This happened to everyone I know who has #EDS
Even after I was diagnosed (and my diagnosis was confirmed by a second geneticist), I had to abandon entire health systems and clinics that falsely diagnosed me with conversion disorder to deny me care for EDS and comorbidities
"Together, these woes explain why #LongCovid and ME/CFS have such bewilderingly varied symptoms. That diversity fuels disbelief—how could one disease cause all of this?—but it’s exactly what you’d expect if things as fundamental as metabolism go awry." 26/
Do abled folks understand that patients who are housebound or bedbound connect to the world and build community through apps like this?
Do you understand this is one way to effectively organize people across a country or countries?
Intentional or not, elno is destroying that.
Me: How much does the military spend on Viagra each year?
Director of Defense Contracts: I don’t have that figured out.
Me: about $41.6 million.
Do you know how many bridges in my District of Pittsburgh could be repaired with that amount?
So when I imagine something physical like a cat, I don't see it, but I "feel" it as a collection of spatial relations. Something like this:
(note: I don't literally see words/letters; and yes, the legs are literally a single fuzzy concept instead of four, until I focus on them.)
I-20 in Atlanta was intentionally routed to serve as a “boundary between the white and Negro communities,” in the words of Mayor Hartsfield. Construction displaced an est. 7,500 people in 2,200 homes. Despite making up 37% of Atl's pop. in '60, 60% of those displaced were Black.
@SourceDuMal I really appreciate you and the knowledge and truth you share. Ive been figuring out how to live in harmony with my body and your words have been very influential and i wanted to thank you for that. Also I’d have never found any company that sells my size bra without you
If you’re a sexworker, think VERY carefully about joining Threads, because here’s what Mark Zuckerberg did to me: I had a FB account as Mistress Matisse, but FB scraped my legal name from somewhere else and then changed my displayed NAME on my account without notice/consent. Yep.
#SCOTUS has released its opinion in #Brackeen. A case that challenged a 40-yr-old law to prevent family separation in Native communities & threatened tribal sovereignty. In a victory for tribes, the Court upheld #ICWA.
For the past decade, special interest groups have used the Indian Child Welfare Act–created to prevent family separation in Native communities–as a vehicle for a broader attack on Indigenous nations. That effort made it all the way to the Supreme Court in #Brackeen#ICWA
Introducing the Trans Witches are Witches bundle🧙♀️
- 69 magical works from LGBTQ+ creators
- $60, or the price of one AAA wizard game
- proceeds split evenly between participants
- no TERFs allowed
Reject Hogwarts Legacy's bigotry and support indie devs: https://t.co/fPeFW1NAVT
Hot take: it’s morally wrong for rights of minorities to be democratically voted on, bc we shouldn’t be giving the electorate the right to prevent or remove other people’s rights. We shouldn’t have to ‘win hearts & minds’ to prove we’re worthy of basic dignity