Day: December 6, 2017

anais-ninja-blog:

catherinegrant:

PSA: My dash was getting spammed with posts from people I don’t even follow. Seems mobile has yet another “feature” that literally nobody asked for. You can turn it off in Dashboard Preferences.

this hasn’t happened to me yet, and i don’t have a button for it yet either, but heads up!

Source: catherinegrant

packbat:

Shoutout to the people with complicated triggers

Shoutout to people who can’t describe what throws them off balance in a word or a sentence. Shoutout to the people who don’t know what it is that twists their head around wrong because it isn’t an object or a phrase or an event they can summarize. You’re not being unreasonable or attention-seeking or weak or ridiculous. Take care of yourselves and keep yourselves safe. ❤

fierceawakening:

cocainesocialist:

welcome to capitalism in 2017, where doctors are diagnosing ‘shit life syndrome’

@notbecauseofvictories‘ tags:

#I don’t have a general politics or healthcare tag but yes.#I saw this a lot when I was working at a clinic on the south side because as awful and useless as our docs were#(they were I struggled to work with them so much)#not even the best doctor in the world can fix a shitty home situation or the stressors of homelessness#our brains are part of our bodies and when our psyche is hurting it manifests itself in the body but…….#that’s really hard to fix#especially with the tools available to your average primary care provider in a mostly medicaid-payor clinic#our providers burned out at an incredible rate too and for the same reason#it’s hard to see patients and know you can’t help them in the way they need#it sucks.

I read cocainesocialist like they were saying that this was about ignoring or refusing to diagnose people, but… I’ve seen this sort of thing too, and not all of it IS clearly medical. It’s a whole host of things going wrong that a nice lady with a stethoscope can’t necessarily repair.

Source: cocainesocialist

systlin:

rosslynpaladin:

systlin:

Honestly, in the absence of autoimmune conditions that impose dietary restrictions, ANY diet that says that Homo Sapiens Sapiens, a species that is wildly successful in large part because we have spent the last six million or so years evolving to be opportunistic omnivores (and yes, that’s going back before any human species, to our common ancestor with chimpanzees, because chimps are also opportunistic omnivores and we both got that from our common ancestor) is not designed to eat __________, immediately trips my ‘bullshit’ alarms. 

We can eat just about any damn thing we can shove in our faces and chew. If it’s toxic, we may be able to cook it so it isn’t and still shove it in our faces and extract nutrition from it. We’ll sure as hell try. 

You are absolutely designed by millions of years of evolution to eat plants, animals, grains, fungi, whatever. ‘Original human diet’ my left asscheek. Show a Cro Magnon hunter a burger and fries and he’d be all over that shit.  

“but Paaaaaleo is what hunter gatherers ate! You can’t prove it’s not! It’s not like we can ask them!”

…..Might be the Whitest thing anyone has ever said to me outside political discussion. I am a Native American. My people were hunter gatherers within living memory. I know what we ate and still eat when we have the chance. It DOES include regular amounts of seeds and grains

so no, Paleo isn’t Paleo.

YES THANK YOU

This is the other thing that rubs me wrong about “paleo” diets. 

As you said, your people….and other groups of people right up until today…have practiced hunter gatherer lifestyles within living memory. Some groups still do. If you want to know what hunter gatherers eat, you can just ask them. And the answer is usually “Anything and everything in the area that’s edible, plant, fish, fungi, animal, nut, berry, fruit, root, vegetable, and seed.” 

But nah these people would rather build their ‘paleo’ diet around a white cro magnon hunter power fantasy. 

thefibrodiaries:

Chronically ill people who drop out of school or college usually don’t do so because they’re not smart enough or they find the work for that course too difficult, we drop out because of lack of accessibility.

I missed a lot of school in my final year because of my (at the time undiagnosed) chronic illnesses. Luckily, the school understood and didn’t try to send my parents to court (yes this does happen to some people) but I was never given any support. they never sent work home for me and they never helped me to catch up. I had to try to teach myself using what I could find online because I was never told what I should be studying, I was never given any notes or books to help learn. Eventually I got a tutor two weeks before exams and I had to learn an entire years worth of work for every subject in those two weeks.

I barely passed my exams but i passed enough to leave to school without needing to repeat the year. I had applied to go to a local college who were unsure about letting me in because I didn’t get the grades I was predicted. I fought for my place in college, I explained about my situation and showed them I was capable of doing the courses. They told me there was a disability centre who would help me if I ever needed extra support due to my conditions.

I did really well at first. I got the highest grade in my class on our first assignment. I attended every single day even though I was in agony but eventually my physical and mental health deteriorated. I went to the student disability centre and asked for help because I was at risk of losing my financial aid and I was worried about failing. I asked if I could work from home part time and they told me it wasn’t possible and that they didn’t know what to do about my financial situation. You know what they did? They suggested that I drop out and reapply when I got better.

Eventually I had to but then I had no college no job no money and I was living at home with my parents who needed me to contribute if I wasn’t going back to school. I thought about getting a job even though I wasn’t well enough and went everywhere for help but none of the career and young people services could help me because of my disabilities. (However, I did eventually find a disability advisor at the job centre who agreed I wasn’t well enough to work and she helped me apply for disability benefits.)

I eventually realised (after passing out in public, ending up bedbound and attempting suicide) I wasn’t well enough to work or study but even when I did feel up to it there was no support available. With assistance, accessibility and emotional support I could’ve finished college and school. I could’ve reached my full potential but I didn’t. I failed not because I wasn’t capable but because the world is not accessible enough.

Disabled people deserve accessibility to reach their full potential. We deserved equal opportunities. We aren’t just there for you to tick your minority box and then leave us to struggle. We deserve to be acknowledged as intelligent and capable. The system needs to stop failing disabled people, stop writing them off as not smart enough, too lazy/unmotivated and not able to cope with the stresses of college or work. Give us support and accessibility. We deserve the same rights and opportunities to education and work that abled people get.