Society, employers, family, and friends have no problem telling disabled people to push through their symptoms, even when they know they’re struggling.
Then when their health gets worse or they finally can’t keep going, everyone acts shocked.
if i see one more “this product has been recalled due to…” or “health officials are advising against consuming” i’m going to LOSE MY MIND this administration’s lack of credentials and brain cells made it dangerous to literally eat FOOD
One ugly truth of chronic illness is that hope can become painful.
Every new treatment creates a future in your head.
Every good day makes you wonder whether things are finally changing.
Then your body returns to its usual, and you lose that imagined life all over again.
EDS isn’t just “bendy joints.”
Connective tissue is what holds your entire body together.
It’s in your blood vessels, organs, nerves, skin, heart, gut.
It’s everywhere.
So when it’s defective, it doesn’t stay in the joints.
It shows up everywhere and affects everything.
Some of you doctors on here are way too comfortable mocking hEDS, POTS, LC and MCAS patients.
You’re not being skeptical.
You’re being lazy.
It takes zero effort to dismiss a condition you don’t understand.
It takes actual work to learn it.
These conditions have diagnostic criteria.
They’re in the literature.
They’re recognized across specialties.
Yet somehow, somehow your takeaway is “everyone’s faking it.”
Or “It must be anxiety.”
We didn’t invent these illnesses. Medicine did.
Researches did.
Patients aren’t the problem.
Loud, dismissive, confidently behind doctors are.
You’re the weak link in the system that’s moving on without you.
"If having šex with a girl who is black out drunk considered rapę, then almost every man is a rapįst."
YOU. ARE. SO. FUCKIÑG. CLOSE. TO. GETTING. THE. POINT. YOU. PUMPKIN. SPICE. SCENTED. TRASH. BAG.
and this is why education is important because the republican party under donald trump and the republican party under abraham lincoln are two very different things