My medical gaslighting survey has now closed as I have reached my budget ceiling. Trust me, I wish desperately that I had more funding and the ability to allow more people to share their stories. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, to ALL who shared, reposted, and filled out my survey. If you did not get a chance to do so, please understand: this will be my life’s work. There will be more, as this is only my dissertation. I can’t wait to share my results with all of you.

I apologize for those who had the survey close on them or not record their responses. The form received a large influx of responses tonight, causing the quota to trigger a stoppage before some people were able to submit their answers (as I could not afford to pay more people). If you would still like to share your story, my DM is open (as a human being and friend, not as a scientist).

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This survey has now closed as I have reached my budget ceiling. Trust me, I wish desperately that I had more funding and the ability to allow more people to share their stories. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, to ALL who shared, reposted, and filled out my survey. If you did not get a chance to do so, please understand: this will be my life’s work. There will be more, as this is only my dissertation. I can’t wait to share my results with all of you.

I apologize for those who had the survey close on them. The form received a large influx of responses, causing the quota to trigger a stoppage (as I could not afford to pay more). If you would still like to share your story, my DM is open (as a human being and friend, not as a scientist).

WRONG!

let me explain: in america at least, the lower class have significantly worse health outcomes, even when accounting for other factors. just being poor is enough to make your overall health worse. we don’t know that being fat makes your health directly worse, like the data just isn’t there, but for a moment, pretend it does.

imagine going to the doctor with a health problem and the doctor looking at your chart and saying well, this problem will be less severe if you go up an income bracket. have you thought about becoming rich? it would really help. start by saving a little money every month.

ridiculous, right?? very few people successfully go from working class to rich, it just doesn’t happen on a large scale in society. maybe for a time you pick up some overtime hours, spend a little beyond your means, and appear rich. but eventually you burn out, your car needs to be repaired, and you return to being working class.

we do have this data: only some people can successfully lose large amounts of weight, and only a tiny fraction of people who lose that weight actually keep it off for more than a year. telling people to lose weight for their health is just absurd because they almost certainly can’t do it any more than they can double their income for their health.

what was i made for?

My brother was not in the hall. He wasn’t home at all; he was out at the community college in one of the classes he took over the course of that summer. After the voice, my mother was out of sorts and antsy all afternoon, but I didn’t understand why until my brother finally came home and she looked relieved. She told him what had happened, and she joked that in stories, when something like that happens, it is because the person you think you are hearing has died.