Halloween disabled

Hi all! Happy Halloween! 🎃👻This is a funny and sometimes scary holiday (I'm not a big fan of scary stuff), but like everything else, doing something for Halloween can be harder when you're disabled.

This year, I am going to my sister's school for a little Halloween event, and then I'm going home for rest and dinner. I know I can eat instead of going over to her friend's house because I know there's gonna be a lot of standing and stimulation, which is so exhausting for me. After I've been home for about an hour, I'm gonna meet my sister and her friends for trick-or-treating in her friend's neighborhood.

I'm planning to wear all of my compression garments and bring earplugs in case it gets too loud. I also made sure to let my sister and mom know that if I get extremely tired or it's just too much for me, I'll go home. I'm not gonna push myself through pain because this is supposed to be fun, and pain isn't fun.

If I get home and I'm not ready for bed, I want to watch Charlie Brown's Halloween special. I'm grateful for the understanding and support of my family when it comes to taking on challenging tasks.

Of course, I can't neglect the fun aspects of Halloween, like candy and dressing up! My favorite candy is any sour candy, and then 3 Musketeers! And for Halloween, I'm dressing up as a bee! Want to see my costume?

my costume!

Hello! So I wrote all of the above before my Halloween plans. Now it's been a couple of days, and here's how my plan went. There was a miscommunication between my mum and sister leading to high emotions that took a toll on me we got to the event an hour later then we planned, we wandered around and played games, I felt an itch to get home and mom came to pick me up, I was so tired and could barely do anything mother took me to in-n-out and we then went home we weren't there long and actually ended up being late to meet up with my sister and her friends, after only a couple minutes I started to feel super off balance and my legs and knees were in a lot of pain I held my mums hand as I walked around. We made it home, and I almost fell asleep watching Charlie Brown. I went to bed around 10:30, exhausted, and my legs were feeling numb.

All of this to say I planned and was still in pain, I planned and still things didn't go perfectly, and that can be hard for me to accept in the moment, but I think it's an important list to remember. I could have posted this without telling you what actually ended up happening I could have left out the pain, the mishaps and that I took Saturday to recover having a dynamic disability can be hard and this was my first Halloween where I couldn't do everything last Halloween I wasn't disabled and didn't have to think about any of the above and now I do and I grieve for my old body but also accept that I can't hold my body to those standards anymore but I can have fun anyway and on that note I hope you had a wonderful Halloween!