and the keyboard my tax advisor is working at]
Caption by migratorypatterns_ on Instagram:
I did it! I vlogged nearly a whole day! I got a bit carried away and filmed a lot more of Granville island than I meant to. I hope the footage comes out okay ^_^ my hope is editing these will be a little quicker. I need to learn to be less precious with them! Almost impossible for an obsessive perfectionist.
Caption by kristen__noel on Instagram:
Collarbone has been stuck forever..the rest of me is like jello. Today’s heat and sun were way too much even for the brief amount of time I was outside. Brace yourselves….summer is comming.
Caption from sitting_pretty on Instagram:
When I was a little girl, I saw myself as beautiful. Like fairy-princess riding a glass carriage to the ball kind of beautiful. I woke and ate and dressed and played and slept believing this.
When I got a bit older, I started to pick up on the way people looked at me. They rushed to help me, seemed sad or even proud when I smiled, and stared at my paralyzed legs. I noticed that none of the fairy-princesses on the screens looked anything like me. And this is when I started to piece it together – girls that looked like me were usually pitied, could maybe become inspirational, but were never beautiful. So I found ways to hide myself, obscure my imperfections, point the camera away from my paralyzed legs.
But here I am, thirty years old, finding my way back to the little girl who saw herself as beautiful, who wasn’t afraid to put on a lacy floor-length dress, just to go to the library, who didn’t try to hide, who felt worthy of admiration. Day by day, I am building my beauty uniform – the space I slip into that invites me to relish in my own particular beauty, to be seen without shame.
No caption from michelle_gilmour on Instagram
{Michelle is a tattoo shop owner and this is them with their coworkers}
Caption from steelwheels76 on Instagram:
One of my hobbies is #woodcarving . I kinda have major loss of function in my hands, which complicates things. Most of my hobbies require dexterity and the use of tools and/or knives - painting, sketching, cooking, gaming. Sometimes I think I do these things out of pure spite.
My YouTube upload from last week. I’m both a wheelchair user and I receive all essential nutrition via a feeding tube that runs into my intestines. This doesn’t mean I can’t still enjoy the normal pleasures of life, sometimes it just means adaptations, and smaller amounts of said pleasures than is considered ‘normal’.
Caption by wanderlust.on.wheels on Instagram:
April 2015-
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Caption from _snow_whyte_ on Instagram:
I chopped my hair…. Lol Jk- just my bangs:)
This is a painting my friend Mandy painted of me from a self portrait during a hospital stay just over a year ago. While a hospital stay isn’t necessarily a normal part of life for most people, Mandy reposted it to bring awareness to the DisabilityIsNormal project.
I strongly believe it should be normal for disabled people to be depicted in all forms of art and media. While my personal opinions on what constitutes ‘normal’ are complicated and I don’t believe we should have to strive to be ‘normal’, I <b>do</b> think that disability should be (and is) a normal part of life for everyone in the world.
This will only be acknowledged and true when everyone stops ignoring disability. With movements like #SayTheWord, #DisabilityIsNormal and the various campaigns to get real, honest disability representation in the media, we will get there.
caption from steelwheels76 on Instagram:
Både fint, obehagligt och lätt incestuöst när @miss_sof_e sjunger Moulin Rouge!-versionen av “Your Song” för mig.
caption from botfighter on Instagram:
and so kawakon ends, with a pretty chill sunday.
caption from studdedsugar on Instagram:
in honor of #rarediseaseday here’s a full body photo of me rocking my knee braces. i’ve mentioned having ehlers-danlos syndrome twice before on this account, but it’s something that affects my day to day life, so why not talk about it a few times?
Via Twitter user rory @ spoonlesscutie
“A pic I took visiting family last month - my aunt and I were sewing and I had Oreo pie!”
https://twitter.com/spoonlesscutie/status/719314690942218240
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Via Twitter user Carly Medosch @ CarlyRM
“Borrowed a wheelchair to attend VA state fair in 2011 where I met my best pal Domino “
https://twitter.com/CarlyRM/status/719275687299911680
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Via Instagram user wanderlust.on.wheels click the link for their wonderfully honest post about what #DisabilityIsNormal means for them. https://instagram.com/p/BEC1grYQaoV/
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Via Twitter user @ missdianelm
“Chillin with my dorkasaurus cat”
https://twitter.com/missdianelm/status/719276037121511426
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