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Do munchies take a break when its pumpkin spice live laugh love season?
Community Munchausen's by Internet (Malingerers, Munchies, Spoonies, etc) - Feigning Illnesses for Attention
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Just wanted to say I’m so glad this thread exists and these fuckers are getting called out more often. Spoonies/munchies are one of the few lolcow communities that make me genuinely MATI. This stuff is so harmful to the majority of people with chronic illnesses who just follow treatment, get as well as they can and move on with their lives, as well as people who legitimately just have health anxiety issues but now have to see all the “you can’t trust these gaslighting sexist doctors!!! Your negative tests are actually wrong!!!” garbage from them. Who’s gaslighting who there?
SaturnBeforeSunset
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Inspired by what part of autumn, getting punched in the eye by a tree?
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I read autism inspired eyeshadow you guys are ruining my mind
also those eyebrows are sending me
somebody pass me the tweezers
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doesnt help that she has a low hairline too
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This made me laugh out loud.
"actually, doctors listening to patient concerns more would help everyone, not just disab-"
"FUCK OFF. THIS IS ABOUT ME. I MEAN US."
re: medical gaslighting and negligence, I do have sympathy for munchies and people with BPD. I'm not sure to what extent they're truly able to control their behavior. This does not extend to believing everything they say and doing whatever they want me to do, because that's not how things work in my world. Giving in to them would only reinforce their behavior. It's like with little kids.
JackDonaghysSecretLover
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Ok I forced myself to really look at her to figure out why she's so off putting and I think I have my reasons:
Her eyebrows are never groomed and totally out of control
Her face looks like it's photoshopped onto another, larger face
Her smile thins her upper lip, which makes her look deranged
She somehow looks both 14 and 65 at the same time
And that's not even tackling the makeup which I won't do
In shirt, I hate her face. Rate me if you must but every time she shows up here I am filled with revulsion.
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Does she have FAS (fetal alcohol syndrome)? That's what the facial characteristics bring to mind when I see her photo.
Bakred Lemon
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It’s the perfectly round face that does it, for me. I’m not particularly anti-fat. I don’t find lols in the “hefty-hahas” part of the farms, and I don’t typically react to an obese person with “woah, that’s big,” or “woah, gross,” whether in person or online. I don’t find people funny, or gross, or sad, or disdainful just because they’re big, or morbidly obese.
But her face is so symmetrically round, like someone removed a face Game of Thrones style and placed it on a beach ball and now is pretending to wear that face as a “person.” It feels not natural.
The combination of that and her very, very, very ungroomed eyebrows makes me respond with a weird aversion I’ve never experienced before on just a relatively normal person — it is as if I am looking at someone with a disease or injury that feels both graphic and “contagious,“ so I want to look away. I tried covering up the lower half of her face to hide the round and am met with eyebrows, and then tried covering up the eyebrows and was met with roundness, so I think the real problem for myself is that there’s nowhere to settle your eyes that doesn’t focus on an unusual feature that is a bit off-putting and I think that desire to settle on a feature and finding none makes me want to look away instead. It’s the most bizarre thing, and it makes me feel both guilty and confused every time I experience it in relation to this girl.
That's 100% a wig. As if someone with those eyebrows could do their hair that nicely.
Cold Waffle
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Our suffering kween Victoria waxed poetic over a hospital admission in which they "almost lost [her] due to blood pressure issues" during an upper endoscopy. BP gets wonky during general anesthesia, no? I am not a doctor, but I feel like that's fairly common and no one who's reasonably healthy takes a dirt nap during the -- what? -- moderate sedation required for endoscopy? This is not even general anesthesia, Victoria.
ETA: Levels of sedation/anesthesia and required levels of airway/cardiovascular, etc. maintenance. My dunce hunch seems somewhat accurate.
ETA: Levels of sedation/anesthesia and required levels of airway/cardiovascular, etc. maintenance. My dunce hunch seems somewhat accurate.
We're in the last few days of the Never Give Up Phitness Challenge. I can't walk as much as id like but I can raise awareness. Today I'm going to be starting to share my story here (I did vlog the journey as well).
My pheo story:
My health began declining drastically when I began college. I had a triple kidney infection for five months. Severe abdominal pain has been an ongoing battle. One of the times it flared to the point of tears, we headed to urgent care (thinking I had an infection). They told me everything looked good and there was nothing to worry about. I got a copy of my CT results and noticed I had something inside my adrenal gland. Of course, when I saw my PCP I mentioned it, and she reassured me it was no big deal. She said it was just a cyst, it wouldn't cause any symptoms, and would dissapear on it's own.
Fast forward about a year. One of my main diagnosis at the time was Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. I was struggling with my heart rate, low blood pressure, and passing out. I was sent to a specialized physician. He did another tilt table and did labs while I was passing out. I was informed later my hormone levels were five times off the charts when they stopped counting. They had never seen a case like this. (These were cataclomines).
Last year, suddenly my blood pressure spiked. It stayed up for a few days and than I was sent to the hospital. After some advocating, the endocrinologist agreed to run some labs. During this admission I had an upper endoscopy, where my physician almost lost me due to blood pressure issues.
A couple weeks later I was informed that the labs were extremely high and they suspected I had a tumor. An MRI a few days later confirmed it was likely a Pheochromocytoma.
To be continued...
#pheo
#pheochromocytoma
#pheochromocytomaawareness #mystory #hope #medicallycomplex #raredisease #tumor
My pheo story:
My health began declining drastically when I began college. I had a triple kidney infection for five months. Severe abdominal pain has been an ongoing battle. One of the times it flared to the point of tears, we headed to urgent care (thinking I had an infection). They told me everything looked good and there was nothing to worry about. I got a copy of my CT results and noticed I had something inside my adrenal gland. Of course, when I saw my PCP I mentioned it, and she reassured me it was no big deal. She said it was just a cyst, it wouldn't cause any symptoms, and would dissapear on it's own.
Fast forward about a year. One of my main diagnosis at the time was Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. I was struggling with my heart rate, low blood pressure, and passing out. I was sent to a specialized physician. He did another tilt table and did labs while I was passing out. I was informed later my hormone levels were five times off the charts when they stopped counting. They had never seen a case like this. (These were cataclomines).
Last year, suddenly my blood pressure spiked. It stayed up for a few days and than I was sent to the hospital. After some advocating, the endocrinologist agreed to run some labs. During this admission I had an upper endoscopy, where my physician almost lost me due to blood pressure issues.
A couple weeks later I was informed that the labs were extremely high and they suspected I had a tumor. An MRI a few days later confirmed it was likely a Pheochromocytoma.
To be continued...
#pheo
#pheochromocytoma
#pheochromocytomaawareness #mystory #hope #medicallycomplex #raredisease #tumor
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I feel like
For me it’s the lack of forehead, ungroomed brows, and face that’s too big for her face. All of these characteristics potentiate all of the other characteristics. Lack of forehead always makes people look like troglodytes to me.
For me it’s the lack of forehead, ungroomed brows, and face that’s too big for her face. All of these characteristics potentiate all of the other characteristics. Lack of forehead always makes people look like troglodytes to me.
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"Triple kidney infection"
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it looks like someone wearing a mask and trying to suck the mask in. Her whole facial features are being sucked in internally somehow.
Cold Waffle
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Oh man -- I didn't catch that. I read it as a three-in-a-row infection trifecta, but it's triple due to her super speshul third kidney from her "conjoined twin." This is next-level comedy.
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She’s wearing a wig but it’s set too low on her hairline so it’s taking up a portion of her forehead. You can tell by her hairline and the part of her hair. It’s probably a slightly nicer wig than a Party City wig, but not by much…
TheCakeIsALie
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Amanda Baggs + Virgie Tovar = this thing
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If it's a wig, and it seems plausible because it never seems to change, she's wearing it too far forward. That's a pretty common error. She either needs to push it way back, or (because she's so dark and has quite a lot of hair) wear a wig cap so she can push it far enough back to look natural. The really nice wigs have elaborate false lace fronts now.