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PSA: If you have a loved one who has been paralyzed, advocate for them for pain management. In one of the freakish horrors of paralysis, your paralyzed parts are in pain 24/7.
And no one believes it.
My dad had a stroke and complained all the time about the pain and I wish I could go back and buttonhole his [expletive] doctor and demand pain meds for him.
It is some freaky nerve stuff that you both cannot feel your paralyzed parts, but also have all this unrelenting pain.
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Reminder that the first candidates to announce their presidential runs were all highly qualified women and if Democratic men had been committed to a female president, they would have stayed out of the race.
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Now that one of those women candidates has worked her way up to poll in 1st or 2nd place after nearly a year of campaigning, men suddenly see "no viable frontrunner."
The zenith of misogyny.
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It is such an insult to women candidates--5 of whom are still in the race and 3 of whom have stellar resumes as senators and more--to assert that these women aren't good enough. Frankly despicable.
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No one associated with the Trump admin ever had a history class.The #BerlinWall was built by the Russians after WWII to keep East Germans from being in the "free" West during the Cold War. Crowley is too dull-witted to realize she'd be in the isolated East, not free West.
Crowley is literally on the wrong side of history. The #BerlinWall was a symbol of political represssion for decades. I was living in London when it came down and it was an extraordinary moment--the jubilation. So powerful.
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The irony here is I spent an hour in therapy yesterday literally sobbing about how frustrating it is that I am so poor and have to fight constantly for my health insurance to pay for things like oxygen and rxs and I was saying how not one candidate was addressing poverty.
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No one wants to hear from actual poor people about poverty. True story: mid-90s I wrote a short story for an anthology based largely on my own experience of homelessness & my upper middle class editor at my then-publisher rejected it for her anthology as "not believable."
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My editor actually said that educated people don't end up on the street, so it strained credulity for the reader. Which readers, I queried.
My therapist works with homeless people and I told her this story and she sighed heavily.
These are issues missing from the primary.
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#Pain is a #blessing in disguise!

Just look back at your life. When you were happy about something, did you ever wonder about the meaning of life? Did you look inwards to see who you are, what life is all about? Did you feel the need to deeply know about the ultimate Truth? No!
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#PSA

Just bc jails "have larger populations of folks w #mentalillness than psych prisons (AKA "hospitals")" does NOT mean that folks in either receives actual support+love.

Some of you are peddling myths & institutionalization.

Complicate these convos.

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Renaming jail "mental health facility" unmakes it a prison.

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We're dying out here trying to explain this to yall.

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