FDR U Kidding Me?!

Those guys who said they cured polio? Yeah, They lied. This is life with Coxsackievirus Poliomyelitis and ME/CFS

[bartonellababe-blog]

So you stand up too fast and then

Balance issues? Let’s call it swagger.

[thischroniclife]

When people don't realise they need take your symptoms seriously...

[bey-gypt]

Chris Rock: It's not black people who have progressed. It's white people.

[fdrukiddingme]

"When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it’s all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they’re not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before…

So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress. There’s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years. If you saw Tina Turner and Ike having a lovely breakfast over there, would you say their relationship’s improved? Some people would. But a smart person would go, “Oh, he stopped punching her in the face.” It’s not up to her. Ike and Tina Turner’s relationship has nothing to do with Tina Turner. Nothing. It just doesn’t. The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people.”

[whatarespoons-blog]

So you know how most people say “my mind is telling me no, but my body is telling me yes” Well being a spoonie means that most of the time it’s the opposite. My mind is telling me yes, but my body is telling me no. Sometimes they’re both saying no. Either way I’m not able to do the thing.

[childmagazine]

i can’t take this any more but i will, 2011

David Schlaich (part of his ongoing cancer serie)

[chronic-illness-cat]

from the amazing Elizabeth Henetz

[picture of a Siamese cat’s head against a triangle-sectioned background with many shades of blue. Top line of text reads: “Dismissive Statements = ‘There are people worse than you, therefore,” Bottom line of text reads: “your pain isn’t valid, and it’s ok for me to not have empathy for you’.”]

[addieroxx-blog]

It has been about 10 months since i started hormone replacement. Its been difficult but still is the best decision i have ever made. Loving life and finally being free as myself after far too many hollow years. =)

#transgender #mtf #pansexual #amazing life #single #addie fuckin rocks

[fdrukiddingme]

STUNNING! so gorgeous!

[fdrukiddingme]

Brainwashed

So tired of constantly fighting the effects of brain washing that happens from long term sexual, physical, religious, and psychological abuse. Its like these men have broken the part of me that felt worthy of being treated like a human being, and now years later I'm still picking out shards of glass embedded in me. What if I deserve so much better but I can't see it because of how badly I've been treated for so long? Its like Ive lost my understanding on what human relationships are supposed to be at this point.

[fdrukiddingme]

PTSD and ME

Mucus wakes up my brain every morning by convincing my body it is chocking. The fear of chocking and dying at the moment of waking triggers my PTSD and instead of falling back asleep I close my eyes to flash backs..... This has been every day since this last PTSD relapse and I can take it another day. And yet I do.

[spooniestrong]

[riotsnotdiets]

[fdrukiddingme]

i can't live like this anymore

Honestly, i had no concept, that life could get worse after surviving a physically and religiously abusive husband while living with a permanent and life threatening disease that has taken away every activity i ever loved away from me....

but life is so much worse. i can see everything i have worked so hard to built back up being pulled away, and i can see the two people who are doing it to me and i can see my friends noticing and just ignoring my tears and flashbacks and relapses. WHY WILL NO ONE WILL STAND UP FOR ME ?? Why is it so much more important to have a good time than to be a good person???!!!

I have done it myself, but nobody seem to care what i have to say.

any one who has ever tricked me into being in the same room with the man who sexual assault me can go to hell.

and the people who have now tried to do it more than three times can go FUCK THEMSELVES IN HELL YOU ROTTEN SHIT HEADS.

[mikshajagwanth]

I came across a study about a survey conducted of occupational therapy students and physiotherapy student’s attitudes to disabled people.

This study really interested me as at my university, there is this unspoken rivalry between...

[thischroniclife]

When you tell someone about your chronic illness and they just look at you like...

[fdrukiddingme]

Who are you supporting

If you don't stand up and help a child who has been victimized, you are standing up and helping pedophiles. If you don't stand up and protect victims of sexual assault, YOU are standing up and protecting the perpetrator. If you don't stand up and protect rape victims YOU ARE PROTECTING RAPISTS. If you don't protect and support victims of domestic abuse, YOU are supporting and protecting wife beaters. Its really hard to talk about experiencing physical or sexual assault, even to a person you really thought you could trust. Please realize that if someone chooses to open up to you. Its because they trust you its because they believe you will support them. Whatever you do, don't say you can't choose sides, don't say you don't believe them, don't say you have to get the other side of the story, or that's just not like him, or, children have very vivid imaginations or well that's not really my business, or I can't judge him for something i didn't see. Remember when you say those things and stay friends the perpetrator. You are LITERALLY teaching your criminal friend that he can rape and assault consequence free. Even worse you are telling the victim that you don't really care what has happened to them. No matter how many sympathetic words follow, you have already shown your true character. Think hard about your values, and what you want for your daughters or your wives or girlfriends the next time someone is admitting to you that they are the victims of a sexual or violent crime.

[kendrawcandraw-deactivated20190]

Never apologize for loving yourself. Self-love is power

[yelyahwilliams]

hey, this is truth. 

[seeinstars]

It is so difficult to talk about emotional abuse because it is so much bigger than the sum of its parts. The everyday instances, when isolated, seem so insignificant and commonplace that you feel it’s not worth mentioning at all. When you do try to articulate it, it sounds so...