yes, doctors suck, but also "the medical ethics and patient interaction training doctors receive reinforces ableism" and "the hyper competitive medical school application process roots out the poor, the disabled, and those who would diversify the field" and "anti-establishment sentiment gets applications rejected and promotions requests denied, weeding out the doctors on our side" and "the gruesome nature of the job and the complete lack of mental health support for medical practitioners breeds apathy towards patients" and "insurance companies often define treatment solely on a cost-analysis basis" and "doctors take on such overwhelming student loan debt they have no choice but to pursue high paying jobs at the expense of their morals" are all also true
none of this absolves doctors of the truly horrendous things they say and do to patients, but it's important to acknowledge that rather than every doctor being coincidentally a bad person, there is something specific about this field and career path that gives rise to such high prevalence of ableist attitudes
and I WILL elaborate happily
me, every second of my life: but is it meaningful? but is it meaningful? but is it meaningful?
Petition to refer to TERFs as FARTs, which stands for Feminist Appropiating Reactionary Tranaphobe
It's not "anti-recovery" to accept that you'll never be fully abled.
Hello, everyone! In order to give back, I’m hosting a little sea-witch-y giveaway in time for Samhain! Everything in it is super small so I thought this would be really fun.
This includes:
Little Book of Crystals
Witchy Kidrobot Enamel Pin
Moon Phases Patch (also could be used as a bookmark)
Four White Scalloped Seashells
Three Pretty Pointy Seashells
One Tumbled Rose Quartz
One Tumbled Amethyst
One Raw Amethyst
One Broken-Off Piece of a Sand Dollar
Three Raw Black Tourmaline
Two Clear Quartz
Two Pieces of Sea Glass
Three Lovely Sea-Toned Rocks
One Blue Wire-Wrapped Pendulum
Four Tiny Jars
One Small Jar of 100% Pure Bee Pollen (If you have any allergies to bees, please research this product before use in spells and do not ingest. Using gloves would be a good idea.)
Here’s the rules!
You must be following me.
No giveaway blogs, please.
Only 16 years and up. Any minors need their parent’s permission first!
You must be comfortable with giving me your name and address.
Only reblogs count. Do not tag this as ‘giveaway’.
Type 110808 in the tags so I know you read the rules.
If you have a bee allergy, re-read the italics.
Have fun!
I will contact the winner on Samhain or October 31st! Good luck, everyone!
I could not agree more! You get it. Sometimes (often I feel) being disabled does make you a burden and that's okay. There should be nothing wrong or shameful about that - it is simply stating facts and acknowledging reality.
as much as i appreciate the intent of the “being disabled doesn’t make you a burden” type posts, i don’t really agree. a lot of times being disabled DOES make you a burden
& i think that maybe we should try to shift focus to the fact that even if you’re a huge burden on society and can contribute absolutely nothing, you’re still a human being who deserves to exist.
like. there’s nothing morally wrong with being a burden on other people. you aren’t a bad person for needing to rely on others. you’re allowed to be a burden & disabled people who are burdens on others, i love you
Just screenshot this and sent it to my brother in law, who's an electrician:D
i unironically believe electricity is the closest thing we have to magic in this universe. consider:
it's basically what human "souls" are made of (your consciousness is the result of miniscule amounts of electric charge jumping between neurons in your brain)
when handled incorrectly or encountered in the wild, it is a deadly force that can kill you in at least half a dozen different ways
when treated respectfully and channeled into the proper conduits, it is a power source that forms the backbone of modern society
if you engrave the right sigils into a rock and channel electricity into it, you can make the rock think
there is a dedicated caste of mages (electrical engineers) tasked with researching it in ivory towers
whatever the fuck Galvani was doing with those frog legs
look at this and just try to tell me it isn't a kind of summoning circle
It's so frustrating that my neurologist is so clearly in over his head. To my face he's denying that there's any uncertainty in the diagnosis he has given me and is blaming anything that doesn't fit on my mental health. But on paper he has gone back and forth between two diagnosises for months now. He is switching between the two every time he writes in my medical chart and when I ask him about it he denies that he's unsure. I can't fucking wait to start af the headache clinic
Living with Chronic pain is so weird.
In every quiet moment there’s pain.
If some asks me how I am I usually say ‘fine’ or ‘good’ or ‘a bit tired’
because those are easier to say than ‘I’m in a lot of pain’ ‘I’m this close to passing out’ ‘if I move to quickly I will throw up’
and sometimes when people say ‘How are things going?’
I shrug and say ‘the usual’
and they assume that means everything’s fine because for them that is the usual
but for me the usual is pain.
24, they/them, nonbinary lesbian, disabled. Studying medicine, working on my internalised ableism, prioritising finding out what I like to do. I write, ish, or try to at least and that's something
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