#I don't get sick very often

[mythicalcoolkid]

You don't wish your disability was worse or more visible, you wish your disability was taken seriously. Please stop confusing the two, I guarantee you would not get the support you need JUST by being more severe or more visible. Please listen to visibly disabled people when we tell you it isn't better on our side

[olibavee]

this is a bit of a long shot i think. but does anyone on here have EDS and feel like they have the flu almost immediately every time they eat. i have no idea what could be causing this (does MCAS do this?? i don't know if i have that) and i'm seeing a doctor on Friday but i'm at my wits' end man

[artsybi]

hey btw. if your question re modern medicine or safety features is ever "well what did they do before this?" the answer is that people fucking died. that's always the answer.

"oh do babies REALLY need a vitamin k shot? well what did people do BEFORE this?" babies fucking died, suzanne. vitamin k deficient bleeding is common in newborns. a vitamin k shot does not harm the kid in any way and could very easily save their life. it's not that fucking deep.

"but BEFORE vaccines what did we do-" children died of polio, greg. people spent their lives in iron lungs. my grandmother had to watch her mother get polio and it almost destroyed her. there is a reason me and my brother got polio vaccines as children. children also died of measles. we forget that now, i think. because the vaccine is so good, but measles is awful, actually, can kill you, and has other terrible horrible side effects.

"back in my day we didn't have all this safety gear this generation is so SOFT-" back in your day, jeff, kids cracked their skulls open on curbs when they fell off their bikes, instead of hitting their helmets on the cement and scraping their knees. ever heard of survivorship bias? sure, you survived. not everyone did though.

"old cars are so SOLID they're much better-" do you know what a crumple zone is, martha? cars are supposed to collapse in on themselves like crushed soda cans in accidents, because it absorbs the force of the collision. those solid steel framed old cars looked fine after crashes, but that force was transferred to the squishy human occupants, something that was frequently fatal. yeah your car might not survive an accident, but you fuckin will.

[fandoms-writings]

i feel like death

[ddejavvu]

i can withstand a lot but a sore throat crosses the line

[astraldepths]

so if you're a tiny brand-new child, your immune system is just the worst, and ideally you should be exposed to both a lot of people and a lot of vaccines, so that you can learn how to fight both people and illnesses, and become a person who doesn't get deathly ill the second you get sneezed on

at the very least, you should have one of those things - either people or vaccines, so that you have a fighting chance of not being a creature that people in old books might refer to as "sickly" or "of faint constitution"

the problem is if you had a parent who, due to extreme conservative ideology, worked to prevent you from being around both people and vaccines, your immune system will basically not exist until you're old enough to lie to doctors and tell them it's cool if they give you shots to hopefully extend your lifespan, but depending on how obsessive and protective your parent is about monitoring your doctor's appts, that might take a fucking while

anyway, what I've discovered (after catching hand-foot-mouth at the age of 28), is that now that I'm actually around both people and vaccines, my immune system is finally doing the thing where I'm not getting sick every month and a half! and because I'm working at a job with small children, I'm finally getting immunity to all of these illnesses I should have been immune to twenty-three years ago!

funny how that happens

[chronurgy]

I gotta be real with you the way people on this webbed site talk about food allergies makes it very clear that you don't have food allergies and you don't know anyone who does

[lesboylycan]

annoying how when people hear about hallucinations, especially related to schizophrenia, they only think auditory or visual, meanwhile all of our most vivid hallucinations are tactile and somatic. like, sure, auditory and visual may be most common, but they're not the only hallucinations that can be experienced, nor is it mandatory that hallucinations be auditory or visual to be diagnosed

[strawwritesfic]

Hey, guys.

No (Don't) Hold Your Breath update this weekend because I got smacked upside the head with a cold yesterday evening. My head's so full of snot I'm struggling to hear people talking to me.

Update as soon as I can think straight again!

[jonismitchell]

drinking a second coffee is not going to help drinking a second coffee is the devil talking to me........

[rainofthetwilight]

why do I really have to have a cold during RAMADAN. a bad one even. wallahi I will explode

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

also as an update to that 'what does this weird internal experience with the three of us sound like' post

apparently sounds like a system? so that's something we're going to have to puzzle out

also advised that it sounds like bipolar but specifically what folks think bipolar is and not what it actually is. in fact, it more so sounds like we are incredibly unstable. how fun!

if we've been seeming to act weird today or yesterday to any of you, this is probably why. it's a lot to think about

also accidentally vented in the tags but it may be useful if you want to get more details on the 'possibly a system' thing cause. oh boy does it sure have those

[delullu]

After months and months of nonstop stress at work, doing the work of 2-3 people, and no days off due to, well, being to only person left at this office, I finally have more than a week off

My body: I guess it's time to die now

😭

[aureentuluva70]

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[llycaons]

but I shouldn't complain. my coworker who planned to have her holiday party today because she's working Christmas, she has covid 😭 I feel terrible (emotionally) but perfectly well (physically) god I'm so glad I tested negative

[skrunksthatwunk]

found out that rascal's owner took him again while i was out, and he's probably not gonna be back since the semester's almost over. i don't even know if his owner's coming back next semester, if i'll ever see him again. if he'll ever see me again. why do they wait until im not around to do this? why do they never let me say goodbye to him?