Getting diagnosed with adhd and autism as an afab took me till my late 20’s and early 30’s respectively, despite having been in therapy from childhood and then seeking MH help regularly throughout my teens and early 20’s for audhd related difficulties.

Every single one of my symptoms and problems were easily explained by my having undiagnosed audhd, or very convolutedly (and often times offensively) attributed to a myriad of other MH conditions. Guess what ended up happening? And guess how much the private healthcare cost to sort it all out?

Solidarity yo. I hope you find out what is ailing you before it becomes too damaging!

So what I’m seeing here is that you really don’t read so good, huh? That’s ok, literacy isn’t everybody’s strong suit. Maybe go ask your mum or sister to explain what I wrote to you, they might have an easier time getting through on your level.

Bruh, I literally gave you peer reviewed scientific studies as sources. Lmao.

Tell me again about how this hurt your feelings and what a mean lady I am for doing it.

It never fails to surprise me that that is how ‘yacht’ is spelt.

Hasn’t Trump appointed him head of media relations, or something equally as stupid?

Can you point out which bits of what I wrote were emotional and illogical?

Not that slow, we’re going to be 40% over capacity on fresh water globally by 2030, and 90% of topsoil globally is at risk of depletion by 2050. And what with how hot it’s getting, it’s likely a blue ocean event will trigger the clathrate gun to go off within the next decade, if not sooner.

Google those at your own peril.

“Brave Men” and “Emotional Women”: A Theory-Guided Literature Review on Gender Bias in Health Care and Gendered Norms towards Patients with Chronic Pain

Analysis: Women’s pain is routinely underestimated, and gender stereotypes are to blame

There are hundreds more papers like this from many different countries.

There are also hundreds of reddit threads about this, with thousands upon thousand of replies from women all over the world, who also attest to it.

And queer men usually have some understanding of intersectional feminism these days, and have likely experienced some form of medical discrimination due to homophobia.

Not to mention folk of colour in predominantly white countries, who also regularly face medical discrimination.

So not believing that women (and female presenting folk) have a harder time accessing the healthcare they need, is yes, a very straight, white, male privileged point of view.

I do admit though that I am just guessing you are white and living in either the US, Canada, Australia, NZ, UK or Western Europe, mostly based on the fediverse demographic.

I wish the world was a better place too. On the plus side, what with WW3 and climate collapse on the horizon, at least it will all be over soon.

Can you show me where I’m bring aggressive and lashing out please?

Ask some of the women in your life about what it’s like trying to access healthcare. Ask how often they’re listened to by doctors and how much respect is given when they say something is wrong.

Let me guess, you’re a man? A most likely white, cis and straight, man.

How am I doing?

Oh hey, I have something for this.

From experience, ‘making it somebody else’s problem’ by asking for help, rarely ends well or gets you the help you need. It just makes you an annoyance and look bad, and eventually people (healthcare workers included) decide you’re malingering and/or attention seeking and start treating you even worse.

Isn’t life fun.

And when the doctor decides you’re an attention seeking malingerer and refuses to help, what then?

Now do giraffe fauns. At least giraffe centaurs have those counterbalancing rear legs, giraffe fauns would need to be half as wide as they are tall to have abs strong enough to keep themselves upright. And with those tiny spindly legs they have, even if they do leg day religiously and bulk them up they’ll still be teetering about on two little hooves.

I use rdx.overdevs.com to read reddit still as it has a lot more fashion, art and vegan content than here, but the only places I interact online in that way anymore are the Fediverse and Fragrantica, but the latter only really for perfume related stuff.

Blue and red, they’re basically the same party at this point.

My grandma used hers as a fruit bowl well into the 2010’s.

My mother used her one for salads till it got too gross after that hideous ‘season the bowl, not the leaves’ trend, that had people only wiping down their salad bowls after use to preserve the ‘seasoning’.

Pretty sure the salad trend happened before I was born though, so I’m not actually sure how/why I know that.

Holy shit, how did you not die from stomach ulcers?

Turns out it was Death Grips.

Is this sort of thing what you normally talk to your therapist about? Must be nice to have so few troubles.