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- Feb 5, 2022
I identify as hypothermic. I was assigned normal-temperatured at birth, but growing up I always felt like I should have been hypothermic. My identity of hypothermia stages differ as how I feel. I sometimes feel like I'm severely hypothermic and go outside, strip off my clothes and hide under cars. When I feel like moderately hypothermic, I act as retarded as possible.
My family, ashamed of me, took me to the ER for hypothermia treatment when they found me naked outside. But the bigoted doctors refused to treat my hypothermia and said that I had a very normal body temperature of 36.6°C and I didn't need any hypothermia treatment! I felt like profoundly hypothermic and my heart was stopping! I was feeling so bad that I needed a defibrillator and 40°C IV! The bigoted doctors, again, said "you're 36.6°C". I never faced such discrimination ever in my life.
Later, they called a temperature therapist for me. He brought a blanket and told me that I was hypothermic and body temperatures were just socially constructed numbers.
What do I do in summer heat?
I have built-in freezer in house besides the thermostat that is always set at below freezing. I sleep in the freezer while shivering and cuddled up in blankets. It has always been like this since my bigoted parents committed suicide after my coming out. I don't go outside when it's at above freezing temperatures, weather is transhypothermophobic.
My family, ashamed of me, took me to the ER for hypothermia treatment when they found me naked outside. But the bigoted doctors refused to treat my hypothermia and said that I had a very normal body temperature of 36.6°C and I didn't need any hypothermia treatment! I felt like profoundly hypothermic and my heart was stopping! I was feeling so bad that I needed a defibrillator and 40°C IV! The bigoted doctors, again, said "you're 36.6°C". I never faced such discrimination ever in my life.
Later, they called a temperature therapist for me. He brought a blanket and told me that I was hypothermic and body temperatures were just socially constructed numbers.
What do I do in summer heat?
I have built-in freezer in house besides the thermostat that is always set at below freezing. I sleep in the freezer while shivering and cuddled up in blankets. It has always been like this since my bigoted parents committed suicide after my coming out. I don't go outside when it's at above freezing temperatures, weather is transhypothermophobic.
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