A community/support group for chronically ill people. While anyone is welcome, our number one priority is keeping this a safe space for chronically ill people.
This is a support group, not a place for people to spout their opinions on disability.
Be excellent to each other
Absolutely no ableism. This includes harmful stereotypes: lazy/freeloaders etc
No quackery. Does an up-to date major review in a big journal or a major government guideline come to the conclusion you’re claiming is fact? No? Then don’t claim it’s fact. This applies to potential treatments and disease mechanisms.
No denialism or minimisation This applies challenges faced by chronically ill people.
No psychosomatising psychosomatisation is a tool used by insurance companies and governments to blame physical illnesses on mental problems, and thereby saving money by not paying benefits. There is no concrete proof psychosomatic or functional disease exists with the vast majority of historical diagnoses turning out to be biomedical illnesses medicine has not discovered yet. Psychosomatics is rooted in misogyny, and consisted up until very recently of blaming women’s health complaints on “hysteria”.
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Two part meme. Part one is a crying young person who looks like they're desperate to get someone to understand something. Caption: 'Me explaining why I can walk fast and run but can't stand or walk slowly well'. Part two is a super annoyed looking, slightly older person. Caption: 'people still assuming I'm lying out of laziness'.
Me trying to explain I can’t sit up to people or I faint.
People keep on telling me to sit up so I say fuck it and sit up to show them, obviously I faint, I wake up a couple minutes later.
Them: Damn you’re a great actor dude.
Are people really that big assholes? That's fucked up.
A lot of people feel it is their “responsibility” to weed out “fakers” of disability.
(Never mind that disability application process is a nightmare in most countries that takes years, where even if you are disabled you often have to apply multiple times and hire a lawyer hefore you get accepted etc.)
Gonna be honest, people like that are quite assholes.
But yeah, I have heard quite often, that applying for disabilities is quite a nightmare.
Ewww any excuse to be ableist ugh
on a serious note, dont put yourswlf at harm's risk just to proove a point. your safety is worth much more ❤️