@broadwaybabyto
I sought a POTS diagnosis because my psychiatrist was freaked out by my low BP/ high heart rate during my visits to see her. I’ve never fainted or ended up in the ER for it. How tf is it bad enough to warrant the ER and they’re not taking it as seriously as my psychiatrist
@feederofcats
I volunteer at a PetSmart cat room and it happens a lot. I always get a little creative with ways to make the cats seem
@more
appealing to the parents 😹😹
Hey
@emilykmay
, I just want you to know that I have a cluttered messy house so I paid a professional organizer to help me get it together and she had me order a shelf on 6/18/2022. It is in my driveway rusting and the box has completely disintegrated around it!
Hey
@emilykmay
, I just want you to know I have a storage crate full of boxes for electronics and camera gear for electronics and camera gear we no longer own.
@ghoulandboys
Less severe but I’m allergic to bees and hated gym class. I stepped on a bee and and could only wear a sneaker with no laces since my foot was so swollen and obviously couldn’t take part in gym class. EVERYONE thought I was lying ….
@notcapnamerica
“Euri owed his former affair partner nearly $20,000 in unpaid child support payments and had propositioned her for sex just a day after his wife’s death.” 😑
@giveu2tictacs
@jtrebach
When I was 25 I brought a stuffed animal with me for a surgery and they let me keep it cuddled with me the entire time (just twilight anesthesia and was out 10-15 min) and gave the stuffed animal a little hospital wrist band 🥹
@CraftyCatDad
In FOURTH GRADE my reading / reading comprehension on those tests was at the college level and I didn’t think much of it until I realized much later that it doesn’t necessarily make me super smart so much as saying a lot about 1) standardized tests 2) other people
@MonicaHesse
My mom made me go back to my abusive ex to get her moms dressers. That was in 2011, and by then I’d already been dragging them around for 5-7 years. I just offloaded them to a single mom escaping DV who has nothing and it was such a relief
@latkedelrey
My cousin was friends with an Italian exchange student named Luca and I ended up staying with his family in Milan and they told me their favorite pizza in the US was little Cesar’s. It’s been 20 years and I’m still reeling
@_celia_bedelia_
As a fat woman, even if you can find a doctor to listen to you that your weight is a symptom of other underlying shit, good luck getting insurance to cover anything because they dismiss you and refuse procedures based on BMI 🤔🫠😵💫
@ahouse4all
@FaatiTheStreet
Tried to do this once for someone. First, they had to call daily for months and then drop by on occasion to try and get someone to talk to them. The location was inconvenient and could only be accessed by a car. Finally they email you some forms, and you have to print them
@HamnerPam
Having worked in HR, when they say “unnatural” they mean, like … purple. They don’t mean an hair color found in nature on someone that has a different hair color. Sounds like a racist on a power trip. That poor girl
@DiabolicalSpuds
"I strongly love every curve of her body. She is the most beautiful woman in my eyes… In the past, I truly loved her for her person, not only for her beauty, and now I’m loving her even more that she is my children’s mother…
@BabsVan
@karenkho
I have zero kids, nor do I want kids. The idea of bringing a screaming child on a plane is such a nightmare for me - the perfect storm of why I don’t want to have kids. So when I encounter a parent with a kid having a meltdown, all I can feel is empathy. It must be so hard!
@moisturizednerd
@way_warren
I look at spreadsheets and sure I’m ultimately responsible for making sure 11,000 people get paid, but I just press buttons and look at numbers. I’ve worked service jobs before and they are so much worse/ harder.
@margaretforreal
@keetmuise
That’s how my family reacts when I tell them I don’t drink anymore. They feel convicted and instead of thinking “I feel shame I should do better” they think “this person made me feel shame and I want to attack them” 🤷🏻♀️
@Gadget44027447
@raineyrainbows2
It’s the “defending their racist phase” that’s a problem. It also assumes everyone has one of those, which is wild to me. An apology for being racist becomes a non apology when you add “but it wasn’t my fault, because…”
@broadwaybabyto
Jfc 🤦♀️
The cardiologist I saw was great - he said it gets ignored so much that by the time most people come to him for diagnosis their muscles have become deconditioned…. Like please take this seriously?????
@latkedelrey
I struggled when my roommate switched I hated it. Made me feel like such an asshole every time. But that was about ME. I didn’t try and make it their problem or take my feelings and push them onto them to make it about me. I needed to apologize, correct myself and do better
@LeslieStreeter
I’m super icked out by kids and struggle to share space with them. Took me a LONG time to realize it was a combo of sensory issues and my own trauma around not being able to act like a kid. BUT IVE NEVER NOT FELT ANYTHING BUT COMPASSION FOR UPSET KIDS AND THEIR CARERS. WTF
@JessicaValenti
Oh that’s awful. Those poor little girls - they were probably either too scared to say anything or had no clue what was happening to them. The idea of forcing them to give birth makes me so, so sad
@broadwaybabyto
Yep. He said he rarely sees people early on (like me)…. But I bet he would see more early on IF DRS TREATED IT LIKE THE EMERGENCY IT IS!!!
I’ve worked what they call “low skill” jobs, and I currently make good money at a “high skill” job. I do not work nearly as hard, am not nearly as tired, and I do not need to stress about money 24/7. We need to pay everyone living wages and stop acting like this isn’t hard work
If I weigh in much on the waffle house discourse I may start screaming and never stop. We NEED to want more for each other, instead of acting like dumbass crabs pulling each other back into a corporate greed bucket
@KMJeezy
And people are out here saying that “code switching” is the problem. Tell me you’ve never met a Black person comfortable enough to not be mask/ switch to a code that makes you feel more comfortable without telling me Black people don’t feel safe with you
@ahouse4all
@FaatiTheStreet
So you finally get the forms printed and bring them back and now you’re on a waiting list to get a call back or some mail and hopefully you’re available at a moments notice and don’t have any barriers to these items that homeless might cause (like ACCESS TO A PRINTER???)
@Brandi_NE
My fiancé works so hard to never be “that guy”, and so do it. It’s so refreshing. I tend to be the homemaker, but we both work and I work slightly longer hours and make more money. It never occurred to me that I could have a man that helped before now (he does SO much)
@JortsTheCat
With the most basic math, I could pay about 60 people a living wage with great benefits for the first year, setting aside $2.5m for overhead/ startup costs and if you’re any good at business you then grow from there? I’m just a payroll professional with an MBA so grain of salt 🤷🏻♀️
@Precise_Master
@LadyJayPersists
Every single woman I know has been a victim of assault in some fashion. They have never been assaulted by a trans woman. Every woman I know has been attacked by a cis man. No matter where they were when it happened.
@ahouse4all
@FaatiTheStreet
Anyway, she gave up and moved back to living on her sisters couch and ended up relapsing and is in prison now. But just trying to get her some resources was a full time job, inaccessible and frankly humiliating for her
@RoseCastro
@notcapnamerica
Honestly - a lot of the targeted anti-vote stuff I’ve been seeing this cycle seems to be directed at Black women. It is chilling watching whatever is happening where they just try and pick off demographics like targets
@bammba_m
I don’t have kids. I don’t even LIKE kids. As someone who is vehemently pro-choice: THIS IS OUR OBLIGATION TO ALL CHILDREN EVERYWHERE TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE FED AND PROTECTED FFS.
@itssamanthaaaa_
@pierbiwierbi
I wanted to find a great picture of you to underscore the absurdity of calling you a male, aggressive or otherwise, but every one of your photos is perfect so how could I decide????
@ERnurse86
Unfortunately. I can usually pinpoint it after the fact. He says a few innocuous things here and there that were omens of really bad shit to come.
@ghoulandboys
And I was like 8 so I didn’t know what to do and was super upset that people seemed mad at me so they had my mom come in. And she took off my shoe. And my poor swollen/ red foot spoke for me. It never occurred to me (or them?????) to just …. Show them?
@WyldViolet
I had heavy periods for 20+ years, changed tampons approximately every 2-4 hours for 3-5 days a month for 20 years and literally no one has ever witnessed me doing so 🤔 rough math tells me I’ve changed 8000 or so tampons and was always able to keep my ass to myself
@chronicallybeee
They assume there’s no paperwork, etc. I’m horrified by the idea of an HR professional disclosing actual information to OP. But, I’d never tell anyone that wasn’t directly involved with the accommodations anything, particularly not what was or wasn’t provided by a doctor?????????
@EuphoriTori
I am, and I’m only an ally. My goal is to still go and probably end up in jail if anyone tries anything with any of my friends. As a cishet, middle aged, white lady, I need to use my privilege to deflect away from marginalized folks. I hate where we are
@samberg_johanna
@thespicexqueen
Because in the mind of my fellow WP if you’re not burning crosses you’re not racist. It’s crazy that they don’t want it to apply to them so they don’t think it does.
He’s done it again. What a week. Has been weirdly nice to tweet again and remember how much of a salve it is when you’re feeling grim and isolated.
Off here for a while to find joy/push through projects/keep old cats away from environmental hazards. See you soon folks x
@amypoeppel
I don’t know you or your work, but I’m a native Masshole and books and libraries where my safe space before I could create my own and I’m now going to read your stuff and follow you to spite them.
@CoraCHarrington
Lizzo concert was like this, literally of gorgeous- and fat! - women dressing how they want with no concern about being attacked physically or verbally and we all just kept telling each other how pretty the other looked 😹
@dieworkwear
My now-husband struggled to find RTW that could be altered to look great on him, and the MTM place we found classified themselves as bespoke but were not. We were thrilled with what we ended up with though, and I loved meeting the tailor and being at the fittings!