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No matter how injured. If a parent doesn't deem it necessary to see a doctor, it doesn't happen. Teachers can suggest a doctor visit, but unless it's a very acute injury (and even then), it's ultimately up to the parents.

You can be 13. Twisted, maybe broken ankle. You teacher lets you sit out in PE. She's concerned, and tells you to rest when you go home, and see a doctor. You get home, ur parents fill a bath and add some Epsom salts, and then laugh at you for using it moms old colorguard stick as a cane. Take some ibuprofen they say. It's just a little sprain, ur a kid.

You go to school the next day, go to ur office assistant time. Office calls ur mom to come get you, because you're clearly in too much pain for school. Your mom laughs when she gets you, says you just were so determined not to miss school. Scolds you for making the office ladies worry.

You never see a doctor for the injury.

Your parents come into the exam room at every visit. This does not stop with age, except for gynecologist. But your parents are on the medical release forms. They fill them out for you, with you. You do not get to take them off.

You never get to tell s doctor about the ankle. Even though it never quote healed right, and it hurts every day.

Then your 18. In college. Still on your parents insurance, and have no car. The on campus clinic only does std testing. You fall down some stairs. Same injury. You call your parents, crying from the pain. You are using a mop as a cane. They console you and say to have a bath, take some meds, and let them know how it feels in a few days. You end up borrowing your roommates rolling chair to get around for the weekend.

By Monday, you can walk again. You walk miles to class every day. You ask to see a doctor, but your parents won't drive the hour to come take you, and you don't have the insurance card. You are still at their mercy for medical care. The ankle tries to heal again. This time worse than before. The tendons click with every step.

Now you're in your twenties. Finally have your own healthcare. You see a doctor. You get to mention the ankle! They say it's been too long to really even know what was damaged. That you have arthritis now. It healed wrong but it can no longer be fixed.

When I was 13 I got a very major concussion (I got hit with a drumstick someone threw like a tomahawk in CoD Black Ops) it cracked my skull and now I have a permanent divet in my head. My parents called my sister out of school, and when she asked where to take me, my dad just said home and that I would be fine. It's just a minor concussion. Said" minor" concussion led to having extreme depression a little over a year later that lasted through most of high school and part of early adulthood.

This is the same man that when I fractured an arm 3 months later refused to take me to a dr for that, my arm has clicked for the last 15 years. Same man who when I fractured my knee cap told me to take some pain meds walk it off and go to work(I was 17 at the time).

Growing up I felt that I struggled with learning things in school because reading was really difficult(I'm dyslexic and was unable keep the grades my parents expected) I was told it could be beaten out of me like when my parents were kids, because my parents thought I was just being lazy(I was 8 and being neglected).

Children deserve to have their autonomy, and to be heard. Parents should not have so much control over who their child is, and whether or not they can get medical attention that they need. Your personal opinions don't matter when your child is saying they're injured, or feel sick, or if they're trans and want gender affirming care(which I wish I knew was an option when I was a kid, trans kids get ignored and neglected). Children/Teenagers are oppressed and deserve to have autonomy and to be treated like human beings with dignity and respect.

This goes for other symptoms as well: although pain can definitely contribute to people’s experiences of these symptoms, fatigue and brain fog are actual migraine symptoms, not just pain symptoms.

Scammers coming into my messages trying to tug my heart strings by threatening to hate me forever if I don't help.

Me:

@scam-alerts, are you really out here claiming randos in a message on tumblr might be trustworthy to send money to? When you can see the link in the message goes to gofundme, which doesn't pay out in Gaza?

Are you really out here trying to tell me that gazavetters is a trustworthy vetting source when it's been proven time and again @gazavetters are scammers????

Are you on the internet in the year of our go fuck yourself 2026 acting like Gaza scamming isn't one of the most successful tumblr scams of all time that was based on making people fear they'd be called racists or baby killers if they didn't assume every single rando in their inbox or messages was totally trustworthy??

"We don't call them scams, so you shouldn't either." No. That's not how that works. I call a scam a scam. You don't want to call it a scam, that's up to you. But it's real fucked up that you are here saying you're an authority on scams acting like Gaza scams are some rare thing or that MOST Gaza posts AREN'T provably horseshit.

Did I step on your scam? Is that what this is? Are you running this scam while running a so-called scam-alerts blog, and you're mad because you're worried my posting these messages could lose you money? Because that's what it feels like. Why fucking else would a so called scam-alert blog be trying to talk someone out of calling out a deeply suspicious scam that we all learned years ago is not trustworthy?

If a rando shows up in your inbox asking for money, they are most likely scamming, and the bigger the sob story, the more likely the scam.

So, someone who runs scam-alerts got into my replies to say gazavetters is trustworthy when it's very well known at this point that gazavetters ISN'T trustworthy and that I SHOULD trust randos asking me for cash when they have link that I know DON'T WORK IN GAZA.

And they just happen to be doing something so nice like drawing stuff for people who give money to supposedly valid campaigns that are very likely not valid at all because gazavetters has been proven to be scammers. And, if gazavetters is as crooked as we know it is, this person might very well be pretending like they're not getting a kickback from those donations to encourage further donations that they are very likely getting a cut from.

In short: I think this person who helps run scam-alerts is running a scam with gazavetters to get a payday off donations to the so-called verified list that has been proven repeatedly to be completely untrustworthy. This is my opinion based on the circumstances.

Fandom creators spend hours of their free time to create something to make fandom thrive...for free and for the love of the game.

And what do they get? A wholeass heap of fuck all. No reblogs, no comments, no nothing. And people are surprised that creators are dropping out left, right, and centre??

"Why is there no long fic anymore?" "Why did my favourite writer stop?" "Why is my favourite artist not posting anymore?"

It can be so intimidating to post stuff when you aren't confident. Then, when all you get is hate (whether from AI bots or humans accusing you of being AI because you used a semicolon correctly) you just... stop.

I want to write. I have three stories I am planning out, and I want to share them, but some are smut and I don't want the hate.

Ages ago, I was a vocal supporter of my favorite fanfic author and, I will admit, as the years passed and they stopped writing or answering as often, I let it die. They recently reached out (after 2-3 years) and I started rereading our conversations stretching back years, and I realized what a joy I had let fall by the wayside. We loved talking about the OC's backstories, how they came up with the plot, and other things. Supporting authors doesn't just support them, you often get behind-the-scenes info. I'm not saying this to bribe you into talking to authors, or that all authors will respond, but I am saying that reaching out can get others to open up and share things you would never know.

Sure, some people suck. Some creators want to be left alone, or monetize, or just are dicks. But most are putting something they worked hard on and loved out there in the digital void, and reaching out in any way lets them know that they aren't the only ones that loved it.

no. proship literally just means anti censorship and anti harassment. proship does not necessarily mean liking every taboo ship. it does not necessarily mean normalizing any taboo ship.

you can be proship even if you hate every single ship that is taboo. as long as you don’t harass or shame real people over fiction, then by the definition, you are proship.

almost every person who is proship has something they dislike, hate, or even find disgusting. the point is not to normalize any of these taboo things. the point is literally to not shame, harass or censor people who enjoy the things they enjoy as long as it’s fiction and no one in real life is harmed.

Strictly speaking, yes, this is all that proshipping is.

But there is usually (not always) an underlying belief: that fiction is fiction. This means that (1) thought crimes aren't real, and depicting bad things in fiction is morally neutral; and (2) fiction does not necessarily translate into action, so the fictional depiction of morally depraved actions does not necessarily lead to doing these things in real life.

A lot of anti-shippers disagree with one or two of those. The argument goes that depiction can be done in a romanticizing way, and will in fact lead to doing these things in real life.

Personally, I think things are more complicated than that. Romanticizing taboo things is a way for our psyche to work through hidden parts of itself, which will come out one way or another. It's best to let those parts loose in a safe environment like fiction, rather than let them wreak havoc in the real world.

To take an example, I enjoy yandere x reader fiction: where a person is completely enamored by me to the point of kidnapping me, murdering their perceived rivals, imprisonment, etc. This is because I've got some trauma that makes me afraid of abandonment, and yandere fiction offers me the radical opposite of abandonment: devotion whether I want it or not.

If I didn't let it out through this avenue, I would probably be more likely to find myself in abusive relationships. My trauma needs to be acknowledged one way or another, and if I don't do that with fiction, the trauma will demand itself to be acknowledged in the real world, through becoming unhealthily attached to anyone deigning to give me a scrap of attention.

Even so, there's people who are into yandere fiction and do take it as a model to shape their real relationships after. This is obviously unhealthy. However, you have to ask yourself: does this mean we ought to censor this type of fiction? Or is it ultimately the responsibility of the consumer of the fiction?

which one?