Too High For This

people who know they have something going on physically but don't know exactly what it is

people who know they have something going on mentally but don't know exactly what it is

people who feel like they're not disabled enough to "count"

people who feel like they're "too disabled"

people who just realized they're disabled

people who are working through internalized ableism

(Disclaimer: these are all personal experience things that tend to eventually tip me off to my numbers being off. Not everyone experiences all of these, or feels them the same way, etc. Add on if you want!)

You feel like you want to do something, but nothing feels like what you want to do

Feeling like you can’t concentrate on anything for a long period of time, or that you have to keep bringing yourself back to it and it takes ‘longer than it should’

Fast heart rate even though you don’t feel anxious about anything specific

Feeling worried about if you gave enough insulin

Feeling irritated/frustrated/on edge even though there isn’t a specific thing you’re frustrated about

Wanting to check blood sugar but also being scared/anxious/actively avoidant of it (“it won’t be fasting so it’s not worth doing a blood sugar, I should just wait another hour to *really* know”, etc)

Noticing more tension in your body (I clench my jaw for a long time, and furrow my brows)

Food and water both sound very appealing or nauseating (for me, I tend to want really sweet or carby things when I’m really high, and feel sick about it because I can’t/shouldn’t eat anything carby at the moment)

Body temperature feels really off (I tend to feel really hot) and skin can be clammy

Sensory overwhelm with like everything

Actively looking for a bathroom, if you’re out in public/feeling anxious that you can’t find one

Saliva tastes sweet and/or sour, and almost paste-y, like there’s not enough of it

Mouth tastes or feels weird

Other people say you seem annoyed or like you’re mad at them, even though you feel like you’re fine

Worrying if you have fast carbs; trying to double check your bag really fast without panicking

Body feeling too heavy if I’m high, or sort of floaty when I’m low (ex: I physically walk differently when I know I’m low)

Trying to explain things and you can’t say what you’re trying to say coherently (obviously can be a symptom of other physical or mental health things too)

Or sometimes my voice is too loud or I’m mumbling even though I think I’m speaking clearly

Wanting to sleep like, so much. Even if I’m walking somewhere I’m just like “but what if I sat down and fell asleep though”

If I’m low at night, it’s mostly me being like: why am I awake right now? Do I have a reason to be awake right now? My heart is beating fast, huh. I’m gonna think about random stuff for half an hour before doing a blood sugar

Feeling like you could fight someone if they have carbs

Feeling shaky or sweaty

I Need A Hug For Forever

Young people can have arthritis too.

There are hundreds of life long conditions and diseases out there that are typically diagnosed between 12 and 30.

There is a vast difference between being tired and having chronic fatigue.

Just because you can’t tell that someone is unwell from looking at them, doesn’t mean that you should assume that they are ok.

Many chronic illnesses are life long, and incurable. Many of them are potentially fatal.

If you have a disease like Lupus, on good days you still feel like you have a bad flu, 24/7.

Many of the medications used to treat chronic conditions have side effects that can really affect someone’s self esteem - like extreme weight gain, skin changes and hair loss.

Most chronic illnesses have very little awareness - its unlikely that you’ve heard of Sjogren’s Syndrome, Scleroderma, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome or Fibromyalgia.

However these diseases can cause symptoms as varied as joint pain, fatigue, constant nausea, kidney failure, pneumonia, photo sensitivity, full body rashes, paralysis, strokes etc.

In January 1922, Leonard Thompson, a 14-year-old boy dying from type 1 diabetes, became the first person to receive an injection of insulin. Within 24 hours, Leonard’s dangerously high blood sugar levels dropped, but he developed an abscess at the site of the injection and still had high levels of ketones.  

Collip worked day and night on purifying the extract even further, and Leonard was given a second injection on 23 January 1922. This time it was a complete success and Leonard’s blood sugar levels become near-normal, with no obvious side effects. For the first time in history, type 1 diabetes was not a death sentence.

disabled people are going to be disproportionately effected by the banned tags, and disabled people already are being disproportionately effected by the banned tags.

I understand that you're under constraint by Apple to provide a sanitized app experience, and I suspect your ridiculous filtering system is as much from deliberate distaste for said constraints as it is from simple incompetence, but the fact remains that you are fvcking over your substantial disabled userbase with the tags you're choosing, independently of Apple, to disincentivize and block for viewing. we, ur disabled & neurodivergent users, deserve better than to be the discarded casualties in your petty game. none of this nonsense is cool or okay, but surely - surely - you can do better than punching down at the people who have literally nothing to do with your latest snafu and neither the power nor the energy to fight Apple on your behalf.