Wondering why my anxiety is so fucking high and why my body feels weird. Like, ‘the end of the world is happening inside my bones’ weird.
Then realized I’d been so migrained for the last 2 days that I’d forgotten all my mast cell stabilizers.
Insert-scream-painting.jpg-here.
For anyone unfamiliar with the lesser-known symptoms of anaphylactic reactions, a feeling of overwhelming doom or “wrongness” (among other things) is one of the psychological symptoms, and it can occur before you even notice your breathing is affected.
It’s why when doctors try to gaslight MCAS patients by saying they “have anxiety” I want to throttle them because fucking duh.
Anyway. Hi, if you’re new here. Sorry. I promise I post more than just me forgetting my meds and stumbling from crisis to crisis. I’m just having a time of it right now…
#sorry to reblog a somewhat personal post#but uh i had no idea anaphylactic reactions could include those symptoms
Absolutely please reblog this and spread awareness!!
Not enough people know what anaphylaxis actually looks like, and it can be life-saving.
My early warning signs are GI, systemic, and circulatory, which meant my anaphylactoid reactions were misdiagnosed as mental health issues for years until an ER doctor saw me go into shock and realized what was happening. If I wait to have the classic hives and breathing issues before seeking medical care, it’d already be too late.
(Also, dw about reblogging my posts. If I don’t want something rebloggable, I’ll make it non-rebloggable.)
steam says no to AI if the game maker didn’t 100% use their own images. <3
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so the AC is in the window because i could not sleep at all last night. the heat and humidity drove my kneas nuts.
the kitten did not approve of the Very Loud Thing! she’s going to be so upset to be locked in my room with the AC on the hottest days.
This is not a bill I wanted to get started this early in the year.
“lol you realize Barbie is only a marketing movie, right? it’s just SELLING STUFF, you know that right? capitalism? lol?”
You’re too late.
Like, you’re not wrong, but you are wildly late on this one.
No one is under the impression that this movie isn’t marketing a toy line.
But that toy line? Has been on this earth longer than you’ve been. Barbie is old. Barbie is everywhere. We’ve all seen a commercial if not owned at least one Barbie doll in our lifetimes (or a knock-off you get emotionally attached to even if the weird mean girl down the street keeps making fun of it) (fuck you Christie that doll was a hero)
Advertising is everywhere. I can’t turn the TV on without ads, even on streaming services that used to brag how ad-free they were. I can’t browse social media without ads. I can’t see a movie or a show without products being “subtly” shown off.
We’re haunted by ads at every goddamn turn, we can’t even talk to an old friend from high school without them trying to sell us something.
If you think you’re making some radical grand statement by pointing out that Barbie is a toy line made by a big company that wants to sell more things… bud. We know that.
We know.
Greta Gerwig seems like she had a lot of fun with this movie, the actors had a lot of fun, the set design is fun.
No one is looking forward to Barbie because we think it’s some kind of beautiful radical anti-capitalist message just WAITING to break the world of its delusions of consumerism. God, could you imagine?
We’re looking forward to a bunch of actors dressed in pink having a lot of fun. We know the movie will make people want Barbie stuff, maybe they’ll go out and buy it, maybe they’re too broke because the world is expensive right now and we’ve got bills. But if “this movie will advertise things to you” was a dealbreaker we’d never see anything.
Because Barbie isn’t unique in this. A LOT of modern movies just want you to buy things, or admire/join the American military, etc etc. Money runs things here. Even capitalism stans know it runs everything (though they’re generally okay with it). Ads are our lives even when we use ad blockers and do our best to ignore the ones we see.
We’re seeing Barbie because it looks silly and fun, not because we’re putting it up on a pedestal expecting it to change the world. And we’re kidding and being silly when we DO act like that. Because goddammit, IT’S BARBIE. We’re acting like we acted when we played with dolls as kids, we’re PLAYING, we’re having fun. When I was a kid I absolutely pretended my Barbies could save the world and were magical and powerful. Didn’t mean she actually was.
These are toys. And we like to play. That doesn’t erase the capitalist motivations of Mattel, but it doesn’t have to mean we “support” their evils. We want to play, we want to enjoy play, even when we’re trapped in a capitalist hellscape where like 80% of our day to day fun is sold to us
