Skip Navigation

DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them]

@ DisabledAceSocialist @hexbear.net

Posts
218
Comments
821
Joined
1 yr. ago

  • Thank you. People really do punch down a lot. I get the impression most people choose to believe that if they work hard, this (disability, unemployment, poverty, etc) can never happen to them, as a kind of defence mechanism because deep down they're worried it might happen to them. But this of course means that people who do suffer these things deserve them, because they didn't try hard enough. So they treat less fortunate people badly. It's the same way they choose to believe that there is so much help out there, like benefits being easy to obtain and food banks being easy to access, when the reality is very different. Poor people have it easy, you can get anything you need for free, right? They choose to believe this because they want to have a good opinion of themselves and if they admitted that they choose to keep voting for parties who are hard on the poor (slashing benefits, closing down food banks etc) they'd have to admit that they're a selfish person who doesn't care about others.

  • I've never heard that theory about Olympus Mons before but it sounds interesting!

  • Thank you!

  • Thank you!

  • Thanks for the bump!

  • Thanks for the bump!

  • If you don't fit into the employed, healthy, 2.4 kids mould, people think you're trash. No-one even talks to me any more since I became disabled and unemployed.

  • There's a new one?

  • My achilles tendon has gotten worse. God, I hope the shockwave therapy helps! It's starting at the end of this month. I went to the pharmacy today to see if they had a med I've been prescribed in the brand I use, the pharmacist not only wasn't wearing a mask but held the medication box up to her face and rubbed it against her mouth. What is wrong with people? They should be wearing masks and not rubbing their mouths on things, this is medication for an immunocompromised cancer patient. I didn't want it after seeing that, I'd been prescribed two boxes and they only had one in stock so I rejected it on those grounds. Well, at least I don't have a box with someone's germs all over it, but now I have to find somewhere else to get it from.

    Oh, and I was meant to get my blood test results on Monday, the blood tests about why I have constant pins and needles in my legs now and why my hair is falling out so badly. But the doctor was off sick and apparently no-one else is available so I have to wait until she's back. It's so hard getting medical help these days. And the ophthalmology department keeps sending me letters telling me to make another appointment, but whenever I phone I can't get through. Now they've sent me a letter threatening to kick me off the list, how is this my fault?

  • G

  • N

  • I

  • P

  • M

  • U

  • B

  • Thank you.

  • Thank you.

  • I remember telling one of my therapists how it was a big issue to me that I care about animal welfare and want to be vegan but struggle with that as my cancer treatment has caused so many food intolerances there are very few things I can eat without getting sick now. She just totally dismissed both my food intolerances (diagnosed by the endocrinologist, it's not like I'm making it up) and my guilt at not being vegan. She told me to just eat whatever I like and not worry about it. So helpful! Absolutely useless, the lot of them.

  • Thanks for the tip, I'll add it to my wishlist.