Gerda 💚🤍💜

Biologist, mother, grandmother, wheelchair user, CSA survivor, cancer survivor. Caa'in awa'

[Gerda 💚🤍💜 @Gerda835782]

Yet I'm only here because my grandmother's sweetheart was killed at the Somme then she stole her sister's boyfriend and married him. She still spoke of him, so this is dedicated to Willie Ronnie, died too young 3/

[Gerda 💚🤍💜 @Gerda835782]

"The Green Fields of France"
https://t.co/8SnM6WVyTQ
"the suffering and dying was all done in vain
for Willie McBride it all happened again, and again
and again and again and again. 2/

[Gerda 💚🤍💜 @Gerda835782]

This Remembrance Day I think of the moving anti war songs by Eric Bogle who should be better known than he is. Here is a link to the Pogues singing "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda"
https://t.co/lx5C2An1Kx
and 1/n

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@UnashamedBrit @NoLongerTheFuzz Please not Mr Tumble. Let one person on TV be exactly what he appears to be.

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@SVPhillimore Our whole society is built around men's drive to procreate, to have power, money and status to attract mates, yet women are the ones who are obsessed. It's like fish not noticing water.

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@RorPreston Though, of course, this is a massive increase from the many years when UK spending on biomedical ME was , well, £0. It must change.

[Gerda 💚🤍💜 @Gerda835782]

@lil_fat_pussy @louise_today @Saudsthought There has never been medication though I hope that will change, but thousands of people have lived for decades with none. They found that stopping fighting the disease helped save energy for essentials.

[Gerda 💚🤍💜 @Gerda835782]

@RomanTheSwede @hothingsgirlsay There is complicated politics behind it as well, see @RoisinMichaux, to do with HIV prevention, countries where being gay is illegal but wrong bodies are not and ways of depriving women of their rights.

[Gerda 💚🤍💜 @Gerda835782]

@louise_today @Saudsthought Its truly evil how ME has been treated, with powerful people making money and careers off the suffering of patients. There are symptomatic treatments but no cures. Stopping a fruitless search for one can actually help.

[Gerda 💚🤍💜 @Gerda835782]

@lascapigliata8 @cortisolved To be fair, they may have thought I agreed. I was regularly raped by an adult (not a blood relation) and had learned to withdraw and endure. He would feel no shame, but they were curious and may feel guilt.

[Gerda 💚🤍💜 @Gerda835782]

@lascapigliata8 Don't think all men are rapists. I believe most men want to experience mutual pleasure with a woman. Child abusers can have thousands of victims over a lifetime and rapists who want to dominate and humiliate victims could also abuse have large numbers.

[Gerda 💚🤍💜 @Gerda835782]

@lascapigliata8 @cortisolved I sometimes wonder if the 13 year olds, who raped me when I was 10, cringe when they read about sexual abuse.

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@riendebock Meet the new current psychophysiological explanations, same as the old current psychophysiological explanations. Useless quackery.

[Gerda 💚🤍💜 @Gerda835782]

@QcWynter Kiltie Jeemy wears a kilt, he wears it in the fashion and everywhere that Jeemy goes they cannae help fae laughing.
The Scottish nursery rhyme comes to mind. (A proper kilt is another story.)

[Gerda 💚🤍💜 @Gerda835782]

@1goodtern In the 70s we wouldn't eat a South African orange. Most of us wouldn't fund tobacco companies. I can't understand it when films and tv show the devastation the trade causes.

[Gerda 💚🤍💜 @Gerda835782]

@MrMennoTweets At one point they castrated boys so they could keep their beautiful voices, now they feed them pills so they can became beautifully androgenous. Both are denied the full adult male experience.

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@Dis_Critic @ScotExpress Been in hospital quite a few times and all male staff, even one male nurse who was not very nice, asked my permission before anything intimate. The deceit from TIDs makes permission less likely to be given than if everyone was honest.

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@hothingsgirlsay I would like a fuller explanation of how someone is being literally poisoned in the green room.

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@Dawn_Wildman @andyburnham 1984 I saw a doctor about ME, 10 years after I became ill. He was the last.