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Bad habits, enabled!

It’s always good to find DIY material for adaptive and assistive tech that acknowledges our full humanity and capacity for “the dignity of risk”. We demand the right to our bad habits!

Here’s a funny one from the excellent DIY book Aids to Make You Able (1981), from their short section on smoking,

One-handed rolling!

rolling papers

The diagram is not very helpful, somehow. Did we need a diagram to say, you can buy a little plastic device to roll a joint, put it on your lap, and roll with one hand? I guess maybe we did!

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