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Effie Seiberg | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 Hey disabled/chronically ill peeps:

Wanna confirm your worst fears? Here's a reddit thread of residents showing unbelievable contempt for patients w certain diagnoses: https://reddit.com/r/Residency/s/AbReVlD4FO

Hey allies:

This is what your loved ones have to deal with. Go w them to doc appts to help advocate!

#disability #disabled #gaslighting #chronicillness #MECFS #fibro #POTS #bipolar #MCAS #EDS #DID #medicine #medical #ableism
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031254ed | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @e7d4ac82 

JFC, that was horrific. 

Like I knew that doctors often are ableist assholes, but fuck. That's just so horrifically blatant. UGH.
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Bree Trulove | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @e7d4ac82 That made me feel absolutely horrible. I didn't ask for a mast cell disease w/ anaphylaxis to a "comically long list of things" or dysautonomia/POTs, or autonomic neuropathy. And I didn't self-diagnose. And... and... you know, it doesn't matter. Whatever. I already feel so helpless and hopeless lately as my body deteriorates and no one can help. Maybe they're right and I'm now just "incompatible with life."