Who Does What Here (I think this is the new pin thread? 🧭):
I’m going to try to post as much as I know in this thread... I sure forget a lot to be our filekeeper... This is just who’s actively on twitter ever. I’ll try to include pronouns and interests, maybe?
Musk is once again trying to force us all to pay for Twitter verification 🙄 make sure you enable "everyone" under direct messages if you want people to be able to message you now
Medicaid is built from the ground up to penalize disabled people for being disabled. We don’t just need better services, we need an entire dismantling of the medical industrial complex.
Everytime I hit a paywall on some respected journalism site and then simply don't read the article rather than subscrining, I think about how Fox, Breitbart, The Daily Mail, et al. never ever ever paywall their content. I think about this constantly.
Saw one of those "DID may be listen as a dissociative disorder not a trauma disorder but where do you think dissociation comes from" making the rounds again. Dissociative disorders (which include more than just DID) can have multiple causes, including events like TBI, too! And,
As a thin person, if she wanted to “critique” fatphobia, she could’ve used the word “fatphobia” anywhere, or hired fat directors, consultants, artists, or simply shared the work of fat artists actually doing the hard work. She doesn’t get to capitalize on fat issues like that.
I was told in middle school by my teachers (who knew I was chronically ill) that if I didn’t go to class more often in highschool, I’d flunk out. All that did was set me up knowing failure was the only option I had.
Narcissism isn’t a type of abuser. Stop using fake, harmful names when you could simply have called the kind of people you’re referring to “abusive”. People with NPD have enough stigma against them as is & are by and large HARMLESS.