neurotypical bodies are machine that turn basic misheard knowledge about disabilities into a slur against anyone who disagrees with them.
GUYS ISN'T TRUMP LITERALLY A [mental disorder that they just learned about].
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I have a proletariat palette. The cheap olives taste really good, but the more expensive ones taste like soap.
I got a shift, I can afford medication. It's... uhh. The most direct route involves taking a bus in the opposite direction so I can take a train going the wrong way that connects to another train that goes the right way so I can catch a bus that connects to another bus that gets me there.
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Another day trying to trick the world into thinking I'm normal and failing badly let's gooooooo
vibrates in barely keeping it together
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Haven't been very active the past couple of days as my laptop charger died, but someone came through and helped me get a new one.
It seemed OK at first but then I had a bad 24 hours after my surgery, much more bleeding and pain than usual, but it seems to have died down to a normal amount of oozing and not much pain now. And they had a cancellation so they've moved my next surgery forward to the 24th.
But for the past few days I've had endless tingling and pins and needles in my legs and feet. I don't think it's related to the surgery. I'm wondering if it's related to my hair loss as both these things started very recently. So bloody difficult to get medical help these days though.
And to top it all off: I mentioned a while ago that I take an anti migraine med that can cause autism and ADHD in your child if you get pregnant while taking it. For this reason the government now says women who take this drug must also take birth control. I had a big battle fighting against having to take birth control and I thought it was finally over - now they've started sending me messages demanding I make an appointment to get birth control, again! I am furious. I am asexual, I am going through perimenopause, I'm a stroke patient so hormonal birth control would be very dangerous for me and I don't want a coil - being forced into a painful and degrading medical procedure against my will. This is sexual discrimination plain and simple. Just because I'm female I have to take drugs I don't want or have my migraine meds taken away? Not to mention the fact that society must really hate ADHD/autistic people if they are this desperate to stop them from being born.
I have written to my local MP to complain about this but he is useless, I'd be amazed if he even replies.
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Update on the healing journey: The wound isn't closed still, but is neither infected nor has any scar tissue, so that's good. The medication I got for my surgical wound, however, had a lot of cortisone, which is the main antagonist to insulin. So my high glucose levels have their origin here, thus making my diabetes the main culprit for all of this taking so long. I hope to get my glucose levels back under control soon bc holy shit, I haven't slept well since I got out of the hospital.
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Don't let me post for the next 3 hours, I'm arting and then I have to do a thing.
Should I take your phone away until you have to do the thing?
Smort. We should consider that next time
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And so are you 
thank you for the new mega
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