Disabled Community Megathread from March 31, 2025 to April 13, 2025

Now I know I'm very lurky on this mega (for those on trans mega and/or especially the tracha matrix space, hi :3) but I thought I'd get this up and running for the week and share a bit of a related update for me.

I'm looking into meds! I've really been struggling with ADHD and Anxiety a lot for a while, so this is a long time coming. I'm hoping they'll help me function better, because wow does it feel like I'm dysfunctional a lot of the time, even compared to other neurodivergent people I know IRL

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"Disability" is an umbrella term which encompasses physical disabilities, emotional/psychiatric disabilities, neurodivergence, intellectual/developmental disabilities, sensory disabilities, invisible disabilities, and more. You do not have to have an official diagnosis to consider yourself disabled.

Mask up, love one another, and stay alive for one more week.

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New mega for you all - https://hexbear.net/post/4592894

The instructor going through veins and arteries is obviously autistic, and the professor shadowing her keeps having to reign her in from infodumping about stuff that isn't the syllabus. He's very nice about it, she seems ok with it. It's fun. This should be the standard dynamic for all my classes.

My landlady has got to be the rudest, most unpleasant person I have ever met. If it wasn't for the fact that with no current income no-one else would take me, there's nowhere cheaper and I also don't want to leave her little dog because she neglects him, I would just go. She always has a horrible attitude, is always in a bad mood and I literally can't talk to her without her rolling her eyes, getting angry, making a contemptuous face (literally no matter what I say), refusing to turn the extremely loud TV down when I'm trying to talk to her and being a total b1+(h for no reason.
I found a website that gives free samples of beauty products. I got a free bottle of moisturiser from there. However, it didn't agree with my skin. I didn't want to waste it so I decided to ask my landlady if she would like it. I went into the sitting room where she was watching TV and asked "Do you ever use moisturiser?" (because I didn't know if it was a product she would be interested in) and she as usual refused to turn the TV down, misheard me and angrily said "What? No I haven't used anything in here." After several more attempts to explain what I was saying, and eventually offering her the moisturiser, she snatched it, looked at it, made a contemptuous face at it and then put it beside her, clearly intending to keep it. Never said thanks, and as I walked out of the room I saw her face, she was looking at me now with contempt, annoyance and disgust.
I regret giving it to her now but who else could I have given it to anyway. She's such a bitter person who takes her bad temper out on me because I'm an easy target. One of the great joys of being severely disabled - you end up in poverty and then have no choice but to make do with shitty miserable living situations. My life is just a never ending series of minor unpleasant incidents, never ending additional health and financial issues which all just add up and snowball into a huge pile of sh!t. It means that an interaction like this, which probably wouldn't bother most people, they'd probably just think she's rude and move on, seems overwhelming to me because I can't get away from here and it's yet another indication that my life is always going to be filled with unhappiness and stress about every little thing, and most people I come across in real life feel nothing but contempt for me because I'm a penniless burden on society.