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[ContingentlyComposite]

I’m boycotting Elon Musk’s (maybe not now?) riding in to save “the town square” and all the sacred free speech that Twitter has to offer, so I’ll be posting all my dating/disability related tweet content here.

JK. Instagram is my social media addiction of choice. Anyone who’s read my posts knows there’s no way I could endure the character limit. But I thought it might be fun to have a thread for tweet style random thoughts/complaints/observations and responding to those of our fellow PDers. I often have small random disability/dev/dating thoughts but I never feel like they really warrant a post here. Maybe others feel the same? It would be nice to lower the stakes on posting and get more discussions going.

I’ll go first. (No, I will not be obeying any character limits, even though I just said it would be “tweet style.”)

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TFW when you’re halfheartedly browsing a dating app, but then you notice there’s a new hit on your ‘wheelchair’ search term. They’re in your age range, pretty cute, the content of the profile is uninspiring but not terrible. You’re wondering when the magic key word is going to show up, and then you read: “I couldn't live without a set of wheels; I'm not wheelchair bound or anything but I'm lost without either my BMX or my car.” …The romantic disappointment, the sexual frustration, the SJW outrage at the use of the phrase ‘wheelchair bound.’

[lisa]

I don't use Twitter anymore, but this is a cool idea for a thread.

Here's something that I would tweet today:
I had another coming out as a dev today. It's been maybe a dozen times that I've come out to friends, but it's exciting every time. They didn't react in a strange way and I think I've become better in telling it in a way that doesn't trigger very strange reactions. But after the initial fear, there's been the familiar warmth that embraces me when I've shared something intimate with good friends that, in a way, brought us closer together.

[smilefile]

nice idea for a thread!

today I met a young homeless person on my way to a Shopping Mall "isn´t it a hard life in a wheelchair?" he asked me,"isn´t it a hard thing to live on the street"? I answered. Life seems to be a matter of perspective...

[ContingentlyComposite]

Signed up as a volunteer for an adaptive sporting event next week. My motives were definitely 90% desire to see hot PWDs in swim suits, 10% altruism. Looking forward to it but I'm also kind of feeling like a creeper.

[lisa]

I seem to grow really fond of tweeting my everyday dev experiences here ;-).

Today I got a call from a client of the company I work for. I had never talked to him before, but I immediately noticed his stutter. Since this is part of my devness and has been for a long time, I got all excited and a little aroused ;-). We've been talking for about ten minutes and it was quite the effort to act professionally and concentrate on what he was asking me instead of swooning over how he did it ;-).

[smilefile]

When I´m seeing an attractive and exciting woman out there. Three active month on this awesome community seem to be enough to ask myself:

"Is this a Dev who´s taking my breath"?

[tujo]

Cool thread! A few drafts:

“When the richest person in the world wants to trample on minorities, patriarchy still flourishes, the unsayable becomes sayable and entrenched ableism is hardly even recognized among the sensible, there's nothing but aggressive optimism.”

“Most often, it's then just the lack of empathy. Can we mine it on Mars?“

“Don’t tell me about Ukraine, I’ve been able to sing their anthem all along just from watching all the Paralympic ceremonies. Slava Ukraini.”

„No kink shaming, BUT“ ... I hear that way too often. What actually gives you the right to divide into right and wrong, appropriate and immoral, because it’s not supposed to fit in your own confined, tiny world? Consensual sex is good sex."

[sungod]

I was all ready for summer (it's late May, after all). Then it snowed 5" inches yesterday. Please fix this @alroker

[Amee]

Just got an e-mail in my work inbox from the address pwdchange@... Just seeing the e-mail address of the sender, I felt a rush of adrenaline, terrified that I had somehow accidentally used my work e-mail for some dev or disability related stuff while also being really confused what on earth a PWD change was supposed to be... Until I realized PWD is also short for password.

[ichbin]

I have never used Twitter - I don't know how many characters you are allowed to use there, but I think I get the idea of ContingentlyComposite and I like it

So yesterday I told a good friend of mine about my devness. I have known her since 2009. Another coming out - and every single time it gets easier and easier.

I loved the way I could talk about everything without feeling shame or fear of judgement, and even wasn't getting upset when she seemed to be wondering about the "why" - which is a question that for me always has a little bit of the implication that something's wrong with me...

I just said: I'm not asking myself "why" or "where it comes from". I just feel right the way I am now and have many online women friends who feel the same. I also told her how I love to talk to you on our online chat meetings and how I am looking forward to our meeting in July in Germany.

[ayla]

I've never been a tweeter. But I like this idea so here goes:

Achievements in "out" devness: when a friend texted me that her husband had to use a wheelchair on a recent trip of theirs, due to a hip injury, I was able to playfully reply "you tease lol" and have her reciprocate the laughter. Real breath of fresh air!

[Dani]

So boring at the gym with all these guys walking around, pumping their muscles 

[Dr. BiPAP Sachin]

Oh boy, I'll be eye-gaze wheelin' poetic in no time:
"Scram, shoo. Whatch ya gonna do when it's Doc comin' through??"

[lisa]

Random devvy content in my life, today's episode:

I went to the ATM which is located next to a photo booth. The booth was occupied. There was a curtain, so I could only see the lower half of the person in there, but also one of his hands which seemed to have some involuntary movements. While I got money, the guy came out of the booth and waited for his photos that were supposed to appear on the bottom part of the booth. Except they didn't. He stood there waiting (while I had confirmed that he indeed had some kind of paralysis/spastic thing going on on one side of his body), but nothing happened. So I got an excuse to talk to him, ended up checking from the floor if the photos really hadn't come out. I found them stuck in the machine, extracted them and gave them to the guy. Then I enjoyed watching how he walked away with a limp ;-).

[em]

Not sure if this is twitter material but this is PDitter so

Last week when taking the train I deliberately walked to a carriage further away from where I stood, because I wanted to avoid a woman walking in with her dog. Next thing I know, a cute guy is getting into the other carriage with a crutch and I missed it!