#2022 and mad about this

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This can be a huge source of medical trauma and it's so cruel that it's being imposed on people by the medical establishment itself. How can they help but feel anything but helpless? There's no fighting that.

I can't help but think of this from my own perspective as a fibromyalgia patient who keeps having to fight being thought of as (or even being labeled as) drug-seeking.

I am literally just trying to live life closer to the standard that 'normal' people have every day.

Why is it in any way fair that most people are mostly pain-free and capable of doing the things they want to do, but I have to suffer with pain on a daily basis that is at minimum, on a very rare, very good day, at level 5?

Why is it when I report that my pain level is at level 7, 8, 9, I only get doctors side-eyeing me and explaining my OTC options?

I have had chronic pain since I was 8. I'm very fucking aware of my OTC options, so no thank you, doc.

And when I spend 20 minutes explaining in detail that my daily pain has noticeably increased and changed in quality since around January 1st, why should I have my PCP giggle at me every time I say that I need help with managing my pain and learning ways to deal with it?

It felt incredibly invalidating and I wish he would have said, look, I don't have the expertise to help you, so here's a referral to a pain specialist.

I only found out there was a such thing by trying to research the topic after this on my own!

So yeah, it's not just the insurance companies, it's the doctors, too.

It's almost like having a profit-motivated medical establishment hurts patients.

[ivetried27nameswhataboutthis1]

Enid: If we’re gonna sneak out of the Academy, we should find someone to cover for us.

Wednesday: Who?

Enid: Maybe Yoko.

Wednesday: Alright, give me five minutes. I’ll break her soul by finding out her true fears, turning them into reality and therefore threatening her into covering for us, to end her suffering. When I’m done with her, she won’t even remember her own name. Let me get my torture knife.

Enid: Or we could just ask her.

Wednesday: Or that, yes. That could also work, I guess.

Enid: Are you upset now?

Wednesday: No, your idea is fine. I’m fine. This is..fine.

Enid: Are you sure?

Wednesday: Mhm.

Enid: Why don’t you get the knife, just in case?

Wednesday: You are my favorite person in the whole world.

[pinkhysteria]

lucky the horse final girl icon 

[valentimmy]

where are they going

[a-gal-with-taste]

Me: okay, maybe after watching the movie and processing it, I can finally calm-down about this christmas-hating old man-

This Scene, existing despite having 0-reason to:

[thgfandomsz]

Eurovision watchers when their neighboring countries don’t give them any points.

[you-got-it-capstar]

i support womens rights AND wrongs

[phierie]

watched Bullet train over the weekend and uhhh suffice to say I liked it so wanted to draw my fave 🍊

[raygirlramblings]

Posting this up now because I won’t have the chance later, my last finished piece of art for 2022!  Looking forward to the new year and all the Rayman related goodness to come.  Hope you all have a good one!

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

December 2019: 58

January 2020: 31 February 2020: 22 March 2020: 21 April 2020: 23 May 2020: 16 June 2020: 27 July 2020: 28 August 2020: 33 September 2020: 33 October 2020: 20 November 2020: 31 December 2020: 45

January 2021: 30 February 2021: 27 March 2021: 15 April 2021: 17 May 2021: 101 June 2021: 25 July 2021: 10 August 2021: 11 September 2021: 2 October 2021: 11 November 2021: 9 December 2021: 9

January 2022: 10 February 2022: 13 March 2022: 14 April 2022: 1 May 2022: 12 June 2022: 11 July 2022: 2 August 2022: 3 September 2022: 2 October 2022: 8 November 2022: 0, same as my IQ December 2022: 24

January 2023: 16 February 2023: 49 March 2023: 130 April 2023: 33 May 2023: 154+

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huh that is actually so intriguing, thank you !

[cupoteahatter]

No but it is the fact that the only thing we really, truly know and are told by the narrative, by the way scenes are shot and words are said, is that Tyler is the one person who came along and was able to see right through her, see her mind and who she was, no expectations for her to change herself and no reservations about who she is as a person, Tyler looks at her and sees her, he meets her halfway and yes, yes, he's under the control of the big bad evil waiting around the corner but he sees HER, he does the work to fool her and is successful because he sees her, he understands her and how she works to the point that when he's on screen with her, we, the audience have to dicipher in the same way everyone else in the story does, simply by looking at her and studying her because her inner monologue disappears. We, as the audience are waylaid in how she's thinking and feeling but Tyler isn't, because he knows and he's watching, he's studying her and understanding her and meets her as an equal opponent in this fight. In this mystery and isn't that just beautiful? Outcasts of outcasts and teenage tearaways, potential partners in crime who are both understand it and get it, because they know that they match.

[in-sufficientdata]

I have oh so many examples 🙃

Re: fibromyalgia:

➢ From doctors —

"All children get pains in their legs, they're called growing pains."

"Why did I order this treatment? Because I'm the doctor and I know what I'm doing."

"You're so much more tenacious about exercising than my other patients."

Reporting generally increased pain levels to my PCP and receiving an explanation of why they don't treat fibro pain with opioids in return.

Being (literally) laughed off by my PCP while explaining my pain symptoms when I was seeking advice on how to deal with them.

Being forced to do my own research into mitigating my pain because I was laughed off instead of helped.

Finding out while researching that there's a such thing as a pain specialist rather than being told that by my PCP.

➢ From people in the community —

A gym teacher laughing at me when I said my neck hurt because he thought I was lying to get out of gym class.

Making it a point to look at me while I'm resting on the sidelines & rolling their eyes each time they notice I'm looking back.

Passive-aggressively commenting to their companions as they pass by that it's a shame people who don't need the riding carts use them.

Actually coming up to me to inform me that riding carts are for people who need them.

"What do you mean you're in pain? Oh, honey. Wait until you're my age, then you'll know what pain is."

"Don't give up yet! Pain is just weakness leaving the body!"

Societal messaging that reinforces a Puritan work ethic.

I was going to do others I hear re: autism, ADHD, bipolar, etc. but I'm exhausted from remembering all that now. 🥲

[nashvillethotchicken]

Sometimes I think about how loustat are in a placage marriage and make myself insane.

[jgvfhl]

hey @cod-dump @brainrot-palace @mysticalgalaxysalad @beskarmermaid so i turned your military propaganda antagonist into a Barbie doll and gave him a cute outfit. yeah no it's completely not based on canon material or anything but he's got a bolo tie now. sorry you found out like this, but it will happen again, it already has actually, if you'll look below...

yeah hi sorry i turned your emotional support side character into a Barbie doll and he looks amazing etc etc it will happen again--

yeah i also turned your military propaganda protagonist into a Barbie doll--SIKE!!!!!!!! I TURNED THEM ALL INTO HIGHLY TRAINED MILITARY POWERPUFF GIRLS AHAHAHAHAHAHA TRICKED YOU!!!! also they're gay

[asterdust]

i hope ruby cruz is aware she is Girlfriend of the Year

[jennyandvastraflint]

Oh wow. Disney cancelled Willow. Y'know. The. Butch4butch lesbians. Knight and Princess. Fucking amazing rep, brilliant fantasy setting. Fabulous storytelling.

Yeah. I'm not surprised..... I remember seeing a clip weeks before I started it and immediately wondering how long it'd take zo have the confirmation it's cancelled. I'm just so tired. Every. Time. And I mean EVERY time we have sapphic representation on a show, it gets cancelled, censored, or receives massive backlash. I can't name a SINGLE wlw rep (centric!!!) show that wasn't cancelled. Doctor Who, maybe. Wow. One.

I can name at least ten shows that were cancelled off the top of my head. In the last year. I'm tired.

Fuck Disney. Fuck Netflix. Fuck every single person who cancels wlw rep. We constantly hear that our stories don't want to be heard. Thanks. Apparently queer women only matter as a fetishised form of entertainment for men or as a background and side character. Thanks. Definitely does GREAT things for people's self-worth.

Representation matters!