Sy Hoekstra

my 3YO is doing public education in NYC about disabilities after watching the Paralympics. We were on the subway with a couple kids from her school who started asking about my white cane, so I explained when you can’t see you use a cane to feel what’s in front of you. Then she jumps in really enthusiastically to say more, and she is at the perfect toddler age where she has absolutely no sense of how loud she is. So she was just screaming to everyone on the train about how if you lose your legs but you want to ice skate you get a sled, and if you don’t have an arm you can get a new one (which she called a glass arm b/c the only prosthesis she knows is my eye). The moms of her two friends were like “Oh… okay we’re just screaming about amputation huh?” It was so funny. #Disability #Blind #Blindness #Parenting

OK now she decided the word penalty is too hard to pronounce, so hockey players go in the trouble box @SyHoekstra@tweesecake.social

3YO has been watching the #Olympics, including, according to her, finger skating, snow boring, and sled bobbing

Ride the brainevator all the way to the deepest subbasement and watch how my mind, unbeknownst to me, packs itself full of maps and rules and calculations just so I can safely get where I need to go. Plus, the time I got directional instructions from a sighted stranger that were so chef’s-kiss perfect they haunt me every time I receive the usual pointless dribble.
https://deepsy.net/p/mental-maps-and-my-instinctive-subconscious-de4?utm_source=publication-search #DeepSy #Humor #Blind #Blindness #Disability #comedy

A British prince has been arrested and the American president is immune from all prosecution. How the tables have turned...

My wife walks by the park where the Stonewall monument is on her commute. For #AshWednesday there were queer activists and clergy doing the imposition of ashes for passers by. She went up and they had ashes mixed with glitter. They changed the blessing too: “From stardust you’ve come and to stardust you will return. May the light within you never be extinguished.” She said it was beautiful.

Then she got on a work Zoom call and had to justify the big glitter spot in the middle of her forehead. Best part is that basically the exact same thing happened last year and she forgot.

Anyway blessings on all who celebrate sparkly queer Lent. May your coworkers accept your flustered explanations.

Just realized I am wearing a Bureau of Balance hoodie from #TheAdventureZone over a #WorldsBeyondNumber T-shirt. I am the nerdiest podcast listener , and if you can make any sense of the previous sentence, you are my people. #TTRPG #ActualPlay #fantasy

A stoned CVS employee tries to help me find a birthday card for a girl I was trying to date, and other adventures in shopping while blind
https://deepsy.net/p/toothpicks-poison-spinach-and-a-lewd #Blind #Disability #Humor #Humour #Comedy #DeepSy

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