Lez Abled - Articulated Fidget Toy & Keychain

Description

Meet Lez Abled - Disability Pride Edition, a member of the Collection of Willies. July is Disability Pride Month worldwide.

Lez Abled is for those who are or know someone with any form of disability. Disabilities can be visible to others or invisible, both are valid. Disability Pride aims to raise awareness As with all Willies, enjoys being handled, touched, caressed, and toyed with in public and in the privacy of wherever you are and whenever you want.

Personal note

I am very disabled and so this is something very relevant to me.  Living (existing in my case) as a disabled person is no fun.  Everything is extremely difficult and takes far more energy than it ever did before.  I wasn't always disabled and it is getting worse.

If you have not experienced being disabled personally or through a friend or loved one, take a moment to think how everyday existence would be if you couldn't move a limb or several, move without assistance, or be outside because the light is crippling, those are just a few of the things that make life difficult, unfortunately, there are so many more.

If you feel a little sad, think about how you could improve things, it doesn't have to be big, give to a charity that helps others, install ramps in your office building and make tactile signs for offices.  Remember, help, don't take over.  Do not help someone cross the road without first asking if they would like that assistance.  Independence is a tough thing to lose, we know when we need help and when we want to do it ourselves.

What do the ‘flag’ and the colours represent?

• All six "standard" flag colours: disability spans borders between states and nations
• Black field: mourning for victims of ableist violence and abuse
• Diagonal band: "cutting across" the walls and barriers that separate disabled people from society
• Red stripe: physical disabilities
• Gold stripe: neurodivergence
• White stripe: invisible and undiagnosed disabilities
• Blue stripe: psychiatric disabilities
• Green stripe: sensory disabilities

Special Features

• 5 segments
• 50% bigger than Willy
• Broken in the middle
• One star for eye, blind on the left side
• 12cm long
• Black and 5 colours
• Printable with AMS - YES
• Printable without AMS - YES

Colours

This very proud and special member of the Willies collection is designed to be printed exactly as shown. He is best printed with the 6 colours from the Disability Pride Flag and optionally white for his working eye.

• 2 x AMS - if you have two AMS units, you can print Lez Abled without any manual intervention
• 1 x AMS - if you only have one AMS unit, you can print Lez Abled with a single PAUSE in the middle and a swap of some filaments
• No AMS - you can print Lez Abled with 6 PAUSES, you swap the filaments as you go.
• Every user is welcome to have and play with their own Lez Abled

Instructions

If you have matte versions of these colours, please use those as the Disability Pride flag was designed to assist those with visually triggered disabilities.

1. Choose the appropriate profile that matches your situation, then…
2. 2 x AMS
   1. Fill your AMS with red, orange, yellow, green, blue & purple and print.
3. 1 x AMS
   1. Fill your AMS with black, red, yellow & white and print.
   2. At layer 35, sometime around 32 minutes, the printer will pause automatically
   3. Swap RED for BLUE
   4. Swap YELLOW for GREEN
   5. Resume printing
4. NO AMS
   1. Add black to your printer
   2. Wait for Pause, change the filament to red and resume printing
   3. Wait for Pause, change the filament to yellow and resume printing
   4. Wait for Pause, change the filament to white and resume printing
   5. Wait for Pause, change the filament to blue and resume printing
   6. Wait for Pause, change the filament to green and resume printing
   7. Wait for Pause, change the filament to black and resume printing

Willies

Each of the Willies brings their very own unique set of attributes for all situations, all Willies are different after all.

This increasing collection of friends should allow you to choose the one that best suits your characteristics or even better collect the set. There are more to come after all.

Feel free to suggest your own member of the Willies collection, I'll consider adding it to the set. Please, make sure to limit your language in the request so you don't get banned.

Gift idea

Any one of the Willies makes a perfect gift for your spouse, lover (if different), parents, kids, grandparents, friends, strangers - anyone essentially.