Ex Astris Scientia — still reeling over the fact that epipens aren't...

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ashenprincx

still reeling over the fact that epipens aren't available in doses for larger people and the fact I found that out by nearly dying lmao

ashenprincx

this is what we mean when we say fatphobia literally kills people btw

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Sweet Dreams - Rora Blue

2020.

“Sweet Dreams explores the intricacies of everyday ableism and everyday ableist comments. Some of the comments recount dialogue said to the artist. Other phrases were submitted by other disabled and/or chronically ill individuals as documentation of comments that have been said to them. Through using recognizable objects associated with disability in correlation with playful colors, Sweet Dreams aims to reclaim objects commonly associated with pain and disrupt the narrative on what it means to be disabled.”

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doctorsebastianthescientist doctorsebastianthescientist

Hey, unpopular opinion, apparently. But people don’t just “have pain for no reason” doctors say this all the time (especially to women and chronically ill people) and the truth is, Thats literally not possible. Even if your pains are psychosomatic (a word I hesitate to even use because of the way its used so often) there is a reason you are having those pains whether its mental illness, abuse, etc. If your doctor consistently tells you that “well some people just have pain for no reason” get a new doctor. That’s a doctor who is not going to give a shit what your actual symptoms or experiences are.

kamorth

I just wanna add to clarify the psychosomatic thing.

That word DOES NOT MEAN you’re making it up. It doesn’t mean you’re imagining the symptom. What it means is that the symptom ISN’T DIRECTLY CAUSED BY ANY OF THE THINGS THAT WOULD NORMALLY CAUSE IT.

I fought to get a PCOS diagnosis for 2 and a half years. For the ENTIRE time I was fighting, I was dealing with 3 cysts that were not going away by themselves and eventually required surgery to remove. At one point close to the end of the battle, I suddenly went blind. I was visiting my parents and was standing on the veranda looking out over the tree we had planted in memory of my dog and suddenly I got one of the shooting pains that I was quite frankly used to at that point and my vision started to go dark. It was like the sun was setting while being completely hidden behind storm clouds but it was 2pm in the middle of Summer on a clear day. Within about 30 seconds I couldn’t see ANYTHING. I was 27 years old and I was screaming for my mother.

My mum raced me to her doctor (he was a 15 minute drive away as opposed to 45 minutes to the nearest hospital) and he quickly worked out that there was nothing wrong with my eyes and what had happened was totally unrelated to them. Then he said it was psychosomatic and I freaked out, yelling that I was NOT making this up and I definitely wasn’t imagining it. Very quickly he calmed me down and said he believed me and I had misunderstood. He explained that whatever was going on with my abdominal pains (he suggested PCOS which I hadn’t even heard of at that point) had been ignored for so long that my body was starting to do things other than the normal pain response to try to draw my attention to the problem. My sight going was my body basically jumping around in front of me going “HEY ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME HELLLOOOOOOO??????”

He gave me some prescription strength painkillers and my sight started to come back as soon as they started to kick in. About 45 minutes after it started I could see well enough to walk around without help and within a day and a half I was back to normal. On top of that I finally had a scan booked to figure out what the hell was causing all the pain.

Psychosomatic symptoms are NOT imagined or fabricated or happening for “no reason”. Experiencing them DOES NOT make you a liar. It makes you someone who has been battling with something serious for so long that your own body has started to get impatient with you.

doctorsebastianthescientist doctorsebastianthescientist

I completely agree. Thank you for sharing this.

Anonymous asked:

Why do you (all fat activists) keep commenting on how you are marginalised and a minority, in the United states alone 7 in 10 Americans are obese or overweight, which mean you are a majority, besides the obvious facts I just stated, according to "October 27, 1999, Annual Deaths Attributable to Obesity in the United States" "The estimated number of annual deaths attributable to obesity among US adults is approximately 280,000" its FACTS, and SCIENCE, look it up.

When did I become a “fat activist” lmao just because I happen to be fat and I don’t care about some random person on the internet’s opinions about my body? Not only that but I have literally never said that, and I have never seen another person say that. Is there another 4chan fathate thread about me because we all know how the last one went.

fatphobia cw

Anonymous asked:

I know it's not My Place to enter into the conversation here, but my skinny ass ain't healthy. I've always been underweight, and I know that my body type shouldn't be put on a pedestal. The whole "fat people are unhealthy and skinny people are healthy uwu" bullshit is gross. But even if it was true (which it isn't), it's still gross to insult and body shame someone. You're handling the criticisms with beauty and grace, and I'd like to offer my solidarity as a fellow physics lady.

Yeah like healthy doesnt mean skinny they are not mutual you can be fat and healthy and skinny and unhealthy im so tired of people’s one dimensional thinking about this 

fatphobia cw

Anonymous asked:

Hey it's me ''fat shaming anon'' as people loved to call me, i wanted to say two things, first you absolutely ignored the ''ask'' i did apologizing for the fallacy and second i've never said that being skinny is the only way to be healthy i actually said its not. but i wanted to argue that being fat (and too skinny) is risky for your health, i actually am fat but i try to get skinnier because it leaves the door open to a lot of diseases that otherwise skinny people would not have.

I read this as “I” “can’t” “understand” “you” with the quotation marks being the fart noises that one guy from that spongebob episode makes.

Not only that but you called me a terrible role model, blamed my Not Giving A Shit About You on feminism, did not stay in your lane, and NOWHERE did I say being fat was good. I simply said that I accept and love myself for who I am, and because of your own insecurities you felt the need to attack me on something that never was, nor ever will be, an issue. So you’re invited to go fuck yourself.

fatphobia cw

Anonymous asked:

Hey! Fellow fat person here! I really look up to you, as someone starting undergrad in fall to study astrophysics. I think you’re really cool and all of your selfies are awesome and I wish I had your hair (I’m not allowed to dye it because of my job, boo) so uh yea. I have mental and chronic illnesses and I know what it’s like to have these things being blamed on obesity so um I don’t really know how to finish this but just know I’m proud of you and I really look up to you okay bye

bless you <3 

there’s like a plateau in academia where people get to “okay she knows her shit, she can have purple hair i guess.” so it gets better lol

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Anonymous asked:

as a fellow fat person (teen) i have to say that you're a terrible role model no one should be telling people that being fat is good or even telling them not bad, i mean, being a little overweight is not a problem but when you're obese then that's another thing, not to say that being skinny is always good (there are extremes to everything) but I think that saying ''i'm unapologeticly fat'' is a good thing it gives a bad image, not saying that being skinny is to solve all but its healthier. Txs

anyway here’s another picture of me being fat <3

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Anonymous asked:

Yo!!! My bf got his medical report back a little bit ago from work (we're both overweight) & they basically told him he's fat but otherwise healthy. So, @ rude anons, yea it's possible to be healthy and fat lmao fuck off with that uneducated bullshit. (by the way you're so!!!!!! Pretty!!!!!)

congrations!!! (and thank ye!!)

fatphobia cw maybe? to be safe
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