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maya lopez is more than an echo (ashtawawidiwin) wrote in somerealityweb,
@ 2019-09-08 22:50:00

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[filtered against medical types]
Ugh, and people wonder why I don't like doctors. I've only ever been to one that didn't act like I was too stupid to understand how my own body worked and that was at USA Gymnastics, which has its own issues.

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fknaudrey
2019-09-08 09:54 pm UTC (link)

Quick Q? Did the whole anti-vax thing happen in your timeline? Cause I guess maybe that's where I'm coming from on the panic issue, personally, and if it didn't happen where you're from then that would make a whole world of a difference.

It's my fault for assuming that people are the exact same brand of awful everywhere. But I'm just so used to people - lay people, people on reddit and Facebook, people in coffee shops, whatever - saying the most ridiculous things about medication that, as someone who needs medication to stay alive, I guess I just feel defensive.

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ashtawawidiwin
2019-09-08 10:35 pm UTC (link)

I don't think so? There's pockets of all kinds of conspiracy theories but they're a bit scattered. Some people think there are drugs that secretly create mutants, but others think it's a sign of the end times or that mutants are deliberately having babies with humans to boost their numbers, so even the anti-mutant groups are hardly unified. Between mutants and black magic and Inhumans and aliens and demons and telepaths we might just have too much going on for any particular theory to become dominant for very long, especially if there aren't explosions involved.

And I got no treatment or specialist intervention as a child because doctors didn't believe my father might know his own child better than they did. I have no idea how my life would be different if my parents had been sent to someone who could explain things to them and help them. Most Deaf kids who don't have that early intervention never overcome it. It's a miracle even with as hard as I've worked that I can function in society at all, and I only got that because my circumstances changed and suddenly there was money being thrown around. That, doctors listened to.

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fknaudrey
2019-09-08 10:49 pm UTC (link)

Okay, that changes things a bit. In my timeline, there's been a big movement in the last 5-10 years by certain people - totally average people, without religious or medical exemption - to push for people to stop taking vaccines. It started with some absolute quack fraud saying that the MMR vaccine caused all kinds of issues and then rolled into every childhood vaccine from measles to polio causing a host of problems such a lowered intelligence, physical deformities, cancer, early death, but most often Autism. Instead of vaccines - which do have side-effects and some people are genuinely allergic to some of them and have bad reactions - people are treating with essential oils, high-sodium cabbage juice, and literal bleach. It's horrible and it's really scary and the rates of measles, mumps, and tuberculosis have skyrocketed in the last few years because of it. But people keep using the side-effects to scare people away from getting vaccines which keep everyone healthy. And people are dying.

This is obviously not the same thing as that. This started as a birth control conversation, ffs, but in my timeline there have also been a lot of people pushing to ban contraception, the morning-after pill, to block trans people from getting the hormone treatment they need, and to ban inclusive sexual education in public schools. It's also super scary and literally killing people.

And I'm glad that you found a doctor who would intervene on your behalf. My mom has been battling cancer since the day I was born. The battle is over now, but I had eighteen more years with her than I might have because of really great doctors. You're right, though. Doctors listen to money. It's one of the shittiest things. I'm lucky that we had insurance through the church or my mom would have never gotten the treatment she needed, I wouldn't have gotten the treatment I needed. It would have sucked. Majorly. There's also the fact that doctors tend not to listen to female-presenting people or anyone on the trans spectrum. Which is utter bullshit. So I get it, I do. I'm sorry people have snap reactions - I'm sorry that I have snap reactions - because of past experiences. I just hate thinking that anyone might be scared away from treatment when it's so readily available here.

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