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The worst-sounding piece of advice I've ever been given that does actually work is to frame your health concerns as coming from someone close to you, whom you do not believe. Tell your doctor that you've been having pain and your mom/friend/partner thinks it might be an ovarian cyst, but you don't think so because the pain is much more intense and it has to be something else. This gives your doctor an unseen third party to fight instead of you. They can't just tell this third party, who isn't present, that you pulled a muscle, they now need to prove to this third party that it is not an ovarian cyst.

At which point they will find an ovarian cyst, but they now get whatever fucked up satisfaction they derive out of proving you wrong, because you didn't believe it could a cyst at all, but guess what? They did find a cyst! It's such a good thing you didn't listen to your intuition and came to them to verify your lay diagnosis from that third party! Bonus? Doctor doesn't have to feel like they look stupid in front of a patient, which is really what all this is about. Not your health, why would you think your medical diagnosis is about your health? It's obviously about a doctor's potential ego.

And apparently this works. Apparently you just need to be able to always play 4D chess with your medical professionals in order to find an avenue of advocating for yourself and getting you medical needs met. Isn't that great?

I hate it here, actually.

weirdstrangeandawful

If you have multiple specialists or move around a lot, you can also say 'one of my doctors mentioned X to me but I can't remember who and I never had it investigated'. Doctors love to one-up each other. Worst case you get dismissed and don't have to lie next time you pull this on a different doctor and best case they do investigate.

insufferablepirate

Every day I see posts like this online and every day I am grateful for the NORMAL medical professionals in my life who listen to the things I have to say and the research I have done about my own body. They’re not all like that but some of them are and lord am I grateful for them 😮‍💨

claredelun3e

Camp Hail Mary!!!

enbyogre

Ryland Grace is Sandy from Spongebob

enbyogre

#XD

faemaxxing

:( :( :( :( :( the thought came to me

meburgers

saint-father113

°•.

Please forgive me

This is the final drawing, yeah.

ma91c

Some doodles about movies I watched recently

for-those-who-wait

They didn't notice him. Or maybe they did

everyfandompossible

Idk if this has been done already, but I found it hilarious

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ryzselo

My single contribution to the PHM fandom

whispering-radiance

Stratt, the saint patron of scapegoats

unheardoracle

Your dialogue is stiff because everyone is being too honest

Great dialogue can come from radical emotional honesty. But in most real conversations, people

dodge questions

answer indirectly

lie (badly)

change the subject

crack jokes to avoid serious answers

lie (convincingly)

say half of what they mean

tell the truth but get so anxious/angry/defensive others now think they're lying

If your dialogue feels unnatural, it might be because everyone is saying exactly what they think, or articulating their thoughts too well. Try letting characters hide things instead.

Subtext is where tension lives.

dopedyk

more so,

people don’t always speak in full sentences,

slang can change depending on age range, demographic, etc. &

don’t be scared of vocal pauses (uhm, uh, err)

purplesaline

Melon collies

sahonithereadwolf

I can no longer feel the infinite sadness

aphractal2

physical manifestations of health bar?

skinks

I love that thing when people get a little bit tongue-tied and garble what they’re trying to say so they make a little “blegh” 👅 noise and start over. verbal reset button. hitting the top of the tv to unscramble the signal