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to anyone who needs to hear this

i used to tell myself my pain wasnt bad. every morning id just tell myself id "slept wrong" or "not enough" and thats why i was in so much pain and sometimes could barely even walk

no matter what excuse u tell urself... its not normal to think pain is normal.

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I JUST REALIZED MY MAIN PROBLEM WITH TRADITIONAL PAIN SCALES

they assume that pain = discomfort

so i was reading a post the ither day abt how you should rank your discomfort as well as your pain

and i just realized that that's kinda what i was tryna do whenever i ranked my pain in tge past

i was trying to smoosh my pain and discomfort levels into one number, and that just doesn't work for me

i'm in pain most of the time, but that doesn't mean i'm uncomfortable

i can be sitting down, comfy as can be, and have a 3 or 4 or 5 or higher pain rating

cause i'm in pain all the time

take my knees: they hurt p regularly, typically low level but it escalates quick. when my knees are at a 4 or 5, i'm perfectly comfortable.

this is something i'm used to and that ik how to deal with.

ADDITUONAL TANGENT BC I HAD THIS THOUGHT RIGHT NOW

traditional pain scales also are like "if you're in so much pain you can't move, you're a ten"

the levels are reliant on how they affect you physically, on how much they limit you

but i'm disabled and have chronic pain

when i'm at a zero pain level my actions are still limited, i still can't do some things or have to have supports

traditional pain scales are designed for abled people.

i can push through a 7 pain level.

i had dry socket, and it sucked. at the time i called it a 7.5, and so didn't go to the dentist for several days bc everyone i knew said it would be worse than that

and now i'm realizing that i was basing it off of abled people pain scales

i was physically capable of moving, eating, and generally going abt my day, so it couldn't be a 10

now that i'm thinking back, i'd call it a 10, or worse.

it was terrible, awful, agony.

it hurt to speak or touch my cheek, it hurt to chew or swallow, it damn near hurt to breathe

but i could power through it

it was the worst pain of my life

but i was physically capable of living my life, so it couldn't be as bad as i thought, right?

w r o n g

and when i got an abscess on the other side?

the only reason i went in any quicker is bc my cheek swole up to the size of a softball

(some of this problem is bc i have the tism and take some shit very literally, and the pain scale is smth i learned as a kid so i took it Extra LiterallyTM, but the tism is ALSO A DISABLING DISABILITY so, yaknow)

anyway, i digress

tldr; traditional pain scales are designed for abled people, and they rlly rlly do not work for me, at all

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if you get upset at disabled and mentally ill folks for not doing what you consider "basic hygeine" cmere a sec

*whacks you with my metal pipe*

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saw an opinion i disagreed with and didn’t say anything about it. +350XP

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Please stop trigger tagging with #epilepsy tw/cw/warning/etc.

I need every single person to understand how horrible tumblr’s tagging system is

I go into the tag for epilepsy and its all flashing lights. We can’t use our own tag because people without epilepsy fill it up with improper warnings.

Use ‘flashing’ in place of ‘epilepsy’ in your tags. You aren’t warning people of epileptics, you’re warning us of flashing lights. Please please tag properly. Epileptics say this endlessly and constantly and it’s ignored. You are risking lives by doing this.

Here’s proof of what I mean:

THIS POST IS 100% OKAY TO REBLOG, I ENCOURAGE PEOPLE WITHOUT EPILEPSY TO ESPECIALLY DO SO!

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So mermay ends in like, two days...

have some last minute sketches!

I swear ill get to more tsv art soon😭 Just finished season two and coping with everything (What the fuck faulker)

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This pains me lol

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Trans women are cool 👍

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I love Papa's games so much, I have just a full library full of apks of different Papa's games now.

If anyone wants a game, hmu or smth, I'll be your new Papa's dealer.