Thread by @DisInHigherEd

Content Warning: medical trauma, trauma

It takes bravery to share what you did, Angelina. Thank you. I may be brave, but more than brave - I am tired of the way people are treated and how disabled people also deal with the weight of ableism in the midst of it all.
I'm going
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https://twitter.com/AngelinaF_Gomez/status/1445433462014480387

to address this question as I believe that it is important to consider the trauma of the inpatient experience. I only know my experience around inpatient psychiatric hospitalization, but if you want to share your experiences in medical
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https://twitter.com/bug_violet/status/1445361631404363782?s=21

inpatient hospitalization - this is a safe space to share and you can DM this account and I can post anonymously for you about your experience. The harm that comes to light is the harm that will one day be held accountable

So let's get into some questions for you in polls!

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Have you experienced medical trauma?

I wish that we had a medical field that was safe globally to not even need to have this conversation about the intersection of medical trauma and academia.

#DEHEM21
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If yes, has your medical trauma impacted your coursework or research? Please feel free to comment to share the impact on your academic career.

#DEHEM21
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Does your campus promote awareness of medical trauma or provide support for survivors of medical trauma?

#DEHEM21
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I think that medical trauma is completely different than sexual trauma to institutions. Sexual trauma is not an implication on the institution itself and impacts abled female students with so much advocacy from Women's Resource Centers. Where medical trauma could become an
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implication on the institution itself especially if they have a health center on campus. Medical trauma may mainly impact the disabled community, but other than the offices that administer accommodations - we are invisible and ableism against our community is condoned as the
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institutions turn their back on me. Also while dealing with the medical trauma over the last year, I have been dealing with the most ableist Calculus professor. The first attempt, he denied an accommodation to reschedule an exam quite rudely along with making my incomplete
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more difficult than it needed to be by not giving me all of the time I had the right to have. I felt forced to drop the course and retake it with him again in the summer as I already knew what to expect. I liked the homework platform and all of the exams, but the course
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changed so much and the ableism was a different kind of horrible. Exams that I rescheduled would not have the exam sent to me at the time we agreed upon, the homework that I asked to reschedule were difficult to get him to actually change the date to what he agreed to, autoc
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failed me on a recording where sexually explicit captions were presented triggering my #PTSD, and the lat office hours I ever went to he treated me like I was stupid the day before one of my exams. He told me that I should have been failed from my last Calculus course and I
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should not be there. At one point he asked if I knew how to distribute A(B+C) and it felt really insulting in the way that he presented it. I just felt so torn down and I could not focus or retain information for the last 1-2 weeks of the 5 week course and I failed my last
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requirement of my Bachelor's degree and now I have to file a petition to have an upper division Statistics and Research Methods course to be used in place of that Calculus course along with using an Ethnic Studies course as a upper division elective. I am terrified as
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if for some reason this does not go through, then I will have to pay for more classes at @UCSanDiego and likely get a loan as I have missed all of the financial aid deadlines. I have made some progress on planning the petition, but trauma has a way of causing a ripple effect
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outside the classroom, outside the clinic, outside of an inpatient hospitalization that can transform us and the course of our lives in ways that we never imagined. There are well meaning people who will call us resilient for everything that we have been through, but
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there was no choice to continue moving forward. Resilience is not just positive there is a darker side to it.

Do you feel like "You are so resilient" is a compliment?

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