Positive news for the day: The doctor filled out forms for me to get an accessible parking permit! Fingers crossed that it gets approved. This would be so majorly helpful for me, particularly on high pain days! I don't drive, but sometimes, I get rides places and all the walking can make my pain worse. #ChronicPain#Fibromyalgia
#WordWeavers 2404.29 — Who's feeling shame in your story? Is it justified?
/It's'a [#brainfog#fibromyalgia day, but I'm gonna write this to get something out. Hoping it's coherent. —RS/]
This question made me think hard for quite awhile until I—like an artist or a photographer deciphering how shadow defines volume and dimension—saw /negative space/ in a story... where something wasn't. Emptiness.
Wintereyes /doesn't/ feel #shame, and I'm realizing this is an #emotion with which I can make a #feminist point in my story. Whilst shame is IMHO used more often to control women than it is men, it is both incidious and /learned./ Shame is a combination of built-in emotions programmed into a person to make a person self-punish for "wrong" behavior even if it's secret; it's related to, but not the same as guilt.
Wintereyes was raised by wolves, but not until she was 7 when her "gift" caused her to seek a second set of parents. Her early childhood will require investigation in another story, but I'm pretty sure her human parents didn't teach her the emotion; it's not that she forgot. Forced to live again amongst humans over a decade later, to become more human, people's behavior baffles her. Late in the story, when she's asked to disrobe by stylist at a modeling shoot, and does without a thought, the stylist observes, "You don't feel shame, do you?" This is where Wintereyes will go off like a firecracker, and it should be very interesting.
The stylist may actually feel ashamed...
The author is [#actuallyautistic and retains copyright (c)2024 R..S.]
people with #fibromyalgia - do you ever get burning sensations everywhere, rather than the deep muscle pain? I feel like I have a sunburn all over. Gods, I complain a lot. I'd ignore me were I you.
A cross-sectional study demonstrated significant impairments in attention, memory, and higher cognitive functions among a cohort of patients with #fibromyalgia and #RheumatoidArthritis (RA)
Exploring levels of TSH and FT4 in patients with #ChronicFatigueSyndrome (#CFS), #fibromyalgia (#FM) and healthy controls did not reveal any associations between fatigue score and level of #thyroid hormones
Fukuda criteria were used for CFS diagnosis. The authors conclude that, although they found no between group differences, "we suggest future studies to examine the field further by exploring the influence of thyroid receptors and responses of the thyroid hormone cascade".
Racism has forced me to resort to eating a Taco Bell bean burrito for lunch. I could really use some prayers for my colon and $1500 to buy a pistol-caliber carbine and a Steam Deck.
My goal is big: £3170.
My time is short: 18.03.24 deadline.
My landlord has been nothing but an * delaying me moving but I've handed in my 1mnth notice.
I've had a lot of support from Rape Crisis but my support worker is on leave.
Jarred Younger:
A large remote clinical trial grant on low-dose naltrexone ( #LDN ) & cannabidiol ( #CBD ) for #GulfWarIllness was rejected. If you want to hear a bit about how I feel about rejected grants & how I handle them...
The Psychology of Getting High—a Lot (nautil.us)