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having invisible disabilities really shifts what your ideas of “personal information” and “privacy” and “dignity” bc u meet someone and you explain your situation for the past couple years with honesty and they’re like “wow.. it must be so hard to share that thank you..” and you’re like i mean yeah it’s just what my life has been.. and they give you the “😟☹️😅 yeah…”
like just saying “yeah so i went through several doctors who didn’t know how to treat me before i found one hospital that would..” or “i have a suicidal and depressive episode once every four weeks exactly” has gone from embarrassing to common small talk with cowkerkers or receptionist. if i want people to have reasonable expectations of me i have to tell them all my wide open dirty little secrets. while it’s nice to be accepted/accommodated or at least tolerated i do wish there was more grace and privacy with mental health/mental disabilities.
you can say one thing and have some privacy and dignity but no real concern- “i don’t feel good today” OR you can tell the truth “i feel like killing myself today” and feel totally exposed/humiliated and at risk of something worse. you lie and become “flaky” or you show up and become “an asshole” or you tell the truth and become a “psycho bummer”. pick your perception: lazy or crazy. either way nobody knows how to treat you
Although not going by the term "asexual" yet, asexuality was spoken about alongside homosexuality as far back as the 1890s. Asexual history is just as vital to queer history as any other term and I'm so tired of watching us being treated like a new thing
We always share bad news, so what about some good ones?
This week in Brazil, after over a year of constant efforts, we abolished the 6x1 workweek. And we only got this victory thanks to a trans woman and a gay man!!!!
Erika Hilton and Rick Azevedo fought so, so hard for this. The congresswoman and the activist led this movement, they got the whole country to fight for this, until the rest of the house (mostly right-wing) had to cave in and approve the bill. It's almost as if politicians fear the people ;)
Ofc we still have to get it approved by the Senate, but this is HUGE. People will be able to work less, rest more, without pay cuts!
The lower house passed the amendment, known as PEC 221/19, in two rounds late on Wednesday. The first vote was 472 to 22 and the second 461
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I should be doing more to appreciate the lack of marvel movies in today's popular culture. I once yearned for marvel movies to have this level of irrelevance. They used to feel almost ozymandian, like an empire that had no beginning and no end. and now tony stark iron man is naught but two vast and trunkless legs of stone.
There was a whole ass Star Wars movie that premiered last Friday and it got overtaken by a million dollar horror film on the following Wednesday, nature is healing.