Ehlers Danlos is a fav diagnosis for the munchie crowd. I am willing to bet money that this very healthy, rosy-cheeked appearing young woman had 99% mental problems and maybe 1% RSI pain due to her being a musician (there are photos online of her playing the cello which is probably one of the most ergonomically hostile activities outside of contortionist stunts.)
I looked her up. She was a "she/they"
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and in addition to being a music therapist she specialized in working with dying and grieving people. For a highly suggestible person like women with somatoform disorders tend to be, there's a risk of "taking work home" in a radical way. I think this BPD type nutty broad actually picked up "dying good, want to die" from working in hospice. BPD broads have done stranger things.
The number of intact tattoos and piericings she had really suggests against a classical/severe/actual EDS diagnosis of the type that might actually cause physical disability. Their skin does not take to being messed with that way.
Her Unitarian "celebration of life"
here.
Her CV
here. Says she played flute and oboe too- again, RSI is a big occupational risk factor for those, and it does cause pain, and if you have the nimbleness to play those instruments well you likely could fake/psych yourself into an EDS diagnosis easily.
Her bio on some youth service
here.
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No list of survivors, I guess her parents are out of the picture. Lesbian, how surprising:
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"Self-advocate" in this context would be self-diagnosis/munchie:
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As you can see on the Facebook and in the article, this was a well-appearing, normal weight woman with apparent ability to get around, do things, and work, and even play instruments that require significant dexterity. She had friends and pets. She was not living in a nursing home or crippled with such pain that she couldn't do the daily activities of life. It appears the reasoning for putting her down like a shelter dog was "pain."
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As the Sacklers figured out, "pain" is subjective. Pain is manipulatable through various means, from subtle psychological suggestion to counterproductive medical interventions. And once you make "pain" a "vital sign" as important as heart rate or respiration, you can get away with literal goddamned murder.