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submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

I finally have stable hot water (after six months)! I had to trade the washer (clean laundry) for it (nobody else in the apartment has had to make such a sacrifice) but at least I can take a shower that isn’t absolute torture (20 degree swing in temperature several times a minute).

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Autistic people don’t have to all like each other or agree with one another. We’re not a monolith.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

People think support magically appears when you become disabled. Social supports are inadequate if you even qualify. Family & friends abandon you if you don’t “get better”. Many of us end up trapped in abusive relationships because we’re easy targets. Better supports would provide independence.

submitted 22 days ago • 14 comments

When you become chronically ill, you learn who your real friends are. Losing your health & independence has a way of cutting through the noise and showing you what really matters. It shows you who values you for YOU, and not what you do for them. Many leave, but the ones who stay are everything.

submitted 22 days ago • 13 comments

Pain management is suicide prevention. Pain management is suicide prevention. Pain management is suicide prevention. Pain management is suicide prevention. Pain management is suicide prevention. Pain management is suicide prevention. Pain management is suicide prevention.

submitted 56 days ago • 33 comments

#disabilityjustice isn't just for disabled folks, it's a framework for liberation that benefits EVERYONE. 🗣️ learn the 10 principles of #disability justice (intersectionality, anti-capitalism, sustainability, interdependence, collective liberation & more!) here: wid.org/moving-from-...

submitted 91 days ago • 4 comments

so many indigenous people sounded the alarm about harry potter and how it stole from indigenous cultures and yet we were called fanatical and blew off. it took for that woman to be transphobic and racist for y'all to wake up. i'm not buying that, lol.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Patients who wear a mask to access healthcare are NOT anxious. Hospital acquired COVID has a 10% fatality rate. Many of us are already severely chronically ill. There’s a pandemic that is airborne and currently ongoing. Adapting to a threat is not anxiety, it’s a justified, rational response

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submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

WHEW! I guess only billionaire geniuses are susceptible to doing that extremely specific move by accident.

submitted 112 days ago • 263 comments

submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

It breaks my heart when I see someone who’s high risk wearing a surgical mask in the hospital. They obviously WANT to protect themselves. Public health has so utterly failed that they believe the surgical mask will be enough. When no one else is masking, you need a well fitted respirator.

submitted 119 days ago • 8 comments

Stop placing complex chronic illness patients on psych holds. If you don’t know how to treat someone, say so. Don’t tell them it’s all in their head. Placing patients in the psych ward breaks their trust, sets back their baseline and sends a clear message that they’re not safe in your care.

submitted 119 days ago • 7 comments

Not assaulting women is not “perfection”. It’s basic friggin decency. It’s the law. It’s not being a predator. If someone thinks assaulting women means they’re “not a perfect person” they have absolutely no business being secretary of anything - let alone defence.

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

Misogyny, rape culture and patriarchal values are alive and well. Medicine is not - and never has been - immune to these issues. When you combine them with rampant ableism and discrimination - you get a very unsafe situation for disabled people. www.disabledginger.com/p/gisele-pel...

submitted 119 days ago • 3 comments

doing the calculus of "is this bad enough to get actually treated or am i just going to waste my time and risk getting sick(er) in the er?" is something you can't explain, it has to be experienced

submitted 120 days ago • 3 comments

Could ER staff please stop asking patients “what do you want us to do?” There’s no way for us to answer this question honestly. If a disabled person is in your ER - I promise you they agonized over whether to come get care. They’re afraid you will mistreat them. They want you to do your job

submitted 119 days ago • 28 comments

Make no mistake… “personal responsibility” Covid policies helped lead to this. People have been told for years that only the “vulnerable” are at risk. That they’re acceptable losses. That their health is no one else’s responsibility. Staying home to protect others is no longer “cool”.

submitted 119 days ago • 8 comments

Answering honestly about needing medication for severe pain can also lead to people just being given Tylenol, especially if they’re Black.

submitted 119 days ago • 5 comments

We may not have a cure for HIV, but PrEP came damn close. It virtually eliminates HIV transmission. Pushing to block access to it gives me flashbacks to the AIDS denialism movement. We’re going back to a time when we blamed HIV patients for their illness. They were shunned & left to die.

submitted 120 days ago • 5 comments

“The extreme examples of patients being admitted to psych hospitals are the tragic tip of iceberg. Patients who aren’t believed may struggle to get any medical care at all, or get pushed toward therapies that don’t work” Doctors NEED to stop assuming anything they don’t understand is psychological:

submitted 120 days ago • 6 comments

When billionaires take control of vital communication platforms, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy. And when those billionaires justify their business motives by citing “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability. Don't be fooled.

submitted 120 days ago • 133 comments

Even in health care settings! We already know we're expendable and best not to be thought about, but damn. It has been a very rude awakening watching you all try to fucking kill us

submitted 129 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 158 days ago • 1 comment

WTF is it with so many movies and TV shows showing people smoking? They could just not do that.

submitted 151 days ago • 480 comments

Or worse/additionally: • Won’t help you… but can. • People paid as care abandon & abuse like friends & family already did - but are more likely to get away with it. • The ruthless cruelty of being punished (while & after being gaslit) for not positively responding to their “help,” (referrals).

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

An eye for an eye, and we all go blind.

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submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

Violence against poor Black people is accepted but violence against White wealthy people is not. That is America

submitted 152 days ago • 5 comments

Racism is a two sided sword.

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments