It’s time to make the INvisible VISIBLE by proudly and publicly talking about our experiences as invisibly disabled people.
Despite popular belief and community infrastructures, #InvisiblyDisabledPplExist. This ignorance and reduced community recognition and assistance can cause us lots of unnecessary difficulty, pain, and even death.
This means it’s time to start a movement to end the ignorance about what it “means” to be disabled.
Please use the hashtag #InvisiblyDisabledPplExist to not only make signs over disabled seating and other areas, as mentioned in tweet 4 above.
We must also talk about our many many stories of being invisibly disabled in a world where the public doesn’t recognize our existence (like mine).
Pls boost, post, take pics, and tweet your own disability awareness post-its!
Change starts with us
This is a nice effort for a good cause and all, but you’re also blocking information from people who can’t use their legs.
Ah I think I see what you mean, thanks for the constructive criticism. I think I actually did block info in the first photo and that’s not good, whoops - I’ll try not to do that in future.
But I have to say, blocking bus #s is harmful to us all, not just ppl who cannot use their legs. Also, I initially covered the bus #s for the picture so that I didn’t give away too much about where I lived, but then I forgot to move it off of the info so it’s not blocking it. The second image isn’t actually covering anything meaningful though - that I can recall anyway.
Regardless, this is a useful and good reminder for me & others in future. Thanks!
It’s time to make the INvisible VISIBLE by proudly and publicly talking about our experiences as invisibly disabled people.
Despite popular belief and community infrastructures, #InvisiblyDisabledPplExist. This ignorance and reduced community recognition and assistance can cause us lots of unnecessary difficulty, pain, and even death.
This means it’s time to start a movement to end the ignorance about what it “means” to be disabled.
Please use the hashtag #InvisiblyDisabledPplExist to not only make signs over disabled seating and other areas, as mentioned in tweet 4 above.
We must also talk about our many many stories of being invisibly disabled in a world where the public doesn’t recognize our existence (like mine).
Pls boost, post, take pics, and tweet your own disability awareness post-its!
Change starts with us
This is a nice effort for a good cause and all, but you’re also blocking information from people who can’t use their legs.
Ah I think I see what you mean, thanks for the constructive criticism. I think I actually did block info in the first photo and that’s not good, whoops - I’ll try not to do that in future.
But I have to say, blocking bus #s is harmful to us all, not just ppl who cannot use their legs. Also, I initially covered the bus #s for the picture so that I didn’t give away too much about where I lived, but then I forgot to move it off of the info so it’s not blocking it. The second image isn’t actually covering anything meaningful though - that I can recall anyway.
Regardless, this is a useful and good reminder for me & others in future. Thanks!
I’d love to answer this question, I’m just not sure to what it refers. Can you clarify? :)
I was responding to the reblog of it, claiming that you’re doing this at the expense of visibly disabled people who can’t walk. I would really like to know how saying “hey, invisible disabilities exist!” harms visibly disabled people, and I challenge them to explain their reblog.
OH, I didn’t even notice that comment, I’ll have to look. It doesn’t make immediate sense to me but I haven’t seen their comment and if my message isn’t clear enough & is harming visibly disabled ppl as a result, I’d very much like to know so that I can adjust it :/
It’s time to make the INvisible VISIBLE by proudly and publicly talking about our experiences as invisibly disabled people.
Despite popular belief and community infrastructures, #InvisiblyDisabledPplExist. This ignorance and reduced community recognition and assistance can cause us lots of unnecessary difficulty, pain, and even death.
This means it’s time to start a movement to end the ignorance about what it “means” to be disabled.
Please use the hashtag #InvisiblyDisabledPplExist to not only make signs over disabled seating and other areas, as mentioned in tweet 4 above.
We must also talk about our many many stories of being invisibly disabled in a world where the public doesn’t recognize our existence (like mine).
I keep meaning to bring this back but I’m always too poor and am a terrible anti-social hermit. I’ve gotta get bigger post-its and better markers, which are surprisingly expensive. I also wanna contact my local news agencies about it as a movement I’d like to start (with their help), but I don’t wanna give away my real identity.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can make a bigger splash with this movement given these limitations???
That said, I’d also very much love it if others would help me by making a handful of these post-its and spreading them around too (especially on public transit).
ETA: Also, if you DO spread these post-its around, pls also take pictures of it and share those photos and perhaps also this link on any and all of your social media (e.g., facebook, instagram, twitter, tumblr, etc! using the hashtag!! PLS!!!)
