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Me normally: I could see myself going into surgery. I like the immediacy of it. You know you go in, you do the thing, you've helped someone or at least you know exactly what happened and you can see the effects.
Me after more than 2 seconds in the presence of surgeons: The ancient Greeks believed that the profession of surgery was undertaken by a different kind of person, one that shouldn't have the right to vote, and they may have had a point.
Just realised I've begun reincorporating the word "Lame" into my vocabulary. That shit sucks, I'm sorry. Gonna try to not use that from now on.
The important part is that you noticed this happening and are actively taking steps to counter it. You're doing a good job, just keep at it 
Thanks. Still, had to take the L(ib) to move forward.
Mu migraines are flaring up terribly because now it's summer, everyone has their windows open and the air is filled with perfume, laundry detergent and other nonsense. It's so awful, yesterday I took two different migraine pills and still couldn't get rid of it. Still have a trace of it today. It's absolute torture, I wish I could just be put down humanely.
Being autistic is like having to constantly go to meetings where someone is going "This is what faces mean! This is what "normal" social behavior is like!"
On repeat. Presumably until one dies.
~Getting a little sick of it.~
After a lifetime of masking and pretending to be normal until I was second guessing peoples intention in every interaction
~brother I feel your pain~
The older I get the more autistic I realize I am. And I was diagnosed as a toddler!
and half the time they're wrong anyway
I WANT EMPLOYMENT NOT SSI AND OTHER ABLEIST/POVERTY TRAPS!!!
Honestly this was on me. I relied on a 5 minutes bus trip not to be 10 minutes late. So now I'm gonna be late for my fucking exam
I have IRL friends that have to rely on """"Freedom"""" Transit.
It's TERRIBLE!
I know I've both complained about and attempted to defend my therapist on here, but now that she's no longer my therapist, I feel no need to continue defending her. She was often dismissive of my breakthrough symptoms, was kinda dismissive what I suspect might be an eating disorder, and she wanted me to live my life according to her vision, not mine. Not least of all, partway through she started misgendering and deadnaming me and never gendered my sibling right. Honestly, I'm kinda glad to stop running defense for her.
All therapists are absolute trash. Therapy is a mickey mouse subject.
One the one hand, eugenics is a blight on humanity, but on the other, I'm terrified if I have kids they'll inherit my disorder, and I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemies, let alone people I love.
Choosing not to have children is fundamentally different than being made to not have children. But I suppose there is always the fear that you're being influenced by eugenicist ideas.
Yeah. I'm afraid that, because I am concerned about continuing my disorder, that that is a eugenicist point of view. It's not about removing my genes from the pool, though, it's more about not wanting loved ones to suffer. So it's probably not really eugenics.
I've thought about this for a while by now, and all I can tell you is that I believe a lot of us would feel differently about having kids if the circumstances were different. I don't know how much this applies to your disorder, but I tend to believe that better social and medical security would make a lot of people reconsider their stance on children. Mental health is always a tough cookie, and I'm with you on that I don't want to pass on what I have.
Personally I think more of "me"s running around being extremely autistic, blunt, and snarky, would be incredibly funny lol.
My doctor only recently graduated and hasn't dealt with the bullshit as it relates to the disability system. I had to tell her today I got denied and legal aid had said it was because her wording wasn't what they wanted, and she was really pissed that I'm actively suffering from super high anxiety bc of something so minor and stupid.
She gave me new drug to try too so yippee
I just recently got my appeal denied too, so now we're on round three. This time before a judge.
good luck, and same
Finally had my appointment with the NHS dietician, and the news wasn't great. Most of my food intolerances and allergies, nothing can be done about it and I have to just avoid those foods. But she said because my range of foods I can eat is so narrow, I am really malnourished and blood tests show my health is dangerously affected from it. She advised me to include seafood in my diet like prawns and fish since I can generally tolerate those (I usually just eat chicken as far as animal products go as it's cheaper) and they would add extra nutrients to my diet. The problem is those things are expensive and I already struggle to get enough mutual aid. I don't think I can afford to do it. She was also weirdly obsessed with getting me to consume dairy alternatives (since i can't consume actual dairy without getting sick). She said it's necessary for calcium even though my blood tests showed my calcium level is actually OK and I thought needing dairy for calcium had been debunked years ago?
"Because we recalculated your support you owe the state 0.80 dollars retroactively, we are sending a mail with payment information. If you don't respond we will add an 80 dollar surcharge"
What the shit man.
I love how these letters/mails are always phrased in either the most threatening way possible or in the most over-apologetic tone. There is no in-between, and you always have to pay, no matter what. Absolute fucking shit
It's pretty frustrating given how much people get away with just stealing from public coffers too. So you'll have cops say in the news "Yeah its just not worth pursuing the guy who stole a million dollars from the community" but when I owe a dollar (After they just decided i do. I didn't fail to pay a dollar. You recalculated my support mid month) they're telling me they know where my family lives.
They sound so much like a mafia, urgh.
This shouldn't be happening mid month, in general these recalculations should be applied forward, not backwards. Also, what a weird recalculation, 80 cents? You could just ignore this guys, it's not even a full dollar.
They are actually supposed to ignore all these minor adjustments until they hit about 4 dollars and only then collect them "all at once" (At 4 dollars) but because I'm receiving public benefits, I have to fix that shit right now. And it got adjusted down by almost a dollar because my rent went down about a dollar and it's some means tested nonsense.
Only us plebs have to pay. Politicians steal from the public purse and get away with it. There was a big scandal in the UK years ago when David Cameron was prime minister, the politicians had all been writing fake expenses, or expenses for things that were for their personal use. For instance David Cameron bought decorative duck houses for his personal garden and charged it to the taxpayer. When all this was found out, these millionaires just paid it back, no trouble, no prison time. If a pleb is caught stealing from the public finances, it's always prison.
This past few days I've been having a heavy, real period. The first for three years. I thought they'd stopped. Since then I've only had about two light periods a year until now. No idea what brought this on. Also feeling really overwhelmed with the ridiculous amount of useless medical appointments I'm expected to attend. If I'd managed to get a ten year award for my disability payments, I wouldn't bother. But with only two years until reassessment I have to keep going to this useless crap to get letters of support. I have my first appointment with the NHS dietician tomorrow. It's about the fact that my cancer treatment has made me severely intolerant and allergic to so many foods I can barely eat anything other than chicken, carrots and chocolate without getting terribly ill. And this has of course caused me to develop a ton of nutrient deficiencies. And my body can't even tolerate the supplements that are meant to correct the deficiencies. I have no hope at all that the dietician will be any use though. They already told me that the treatment is to slowly reintroduce foods, well I've been trying that for ages and it's not working. And I've been on the waiting list for about 2 years, they don't even care that I have many symptoms from these nutrient intolerances (such as worsening neuropathy in my feet that is causing me to lose movement in my toes), it's not seen as urgent at all. I wish they would just put me down. Thank god someone came through on mutual aid, otherwise I'd have nothing to eat. With such a limited diet I wouldn't be able to rely on the food bank even if they allowed people to go more than three times every 6 months, which they don't.
I have PCOS and will get that randomly every few years as well. Doctor said it's just that the lining takes a really long time to build up to a point it's heavy enough to all come off since ur hormones never tell it to come off normally
Oh, thanks for the info.
With how my history of employment is, I kind of wanna just give up on conventional employment and start a commune. I've bee doing some research and it would be hella hard at first but once systems are in place, I think it would be doable. I've talked to a few friends and 3 of them seem on board with the idea but I'm not sure how hard they think this endeavor might be.
Maybe I'm being silly about this whole thing though. But I just really can't keep doing the "job search for a year > have a job for 1.5 years > get fired and start over" cycle anymore. I started looking passively for a new job and it just feel gross at this point.
Anyway, it's Pride Month. I hope everyone enjoys all the mega-corporations changing their logos. Love for all my disabled, trans, queer, and enby siblings. 
I've fantasised about being in a commune for years. But with poor health, disabilities and no useful skills I doubt one would accept me.
If I did manage to start one, we could find something for you to do so you feel like you are giving back in a meaningful way. My broken human ass would love to do meal prep and cooking.
I actually kind of enjoy cleaning, but due to my disabilities nothing that involves bending/crouching or lifting.