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Welcome to c/disabled, an anticapitalist community for disabled people/people with disability(s).

What is disability justice? Disability justice is a framework of activism which centers disabled people of multiple intersections. Before participating in in this community, please read the Ten Principles of Disability Justice.

Do I count as disabled/a person with disability(s)? "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.

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Disabled Community Megathread from July 27th, 2026 to Aug. 9th, 2026 (hexbear.net)

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[–] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

I noticed custodial work has a degree of autism coding in my limited interactions with coworkers. Couple weekends ago I was at the Dollar General because coupons and I think I needed tp at the time, one of my coworkers was there buying energy drinks one part because they help, one part because he likes the artwork on the cans and he actively collects them. He also figures with the rise in coffee prices and environmental costs might as well, he was also old music head went to all the concerts in the 60s. So as he's buying pure liquid caffeine some dude in line harasses him a guy his age shouldn't be buying energy drinks because they're bad for his heart, coworker shrugs it off, I mean what can you even say to that nonsense? To make the RL comedic skit in DG for real after my coworker left the dude bought smokes.

I also have a sad grossout work-birthday story thanks to cyclosporia from a while back(cw illness, exploitation under kkkapitalism, and body grossout stuff)

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So it was after my birthday party and my last relative left, everything was right in the world, I had exactly what I wanted to eat, a pizza and a cake, nothing special. Then 0 warning, 0 anything, I throw up on my nice carpet, I have to go in to work later that day since 2 days of the week are basically 80pct of my paycheck and my bday falls upon one of them this year, so I clean everything up and drag myself in. I manage to survive the shift, but its rough af. I had to give my birthday leftovers to relatives since I was too ill to finish it myself.

Fast forward a few days, weeks, whatever later, cyclosporia appears to have intermittent symptoms for me, and its a extra rough long day, but hey, dat paycheck. I have to take plenty of trips to 'go' and at my second job site I feel nausea kicking in. There's the one single stall bathroom at this work site that's always btfo/torn up sure as the sun rises, puke in sanitation box ,poop and pee sideways all over, booger graffiti, c*m on the door etc. Anyway, I go into that bathroom just to scope it out, big mistake, even though it wasn't the worst I've beheld of it, I still I end up recreating the puke scene from Team America but the custodial edition. Puke-clean loop like 3 times. It was a damn miracle I completed my shift, I never felt my legs so weak.

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