Christa Riter, MAAA

Arts Administrator 🎵🎭🎨 | Musician 🎻 | Disability Rights Advocate ♿️ | EDS Warrior 🦓| Goal: educate people about disability | Opinions are my own 🙂

[Christa Riter, MAAA @christa_riter]

#Disabled friends with tons of food #allergies and intolerances: there is an app called Fig that allows you to select your allergens and intolerances and will let you know what foods are safe to eat with the scan of a barcode. #MCAS #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #GERD

[Christa Riter, MAAA @christa_riter]

I will always find it hilarious when other spoonies try to invalidate your DOCTOR GIVEN diagnosis because your symptoms don’t match their’s. I posted a meme about OH that I experience with my #POTS in a fb group, and I’ve gotten multiple comments invalidating my diagnoses. #NEIS

[Dr. Cait S. Kirby (she/her) @caitskirby]

If your professor is Timur Kuran at Duke University, and you're disabled, you should know that he says in this tweet he believes many students are faking disability for "status."

[Patients with Power @PtsWithPower]

It always gives me a shock when people assume disabilities like #MECFS aren't as bad as, say, losing an arm.
#EDS #POTS #MCAS #pwME

[Christa Riter, MAAA @christa_riter]

Even in classrooms meant to better serve disabled students, #ableism runs strong. As disability pride month comes to a close, this year, we need to take on the ableist education system to ensure disabled people get the education they deserve in a safe space

[Christa Riter, MAAA @christa_riter]

I just saw a comment from a “SpEd” teacher on a tiktok of a mom who lost her #disabled child saying that she “often has dreams of her students without their #disabilities” and I have thoughts, a 🧵:

[Christa Riter, MAAA @christa_riter]

Having this mindset as a teacher who works with disabled children is ableist and she should not be serving disabled students. There’s nothing wrong with being disabled, and having this mindset makes us think you don’t appreciate us for who we are.

[Christa Riter, MAAA @christa_riter]

Me when my blood pressure read 85/60 during my orthostatic hyoptension and autonomic function tests

#POTS #Dysautonomia

[Christa Riter, MAAA @christa_riter]

@ArtBlerd I think Indiana is worse than Texas. They are just more sneaky about their awfulness

[Christa Riter, MAAA @christa_riter]

@MissFuzzball Well that’s good! I hope you’re able to figure it out. I’m in Indiana, so if you’re near there, I can recommend my doctor 😊

[Christa Riter, MAAA @christa_riter]

Officially diagnosed with #gastroparesis 🤪🤪🤪

[Christa Riter, MAAA @christa_riter]

@MissFuzzball Minebis idiopathic too! I’ve just been misdiagnosed for my entire life. My GI specializes in motility so I’m hoping we can figure out something that works.

[Christa Riter, MAAA @christa_riter]

I officially have the best partner ever! He got me this sweatshirt to wear to my upcoming GI follow up for #gastroparesis 🤪

[Christa Riter, MAAA @christa_riter]

When the new #hEDS character on @GreysABC faints the same way you did from #POTS and hits the exact vertebrae you did during said fall. It’s like my life is being reenacted 🤪

[Christa Riter, MAAA @christa_riter]

@ArtBlerd The only reason why I’m staying in Nonprofit for the next 10 years is to have my loans forgiven 🫠

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

A Black deaf kid nominated for an Emmy on his first try?!?!

LET’S GOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[Evil MoPac @EvilMopacATX]

Raise your hand if 105 degrees still sounds better to you than 35 degrees

[Christa Riter, MAAA @christa_riter]

Denying accessibility is like denying a fish water. Everyone needs it, but there are terrible people that think we can go without it.

[Christa Riter, MAAA @christa_riter]

Although it’s #DisabilityPrideMonth and I’m happy to be apart of this wonderful and strong community, after receiving official diagnoses of things I have suspected for quite sometime, I find myself mourning the person I was before becoming #Disabled. 🧵

[Christa Riter, MAAA @christa_riter]

It can happen to anybody at anytime and that’s why we have Disability Pride Month. Disability will affect everyone at some point in their life. Whether you need crutches after breaking a leg or you need hearing aids as you grow old. 🧵

[Christa Riter, MAAA @christa_riter]

It affects everyone. Although abled people set up and rule our ableist society, they fail to realize they will become disabled at one point in their lives. #Accessibility benefits everyone because of these reasons.