ao3: DragonsImagined1331 Link: https://archiveofourown.org/users/DragonsImagined1331 25. i don't have any stories right now but i mention stories i've bookmarked a lot in tags so if one sounds interesting you can look, or if you want you can send an ask about said tags and i'll try to find the story i mentioned. witch, bi/pan, and she/they pronouns, please. gemini. i don't exactly want to share my real name so please call me Ainslie or Dragon. this is an 'all the shit i like' blog. i try to tag my own posts with the tag #personal. i also have my #iconic posts, #oc energy and #reference tags; there's also a few others, but those are the only ones really organized. i curse a lot. feel free to ask me stuff, and know that if you want the answer to be censored, you can just ask, it won't be a problem. feel free to screenshot my tags if you'd like to, i don't mind :) if you reblog something from me and write tags, i'll be reading them. even if it's that post of mine with 60k something notes. i read everything that's reblogged from me with notes or tags.
@forallthepjostuff -percy jackson and the olympians and relevant media (heroes of olympus, kane chronicles, the percy jackson and the olympians show, etc.)
@mytwentyonepilotsstuff - things relating to the band twenty one pilots
if i reblog anything that can go on one of these blogs, that's where i'm going to reblog it to, not to my main. this list could possibly grow, i'm not sure yet, but if i do make another sideblog, this list'll be updated with it the same day.
One time when I was a kid a group of girls and I had to treat another student for hypothermia by ourselves because she had so many invisible health issues that the adults we asked for help didn't believe us. The student in question was actively hallucinating. When I finally ran for help the people I grabbed were slow as shit to respond, casually joking about how "dramatic" the person in question was.
The kid was picked up by an ambulance 30 minutes later.
Now as an adult working in security I get SO MANY folks- upper-middle aged mostly- coming to me to 'rat out' people they think are faking it.
I was once sent into a bathroom because a client demanded that the "fucker won't get out, so go drag them out"- I was NEVER going to do that, so I did a wellness check instead. You know who it was? A person recently released from the hospital after a car accident. They had a hole in their skull and major hearing loss. They couldn't answer the owner because they couldn't HEAR the owner.
Another time about a homeless man who got around town by kicking the ground from his wheelchair. "You know he doesn't actually need that thing, his legs work fine, it's just for pity points"- Oh, so he's not paralyzed, his wheelchair is performative? Funny story Dale, I actually know that guy, he was backed over by a truck and has chronic pain from his shattered pelvis. But sure, let's make him stand up and walk everywhere so nobody feels too bad for him and tries to help him or something.
"She doesn't need that scooter, I've seen her get out of it."
"Look how fat he is, because he just rides around and refuses to get up."
"She doesn't really need that cane- she comes here without it all the time"
Sincerely, truly, from the bottom of my heart- as someone who isn't physically disabled but hears this shit all the time- fuck off
thing I am proud of: when the doctor started going on a weird rant about long covid not being real I paused and listened to his nonsense for a bit and then very calmly said, in a polite and curious tone, "you don't believe in post-viral illness?" and he like. stammered a bunch and was like OH WELL I'M NOT SAYING -- I DON'T...I just think ..! and backpedaled awkwardly while I just sat there like :3c interesting :3c thank you so much for clarifying your stance on this :3c
an important skill for chronically ill people to develop is the ability to treat the doctor as though they are simply a person you are interviewing to find out how much they know about your condition.
Holy shit op this is LITERALLY in the book 'Never Split The Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depends On It'. Written by a guy who did hostage negotiation and then tried doing business negotiation, and mopped the floor with industry experts.
I'm fortunate enough to have a primary care doctor who knows about hEDS, but it's occurring to me that the skills in this book could be medically life changing for chronically ill folks of all kinds. Like. Literally a matter of life and death, especially for BIPOC and/or fat and/or young people who are having their issues dismissed.
i honestly don't really understand why "some people prefer watching gameplay online rather than playing games themselves" is treated as such a taboo when being a spectator is considered a pretty mundane way to engage with most sports, game shows, reality tv or even just like. chess.