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Healthcare workers - please don’t call a patient “sweetie” “baby” “cutie” or any similar adjective. It’s inappropriate.

Treat female presenting patients the same way you would treat male ones.

If you’re concerned about abuse - ask in private AFTER patient is stabilized.

recently shared an example of a nurse calling me “sweetie” and asking if I was fighting with my boyfriend.

I had lost consciousness, had a heart rate of 180 and NO signs of abuse. I was also alone.

I needed an immediate EKG & stabilization

It was inappropriate and made me question the quality of care I would receive.

That said - HCWs play a vital role in protecting victims of abuse.

I have absolutely no issue with asking a patient if they’re being hurt, in danger etc.

believe it should be after emergent issue has been treated - and you shouldn’t use patronizing language while doing it.

The nurse treating me wasn’t concerned about abuse. She was downplaying my condition & gaslighting me.

Something disabled patients deal with too often.

The same goes for patients requesting their HCWs mask (or showing up in a mask themselves).

Don’t say “aww are you scared about Covid? Anxious about getting sick?”

Just put on a mask. It won’t harm you. It shows you understand the science & value patient safety.

I’m fed up with the ableist, misogynistic and patriarchal attitudes we have to deal with to access life saving care.

I will continue to share these stories in the hopes they help people think differently about how they treat patients. We deserve better.

For more on the misogynistic and patriarchal attitudes I’ve faced trying to access healthcare - I wrote two articles about my reproductive struggles. From being told pregnancy would likely kill me but I “might meet a man who wants kids”… to needing an emergency hysterectomy and having a post operative complication ignored until a MAN demanded they run tests. It’s bleak … but these aren’t isolated incidents. Ask almost any woman and she will have stories of her own.

“You might meet a man who wants kids” article: disabledginger.com/p/pregnancy

Post hysterectomy complication article: disabledginger.com/p/my-most-d

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re: Eleven days. Also a discussion/question of gender dysphoria below the waist and near-panic attacks. 

@tagaziel
very soon. :)

re: Eleven days. Also a discussion/question of gender dysphoria below the waist and near-panic attacks. 

@tagaziel
sometimes dysphoria and traumareactions merge.
or they are only traumareactions because the dysphoria was there. Hard to tell really.

re: Eleven days. Also a discussion/question of gender dysphoria below the waist and near-panic attacks. 

@tagaziel
yeah thats horrible..
we remember having that but not the talks with the doc, only the way we managed to address that...

HRT 

people who make grey market hrt and sell and send it are magnificient and deserve all the affection.

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re: Eleven days. Also a discussion/question of gender dysphoria below the waist and near-panic attacks. 

@tagaziel
it might have been new and now because you felt safe enough to be vulnerable?

Eleven days. Also a discussion/question of gender dysphoria below the waist and near-panic attacks. 

@tagaziel
opening up topics and having a perspective for change can make previously dissociated feelings arrive on a more conscious level.

@samhainnight @LehtoriTuomo @actuallyautistic
our somewhat random guess would be the amount of subvocalization done while reading maybe?

Witchy thoughts, mentions of substances, poetry? 

We are the witch at the end of the road that the desperate seek, on the forests edge we cut the herbs to dry and become ingredients for what we brew.
we have been our own inquisition to aquire the knowledge when the instincts have all been there, buried in the depths for us to salvage.
whether it's gin or datura seed, it is often not quite what the desperate need.
so we listen and we see, to hopefully set all of us free.

epigenetics/trauma/cultural conditioning/rape culture 

@punishmenthurts @actuallyautistic
we theorize that tickling is the first common consent violation children go through.
We feel that this is what makes accepting own boundaries so hard for many and what explains the urge to laugh instead of cry for many painful things.
that this turns into playful ribbing that defines one of the only few socially accepted ways of forming masculine friendships.
or the whole ignoring internal boundaries while caring for external boundaries men are expected to do and the caring for internal boundaries while ignoring external boundaries women are expected to do.
(this might be traumareactions speaking, we do not know yet)

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