#yes yes you're research is the most important ever they've heard it all before

[twinterrors29]

star wars OC idea: university social science department chair who has to keep spending their whole budget to hire bounty hunters to drag their faculty out of the field to fulfil their teaching responsibilities

#star wars #original character #academia #bounty hunters #yes yes you're research is the most important ever they've heard it all before #now get back here and sit in this classroom with your students like we pay you to do

[outrunningthedark]

Sometimes I get upset when people start bashing others for self diagnosing

Because I know that some people aren’t doing it in a way that’s good or they know it’s not true and they’re doing it to be mean or something.

But for some people getting diagnosed just isn’t an option. Maybe it’s because no doctor will ever believe because of how they look. Maybe it’s because they don’t have the money. Maybe it’s because they aren’t in a safe place where they can ask a parent or teach about it.

Sometimes self diagnosing is all we have when our disabilities aren’t as viable. When we’ve learned to mimic the society around us to try and fit it.

And it’s terrible when people tell us that we’re faking. Because that’s a fear we do have. Are we just faking? But we aren’t because you can’t really fake it. You can try but it doesn’t hangs the fact that we experience things the way ‘normal’ people don’t.

Hey, nonnie! I hope you had a nice day! <3 I have experience with self-diagnosing both mental and non-mental health disorders so you never have to worry about my blog being a place where you'll be judged for trying to figure out what's going on inside your body and mind. My attempts to self-diagnose was born from a combination of shame and not being heard by medical professionals when I *did* speak up, much like someone with an invisible condition/disability who doesn't look like they have anything "wrong", so I totally understand where you're coming from! I have been struggling with an eating disorder since I was sixteen years old, but I didn't actually know it was a "problem" until I started researching the strange things that were happening to me after about four months - hair loss, menstrual cycle went away, my nails became very brittle, I grew excess body hair - which was... not helpful for my already low self-esteem! I *knew* of eating disorders and *knew* they happened to real people, but I never thought "someone like me" could fall into the trap. I diagnosed myself with the disorder, and it took a few years before I could openly admit what I had been doing to myself and have my suspicions confirmed. Unfortunately, people with "invisible" conditions and disabilities aren't the only ones who must deal with a doctor's incompetence. My experience as a person with CP has been: *mentions something 'off' about my body to a doctor* *my doctor: 'well, you do have CP. these things can happen.' Meanwhile, if an able-bodied person walked into a medical office with these same symptoms they would at least get scans and medication to help them out. For example, my disability causes me to have a neurogenic bladder - I have limited control over how my bladder muscles function and I deal with spasms at random, spasms that mimic infection. All the doctors I asked to alleviate this issue - BECAUSE I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG!!! I swore I had an overactive bladder!!! - told me I couldn't because my brain cannot communicate with that part of my body. I didn't give up, though. I eventually found a doctor that took my "complaints" seriously and he put me on medication to try to calm my spasticity in that area! And when the first test didn't work because the dose was too low, he increased it! He didn't give up! The second dose, the maximum, has literally saved me SO MANY TRIPS TO THE HOSPITAL. I NO LONGER GET DIAGNOSED WITH ILLNESS/INFECTION. ALL BECAUSE HE GAVE ME A PILL THAT AN ABLE-BODIED PERSON WOULDN'T HAVE TO BEG FOR. From my perspective, yes, there are people who fall down the WebMD rabbit hole and think they've got every condition that describes *one* or *two* symptoms they're experiencing. We call them hypochondriacs. What most people are doing, though, is advocating for themselves, and that's important! (Especially if they don't have access to doctors or the support of family.) Even if a self-diagnosis isn't 100% accurate (although you wouldn't know unless someone said so), having a general idea of what's going on inside of you is a huge first step in accepting that you're not like everybody else and you need to react accordingly if you want to survive. Stay strong, nonnie. I got your back. 💞

#anonymous #sorry for the slight tmi i guess? #but it IS disability pride month so i say fuck being embarrassed right now #tina speaks #eating disorder mention #eating disorder tw