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coldbuckys · 4 months
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I feel compelled to do this little update, so if you were involved in my study or following in some way, just know that I am working hard on analyzing the data. it's taking way longer than I expected because I want to be thorough, but the process is coming along. Re-reading these transcripts just gets me fired up all over again every single time. Many times, it brings me to tears. I'm so motivated to understand medical gaslighting and I have so much amazing data from amazing people, so I need to give it the careful attention it deserves, which is what i'm doing.
Just know that I'm still here and it's coming along! I'm hoping to be ready in the next few months to begin the next part of the study.
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coldbuckys · 7 months
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coldbuckys · 8 months
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i’ve started looking at weight and health the way i look at class and income and it really puts a lot of things into a new perspective.
let me explain: in america at least, the lower class have significantly worse health outcomes, even when accounting for other factors. just being poor is enough to make your overall health worse. we don’t know that being fat makes your health directly worse, like the data just isn’t there, but for a moment, pretend it does.
imagine going to the doctor with a health problem and the doctor looking at your chart and saying well, this problem will be less severe if you go up an income bracket. have you thought about becoming rich? it would really help. start by saving a little money every month.
ridiculous, right?? very few people successfully go from working class to rich, it just doesn’t happen on a large scale in society. maybe for a time you pick up some overtime hours, spend a little beyond your means, and appear rich. but eventually you burn out, your car needs to be repaired, and you return to being working class.
we do have this data: only some people can successfully lose large amounts of weight, and only a tiny fraction of people who lose that weight actually keep it off for more than a year. telling people to lose weight for their health is just absurd because they almost certainly can’t do it any more than they can double their income for their health.
and yet i see it everywhere. a little poster in my work breakroom tells me to improve my blood pressure by losing weight! a psa on the radio says you need to take care of your heart by losing weight! we can’t even conclusively prove that weight is the cause rather than just correlated with a lot of these problems but here it is offered anyway: have you tried being rich?
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coldbuckys · 8 months
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what was i made for?
“ophelia” by john everett millais but it’s barbie and for the sake of this concept let’s pretend that there is in fact water in barbieland
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coldbuckys · 8 months
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coldbuckys · 9 months
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coldbuckys · 11 months
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My mother heard a voice when I was nine. Like my brother, speaking to her from the hall.
My brother was not in the hall. He wasn’t home at all; he was out at the community college in one of the classes he took over the course of that summer. After the voice, my mother was out of sorts and antsy all afternoon, but I didn’t understand why until my brother finally came home and she looked relieved. She told him what had happened, and she joked that in stories, when something like that happens, it is because the person you think you are hearing has died.
Sometimes I think, what if he did die? Not what if he had, not what if he would, but what if he did die? What if my brother didn’t come home that day? Surely he didn’t. My brother would never do the things that man grew up to do. My brother went to class one summer morning, and something else came home in his place. I hope my brother, wherever he is–in heaven or still in that hallways, calling out to our mother–forgives me, forgives all of us for thinking that could be him and talking this long to grieve.
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coldbuckys · 11 months
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coldbuckys · 11 months
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i was born inside an airpod case 3 minutes ago your honor and i love abortion
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coldbuckys · 11 months
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first round of interviews done. analysis time :)
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coldbuckys · 11 months
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Footsteps (feat. Laucan)                               Samuel Organ
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coldbuckys · 1 year
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This Barbie has a Tumblr
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coldbuckys · 1 year
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coldbuckys · 1 year
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I think the silliness is spreading to my lungs
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coldbuckys · 1 year
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coldbuckys · 1 year
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Bestie i know the suffering is unimaginable but you have to slay.
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coldbuckys · 1 year
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losing my mind at this article about a guy trying out the meta verse
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