Apropos of nothing, but it just came to me: when someone, especially an abled person, tells me "don& #39;t romanticize disability", it feels like a landlord saying "don& #39;t you dare paint the walls a non-ugly color."

Like thanks, I LIVE here, I& #39;m making it nice for ME.

Brb writing another 100,000 words of elaborate self-gratifying "in pain all the time but, like, in an extremely fucky way."

also may I just say, this thread helped me & my writing partner launch a new project because we were deciding what to do and I showed the above tweet to her and was like: "this, yes? https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👀" title="Eyes" aria-label="Emoji: Eyes">" and then brainstormed ways to do exactly that