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i really wish that ehlers-danlos syndrome wasn't basically just thought of as the "bendy" disorder. firstly, there are more than 13 types of eds, and they all have varying relations to and degrees of hypermobility. secondly, eds are a collection of congenital connective tissue disorders - connective tissue makes up a vast majority of your body and, because of this, eds, hsd, and other congenital connective tissue disorders like loey-dietz, marfans, stickler syndrome, and osteogenesis imperfecta are multi systemic.

having eds or another connective tissue disorder is SO much more than just some flexibility and it's especially frustrated that they're often thought of solely in relation to that one aspect of them because it leads a lot of people down the path of misdiagnosis.

as an advocate and educator regarding ctds and especially eds, i have spoken to SO many people who simply wrote the possibility of them having a ctd like ehlers-danlos off simply because they aren't flexible. it's such a dangerous misconception and really frustrating to see especially given the fact that the muscles of hypermobile people often overcompensate to make up for joint laxity, which can actually lead to a lack of flexibility/high tone/spasticity

so yeah, tl;dr: if you have a bunch of multisystemic symptoms that seem largely unconnected, look into connective tissue disorders. they're much more common than people think, frequently go under the radar, and can really wreck havoc on your body - ESPECIALLY when you aren't aware that you have one

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I still can't believe we've just stopped talking about covid. it's so surreal to watch it destroy people's lives and most people have no idea what's happening. I can't believe we're putting kids in the position of getting covid over and over again.

if you have new weird symptoms or conditions popping up seemingly out of nowhere, it could very well be as a result of having had covid. if you're collapsing into bed at the end of your workweek, bone tired, it could be because of having had covid.

it causes multi systemic issues, damages blood vessels and the brain, triggers the development of chronic conditions and autoimmune diseases and more. pots and mcas are really common. symptoms can look a lot of ways because the impact of covid is multi systemic.

I know this is alarming. but I gotta say, having had postviral illness for many years, getting started on treating these things has improved my quality of life significantly. there is no cure for a lot of it, but life can still be made better with the right medicine.

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jesus fucking christ guys stop using the word empathy when youre just talking about compassion.

"you need to show basic empathy towards-" THATS NOT EVEN EMPATHY YOURE TALKING ABOUT. YOURE JUST TALKING ABOUT COMPASSION. SOME PEOPLE ARE INCAPABLE OF EMPATHY OR ARE LIMITED, BUT THEY ARE STILL COMPASSIONATE AND GOOD PEOPLE. SHUT THE FUCK UP

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there really is something about relationships between two people that are simultaneously relationships between three people (or more). you can interpret that however you want. secret identity love squares. two people but one of them is haunted by another person. two people but both of them are haunted by the same person. someone is possessed. literally just a throuple. when there's just two people in the room but they always carry someone else along with them. Something about it.

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These photos surfacing from Dashcon 2 look exactly like how I imagine Dashcon 1 was supposed to look. It's straight up like seeing visions from an alternate reality where Dashcon actually happened properly and wasn't a behind-the-scenes disaster, except it's real life and it's happening right now in 2025. The Muppet Joker is dead. The Ballpit is unpeed in. Nature is healing. Long live Dashcon.

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when you talk shit about drug addicts who aren’t “functioning members of society” you are talking shit about disabled people. this is not up for debate.

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''i wasted those years'' who cares. you lived the only life you could've lived in those moments

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why is it that every time a family or person gets tormented and kidnapped by ICE everyone has to emphasize "but they were here LEGALLY". can everyone fucking stop that??? why does it matter if they were "legal" or not? do they have to be for you to care or think defending them is justified?

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not the first time he’s said this but he seems to be hard launching it now. can white people like say something now or

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A good rule of thumb whenever a non-fiction author has "Dr." or "Phd" next to their name on the cover is to check if:

Their doctorate is real and from an accredited institution

Their doctorate is relevant to the subject matter of the book

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ربما كان عند الرجال الترانس حاجات مادية أكثر في 'ثقافتهم' لو ما كانوا تاريخيًا الطرف من 'مجتمعنا' الممنوع قانونيًا حتى من فتح حساب بنكي.

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Do you ever look at the huge office buildings that have sat empty since 2020 and think about all the things that could go there if they would just lower the fucking rent?

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never stops being existentially horrifying to realize that someone you're talking to thinks that there is any kind of biological basis for "race" like the amount of people who are like 'racism is bad, of course race is a real scientific thing it's just bad to treat people differently because of it' and it's like no there is no biological or scientific basis for race it's purely a social concept. a dark skinned black person and a very pale white person can share more dna than two black people or two white people like it's all made up you can't tell someone's genetic or biological makeup just by looking at them. it's all socially constructed and there are massive consequences for this construction but anyone who tries to say that there is any kind of scientific basis for race whether they're knowingly purposely racist or trying to be "progressive" is wrong and realizing that someone you're talking to in a completely benign situation dead seriously thinks that such a thing as a "white race" actually scientifically exists is so terrifying

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A woman wearing a bathing suit is not "suggestive" and I need y'all to stop tagging shit as such.

That's straight up puritanical nonsense rhetoric and you gotta destroy the part of your brain that immediately assumes that kinda shit.

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Elias, Martin, Gertrude, Sasha, Basira, and Daisy, are characters that were made to be in a serious horror podcast.

Jon, Gerard, Tim, Georgie, and Melanie were all made to be in an episode of Scooby Doo and are tormented greatly by the fact that they're characters in a serious horror podcast.

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To defeat algorithmic censorship, we must do something I call "reverse euphemism". Instead of coming up with "clean" versions of taboo terms, we need to use the taboo terms to refer to mundane things, thus forcing the censors to allow them.

We already started doing it with "rawdogging". We should keep going.