as small as a world and as large as alone

12:27am May 24, 2014

flutterflyinvasion:

theshriekingsisterhood:

Shoutout to all disabled people for whom it is difficult, painful, or even impossible to maintain personal hygiene. Shoutout to everyone who struggles with taking showers, who forgets to brush their hair, who don’t have enough spoons to do laundry as often as they want to. Shoutout to disabled people who struggle with personal hygiene while also belonging to groups for which “presentability” is a large part of avoiding persecution.

You are good, and you are wonderful, and you are dignified. The people who would make fun of you could never be as strong as you are.

The thought of taking a shower will literally make me cry on low spoon days.

I couldn’t wash my own hair until well into my teens and even now I barely do it well enough to look presentable.

I worked out a system in college where my best friend would come over and do my laundry and I would buy her dinner in return.

OP, thank you for this.

I have never been able to do hygiene on my own.  Only in my twenties was I given actual help with this, instead of either nothing, or endless “training” that went nowhere.  And I got judged, and bullied, and judged more, everywhere, for this problem.

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