WELCOME ALL
Speaking of our community, at Flutter Chicago we invite everyone to celebrate with us ! Summer is a great time to celebrate as we have 2 pride months! June is LGBTQIA+ PRIDE month and JULY is disability pride month. As a member of the community myself I want to share our flag with you and with it help us all celebrate and know the importance of pride!
Creators to Follow
- The Mama and Me Project - A series of children's books about a disabled young mom ambulating life with her young daughter and her service dog.
- Chronically Jenni
- Sarah Todd Hammer
Disability Pride Flag
This is the disability pride flag. Created by Ann Magill, the zigzag colors represent different disabilities, & how disabled people move around barriers in creative ways.
green represents -> sensory disabilities
blue - > psychiatric disabilities
white -> non visible / undiagnosed disabilities
gold -> cognitive and intelectual disabilities
red -> physical disabilities
What we wish people to know about disability , adapted from Chronically Jenni
You can't tell someone is disabled just by looking at them. Ours is the only minority group that anyone can join overnight.
Disability is incredibly diverse, it can be visible or invisible, stable (always present), fluctuating - only present in certain conditions / times of day/ times of year/ after eating certain foods, wearing certain clothes.
Many disabled people want to work but the barriers to employment are often inaccesible. Whether for physical, systemic or bureaucratic reasons. Disabled people who can work and what types of work they can do are no less valuable than those who can.
Everything we do - takes extra planning , adjustments, time and money. and applying for support , here in the USA specially is everything between incredibly difficult to deeply traumatizing. and we have to do it again and again just to survive.
Majority of people with disabilities around 70 - 80% have non- visible dissabilities . mental illness and neurodivergence are disabilities and living with any kind of disability can have a massive impact on your mental health
Disability it not automatically sad or tragic. Sure it can be hard, but it is also full of growth , community , humor and growth,
Disability pride is not about pretending things are easy, it is about recognizing that our lives are valuable , messy and meaningful just like anyone else's.
Disabled people can be and are carers for other disabled people
Disability doesn't discriminate on age. people can be born disabled or become disabled gradually or overnight .
Beautiful Anecdote about children, their empathy and how we can all learn from them, adapted from a story by Sarah Todd Hammer
There ir this wonderful creator I follow Sarah todd hammer . She shared a story where she used to be able to count on her young classmates to help with basic tasks and they were even happy to help and once she hit a certain age, they refused to help her anymore.
Every kid problem is an adult problem. kids innately want to help and for this reason, we could surmise that adults do as well, they just lose their ability for empathy as time goes on. So I call you to live as free and kind as children again and explore what your full capacity for empathy and kindness can be from your inner child. it is not letting people ' walk all over you', or ' take advantage of you'. we all need help , we all desire to be understood.
*The world needs your love and empathy *.
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