Captain_Waffles

That looks so comfy

Yep, super annoying. Like come-on body, make up your mind.

Eh, bunnies might give them a run for their money 😂

*Non-mewtonian fluid

Awww, poor neglected baby

Yep, I remember struggling to learn to pronounce transubstantiation when I was 7 and in speech therapy because I was struggling to pronounce anything correctly. So I was just forced to practice it over and over and over again.

I mean I once listened to my sister talk about buttonholes for like an hour, so deal. Who knew there were so many different kinds of buttonholes?

Yep, like at one point only needing my rescue med three times a week was an improvement. I can only take it three times a week, and would just have to suffer waiting till I could take more. Then it was two doses a week, and now at about 1.5. It's not good, but it's better. I'm not expecting miracles, I know it's incurable, but I'll still try for better.

Also Roman Catholic. I was raised that it wasn't symbolic, but actually transformed into his real flesh and blood. 🤮

Yeah, like I'm not that bad all the time, usually I'm pretty okay, and can live my life fairly normally, but when it gets bad it's BAD. And when that happens I can't push anything, physically or mentally, I just have to rest. I go for walks when I'm up to it, try to have some semblance of a routine, eat fairly healthy, get some exercise, hang out with friends, all that stuff. I'm actually doing way better than I was a few years ago. I still have a long way to go, but I've already come a long long way. I still end up in a slump quite often, but it's in general an upward trajectory. I count that as a victory. Not in the "I'm accepting that this is the end" way, but in the "hell yeah I came this far" way.

Yeah, like it's terrifying that people can go through a decade of education and training and still not have a grasp on some of the basics of their field. I expect to have to explain my migraine because I have a pretty rare subtype (like I'm the first person my neurologist has treated), but I shouldn't have to explain why I can't take a medication that says on the pamphlet "DO NOT TAKE IF YOU HAVE [CONDITION I HAVE]". I'm not expecting every doctor to understand a neurological condition that affects less than 1 in 8,000 people, but I do expect them to accept that I do have it and not treat me like I'm being uncooperative for not being willing to risk a significant increase in risk of life threatening side effects.

I had a psychiatrist send me off with the helpful suggestion to start working out, I was a lifeguard and literally had to work out to keep my job. He also told me I couldn't have ADHD because I'd graduated high school, without checking if I actually had. Like I did, but he just assumed that. The kid who showed up twice a week and turned in work never also graduated. My school had an excellent graduation rate, just ignore all the people who graduated unable to read past a 5 year old level.

I'm still undiagnosed, though not for lack of trying. One doc wanted me to stop literally every medication I was on for like an entire month "to get a baseline", and when I refused he prescribed me something I couldn't take anyway, and I never went back. I'm chronically ill, that would literally land me in the hospital.