For disability pride month (and the rest of the year) here’s a shout out to
- people who have to take “scary” meds like antipsychotics, tranquilizers, schizo meds, lithium, opioids, and steroids because they’re the only things that work
-people taking medicinal drugs that may be illegal in some areas
-people who have to get dangerous procedures and treatments
-people who will literally die without their meds and can’t stop taking them
- people whose meds cause undesirable side effects
-people whose meds damage their bodies, but improve general quality of life enough that it’s worth it
-people who get told to get off their meds constantly by people other than their doctors (or their doctors didn’t want to put them on the med bc they’re “too young”)
-people who can’t take medicine other than ibuprofen or Tylenol due to allergies, interactions, etc.
-people who are addicted to their medicine and don’t want to stop taking it
-people who are addicted and want to stop taking their meds
-people still suffering from unforeseen side effects that still affect them even though they got off the meds
Our relationships with our medicines/treatments are complicated and no one body is ever exactly the same. Please be respectful of people’s choices and feelings about their meds.
-people with a rare disorder with no proven treatment to ease the symptoms
Ruby Bridges is 68. This is not ancient history. Not even close.
I know Ruby. She’s a really nice person. The idea that they would try and write what she did as a girl out of history is shocking to me on so many levels, the simplest of which is just, but don’t they know how lovely she is?
