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biological meat robot

@monsterkissed / monsterkissed.tumblr.com

monster-enthusiast aroace nb queer who can't cook but tries very hard. this is my classy trash blog for classy trash people. [they/them or it] twitter @truedemonending icon by cavesalamander and header by ezzelbean!
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i wrote this in the notes of another post originally and am copy + pasting it here because im right but "tell the cops nothing, tell the doctors everything" is such a stupid ass fucking abled take. doctors engage in policing idk how to explain to yall that some people cannot in fact just tell doctors everything without it putting them at risk

like im not gonna go into the myriad of ways this is bs but like a quick example is i cant tell my doctors about my substance use issues because if i get that listed on my medical records it will actively endanger me. It will impact how I'm treated in emergency situations and will get me labeled as "drug seeking" when i try to get other issues dealt with.

i dont say this to scare people but because this is actually important information for people to have. if a medical professional claims this isnt an issue, they are NOT "one of the good ones". they are either straight up lying or theyre utterly unaware, which is frankly not better. doctors are cops. never forget it

like YES tell ur doctor abt being sexually active but stop saying "tell the cops nothing and the doctor everything" before i start killing in cold blood

#HONESTLY#i dont EVER bring up my anxiety and trauma if im getting a physical issue treated. it will be dismissed immediately

I had a doctor once ask my father to leave the room, then proceeded to tell me that my sore throat was all in my head, and I was making it up for attention -- because I was bipolar. I told him no, that wasnt the case, I was genuinely sick, and he rolled his eyes, said he would do a strep test "to make me feel better", did the test, and left. 20 minutes later he came back and told me the strep test came back positive. No apology, nothing.

This was for strep throat. I had similar things happen for much more important stuff that I dont want to get into. I'm in the middle of a very long process for a condition thats giving me progressive spinal cord damage, and all I can think about is that if I had "substance use disorder" on my medical record, how likely is it that I would just not have been listened to about this. If you have anxiety youre a "hypochondriac". If you're an addict you're "drug seeking". if you're bipolar or schizospec you're making it up, possibly for attention. This shit kills people. This isnt even getting into the inherently carceral nature of the psychiatric system in the US (and elsewhere)

Doctors are not, in fact, neutral figures that can be blindly trusted with any and all information, and pretending they are can literally get people killed. Abled people have GOT to do better.

my dad basically conspired with a psychiatrist I saw to get me overmedicated so he could make a medical neglect argument TOWARDS MY MOM in court. psychiatrist didn't care at all

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in the interests of Showing Willing i did pick out the two skills in the book that were not meltdown-specific to try out and in the interests of honesty jesus christ i am never doing those again

  1. sticking your face in very very cold water or putting an ice pack on it and holding your breath in an effort to simulate diving underwater. this is a great way to replace the current anxiety you are feeling with a much bigger panic anxiety about being freezing cold, uncomfortable, in pain and drowning.
  2. clenching all of the muscles in your body one at a time. this is a great way to augment the current anxiety you are feeling with the worst migraine you have had in months.
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my counsellor gave me a book of ND therapeutic skills and told me to look up the distress tolerance chapter and i appreciate her factoring my autism into my therapy but this whole thing is about meltdowns. and i am 32 years old with a job, a feat accomplished entirely by killing the part of my brain that has feelings. i would love to have a meltdown, a meltdown would be so refreshing rn after years of emotional deadening, and i do not think these skills are apt for the task at hand. in many ways my worst problem rn is repressing my autistic traits, not being overwhelmed by them

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saintjosie

a lot of queer people i know in real life are either into or open to talking about astrology but online i think ive noticed a lot more people who dislike astrology and im super curious to see if that holds up.

please reblog for sample size and elaborate in the tags if you want!

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lavonealine

Many queer & trans people like astrology because many queer & trans people are brown lmao. People keep forgetting astrology is CULTURAL

i have personally observed that most of the people i’ve seen who carry a vitriolic hate of astrology are white people but that’s part of why i’m curious about this poll

as someone from a hindu background (i don't consider myself hindu anymore), i can promise you that being brown has only made me hate astrology more. it's a massive industry and arranged marriages are frequently made based on astrologers' recommendations. i resent being used as a pawn by people trying to defend astrology and claiming it's a "cultural thing" and thus should be respected.

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toskarin

everyone should stop proxy-fighting for what their therapists believe and just have them engage in direct combat in the regular style

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antikate

The “oh I could definitely write this fanfic in under 5000 words and it really wouldn’t take me that long” voice in your head is actually the devil speaking

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for the oc ask meme: 5, 12, 16, 27, 29 (for whichever of them would be the most fun to think about bc i can't choose just one guy lol)

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5.) Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Will they give one, and what about?

"Sure, I got one ready for you. Actually, I have several. Locked and loaded and ready. To begin with-"

"Maybe if you were willing to acknowledge your own capacity for evil, I wouldn't be- hey, why are you pushing me off the stage? I'm not done yet- another thing-"

12. Do they like romance in the books they read (or in the book they’re in)?

"... I will admit I have read a decent amount of fanfiction on the topic, as well."

16.) If money wasn’t a limit, what would they wear?

"Something... cool. Something....."

27.) Forgiveness or vengeance (or…)?

"... Though I'm more inclined to call that justice."

29.) What recurring dreams do they have?
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