adrenal vapor

xennial. dramaturg and gaming enthusiast. rules-lite in all things. philadelphia, pa.

[animentality]

[animentality]

[bedupolker]

people who are like "but with universal healthcare you'll have to pay taxes!!! Up to 8%!!!" Are so funny. Like as opposed to the 16% of my gross paycheck that goes to private insurance, that won't cover shit unless i call my insurance company, then my doctor, then my pharmacy, then my doctor again because theyre pretty sure insurance got approved then my insurance company because they didn't get the letter, then my doctor again, then the pharmacy again, and then the copay i still am on the hook for.

[memewhore]

[2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241]

Woman murders man in broad daylight

[theknightinslippers]

[halorvic]

[no-one-offical]

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[crypticgoose3]

beautiful like to reblog ratio on this

[drtanner]

That's because people are reblogging it every time they see it. Like I'm doing right now lmao

[academic-vampire]

𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔥𝔞𝔷𝔢 𝔟𝔢𝔱𝔴𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔰𝔲𝔪𝔪𝔢𝔯 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔞𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔪𝔫

[thepplprty]

What is it with diabetes that makes people think they know more about it than the people who have the disorder. People hear the word diabetes and flock to compete with who can be the most ableist.

Found a video of a girl showing off Diet Soda detector strips (if there's any diabaddies that see this and want it I can link them, they're super helpful), and half of the comments were "you're diabetic you should just be drinking water..." First of all, not only are you just wrong, but you seriously expect diabetics to just never enjoy themselves? Ever?.

Saw another comment under a video about type 1 saying "you did this to yourselves. you ate too much sugar and you got yourself into this situation." And it's just so funny because they're Wrong™️. Type one diabetes is autoimmune and fully hereditary, and not at all effected by diet.

I mean, I know the answer. It's diet culture. People on their fancy diets think they're a superior human being because other people are "unhealthier" than them, and they hear diabetes and think "big fat and lazy with a bad diet" and think they're allowed to walk all over them since they're so superior. Despite the fact that it's a completely false stereotype that doesn't apply to most diabetics.

And btw please do not come under this post saying "but other disorders have that too" this is a vent post about diabetes. Do not derail.

[alarajrogers]

The other thing about diabetes type 2 is that what the evidence actually suggests is that there's an underlying metabolic disorder that causes weight gain and sugar craving before actual diabetes develops.

A lot of type 2's start out as hypoglycemic -- their pancreas is over-producing insulin, causing blood sugar crashes. Insulin stuffs sugar into fat cells, causing people to get fat, if there's too much of it. The overproduction of insulin is a response to slow-growing insulin resistance. Because sugar is a vital part of human energy, people who cannot easily process sugar due to insulin resistance and insulin over-response may crave sugar in order to have enough energy to function.

So you didn't get diabetes because you got fat. You got fat because you were on track to get diabetes. and nobody is addressing the metabolic disorder. Hypoglycemics can be quite skinny -- I was for years. But if you're skinny, nobody is concerned about the fact that you are passing out when you haven't had enough to eat. Because only being fat is ever a medical problem. People who are "normal" weight obviously have nothing wrong with their metabolism whatsoever. :-(

[grace-williams-xo]

To add somewhat to the above, type 2 is genetic. You can’t get it solely from diet alone. As a specialist nurse crudely but not entirely incorrectly once said to me “if it was just diet then every fat/unhealthy person would have diabetes”.

And now going back to the top point, I know exactly what video op is referring to and she made a different video a few weeks prior specifically about harmful comments to t1d’s and instead of getting the point, heaps of comments were basically to the effect of “but we can bully t2ds bc they brought this on themselves, they deserve to be mocked”. HUH. DO YOU HEAR YOURSELVES.

I have many chronic conditions. T1D is absolutely the worst by the landslide it’s not even close. I would not wish this on anyone. If you ever think you’d like to make a comment on someone else’s diabetes, of any type, do not do it. If you are a diabetic I trust you to be sensible, otherwise, keep your mouth shut.

[scenerwiththegreenery]

I watched my dad develop T2D.

My dad was in good shape most of his life. He worked construction for many years, and he was strong and fairly lean. His mother had T2D, but we didn't know it was hereditary then. She gained a lot of weight through a combination of stress and poverty that led to purchasing lower-quality foods. Then came the diabetes.

My dad slowly started gaining weight and craving sugar. It started with classic Coke, then ice cream. He got dizzy if he wasn't drinking enough soda. He stopped drinking black coffee and water, his mainstays for many years. He went to the doctor; his BG was normal at the time, and they didn't check again for over a year.

By then, he had T2D. It was bad enough to need insulin. In a year, he went from a normal BG to testing in the 300 and 400 range, and began having frequent blood sugar crises that led to hospitalization. His body started failing in other ways: UTIs led to acute kidney issues, and ascites led to congestive heart failure.

My dad was developing schizophrenia during this time, and he needed help remembering to eat, take his meds, test his blood sugar, etc. That his health got so bad was a testament to how comorbidity and heredity can lead to exceptionally worse outcomes. Both of these conditions are hereditary. Stress contributes to pathogenesis, but if you don't have the genetic predisposition, you're not as likely to develop either of them.

Diabetes isn't a moral failing, and it's not even a health or dietary failure. T1D is an autoimmune disease, and T2D is a metabolic disease, and both are hereditary. There is no cure, no magic bullet, just coping and using resources to make it safer to exist with diabetes (such as the test strips mentioned, and medication, insulin, regular BG testing, A1c labs, the list goes on—we have a lot more resources for diabetes now!)

I am at risk of developing T2D. I can do my best to eat well and avoid stress (lol good luck) but it's a genetic risk, so I get my A1c drawn regularly and talk to my doctor about my risk so that we can catch it sooner when/if it happens. If so, I will use the resources that are available to manage the condition, but there is no moral value to not having developed it yet. RNG truly.

People need to shut up about things they don't understand or experience.

[willgrahamscock]

some of you need to internalize this concept

[imathers]

[titsay]

the goddess

[lynxcatart]

Podfic is the ultimate portmanteau btw

[some-creep]

No one is more excited for this plush than I am.

[travalicious]

backrooms (2026) - kane parsons

[proserpina-markham]

𝔅𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔩𝔦𝔣𝔢 𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔬 𝔴𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔯'𝔰 𝔩𝔲𝔫𝔤𝔰 🕯️

[teamsilenthills]

Floral otherworld concept art from SILENT HILL f.

[asvpfrenchy]

i genuinely dislike alot of the shit we've normalized

[stovetop00-deactivated20230907]

We’re winning.

[lilnasxvevo]

I found his bio on societyofpresidentialdescendants.org and it was so delightful I had to copy paste the whole thing:

“Ulysses Grant Dietz grew up in Syracuse, New York, where his Leave it to Beaver life was enlivened by his fascination with vampires, from Bela Lugosi to Barnabas Collins. He studied French at Yale (BA, 1977), and was trained to be a museum curator in the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture (MA, 1980). A decorative arts curator at the Newark Museum for thirty-seven years before he retired, Ulysses has never stopped writing for the sheer pleasure of it. Aside from books on Victorian furniture, art pottery, studio ceramics, jewelry, and the White House, Ulysses created the character of Desmond Beckwith in 1988 as his personal response to Anne Rice’s landmark novels. Alyson Books released his first novel, Desmond, in 1998. Vampire in Suburbia, the sequel, appeared in 2012. His most recent novel, Cliffhanger, was released by JMS Books in December 2020.

“Ulysses lives in suburban New Jersey with his husband of 45 years. They have two grown children, adopted in 1996.

“Ulysses is a great-great grandson of Ulysses S. Grant. His late mother, Julia, was the President’s last living great-grandchild; youngest daughter of Ulysses S. Grant III, and granddaughter of the president’s eldest son, Frederick. Every year on April 27 he gives a speech at Grant’s Tomb in New York City. He is also on the board of the U.S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum at Mississippi State University.”

[wakingfromthewater]

And frankly, the novels sound like they slap:

Desmond was nominated for a Lambda Award.

[doctorscienceknowsfandom]

“With his husband of 45 years.” You kids don’t know ... they got together before AIDS, at the peak of the Gay Glam Life. They stayed together as their generation died around them, and made through it to the point where they could marry and have a legal family. He looks like a chipper preppie who never had a serious thought or care in the world, but it took *incredible* determination, commitment, and also luck to get here.

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

having now read the first of this man's vampire books, you can absolutely tell that he cares a lot about historical furniture because oh my god he really wanted to tell us about all the historical furniture in this vampire's house. material culture as foreplay. seduction via theses about chairs

[depsidase]

[noelle-ism]

I will not call myself or other people "gooners" or "npcs" or "larpers". i will not call things i dont like "slop". i will not use terms like "-oids". i dont like how common language is slowly becoming more focused on shorthand terms for hate and apathy