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[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[cholerascum]

incredibly telling that i saw nothing but praise for the amazing digital circus until the audience got tricked into caring about a trans woman.

[oscarwildeboytoy-deactivated201]

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.

[oscarwildeboytoy-deactivated201]

I completely agree. Thank you for sharing this.

[antique-scarecrow]

Psychosomatic symptoms are literally your body flipping random alarm switches just to get any alarm blaring because you’ve been ignoring the regular ones

[sophibug]

Also unfortunately doctors often categorize “we don’t know what causes this” as “psychosomatic” due to ableism and saneism. I read a paper in a medical journal recently (can’t find it unfortunately) about how PNES (“psychogenic non-epileptic seizures”) is called that despite us not actually knowing if it’s psychogenic. It responds somewhat to CBT, but that’s true for every disability that’s made worse by stress… Which is basically all of them. It sometimes responds to psychiatric medications, but we don’t really know what those do and a they’re all messing with neurochemistry anyway. “Psychogenic” is often to the word for “we don’t know so we’re going to say it’s psychiatric, and instead of treating that as seriously as it deserves we’re going to act like it’s your fault.”

Some things are psychogenic! The mind and body are not two separate, unrelated systems. But we shouldn’t use “psychogenic” instead of “unknown”

[ozempicofficial]

[doggirl-girlcock]

My cringe fucking baby and her derivative drivel

[sneefss]

trans women:

center yourself in language that includes you. if it includes women like you, it includes you. it's not "them" it's "us". women are your peers. when someone says ladies that means you. keep reminding yourself. don't forget. it is a fact. treat it like one. you HAVE to treat yourself like a woman. keep reminding yourself. keep reminding yourself.

[troutreznor]

https://blinkies.cafe

[infestuous]

this post really attracted the lamest people in the fucking world

[brisketer]

[gouged-doll]

erich fromm, the art of loving

[autopygmalion]

"Cis women are the blueprint" no you're not. Society telling women to be skinny but kinda curvy and also have baby soft skin and be always feminine and girly and demure and vaguely suggestive of sexuality but not in a way that makes people uncomfortable is the blueprint, you've just been contractually obligated to build the damn thing

[autopygmalion]

This is your sign to run your fingers over their feet. Maybe circle their ankles with your thumbs. Maybe give the soles a tasteful, careful tickle.

[mistflarden-deactivated20200816]

“In Europe they–”

WHERE in Europe??!? WHERE??? You mean Iceland?? Azerbaijan? The Netherlands? Liechtenstein???? THERE ARE 50 COUNTRIES IN EUROPE. ALL WITH DIFFERENT CULTURES. SO PRAY TELL ME, WHERE IN FUCKING EUROPE.

[eldriitchmurmurs]

in europe they got antisemitism

[number-one-malloc-appreciator]

[autopygmalion]

AND islamophobia

[xenasaur]

I want ravioli so bad rn help me

[xenasaur]

ravioli havers just don't understand how good their lives are and how quickly it can all go away

[xenasaur]

*takes long drag off cigarette* you know I had ravioli once. kept it in my fridge. nothing fancy, but I tell ya just a quick boil with some salt and a sprinkling of olive oil was all I needed.

*a single tear rolls down my cheek* appreciate what you got while you still got it kid

[xenasaur]

I'm pretty sure my body is desperately trying to warn me through that I'm missing some nutrient or something. or maybe the Italians just knocked it out of the park on this one idk

[butterfly-sapphic]

Maybe both

[xenasaur]

very likely it's both

[xenasaur]

had ravioli for dinner btw dreams do come true

[autopygmalion]

Restaurants will sometimes just serve me six ravioli. Unacceptable. At least 20 ravioli or I'm sending it back.

[sapphling]

the sex binary is socially constructed and not actually descriptive of any biological truth. you know that, right? it's important to me that you know that

[sapphling]

i know people can be a little overzealous in describing political backslides ("this used to be the feminism website!!!" etc.) but it's disturbing to me how much incredulity i've gotten from other trans people as of late just for, like, saying that "biological woman" is neither a real category nor a phrase that should ever leave your mouth uncritically

[henstomper]

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

[henstomper]

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore

[maidslime]

men are harassing me today and misgendering me on purpose to try and get an EPIC LOL reaction outta me. you should show me your love and send me grocery money. my cashapp is $thecatgirlprincess

[maidslime]

I have been harassed every single day this week by transmisogynists! Sunday through most of the week I had terfs (the real kind) misgendering me, mocking my disabilities, telling me to kill myself, and endlessly mocking me. Yesterday I had a man misgendering me and mocking me for caring about being misgendered. And today I have some presumably nonbinary person telling me to kill myself because I made a post about how men inflict transphobia on women.

Why do these people that get to freely get off to the torture and violence towards trans women get to live comfortably? Why do the bigots get to be happy while I can't afford to have food in my fridge?

If you can, please donate money so I can continue to have food and a roof.

[pocket-deer-belly]

ah ok gooseworx's tumblr account got banned

[pocket-deer-belly]

extract celebrated culture from transfem and then drop them like a brick

[pocket-deer-belly]

exactlyyyy! you get it! i've seen this cycle like 5 different times minimum

[podcastwizard]

LIKES TO CHARGE REBLOGS TO CAST

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

you people aren't CASTING

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

NO