I enjoyed your candle analogy, tyrant.
Bahaha, thanks! Was really hoping someone would find it as much fun as I had writing it up. I tend to be a somewhat vitriolic poster (hopefully with good reason, most of the time) but I feel like injecting some level of absurdist humor into the vitriol is incredibly satisfying and serves to make people who agree with the points that much more enthusiastic about the issue. At least it has that effect on me, but I'm sure a lot of my fondness for that genuinely stems from being surrounded by toxic masculinity throughout my upbringing. It's something I wrestle with every day but I feel like the least I can do is harness that behavior for something generally positive. Civility is great but I know there are other people out there like me who are actually drawn to the other approach, and I'd rather have them not end up crazy alt-right morons simply because that side has a monopoly on vitriolic punchlines, if that makes any sense? Again, kinda struggling with making sense of this approach sometimes but that's where I'm at right now.
Either way, like I said in that post, I'm a bit more hopeful about that thread and am really happy to see so many people having the energy to take that (honestly kinda bullshit) fight to the point where most people who were initially clueless are starting to come around and getting it. Kudos to y'all.
Edit: Another fun fact – this is, to my recollection, the only thread on this forum where the "Show ignored posts" button doesn't appear for me, haha. What is this, a bunch of normal people who don't have shitty opinions about everything!?
You can push for it, but those symptoms are common to all autoimmune diseases, basically, and since they tend to be systemic rather than specific, are often left without diagnosis and generally ignored.
God, tell me about it. All analysis thus far points to me having an incredibly rare neurological disease that causes most of those symptoms in an intense way, but the only way to diagnose it is to rule out literally everything else. Sucks for me because I also have ADHD (a neurological factor) that I've only recently had diagnosed and started receiving treatment for – pretty much putting the other actually physically debilitating disease on halt in terms of diagnosis because they need to rule the ADHD out as a factor... even though it clearly has little to do with my recent physical issues. Sigh.
Either way, to the post you quoted; definitely do push for anything if you have the energy for it. These things are incredibly hard to get support from doctors for because they are rarely life-threatening and for some reason most doctors don't view them as important even though they slowly wear you down and drastically lower one's quality of life over time. Sorry if I missed some part of this discussion, only followed the last two replies.
