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i’m at the point where watching tv shows i haven’t seen before qualifies as being productive

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"Do these symptoms interfere with your daily activities?"

Bitch these symptoms ARE my daily activities wym

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it makes me sad to see people who try to classify each aspect of genitalia into "intersex" and "not intersex." to have people ask questions about whats "normal" and whats not.

not only is the line blurry between perisex and intersex, but all genitalia is "normal." all genitalia is "natural." you dont have to pathologize your own or other peoples genitalia.

it only makes me upset to see people asking if parts of intersex genitalia are "normal", or if things are "in the wrong place", or assume resources about natural genitalia variations exclude intersex people.

we are normal. we are correct. parts of your body do not need to be common to be normal or natural.

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oh wow ok that sleep apnea post blew up. Kind of crazy after I had just an awful time yesterday bc I straight up couldn't breathe through my postnastal drip without my machine And some zyrtec. had to get up sputtering and coughing up mucus like I've got a cold in the dead of winter and no. I just have can't breathe when horizontal disease and Too Much mucus

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it’s like this.

if you only have one person in your life that you trust, you probably are always going to turn to that person when something shit happens. as well as whenever something good happens. or anything else. this is not inherently a bad thing, and it’s really beautiful to have someone in your life that you trust so much

but if that person is suddenly busy or going through something difficult themselves or doesn’t have emotional capacity for a while, suddenly there’s a problem. not necessarily through any fault of your own, you don’t have anyone to turn to with as much regularity as you did before

this is true of any kind of relationship. this is true of any kind of coping mechanism, also. the problem is not that you trust that person. the problem is not that you use that coping mechanism. the problem is not even that there’s something wrong with you and that it’s all your fault. the problem is that nothing can be everything

the solution is not to cut off your one trusted person or to cut yourself off from your one trusted coping mechanism. the solution is to do the difficult work of diversifying your life as much as it’s possible for you to do. which is why it sucks so much when external factors prevent you from being able to live a truly diverse life. okay that’s all have a good one

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A lot of people don't realize how crushing sudden disability is. If you don't have a good support system you're screwed. Coming to terms with your inability to do what you could do easily even a week before is really hard. You need people you can trust and who can advocate for you. If you don't, you're fucked. Disability services are useless and dehumanizing. Not being able to work suddenly can literally kill you.

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dislike how many mental health posts on here are just "you've never done anything wrong in your life ever and they were evil for that"

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When you daydream about your story and it doesn’t magically write itself onto the page:

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When you daydream about your story and it doesn’t magically write itself onto the page:

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nobody is faking POTS, fibromyalgia or ME/CFS for attention because nobody gives a fuck if you have POTS, fibromyalgia or ME/CFS. these are three conditions people are always accused of faking online (largely because they’re common chronic illnesses and young women are disproportionately effected by them 😃) and it’s like…..look around bitch. when was the last time you saw a fund for a cure CFS walkathon? you ever see a Google banner for fibromyalgia? these are illnesses that suck to have and that you are often treated like absolute dogshit by the medical community and pop culture at large if you do have them. you don’t get positive attention, or any attention at all, if you’re at home laying down 85% of your life.

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alright I've had enough. @/chronicillnesshumor steals art and content from other artists and ignores or blocks requests to give credit or take down uncredited artwork. this post here is a repost of my original artwork here, and as you can see in the screenshot below and notes of the stolen post, they have not even acknowledged my request to have it taken down. this creator steals from other disabled and chronically ill people to advertise for their etsy and redbubble stores. I don't know about you but I cannot stand to see someone use disabled people's stolen artwork to make themselves more money

block if you want. this isn't really a callout, more an awareness post. but please support artists instead of thieves

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it's upsetting how much schizophrenics are excluded from the neurodivergent community, even though we are very much so a part of it.

schizophrenia is a type of neurodivergence.

it's such a good thing to see more acceptance happening for autism and adhd for example, but what's not good is seeing so many people ignore schizophrenia or act like it's "too scary" to be included.

i cannot emphasise how harmful and ableist those stereotypes are.

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“well. plays the cards i’m given” has profoundly changed something in me. litany against wallowing in an unsatisfactory situation

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It will never not baffle me how hard society tries to insist that fatness is an abnormality. The average western woman wears plus size clothing. One of the smallest garments on the scale is called a medium. Most people with anorexia are in the overweight bmi category, yet somehow that's known as "atypical anorexia". Fatness is often labeled the cause of a number of diseases, but there are literally no diseases exclusive to fat bodies. Looking at movies and television, you'd think the world was 98% thin people. It's not.

My point isn't that if it was pretty rare to be fat, fatphobia would be okay. Of course not.

My point is that we're surrounded by all these artificial indicators that fatness is unnatural and uncommon and it's just not true?? Humans are not always thin and we've never all been thin and we're not all meant to be thin. Fat humans are a normal type of human. Fatness is a feature, not a bug.

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People talk abt the erasure of high support needs autistic people among autism communities on here and that's extremely important but also it honestly feels like people have straight up forgotten that autistic people have Needs. Like needs of literally any kind. I have literally watched people pooh-pooh the idea that autism is a disability (calling it a "metaphorical disability" as opposed to physical disabilities which are "real"), have seen countless memes where the punchline is "autistic person has a common symptom or trait of autism", and you just see a bunch of people talk about how they're super autistic but conveniently are never seen as weird or unlikable and never have meltdowns or lash out and have zero trouble understanding sarcasm or jokes or social cues and hit all their life milestones at appropriate times and aren't lame loser virgins like the rest of you shut-ins. Like it is just extremely common to mock and harass autistic people for displaying very typical autistic traits. There's a point where "dismantling stereotypes" becomes "not actually recognizing the things that make autism autism" and we've really reached it it feels like. As always just a stunning lack of compassion for people who are disabled in ways that disable them and not disabled in ways that are cool to you

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comic about driving i guess

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living a day as a fat preteen girl would break the spirit of most fully grown men