Don't Let the Fibro Get You Down

I am a 28 year old woman who suffers from fibromyalgia, PCOS, Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, & Reynaud's. These invisible illnesses create a constant uphill struggle in my life. My hope is to offer a hand to others suffering with chronic illnesses, to raise awareness, to share my own story...and laugh through the literal pain.

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Diabetes Glucose Monitors Recalled After 7 Deaths and More Than 700 Injuries

Abbott Diabetes Care has issued a recall and is warning patients to stop using certain glucose monitors following seven deaths. Certain Free

Holy shit.

[probuccalfat]

great! now do the same medical study with women

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[dailymanners]

Maybe it's the neurodivergence, but one thing I cannot and have not ever been able to understand is why being offended at something is considered such a cardinal sin.

For example, some of you may remember an advertisement campaign from Dr Pepper from the early 2010's that "Dr Pepper is not for women!". A friend of mine wrote a very lengthy, yet calmly and rather academically written essay on why this wasn't harmless fun, and actually quite damaging and misogynistic. She posted it on her blog and shared the link over social media, and everywhere people tore her to shreds for committing the cardinal sin of being offended by something.

That was it. They had no other argument on why her essay or points were wrong or bad other than "she's offended aha!!" and then acted like they totally just owned her and put her in her place by pointing this out. Am I missing something? Why is it worse to be offended than to be offensive?

If you step on my toes, and I yell "ouch!" would you take your foot off of mine and apologize, or would you mock me for being hurt by you stepping on my toes? In what bizarro world would we consider the person who yelled "ouch!" to be weak, or worthy of being mocked, or committing some cardinal offense for yelling "ouch!" instead of just being chill with someone standing on their toes?

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I actually had someone creating multiple accounts to harass me over this post last night. I would block them, and then the same username but just with a different string of numbers at the end would pop up again a few minutes later to continue harassing me.

The thing is, no one does anything like that unless they themselves are offended. A person who looks at this post and feels no offense at the sentiment behind it doesn't get worked up and emotional enough to create multiple accounts just so they can harass the OP.

It's interesting, people who get really angry and heated about this topic have a warped sort of double standard idea of what it means to be offended. Everyone does get offended, but people who get so angry about other people's offense don't see their own anger as offense, it's rational and justified (to them). It's only people who they disagree with / don't like whose anger / negative feelings count as "being offended".

[rottin6-malice]

we as a society should start a fun little game where u can go to a place where a lot of highly trained people will look at your physical condition and check it against known medical knowledge to diagnose what is wrong with you and then treat you for it

[redgoldsparks]

Self Care Tips From Tumblr: When you feel like everyone hates you, sleep. When you feel like you hate everyone, eat. When you feel like you hate yourself, shower. Someone out there feels better because you exist. 

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[dduane]

When you see something sensible; Reblog it. :)

[lycanr0t]

comic about chronic fatigue

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[im-out-of-it]

some abled people love to say “we don’t mind disabilities, chronic illnesses, we know it’s not your fault!” until you start flaring up then suddenly you’re an inconvenience, you never show up, you’re always sick and can’t be relied on. it goes the same way for mental illnesses. “we’re here for you even when you have your episodes” until you have an episode and suddenly you’re the problem because you showed your mental illnesses. some abled people love to preach how they don’t treat people with disabilities different but actions speak louder than words

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[kinkshame-puncher-666]

Reblog this to ease the back pain of the person you reblogged it from

[xsunbirdx]

Shawn Spencer is something else. This is a man, who with 2 minuscule clues to go on, figured out that an armored car theft was about to occur.

This is also a man who proceeded to google "armored car theft" as if that would help.

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I promise you guys have no idea where this video is going

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[lifeafterpsychiatry]

"But why do you let your disability stop you?" Because that's.... what disabilities... do. That's... literally the basic definition... of being disabled... A disability impairs your ability to function. That's what the term means. That's the main thing