violin. nontrad premed. dogs
@redsnootsilver
. i also don’t want my collagen or my immune system to be doing what they’re doing & i sure would like them to stop
the internet has so thoroughly misappropriated the term “intrusive thoughts” that y’all can’t recognize what are literal textbook intrusive thoughts when someone writes them out for you in detail
Most of us grew up in houses this size. It amazes me that young couples all feel they need a house ten times this size to start out in. No wonder there is a housing crisis in this country. Drive by any new developments and you never see economical houses this size being built.
@AnnieTodd96
teachers, on their hands and knees, grabbing for $1 bills to buy classroom supplies, for the amusement of a crowd. yeah, totally uplifting and fun not at all totally dystopian
using a cheap wheelchair i bought online gave me a repetitive stress injury and partially dislocated my hips, and getting one i could safely use took three years, half a dozen doctors, and cost over $10,000 :)
@IcyVert
she’s wearing a hearing aid and her friends are signing to her, but yeah, let’s all pretend we don’t know why a visibly disabled language minority might be hypervigilant about being singled out and treated like a novelty or spectacle in public 🤡
at my first doctor’s appointment after getting my wheelchair, the person (nurse?) charting me steamrolled over the ob history saying “and of course you aren’t pregnant or couldn’t be”
i was 26 and sexually active. nothing in my chart saying otherwise - just her assumptions
Yall are like: Protect women’s reproductive rights!
But your focus is on abortion access. It should be on the whole array of reproductive justice issues.
Example, I was barely in my 20s when I just happened to mention tubal ligation to the dr. Dr did NOT…
i went to the rock climbing gym on campus once bc they advertised accessible sessions and i thought it meant this but turns out they just meant strapping me in a DIFFERENT chair and lowering me up and down like a bucket in a well with no input or involving me in the process
@juliazukowski
@MercyhurstU
as a disabled college student, every party where i had to get out of my chair to go to the bathroom i was terrified of this happening. thankfully it never did bc my chair and power assist were $11,000+. hope the
@NHLFlyers
interim gm can pay up for repairs
Hi y’all! I‘m Kati. I have
#EhlersDanlos
w/ MCAS, celiac, congenital heart disease, (med resistant) gastroparesis, POTS, & more. I’m tube fed, IV hydrated via chest port, on corticosteroids, w/ 48% lung function.
I turned 29 2 weeks ago. I’m
#HighRiskCovid19
& deserve to see 30.
like intrusive thoughts aren’t “I should give myself bangs”, intrusive thoughts are “every time I pick up scissors to give myself bangs or for any other reason, my brain tells me to cut my front teeth in half w/ a 4K visual aid and now i can’t rly use scissors anymore”
oh my god i forgot to tell y’all
at my appt today i got asked if I’d had contact with anyone with covid or symptoms in 10 days
by a maskless receptionist
in a waiting room of maskless people
my Uber driver saw me put on my mask and asked if I was contagious and I said no, this is to protect me bc I’m immunosuppressed, and he put one on! he says he tries to do that whenever other people are wearing one and I said I wish my doctors would do that 😭
she’s wearing a hearing aid and watching someone signing, but yeah, let’s all pretend we don’t know why a visibly disabled language minority might be hypervigilant about being singled out and being treated like a novelty or spectacle in public🤡
@lingerie_addict
?? I use a wheelchair and take my shoes off inside too in part bc like most wheelchair users, i am partially or occasionally ambulatory? also out of respect? was this one of those people who thinks we’re all paralyzed 🤨
@POTUS
I’m disabled. I’m high risk. I don’t have a car or access to a car or public transportation. uber isn’t safe because my state has no mask mandate. what the FUCK good will googling “tests near me” do MAIL ME. TESTS. TO MY HOME
@_moon_babes_
they can also NOT be, how that’s been erased is damaging for ppl w/ OCD or similar, and that is WHY we shouldn’t judge people like op, was my entire point. but if you want to make your own post about benign intrusive thoughts, I assume you know where the “compose twt” button is🫶🏻
this is all just cringe as hell but the “healthy daughter” part hits different when you remember his and anna faris’ son was born nine weeks premature and is disabled/medically complex, which she’s been open about blaming herself for
just had some random old man come up to me at the vending machine and ask if I knew research shows my mask is useless and when I told him that it’s a respirator he started STUTTERING “uhhhh ummm well it shows your respirator is too!” and then tripped out the door. lmao bye bozo
ok can I make a confession real quick
I uhhhh did not know that a line so faint you could barely see it is a positive, I thought it was just like the underlying test medium or something
and I may have some old tests to look back at 😵💫😬
omg i just had an elevator ride, then a convo, w/ someone who might have covid, is staying in my building for a few days to protect their high risk mom, was incarcerated for most of the pandemic, and was DEPRESSINGLY misinformed
gave them tests, masks, and some updated info
“locking up disabled people and taking away their rights isn’t working - let’s go back to locking up disabled people and taking away their rights but in places with nicer names”
@GHMansfield
polite, but when it happens to me i have and will take anything hung on my wheelchair without my consent off myself and throw it as far as I possibly can
@punished_cait
also she has a hearing aid on and someone is signing to her. no matter what you think of her reactions in a hearing context, she’s clearly not hearing and is probably used to ppl refusing to communicate accessibly/being harassed/abused for being disabled and a language minority
@BillTooke
@natalie_morrill
personally i’m more worried about the epidemic of nonconsensual pelvic exams on sedated and/or anesthetized patients than I’m worried about an errant sponge
@BesDMarx
but the plastic* straws my disabled ass needs to ingest liquids are the problem. cool
*because metal will injure me if I spasm, paper will disintegrate and make me choke or vomit, and i cannot physically keep a reusable plastic straw clean, before y’all ask
Nothing remains of
@UNRWA
's Rehabilitation Centre for Visually Impaired.
This centre was available to all visually impaired children across the📍
#GazaStrip
& provided braille machines, canes, visual aids + access to recreational activities including arts, sports & music.
please be fake please be fake please be fake please be fake please be fake please be a creative writing exercise please be a creative writing exercise please be a creative writing exercise please be fake please be fake please be fake please be fake please be fake please be fake p
Fantasy is when you get told that disabled people didn’t exist in made-up magical or medieval settings. Science fiction is when you get told disabled people won’t exist in the future.
@BryanSteil
that’s the certificate of authenticity, not instructions, and that’s a kn95, not an n-95
but it’s very brave of you to admit you can’t read English either
i very slowly looked around and then back at her and and said “….other than all the unmasked people in this room?”
and she said that “no one needs to wear masks if we don’t have symptoms”
like asymptomatic transmission just stopped existing
it’s not something i see talked about as often in general disability/chronic illness circles, but recent advances in cystic fibrosis treatment are maybe one of the greatest triumphs of medicine/biomedical engineering of our lifetimes so far
@NeeliaEohek
@blgtylr
A lot of the US was French or Spanish long before English. Louisiana Purchase especially - for instance Arkansas where I am was French 1673-1801, so it’s been English barely longer and picked up French pronunciations (that’s why Arkansas is pronounced differently than Kansas!)
when people who regularly post photos of themselves maskless indoors are like “omg i have covid idk how i caught it :(“ like…. my good bitch it is not a grand mystery
@silvergelpen
@latkedelrey
exactly like “in other countries they don’t have to defend themselves with guns!” cool well in other countries the chances are the abuser breaking into your house also doesn’t have a gun
anyway remember that time I got threatened with sedation for thrashing around in uncontrollable pain from an UNDILUTED POTASSIUM CHLORIDE BOLUS until another nurse ran to fix the mistake before I was literally lethal injectioned?
the fact you think hcw can sedate anyone they want to whenever proves you literally know nothing about what you’re talking about. that literally only happens in cartoons
Upon interviewing Emily Yoffe myself I was told that I had no say in whether or not the article was published. I asked if my consent was required to publish the article and the reporter told me, “that’s not how these things work.”
@SymposiumSilver
@Iam_Afrodisiac
@TrexPushups
the entire point of the book, and which atwood made explicit, is that it’s all happened before to people of color, queer ppl, disabled ppl, poor folks, etc
it’s just that ablebodied cishet white women are the most self centered dipshits on God’s green earth, bless their hearts
wrt recent discourse I’m tempted to share losing my PCP and thus all my meds/care for over a year bc I “””abused””” a receptionist (knocked on plexiglass divider to ask q bc I’m in a wheelchair and couldn’t see her) but 3yrs later it’s still so traumatizing idk if I can
@Lindsay4613
@EppicSally
the difference is that jkr is still alive, and uses the millions her IP generated and continues to generate to lobby for policy that makes trans people’s lives materially more difficult
i have stomach paralysis and Medicaid has been refusing to pay for my feeding tube formula for two years. i only avoid starving via the donations closet at my local cancer charity and extras from my friends. if that’s not being left to die bc I’m poor I’m not sure what is
the problem of course is that if you say, e.g., "it's not true that the US has no healthcare system and we leave poor people to die," you immediately get eaten alive by a raging mob, so even people who know this is accurate avoid saying it. and the mob always wins
I lost my patient this morning and damn, I felt it. It could have been avoided, please if you have a cavity in your teeth. See your dentist. It can kill. Please.
@tronsgender
also love when they do that with skeletons with dope ancient prosthetics or healed but debilitating injuries that show they were clearly fully valued members of society and going “wow they didn’t just leave disabled ppl to die? much to consider”
@mnsilverfox
@NoLieWithBTC
@AnnieTodd96
judging by the ratio here most of us are not okay with this, it’s just that the people who are okay with it are the ones with the power to fund schools
@robpertray
also bc Joe Biden broke the railroad strike that was supposed to secure better conditions to prevent exactly this kinda shit, can’t forget that part
The profound toll COVID-19 has had on heart health is only now starting to emerge. Doctors are grappling with how to help.
“We are seeing effects on the heart and the vascular system that really outnumber, unfortunately, effects on other organ systems.”
and now in my early 30s, I haven’t had an obgyn checkup in years despite precancerous cervical cells bc no one has else ever brings it up and when I ask for a referral it always gets lost
i want kids in the next 10yrs but I’m dreading those appts too 🫠
@imillhiser
that’s nice, ian. i can’t eat the pizza at all either way, because all my teeth are rotting out of my head from 30 years of nausea and vomiting from intractable stomach paralysis without dental coverage.
ok this got more traction than I was expecting so
y’all’s drs haven’t been withholding it from you, it’s just VERY new, only available in the UK and MAYBE special order in the US?
encouraging tho!
.
@rbg690
@IwriteOK
not a sound tech but a violinist from age 4 and you’d be surprised how much just holding something that barely weighs anything for literal hours on end in a very exact position at or above your shoulders can fuck you up lol
IMO, “erasure poetry” is not poetry in any way. And to destroy someone else’s writing—or, God forbid, poem—and then call the leftover words a new “poem” is pure philistinism.
Fight me.
The Gaza health ministry has just released a list showing the scale of infectious diseases that are spreading through the overcrowded shelters. It shows more than 95,000 people suffering from diarrhoea and more than 133,000 people with upper respiratory tract infections