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[โ€“] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Any type of neurodivergence is not graspable for the majority of people, as it would require high skills to think in somebody elses shoes.
Debilitating chronic fatigue is called being lazy and as I just found out very recenty I have cerebrospinal fluid leaks which cause these issues. Hope it gets fixed soon. And shoutout to the doctors trying to tell me it is in my head and doesn't require urgent care.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And shoutout to the doctors trying to tell me it is in my head and doesn't require urgent care.

Fuck those people... >:|

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I am not sure why this profession believes every medical problem is easily reliably diagnosable and the rest must be in the brain like some pre-renaissance understanding of human anatomy.