counselling student 🐝 🦥
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This is a thread of things that I like, that make me happy and smiley
-the colour yellow
-the word starry
-soft things, like fluffy socks or jumpers
- blankets, especially handmade ones
-books, fiction mostly
-dogs, little paws, cute noses, soft ears
-paw print shapes
-puns
bee🌻🐝🦥 retweeted
I was told my tachycardia was due to fighting with my boyfriend.
My hysterectomy was denied because I might “meet a man who wants kids”.
My lower leg edema was blamed on “getting fat”.
My crippling period pain was “part of growing up”.
Medical misogyny is real.
Medical misdiagnosis costs hundreds of billions of dollars each year and quietly drains household finances—especially for women. newsweek.com/medical-misdiag…
bee🌻🐝🦥 retweeted
I obviously have a great deal to say about this, but the crux of the matter is you never know what someone is going through. Hygiene poverty, illness (both mental and physical), disabilities, and housing inequality can all affect a person’s ability to maintain odourlessness.
when a program crashes and you open task manager to end the crashed program and then task manager crashes
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bee🌻🐝🦥 retweeted
The Final Delivery Plan for ME/CFS has been released today.
The full report was shared with some organisations and media outlets late yesterday. We’re waiting for it to go online.
A short 🧵with some thoughts…
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bee🌻🐝🦥 retweeted
There's this entire myth that loads of people are faking/exaggerating sickness for some social/financial benefit, but the reality is that most people are actually pretending to be LESS sick than they are because that's what society demands.
bee🌻🐝🦥 retweeted
the 1-10 pain scale system is so odd to me as a neurodivergent person because what do you mean how much pain am I in? usually? right now? this morning? in the evening? what is 10? burning alive or the worst pain I have personally experienced?
bee🌻🐝🦥 retweeted
Today a doctor asked the question most disabled patients dread…
“What do you want ME to do about it?”
I wanted to scream:
Your job!
Help me!
Solve the problem!
Provide treatment!
But I didn’t. I remained calm. I avoided being “difficult”
I left with no answers 🧵
bee🌻🐝🦥 retweeted
You’re telling someone who needs 1:1 care to wash, eat, and stay alive that they’ll get £3,000 less a year—because it might “encourage them into work.”
They can’t even dress themselves.
This isn’t just cruel.
It’s dehumanising. #UniversalCredit #CrueltyNotCare @UNHumanRights
