It seems like the media is constantly trying to portray us as awful and it’s clearly been going on for hundreds of years. I’ve started thinking it’s some evolutionary thing, the healthy trying to get rid of the weak so we don’t drag them down.

This is exactly how feel about multiple medical departments. For example my physiotherapy is doing nothing. When I’ve completed my current course I’m going to ask for a note saying I’ve been doing physio for years and it’s not working. Whether the physio will provide one or not I don’t know but I don’t want to spend my life having useless physio just to help me claim benefits. Same with mental health therapy, having a note from them helps but I don’t want to spend months doing that useless trash again just for a note.

Thanks for the suggestion but doesn’t mountjaro have a ton of side effects? I’m trying to cut down on the number of meds I take as the side effects are just too awful. Anyway I couldn’t pay for it and to try and get it on prescription I’d have to spend years trying to convince GP to refer me to someone then be on the waiting list for a few more years. Hopefully I’ll be dead by then anyway. I’ve only just managed to get a referral to a urologist this Feb after begging the doctor for help with my bladder issues for over a decade.

I truly believe some medical professionals, just like other people, are really against disability benefits, and purposely try to sabotage patients’ attempts to get them. Many refuse outright. That’s why I asked every single member of medical staff who deals with me (like 7 different departments) for one, and out of all of those I was able to get 2 that were actually decent.

In the UK they will also accept letters from non-medical staff, anyone who knows you, as evidence. I got one from my landlady and one from a social worker, supporting my case. Could you do something like that?

Glad that turned out OK. Hope you get your blood pressure issues solved.

No, I’m not saying he is, just letting everyone know what is being reported.

Did anyone see The Lost King about the search for Richard iii? There’s a bit at the end where someone from the University of Leicester says that the fact that Richard was shown to have scoliosis shows that he really was evil - ie Shakespeare was right about him having a hunchback (even though the scoliosis would not have caused a hunchback) so he must have been right about everything else. Someone else argues “So twisted spine equals twisted personality??”

I found this webpage discussing how Richard iii was made into a disabled stereotype, and how disabled people in general have been seen as cunning and deceitful, which is even true in the modern era. After all anyone who has applied for disability benefits knows you are treated as a scammer who is faking your disability. I just thought it was interesting:

https://www.3da.org/post/richard-iii-shakespeare-and-the-making-of-a-disabled-stereotype

I don’t think it’s the reading, but the murder that’s considered to be terrorism. They just think that because of the literature, he may be a communist. Whether that is relevant to the murder or not remains to be seen. Would have been better if he’d offed Nigel Farage.

I had totally forgotten the dead rat alarm clock!

Thank you.

I’ve had to stop eating a lot of food due to food intolerances, and fruit is the biggest loss. It’s miserable seeing all the lovely juicy fruit around and not being able to eat any. I’ll never understand how people voluntarily choose to avoid it.

What is this from?

It’s amazing how so many americans claim to be the land of the free.

Did you see the one where he had a hole in his roof that a possum had come through, and did nothing to fix it, and the one where his friends made him taste fruit for the first time and he scrunched his face up, spat it out and said “ugh, I don’t know how people do this” and then asked whether he was supposed to eat the banana with the skin on. When told he needed to peel it, he confusedly tried to peel it with a knife.

Looks like the average reddit mod (apart from the flag). Did anyone see that post where someone told AI to draw a reddit mod and it drew something very similar to this? Complete with filthy bedroom.

How old are you?

As well as food intolerances I have developed actual allergic reactions lately to many medications, especially all antibiotics and opioids, as well as a prescribed bladder med. After much pleading a few months ago the doctor finally said she would refer me to an allergy specialist but I have heard nothing about that. It’s like my body can tolerate less and less over time, it’s reacting to almost everything. I already can’t use skin products apart from ones prescribed by the doctor like a soap substitute instead of actual soap, and a prescribed cream instead of normal moisturiser, and only hypoallergenic sanitary towels otherwise I break out in rashes, contact dermatitis and eczema. And on top of all this and the food intolerances, almost everything, especially smells, cause migraines, which is the most miserable thing of all, because you just can’t avoid the smells that other people cause, like perfume. I was told to keep diaries of all this which I did but then the doctor barely even looked at it. It’s just hopeless.

There definitely seems to be some psychological thing going on with humans and too much choice. Back in the 90s when I only had 4 channels and the choice was a bit crap, I would happily watch some boring old thing like Rawhide because that was pretty much all that was on. But with an abundance of choice it’s much harder to find anything to watch.

I really preferred life before all of this. CDs instead of downloads, going to Blockbuster instead of streaming, post instead of emails, books instead of scrolling. Everyone at school talking about the tv show we all watched last night because there were only 4 channels, whereas now there are so many endless shows that you ask someone have you seen this? And they’ve never heard of it. It unified people, all doing the same things and doing them in person, whereas people are now more isolated all doing different things alone at home online.