Disabled While Going to a Baseball Game

Every year, I like to go to at least one baseball game here at PNC Park. Admittedly, I'm not the biggest baseball fan, but I love to go for the experience - the views of the city, the food, and just being there, relaxing at having a fun time. A few weeks ago, we had an unseasonably warm week for early May, realized it was also fireworks night at the park, and decided a few days in advance on somewhat of a whim to just buy tickets! And so I thought it would be fun to share a little bit about going to a game as a wheelchair user.

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Accidentally Adaptive: Ultra Thin Cotton Pads

I love learning about skincare and creating a routine that works for me and my skin, but sometimes it gets physically tricky for me to work with different products. The type of dispenser and the texture of the product itself can have a huge impact on how easy (or how challenging) it is for me to apply on my face. But I've started using these ultra thin cotton pads to apply more of my products, and they've made the process so much easier - the latest "Accidentally Adaptive" addition to my routine!

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Accidentally Adaptive: Streaming Movies

This year, I decided - somewhat on a whim - that I wanted to watch all of the best picture nominees for this year's Oscars. I had seen a few of them already, but spent this past weekend having a cozy movie marathon where I streamed more of them, one after the other. And it hit me that this was only possible because all of the movies were available to watch on streaming, which is so much more accessible for me than going to the movie theater. So I thought I'd talk about how movies being available on streaming is actually Accidentally Adaptive!

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Accidentally Adaptive: Addison Bay Side-Zip Crewneck

Fall is here, and so is my desire to stay warm and cozy all the time in comfy layers. But a lot of times, adding layers is better for me in theory than it is in reality. Anything too tight or too bulky is really hard for me to move around in, and it often ends up getting really bunched up around my waist, because things fit differently when you're seated. But this Addison Bay Crewneck, with zippers on both sides, is an accidentally adaptive solution to my problems!

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SMA Pride Month: What I Wish People Knew

For my last post of the series this year, I thought I'd share some things that I wish people knew and understood about my life. I want to share some of the big and small things - the things that you might not realize, or things that I've maybe mentioned before but are worth repeating.

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Accidentally Adaptive: Crocs Sandals

I know that the end of August is not necessarily the ideal time to be posting a pair of sandals, but I just bought these recently and was so excited that I wanted to share. I saw these Brooklyn Buckle Crocs sandals online and placed an order almost immediately. They're incredibly comfortable, surprisingly cute, and adjustable and adaptive, too.

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SMA Pride Month: Biggest Lessons Learned

A lot of times, my life with SMA feels pretty normal to me - I've got my routine down, and I don't feel like I'm living all that differently than everyone else. But there have been times, over the years, where I've tried a little hard to pretend to be normal... and regretted it afterwards. Times when I didn't really fully embrace and accept the impact SMA has on me. So I thought I'd explain a little bit about those times today.

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SMA Pride Month: Current Adaptive Favorites

I think it's pretty obvious that SMA affects a lot of my day-to-day life - it forces me to be creative, and come up with different ways of doing things. And sometimes it's taking things and using them in a way that has an extra benefit to me - like the things I talk about in my Accidentally Adaptive series. So I thought I'd share some of my current favorite "adaptive" products - things that I use to make my life a little bit easier.

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Disability Pride Month: Disability Representation on Screen

This week, I wanted to share some recommendations for good disability representation on screen. When I say good representation, I mean that the stories told aren't cliche stories of disabled people as burdens, or as someone to be pitied, AND that the actors playing these characters are disabled themselves. This list isn't exhaustive, but the full version of that list wouldn't be that long, either. We still have a looong way to go until disabled people really feel represented on screen.

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