Hi everyone! That’s right, it’s time for another c/disabled megathread.
Update on the meds: they work! Quite well, actually. I feel like I’m finally functioning at a reasonable level, like I was not only getting stuff done, but I’m now able to actually effectively multitask (as much as one can lol). I’m quite happy with how it’s working, and I might not even need an SSRI at this point. If I’m getting anxiety from the meds, I’m not feeling it, because they actually reduced the amount of anxiety I have to deal with. I don’t know how (thinking ADHD-induced anxiety), but yeah, I’m a lot better than I was just last week. Quite happy for that, might actually be able to manage the end of the semester without crashing and burning this time around.
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Mask up, love one another, and stay alive for one more week.
Easter once again reminding me how there’s no hate like Christian ‘love’
Hope everyone got through the weekend okay
Christians are so mean. What did they do this time?
Just the usual bs you’d find in most religious folk’s homes, nothing worth repeating. It leaves me grossed out how hypocritical they are, though. Makes me want to spread love and comradery even more to counteract it, ya know?
I remember when I was a carer for the elderly there was this one devout Christian woman whose granddaughter married a trans woman. This elderly woman never stopped insulting the pair of them for it. And multiple of the old people went to church, acted all holy and then were extremely racist and homophobic the rest of the time.
Sounds about right, good grief. I’m the type to talk back to people like that, so I’m not usually the target anymore. I’ll start windmilling a mfker for talking about others in front of me. It’s the passive aggressive stuff that gets mumbled and added into conversations that got me this time. Subtle hatred is a lot more difficult to address since it’s layered.
I once had a black girl working as a carer with me and the elderly called her awful names and once she got so angry about it she threw a glass of orange juice over one old woman. The girl got fired.
It’s so unfair, the elderly just get away with it because they’re supposedly confused.
That’s so fucked up. Endless OJ on that woman in hell if it exists… Honestly that job sounds pretty awful just for dealing with the people alone.
It was difficult and could be miserable… but nowhere near as miserable as being unemployed and fighting endless benefit claims.
I hear you. You holdin up okay?
I just talked with my friend yesterday about her religious trauma with her born-again parents and i can’t decide if i want to smash their faces or the focus-on-the-family fucker whose instructions they were following more. Smash smash smash smash
Smashing’s good. I’ll join you
As far as I’m concerned, they’re the devil-worshippers.
It’s telling how they all sound like the satanist stand-ins or ogres/goblins from every fantasy RPG ever
They don’t do themselves any favors that’s for sure. It’d be great if they weren’t actively (as a whole) making the world a worse place. And I didn’t even see the struggle session that happened when I first posted this, it’s just been my experience that self-identified ‘christians’ and religious folk are usually two-faced and mean.
I hope you got out alright
I did, ty