Thread by @AutSciPerson

Every day that I have an outing,

and my venous malformation doesn't hurt me,
and doesn't hurt me the next day,

I thank my weird-looking, very ugly toe shoes. 💜

Took me a surgery that didn't work, and 3 years of going through footwear, but I finally found it.

Physically abled people will always have something to complain about.

They'd tell me I need to get foot surgery (part of the reason I tried it - 3 week recovery).

They'd joke that I should "just amputate it" (so overdone and absurd).

Now they tell me my shoes look ugly.

I don't usually say this,

but I will say fuck off to anyone who complains that my shoes look ugly and I need different ones or they're not appropriate for the occasion.

People not in pain simply have no idea.

I'd rather not be in pain everytime I take one step,
thank you.

I will very proudly where my ugly-ass toe shoes because it means I don't have to be in pain in the absurd amount of pain that I was before.

You never know how much pain you're having to tolerate until you stop being in it.

Didn't realize just how miserable it was/I was.

[and just to clarify, there are some decent looking toe shoes - it's just that the specific model to shoes that I have to wear are legitimately ugly and don't come in any decent color. I think I'm being pretty objective when I say they're ugly. I don't care though.]

I think some abled people in this world would have rather me tried to have another surgery, with even more pain over a span of a month or two,

so I could wear different kinds of shoes instead of just one kind.

It really sums up ableism in our society when you think about it.