Devin Norko

neurodivergent and can’t stand sticky things? WEAR GLOVES! 🧤 as an autistic, i HATE the feeling of sticky things. it’s like every fiber in my being revolts. food-safe gloves are great way to make sure you won’t have to deal with an accidental drop of maple syrup on your hands, or ice cream drips in the summer, or even the dreaded cheeto fingers, etc! obviously folks use gloves when handling food in a lot of settings (i use them a lot of the time, especially when cooking or cleaning), but there’s nothing wrong with implementing them in even more things if you need to and accommodating yourself. happy eating! 🫶🏾 #Neurodivergent #Autism #ADHD #SensoryIssues #Accommodations #Disability #MxDevin - video description: a plate of pancakes and eggs with the text “neurodivergent and can’t stand sticky things?”. then devin’s gloved hand comes into frame doing a thumbs up, with the text “wear gloves!” - follow for more disability, advocacy, creative & lifestyle content! | @mxdevin 🤍 - other ways to support my content (thank you!): ✨ v*nmo: mxdevin ✨ c*shapp: $mxdevin ✨ subscribe to my IG! ✨ p*ypal: [email protected] ✨ patreon.com/mxdevin (revamp soon)

EDS & colostomy were mentioned on Kitchen Nightmares (S1 E6)! 🫶🏾✨ I very rarely see Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, ostomies, or other chronic conditions mentioned on shows like this, but it was nice seeing it here (granted in the context of the episode, the woman who has EDS is going through it with a TOXIC partner and a failing business). Gordon Ramsay was immediately focused on Tess's well-being and health after learning about her conditions and wasn’t weird about it, which I thought was really cool to see. here is a reminder that being young doesn’t mean you can’t be disabled or chronically ill! 🩷 (if you watch the newer version of Kitchen Nightmares and get to that episode, just trigger warning for verbal toxicity/I'd go as far as to say ab*se) #Disability #EDS #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #Colostomy #Ostomy #KitchenNightmares #MxDevin - follow for more disability, advocacy, creative & lifestyle content! | @mxdevin 🤍 - other ways to support my content (thank you!): ✨ v*nmo: mxdevin ✨ c*shapp: $mxdevin ✨ subscribe to my IG! ✨ p*ypal: [email protected] ✨ patreon.com/mxdevin (revamp soon)

#gifted but i love 💅🏾 having comfy, helpful compression socks is SO crucial for a lot of disabled and chronically ill people, and i’ve literally never found a pair that work for me. they’re either too tight, not tight enough, aren’t inclusive size-wise at all, aren’t wearable with outfits because they just look super boring OR too out there (imo), etc. but i finally did 🗣️ @comradsocks, thank you! definitely snagging another pair soon - the Rose ones are so cute for spring 🫶🏾 - follow for more disability, advocacy, creative & lifestyle content! | @mxdevin 🤍 - other ways to support my content (thank you!): ✨ v*nmo: mxdevin ✨ c*shapp: $mxdevin ✨ subscribe to my IG! ✨ p*ypal: [email protected] ✨ patreon.com/mxdevin (revamp soon) #Disability #POTS #EDS #ComradSocks #CompressionSocks #MECFS #MxDevin

(as seen on tiktok - @mxdevin) THIS IS EXHAUSTING. tiktok is a lot of folks’ JOBS, their source of information, their connection. and of all the things to worry about right now, they’re STILL on this banning sh!t? wild, but not surprised. i would simply like to live in a world where i dont have to fear for my life and neither do any other people, where i can put food in my fridge without overdrafting, where i don’t have the threat of possibly catching The ‘Vid hanging over my head every time i step outside my apartment bc people won’t mask, where children are being protected instead of exploited, where people can be confident that they’ll have housing tomorrow - but NO. apparently implementing any useful laws, passing any useful and protective bills, is too hard. nonsense. - follow for more disability, advocacy, creative & lifestyle content! | @mxdevin 🤍 - other ways to support my content (thank you!): ✨ v*nmo: mxdevin ✨ c*shapp: $mxdevin ✨ subscribe to my IG! ✨ p*ypal: [email protected] ✨ patreon.com/mxdevin (revamp soon) #TiktokBan #Disability #Houselessness #Covid #🍉 #MxDevin

crocheting is my favourite stim lately. when i crochet, my mind instantly calms and quiets. i feel so much more regulated. with the chaos of the world, and the chaos of living in it as a marginalised individual (especially a BIPOC, neurodivergent, disabled, and queer one) - little moments of reprieve are always welcome. and needed. 💭: what brings you peace nowadays? if you can’t think of anything - make it a priority to find one (1) thing that makes you feel regulated in a very dysregulating world! 🫶🏾 follow for more disability, advocacy, creative & lifestyle content! | @mxdevin 🤍 - other ways to support my content (thank you!): ✨ v*nmo: mxdevin ✨ c*shapp: $mxdevin ✨ subscribe to my IG! ✨ p*ypal: [email protected] ✨ patreon.com/mxdevin (revamp soon) #Crochet #Regulation #Stimming #AuDHD #Disability #MxDevin [vid description: devin, a Black enby wearing headphones and a n95 mask, crocheting in a cafe. text on the screen reads “why are you always crocheting?” with loud chatter in the background. the voices fade into peaceful music as text on the screen reads “my brain when i crochet:”.]

it’s so funny to me that folks think you can only be part of ONE oppressed group bc otherwise it’s too much - like babes, think about it, what is the benefit of intentionally taking on MORE oppression?? it’s common to get these kinds of comments when you are multiply-marginalised, but that doesn’t mean they’re right. intersectionality is important! we ALL have intersecting, overlapping identities - you are allowed to be more than one thing, even if those things all come with hard aspects. i love who i am, being Black and autistic are not bad things at all to me (being part of ANY marginalised group is not a bad thing), but bro the world lowkey hates us so hUH lol follow for more disability, advocacy, creative & lifestyle content! | @mxdevin 🤍 - other ways to support my content (thank you!): ✨ v*nmo: mxdevin ✨ c*shapp: $mxdevin ✨ subscribe to my IG! ✨ p*ypal: [email protected] ✨ patreon.com/mxdevin (revamp soon) #Disability #Intersectionality #ActuallyAutistic #Crochet #MxDevin

i’ve been in toxic, unhealthy, ab*sive situations for quite literally my entire life. partners, homes, family members, friends, bosses & workplaces, medical settings - you name it. i never thought i could get OUT of that. i didn’t think i deserved to. so i definitely never expected to need to essentially retrain my nervous system now that i’m not trapped in chaos. now that i’m safe, and loved, and respected. when you spend so long in survival mode and living in fight or flight, it genuinely does change your brain. there are countless studies that detail how folks with PTSD (& especially CPTSD) are *physically* altered by it. any kind of trauma is hard. the body truly does keep the score. it’s completely normal to feel like you don’t even know how to process being in a healthy environment, or being in a relationship that is healthy after a lifetime of anything but. it’s understandable to feel like you don’t deserve it (especially marginalised folks like those of us who are disabled and/or BIPOC, as we’re made to feel less than so so often). you’re not strange if you feel that way - you’re having a common and expected reaction to being in an unfamiliar situation and your brain is trying to keep you safe from something foreign. but all of those defense mechanisms that we developed to survive? they no longer serve us in a space where we are ALLOWED to let ourselves breathe. to let our guards down. it’s not easy. it’s FAR from it - as i mentioned, i’m over 6 years into a loving relationship (i MARRIED him) and i still catch myself feeling like it’s too good to be true. but as Dad Chats in tiktok said in a video recently: love is not a finite resource. we deserve to have it unconditionally. i hope you can let yourself be held. - follow for more! @mxdevin 💕 (as seen on tiktok - mxdevin) - video description: Devin Norko, a Black disabled enby, is sitting in their bedroom chatting to the camera. they are wearing a flowy white dress an

serves me right for having the audacity to think i could clean without consequences 😮‍💨 (if the audio is not correctly synced i’m sORRY i swear it is on the clock app 😭 mxdevin there too!) #Disability #Flare #ChronicIllness #MxDevin - if you appreciate or have learned from any of my work, pls consider supporting me further (being disabled is expensive!) 🌱✨: 🔅v*nmo - mxdevin 🔅c*shapp - $mxdevin 🔅p*ypal - paypal.me/mxdevinn 🔅subscribe to my IG! 💕

i’m exhausted and my legs feel ✨broken✨ but i DID IT!! i haven’t walked around outside unassisted for that long in such a long time. my goal in life isn’t to walk anymore, it’s to feel okay (walking isn’t everything!), but i’m still really proud of myself for doing that. in the heat too?? with MY potsie body? wild. being disabled has made it so that i have a very complicated relationship with being Vertically Bipedal. it’s exhausting, it’s painful, it causes my body to struggle more than it needs to. but it also feels like an accomplishment, partially because of how much weight the world puts on being as non-disabled as possible. i’m proud of myself not because i walked unassisted and need to walk to feel like i’m doing well, but because me being able to walk unassisted was an indication that in that moment my body felt able to do it. and i’m working on celebrating the things my body CAN do. sometimes that’s sitting up in bed for longer than a few minutes, sometimes that’s eating without feeling sick, sometimes that’s managing to not have a seizure episode today, sometimes that’s transferring to my chair, and sometimes that’s walking. what little thing are you proud of yourself for this week? i wanna hear it! 🩷 #Disabled #pwME #EDS #Fibromyalgia #ChronicIllness #WheelchairUser #MxDevin

bit of a throwback reel as today is the 33rd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)! ♿️ accessibility and unlearning ableist ideals are truly a WORK 👏🏾 OF 👏🏾 ART! 👏🏾 it’s so nice when marginalised folks thrive. and not in an Inspiration Porn-y, “Oh my, isn’t that *amazing* that that 🫢differently-abled🫢 person can get those pop tarts off the shelf all by themself?”-y, Breaking News: Disabled Person Seen Outdoors-y way - actually *thriving*, ya know? as needs are being met, issues are being addressed, folks are confronting their biases... what a WORLD that’d be, huh? a world where wiggly ramps and tied-up bathroom pull cords aren’t the only “access”. where we can roll around in our chairs, walk with our canes, stroll with our walkers, vibe on down the street, EXIST, without Susan #63 waltzing past with a “what happened to you? what’s that for?” or gawking like her mouth is a Bug Airbnb if we DARE to stand up. where choosing between medical care or paying rent doesn’t need to happen - and better yet, those who couldn’t do either one can do both. where you can be married AND get the medical benefits and coverage you need as a disabled person (and where that coverage actually covered anything). where us auties can stim freely, and us Black auties can do so without fear of being unalived. where breathing outside of our walls isn’t a risk because public health and collectivism take priority. where disabled rights are treated like inherent human rights, because that’s what they are. there have been huge strides taken since the initial enacting of the ADA when it comes to knowledge and access — but it is so far from being where it should be. we are still made to feel like we should just say thank you when the absolute bare minimum is done and not advocate for ourselves. the millions of disabled people (the only minority you can be in at any moment and that likely everyone will at some point, a

it is 100% okay to accommodate yourself! not being able to sit up for 8 hours in a desk chair does NOT make you a worse worker somehow! do what you need to do to accessibly live your life. it is completely okay to be in comfy clothes laying in bed even if your coworkers are upright in business casual. it is okay to need to take a moment to manage symptoms even if others don’t have to do that. being disabled is fricking hard, especially when needing to work to live - you’re doing great. be nice to my friend. 🫶🏾 (these sentiments apply regardless of whether or not you’re disabled! just speaking from the pov of someone who is, especially as disabled folks are often looked down on for things like this) - if you appreciate or have learned from any of my work, pls consider supporting me further 🌱✨: 🔅v*nmo - mxdevin 🔅c*shapp - $mxdevin 🔅p*ypal - paypal.me/mxdevinn 🔅subscribe to my IG! 💕 - #mxdevin #disabled #disability #chronicillness #WFH #accessibility #accommodations #rest #EDS #fibromyalgia #mecfs #pwME

✨as seen on tiktok - mxdevin ✨ burnout is ROUGH (& the audacity for it to show up during Autism Month is 😒) but if you’re feelin’ it too, just know you’re not alone in it! we don’t have to be great all the time. we don’t even have to be GOOD all the time. being a human is hard, especially being a neurodivergent human in a world set up for folks with a completely different neurotype than us! you’re doing great, even if you’re not feeling great. 🫶🏾 (for those unaware: “burnout”/“autistic burnout” is essentially the physical, mental, and/or emotional exhaustion that ND folks feel as a result of an accumulation of stress & overwhelm from masking, having to navigate a world designed for neurotypical people, having too much to juggle with limited executive function, etc. it can look a bit different for everyone!) — if you appreciate or have learned from any of my work, pls consider supporting me further 🌱✨: 🔅v*nmo - mxdevin 🔅c*shapp - $mxdevin 🔅p*ypal - paypal.me/mxdevinn 🔅patreon.com/mxdevin or subscribe to my IG! 💕 — [a video of devin, a Black enby wearing a black hoodie & round glasses & holding their cow squishmallow, lip syncing to an audio. the audio says: “i’m great. just…don’t ask me how i am because i will burst into tears. but other than that, i’m doing really good!”. the words “pov: you’re THIS CLOSE 👌🏾 to burnout” are on the screen.] . . #Neurodivergent #Neurospicy #ND #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #Audhd #AutismMonth #AutismAcceptanceMonth #Disability #Disabled #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #ChronicFatigue #MECFS #AmbulatoryWheelchairUser #Nonbinary #Trans #Queer #HardOfHearing #HoH