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we need to teach kids about disability and have more disability rep aside from horror films because i'm very tired of looking in the mirror since my surgery and seeing something to be feared. i'm very tired of children looking at me like i'm scary.
i'm not scary.
i'm not scary.
and that's just the immediate one they see. i hide most of the rest of my scars - some visible and some under the surface.
every damn one is demonized. a horror trope. a scary thing you watch on the screen.
"disturbed"
"psychotic"
"unnerving"
every damn one is demonized. a horror trope. a scary thing you watch on the screen.
"disturbed"
"psychotic"
"unnerving"
i'm a 20 year old who sleeps in under a nylon children's bed tent.
i'm not scary and i'm certainly not less human than you.
i'm not scary and i'm certainly not less human than you.
when disabled people ask you to stop demonizing the things we deal with, we aren't being sensitive.
i'm so tired of never seeing someone like me unless they're a brutal murderer in a horror film.
those kinds of portrayals make it so hard to exist as someone like me.
i'm so tired of never seeing someone like me unless they're a brutal murderer in a horror film.
those kinds of portrayals make it so hard to exist as someone like me.
that hopelessness makes it extremely easy for those who prey on the vulnerable to swoop in.
i'm supposed to be the scary one, not the one who's getting hurt, so nobody believes me.
they get away.
i get hopeless.
the cycle loops.
i'm supposed to be the scary one, not the one who's getting hurt, so nobody believes me.
they get away.
i get hopeless.
the cycle loops.
stop the cycle and speak up.
