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What would happen if we stopped praising people for pushing through and started praising people for taking care of themselves and being mindful of the limits?
Disabled Doctor
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Disabled Doctor
@DisabledDoctor
PhD. Clinician-Scientist. Gamer. Chicken-herder. CCI ADHD EDS TBI TN 🏳️🌈
- It’s bullshit that women’s gymnastics floor routines consider their facial expressions as part of their score but men’s don’t.
- A decade ago I was hit by a car. They REFUSED to give me anything for the pain until after I took a pregnancy test. Because I was tied to a board & peed before, they had to double IV me, cut off my clothes, & use a bedpan to get a sample. I had not had ANY sexual contact in 8 mos
- I was not planning to vote for Biden because his administration has failed and harmed many people in many ways, but John Oliver’s recent episode on Trump and Project 2025 has me convinced that not voting for Biden could be incredibly dangerous. I wish we had better options, but
- People who aren’t afraid of long covid have NO IDEA how difficult it is to find good care when you have a complex, rare, or poorly understood disease. They expect House when what they’ll get is more like Zoidberg.
- Replying to @DisabledDoctorThis was in a liberal state at one of the only trauma hospitals in a large city. This is how women are treated: as secondary to any potential life inside of them, even if it does not (rather could not) exist. That was over a decade ago. I am terrified for what the future holds.
- Replying to @DisabledDoctorAnd, before you ask, I was also on birth control and would have NEVER kept a child if I had gotten pregnant. I never wanted children or the damage it would inflict on my body. That did not matter. My well-being did not matter.
- The university that fired me after I requested accommodations had won awards for disability inclusion. 🫠This is a true story from the University of Practically Everywhere, USA.
- Replying to @DisabledDoctorThe hospital in question is a fairly large religious hospital. In non-denominational or public hospitals you can usually sign a waiver stating you are not pregnant and/or understand/accept any risks involved with your care. Religious hospitals should not have ERs!
- Replying to @DisabledDoctorI want to add that this applies to all uterus having (and even some non-uterus having) people, not just women. (I normally add a qualifier but sometimes forget in the heat of a rabid tweet. 😅)
- Replying to @DisabledDoctorNow that I have your attention, there’s a genocide going on in Gaza and the pandemic never ended. We’re actually in a surge right now. 1/37 people infected in the US. Nearly a million infected daily. Mask up.
- Just heard a psychiatrist on NPR argue that remote work increases social isolation and, honestly, fuck that. Stop assuming that work being a primary source of socialization is in any way appropriate or healthy. Your boss doesn’t love you. Your coworkers are not your community.
- The worst medical advice of all time: “reduce/avoid stress.” Do medical providers really think their patients CHOOSE stress?!
- I think the one thing most non-disabled people fail to recognize about the medical system is that as soon as they get sick, and I mean big sick, they most likely won’t be able to get adequate care unless their condition is common and obviously treatable.
