#lifelong people

[mlrecords]

Hello, we're Lifelong People. It took about six months to come up with LP7. It is finished.

We'll let you know the details coming soon.

[lycandrophile]

I love you lifelong vaginal atrophy

i love you topical estrogen that treats atrophy and doesn’t interfere with testosterone at all. i love you modern medicine that makes safe and harmless transitions possible. i love you health professionals who explained the risks of taking testosterone to me calmly and told me exactly how we would respond to each one if they ever became an issue because they’re not scary or unmanageable if you have good, competent people on your side.

i hate you terf rhetoric that completely ignores the actual reality of testosterone hrt in favor of portraying it as poison. i hate you transphobes who try to make me scared of the medication that gave me my life back.

[mueritos]

happy pride to all queer children of immigrants

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[chronicpaingirlie]

it’s interesting to me how nondisabled people seem to have such a hard time grasping the idea that my illnesses are forever. for me it took some time for it to sink in, yeah, but other people seem to just like. refuse to even acknowledge the possibility (or reality) of disability and chronic illness.

like what’s your problem lol. why can’t you even try to imagine a world in which i am disabled forever and still a person living my life. why do you equate disabled with bad & unhappy & impossible to go on living with. why can’t you believe me when i say this is forever and im still a person and i still want to live

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Sometimes I feel like celiac disease doesn't actually count as a disability since it's so easy and stress free compared to deadly allergies, but then I remember that I have to meticulously plan every trip I go to and play 4D chess with uni campus restaurant menus and for a brief moment there was genuine consideration if I should be put on growth hormones because I was so small from not getting enough nutrients

[cozylittleartblog]

when valve has enough money to buy god, but they let bots ruin their game for 5 years and dox people 🤖🔫 #FIXTF2

everyone who signs this 100k+ petition will have their name printed and sent to valve HQ. this shit is unacceptable.

[ryusaidate]

she is going to end the cycle of violence by participating in the cycle of violence. wish her luck!

[virsancte]

just straight up copying grandpa in her big girl chair, crazy

[spikemd]

Just reblogged a post about harm reduction, and it reminded me that in my own personal life, learning about harm reduction was what finally started the cognitive dissonance that allowed me to start questioning my conservative Catholic upbringing. I was doing basic science research and shadowing with an infectious disease doctor once a week the summer after my freshman year of college, and he gave me ‘And the Band Played On’ to read as homework (which as a teen who read the focus on the family book on puberty as “sex ed” was truly a startling experience), and in the midst of that I met real life gay men who’d live through the start of the AIDS epidemic. And I just couldn’t understand how it made sense to say “condoms are bad, hard stop,” when even if I didn’t “agree with the lifestyle” (deep sigh from my now-bisexual self), I still didn’t want people to die or get a disease if we could prevent it. That’s where I started questioning the mentality of consequences and punishments and burdens that had been deeply instilled in me from childhood. That concept opened the door to supporting needle exchange and rejecting my anti-abortion upbringing and making the speed run from homophobic to ally to oh wait this is me. The next decade of questioning everything while I trained in medicine was exhausting and unsettling and fundamentally changed me, but I’m so grateful I had the chance to change.

For me, the concept of harm reduction was the crack that let the light in.

[marisatomay]

That woman is so overexposed. And yet she seems to think that the solution is just to double down on her own overexposure. Like it’s two negatives that cancel out. It doesn’t work like that.

[shinynewmemories]

"Gale says I never smile except in the woods."

Well that's strange, considering Peeta can make Katniss smile/laugh-

- on the train to the Capitol:

"Peeta unexpectedly laughs. 'He was drunk,' says Peeta. 'He’s drunk every year.'

'Every day,' I add. I can’t help smirking a little."

- while waiting to be paraded around like livestock:

"'Where is Haymitch, anyway? Isn’t he supposed to protect us from this sort of thing?' says Peeta.

'With all that alcohol in him, it’s probably not advisable to have him around an open flame,' I say.

And suddenly we’re both laughing."

- in the training center:

"When we finally escape to bed on the second night, Peeta mumbles, 'Someone ought to get Haymitch a drink.'

I make a sound that is somewhere between a snort and a laugh."

- at the dinner table:

"'I hope that’s how people interpret the four I’ll probably get,' says Peeta. 'If that. Really, is anything less impressive than watching a person pick up a heavy ball and throw it a couple of yards. One almost landed on my foot.'

I grin at him and realize that I’m starving."

- in the Arena:

"Peeta, it turns out, has never been a danger to me. The thought makes me smile."

- in the Arena:

"I lean over and put my good ear to his lips, which tickle as he whispers. 'Remember, we’re madly in love, so it’s all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.'

I jerk my head back but end up laughing."

- in the Arena:

"'Katniss?' Peeta says. I meet his eyes, knowing my face must be some shade of green. He mouths the words. 'How about that kiss?'

I burst out laughing because the whole thing is so revolting I can’t stand it."

- in the Arena:

"Peeta’s struggling to get up when I reach the cave. 'I woke up and you were gone,' he says. 'I was worried about you.'

I have to laugh as I ease him back down."

- in the Arena:

"'So that day, in music assembly, the teacher asked who knew the valley song. Your hand shot right up in the air. She stood you up on a stool and had you sing it for us. And I swear, every bird outside the windows fell silent,' Peeta says.

'Oh, please,' I say, laughing."

- in the Arena:

"'Hey, Effie, watch this!' says Peeta. He tosses his fork over his shoulder and literally licks his plate clean with his tongue making loud, satisfied sounds. Then he blows a kiss out to her in general and calls, 'We miss you, Effie!'

I cover his mouth with my hand, but I’m laughing."

- during the Victory Tour:

"'Isn’t it strange that I know you’d risk your life to save mine . . . but I don’t know what your favorite color is?' [Peeta] says.

A smile creeps onto my lips."

- all the way from the Capitol when she's in District 13:

"'You’re alive,' I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that’s so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta’s alive."

[mlrecords]

New Horizon has its sister album. Lifelong People gives you the new album, Sightseeing Scenes. More things to explore.

[communistkenobi]

reading orientalism some more and I like that the introduction is mostly Said listing all the caveats to his thesis. like for pages and pages he’s like I’m NOT saying this or this or this so don’t respond to me like I said any of that shit. I love when academics preface their work with “here are all the reasons why you’re not allowed to get mad at me”

[amadryades]

ten years ago my dream was to study history & archaeology and I remember the teacher I was closest to discouraging me because I think and write like I do literature not history, my mind has a tendency to alter facts in favor of beauty // seven years ago she said that if I leave law school for the humanities I'll end up just as miserable as her // seven years ago I did leave law school and did not become miserable but philology faculties in Greece (and modern Greek faculties abroad) are toxic to a radioactive level// one year ago I was offered a place, then got snaked and rejected by a dream literature institution for reasons still unknown to me// the same day I vowed that within a year I will have found a job 3 times better// today I am working in a cultural heritage project where 90% of my colleagues are... historians and archaeologists and computer scientists// it's funny how life works in concentric circles and ring compositions to land you where you should have been from day one, truly the most talented author

[apostate-in-an-alcove]

As a chronically ill person, I don't trust nor do I like doctors and medical professionals as a whole and if that makes me an unreasonable asshole then so be it.

[sysmedsaresexist]

Kind reminder

It's not your job to tell people how to identify.

Many, many mental health disorders are lifelong, they never go away, but symptom management is possible!

If someone reaches a point that they are choosing to no longer identify with their disorder, or feel that it no longer fits them, or simply choose not to transfer their medical records to a new doctor (hi) because they feel they no longer need access to resources at that time, or if they never had a diagnosis to begin with...

That's none of your business.

You can't force the label on them, or force them to keep it. Yelling about how they still have a disorder isn't helping anyone-- not yourself, not them, not the people still working on themselves watching this happen.

You can't force diagnosis, treatment, or ideals on people. There are many reasons that someone might choose to drop a label or diagnosis, and it's none of your business why or how.

Learn to respect personal autonomy and self-determination in mental health care.

You're not just telling them they have a disorder, you're also telling them that they're struggling, even if they're not.

And that's just not for you to decide.