sophiamcdougall.bsky.social
Pronounced like the disappointingly heterosexual Nerina Pallot song.
Writer -- ROMANITAS (modern Roman empire) MARS EVACUEES & SPACE HOSTAGES (kids & robots in space!) various scripts for Big Finish plus a movie you can't see yet.
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I shouldn't be left on the point of tears by a visit to the GP, but he made me feel stupid -- not because I thought something was wrong, but because I'd been naive enough to take a chance he would listen to me.
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Obviously I carefully avoided SAYING what I think it might be because they hate it when you do that. Sure, I'm the emotionally fragile one when I'm having to tie myself in knots around YOUR feelings...
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It's not like I'm hysterically fantasising I'm dying! I think I'm either low on iron again or have POTS. Either would be extremely probable due to obvious physiological stuff. But he also apparently STILL thinks it's fine I had ferritin of 9 last year even though I was having migraines constantly.
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Anyway apparently I've got a very special type of anxiety that only happens when I stand up fast.
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The way these fuckers seem to think we enjoy nothing more than pestering them for lols, when I'm sure I'm not the only one putting off going near them for months because I KNOW they'll react like this!
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Why should I give a fuck about British Steel? You don't give a toss about creative industries or universities, despite them employing far more people and being far more crucial to British success.
Take your pasting and like it.
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11) The biggest rollback of civil rights this country has ever seen, making Section 28 look like a lovable prank
12) Open war on the disabled
13) Open war on the children in poverty
14) Sacrificing writers' &artists' hardwon rights to your billionaire overlords.
15) Fuck-all to save universities.
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Thanks -- you're the only person to actually suggest something!
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I'm not kidding. That's the fucking argument. "Kids will be harmed by the policy we rammed through once they grow up, so do conversion therapy on them."
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"It's none of your fucking business" obviously being the ultimate point of convergence.
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It's ALSO "No matter what you do to me, you will never get a version of me that isn't this."
So -- if I was NOT born this way, I should still get to do it/be it.
But also, and especially from an ND perspective -- if I WAS born this way, I should still not be assumed to be in need of fixing.
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We are obviously converging on the same rage by symmetrical routes. I understand the limitations of the "born this way" approach as potentially conveying "Sorry, I can't help it, I would if I could"...
But I do think "born this way" still has a defiant side to it too:
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It's just so...:
ND/trans person: My brain does not match Gender X. I can't show you my inner self but...
NHS: But we can! This brain scan proves your brain does not match Gender X
ND/trans person: Good, that's what I said. I'm Gender Y.
NHS: This means you're Gender X.
ND/trans person: ...what.
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The implications go even beyond trans -- not that that isn't dystopian enough. But If ADHD/autistic people's neurotypes mean our understanding of our gender should be considered invalid, what else are we not allowed to decide? What other statements from us about our own lives will be disregarded?
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Well sure, but I'm for ultimately identical reasons wary of "Stop correlating neurodivergency with queerness -- they have NOTHING to do with each other!" Because so what if they have. Why does that give anyone else a right to get involved.
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They demand empirical, observable proof of interior experiences and then the minute there's even a whisper of an idea that such might exist they say "Oh, so this shows your entire sense of self is is actually just a disease and your freedom of choice must be confiscated."
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I'm not convinced that neurodivergency and queerness ARE unrelated. They MIGHT be, sure -- but also why should they be? They're both ultimately non-standard types of brain. ND groups are often queer groups and vice versa.
Which these fuckers have observed and are trying to crush from both angles.
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What in the absolute fuck.
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Inflicting conversion therapy on trans kids while stripping autistic and ADHD people of any assumption of a right to bodily autonomy.
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There are kids who COULD benefit from automatic screening for these conditions. Anorexic kids! Kids entering the criminal justice system! But you're not interested in who you can help, you're interested in torture.
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Fuck these irredeemable fuckers.
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It is fun!
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Unfortunately, not only are they not particularly scruffy, there are some children elsewhere mentioned in the scene that ARE, absolute textbook urchins.
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Yeah, that's the trouble. "Filly" is somewhat more neutral about girls, but probably a little too loaded about the speaker. Who IS --kind of -- a retired Colonel type, but not lecherous.
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I have "minx" for the moment, though I am toying with "filly".
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She is! I was discussing this with @lmorgan.bsky.social earlier.
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Hmm, filly is a possibility. Thanks!
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I'm going with "little minxes" (there are two, which makes it all that bit harder) for the moment, as from the existence of Minnie the Minx I don't think the implied naughtiness has to be sexual/flirty.