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Trans people exist and deserve, like anyone, to be treated with dignity and respect. Get the fuck over it.
Ugh.
If only they would get over it and agree that trans people have the right to exist or believe they deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.
Unfortunately, they don't seem to have an issue with there being (at least) two classes of homo sapiens, one lesser than the other and thus not deserving of any dignity or respect.
There is, of course, homo superior, but I don’t foresee Professor X swooping in to settle this argument, what with the whole “saving the world” shtick.
Although, to be honest, the world could use a bit of saving right now.
PS: I hope you’re doing well, and getting through Sophie‘s Choice. I’ve heard it’s a tough read, especially after surviving a game of Presidential Election Scrabble…💋💋💋
I'm surviving somehow. I could tell you some crazy mother stories, but I don't want to write a novel.
you totally wanna write a novel about your mom
Not unusual. Most men have a Freudian streak.
I'm glad you didn't say Oedipal, because right now, all I want to do is murder her.
We had this conversation not too long ago-
“I thought the Mayo Clinic was going to be like the ER, where a whole team of doctors works on you at once.”
“Mom, I’ve been in the ER four times in the last year. They don’t do that there.”
“Yes they do, I’ve seen the shows!”
I have epilepsy. A special type of epilepsy. A type of epilepsy they didn’t know existed when I was “diagnosed” with it.
For the doctors - teams of neurologists and neuropsychologists - to treat me, the best option in 1991, after my drowning accident and subsequent TBI was a new study at Boston Children’s Hospital. For months, almost a year since the “accident”, doctors had run me through a course of medications meant to control my seizures, but none worked. I was desperate. My parents were desperate. We were willing to try anything.
For two weeks in March, during spring break, in 1992 and 1993, I went to the long-term monitoring unit at Boston Children’s Hospital and participated in a study where I had over 100 EEG leads glued to my head and they tested various different drugs on us to determine which ones would - or even could - control our seizures.
They discovered that, quite logically, that when someone has damage to a particular part of the brain (in my case, the frontal temporal lobe), seizures can be managed by giving the patient medication made to treat problems endemic to that region of the brain— in my case, either mood stabilizers or meds for migraines/cluster headaches.
I learned a long time ago that my time in a hospital, around doctors, going through a lot of uncomfortable and even scary procedures can really pay off in the end— and can even help countless others for the effort.
So don’t fret, buddy. You’re in good hands. I know the strain and pressure of being in a tough place with medical issues. Just be glad it’s 2024 and no time before.
Best wishes!
Thanks! I'm glad I didn't go through something like that as a kid. It must have been super rough. I can handle it a lot better in my mid-40s I'm sure.
You’re at the best place you could be. They’re gonna take care of you. Tell your mom to relax
That would be like telling the tide to not come up to your feet.
Oh, now, I’m sure game of Presidential Election Scrabble could quell that tide!
😉
We went with a jigsaw puzzle instead. They're frustrating for everyone involved and no one wins, so it's far less contentious.
Until you get to the Agatha Christian mystery of “who’s hiding the missing piece?” and your mother’s refusal to believe it was simply lost over the years.
In that case, I'd be the frustrated one. We got it at Goodwill and I said to her, "what if there's a piece missing?" and she said, "why does that matter?"
It matters! It soooo matters!
But it looks like it was brand new, so hopefully that won't be an issue. It is an issue that it's basically just a big ad for Costco, but what do you want for $4?
$4? I’d pay at least $8 for the assurance it was a complete set.
I wanna know.
Anything to keep her quiet.
Giant bottle of Jim Beam? I think cannabis is legal in Minnesota isn’t it?
Inebriate her. It’s what I do to my parents when they get to be “a bit much.” And, fuck it, get shitty with her.
It is not.
I have some with me anyway, but it is not. And neither is Wisconsin, the closest state over.
Thankfully, I brought enough for my needs.
Hold on, according to the googles, cannabis is in fact, legal in Minnesota. However, getting it where you are me be not an easy affair. However, I am glad that you managed to get what you need regardless.
As a New Yorker temporarily stuck in Florida, I had to go through some hoopty loopty bullshit of getting a medical card to get my weed. As you may or may not know, weed is extra special, super Duper legal in New York, as legal as booze or cigarettes. But in Florida, you actually have to get some stupid card and a prescription to get it, which is bullshit. it’s very transparently just a racket for so-called doctors and the state to get a cut as middlemen aka “private industry” rather than taxation and public interest get a stake. It also artificially introduces a high bar of entry to keep “undesirables” out and to help criminalize those who can’t afford entry into the “club”, further reinforcing the classist, racist structure.
I very much hope to be back in New York very soon.
Yeah, someone else told me it was legal too. Either way, I brought my own. :)
I hope you get back soon too.
Weed is definitely legal in Minnesota. I can tell you a few places here in the Twin Cities that sell edibles, but anything else is a bit harder to find because of how legalization happened - edibles happened first by accident because Republicans can't read, and last year with the DFL getting the house and senate they properly legalized it but the full rollout has been slower.