Yeah, But You Still Know It Better Than Anyone Else. Not Listening Your Body, Just Doing What Everybody

Yeah, but you still know it better than anyone else. Not listening your body, just doing what everybody else kills you - slowly or not so slowly. And then you wish doctors would know how to help and they just don't believe you because "not typical" and "probably side effect". You are alone with body you don't understand and noone other unterstands either and what the hell are you supposed to do?!

I know people mean well when they say it but hearing the phrase “you know your body best” as someone with chronic illness is so funny, like man no I don’t I ain’t got no clue what that fucker’s planning and I’m scared to find out

This is a meteorite that has fallen from a clearly superior part of the galaxy.

friendly reminder you dont need a diagnosis to be in disability spaces, as an example im in constant pain and fatigue, have migraines every week and my joints hurts to a point I can't write, but since familiar gaslighting/medical trauma and the fact that im an indigenous, brown skin fat man a diagnosis is fucking hard (but im in my way! :)) , but i still deserve a safe space to talk about my experiences and to feel valuable and supported.

never feel like youre interrupting someone's space or that you shouldn't be here cause you dont have a diagnosis, disabilities existed before diagnosis

“While many people think fanfiction is about inserting sex into texts (like Tolkien’s) where it doesn’t belong, Brancher sees it differently: “I was desperate to read about sex that included great friendship; I was repurposing Tolkien’s text in order to do that. It wasn’t that friendship needed to be sexualized, it was that erotica needed to be … friendship-ized.” Many fanfiction writers write about sex in conjunction with beloved texts and characters not because they think those texts are incomplete, but because they’re looking for stories where sex is profound and meaningful. This is part of what makes fan fiction different from pornography: unlike pornography, fanfic features characters we already care deeply about, and who tend to already have long-standing and complex relationships with each other. It’s a genre of sexual subjectification: the very opposite of objectification. It’s benefits with friendship.”

— Francesca Coppa, “Introduction to The Dwarf’s Tale,” The Fanfiction Reader (via francescacoppa)

Someone put it into words. I gotta sit down

Classes we should be adding to med school/nursing school curriculum

-your patient lives in their body and probably knows more about it than you do 101

-your patient was not born yesterday and should be spoken to like a competent adult 101

-your patient does not make 6 figures and should be told if something you are doing is going to cost them thousands of dollars BEFORE you do it, not after. 101

-its not that hard to read a patient's chart so that they don't have to catch you up on their entire life since birth every time they see you 101

-the patient doesn't care that you "don't have much time" to talk to them because it is their life and health on the line and that should be your priority 101

-its not that fucking hard to communicate with your team about your schedule 101

every day i have to wake up in a world where i was never given a rusted key by a fox that opens the door in my home that's always been locked, or inherited a sword made entirely of starlight from a distant relative, or been the subject of a prophecy that i will return magic to these shores, and honestly it's a huge fuckign bummer