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Chronic Illness

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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.

Rules

  1. Be excellent to each other

  2. Absolutely no ableism. This includes harmful stereotypes: lazy/freeloaders etc

  3. 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.

  4. No denialism or minimisation This applies challenges faced by chronically ill people.

  5. 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”.

Did your post/comment get removed? Before arguing with moderators consider that the goal of this community is to provide a safe space for people suffering from chronic illness. Moderation may be heavy handed at times. If you don’t like that, find or create another community that prioritises something else.

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[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 20 points 11 months ago

Apparently some social media platforms read the text in images and filter or deprioritize content containing certain words they deem to be too provocative so this is one way to avoid that happening to your meme. Personally I think it's done entirely for the benefit of the advertisers.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago
[–] mecfs@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

“Have you tried being positive?”

[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fuck these censored memes.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

And fuck all the sheep who self-censor for clicks, it is shaping our language in dangerous ways and almost no one takes it seriously.

[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 6 points 11 months ago

When was your last pregnancy test?

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Good thing the bad word was censored.