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The nice thing about late-night weekend Twitter is that I can say whatever the fuck I want to say.Permalink On twitter.com
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I mean, sure, some potential future employer might scroll way the fuck back and see this, but mostly it’ll go unnoticed in the good way.Permalink On twitter.com
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Anyway you know what I think? I think it is fucked up that the CNS condition known as fibromyalgia doesn’t have more research money.Permalink On twitter.com
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Do you want to know WHY fibro doesn’t get research $$? The fucking patriarchy, that’s why. I can easily back this up.Permalink On twitter.com
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First we backtrack a bit. Definition of hysteria: “exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement, especially among a group of people.”Permalink On twitter.com
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Historically, hysteria is a diagnosis used for women who exhibited a “loss of appetite for food or sex, and ‘a tendency to cause trouble’.”Permalink On twitter.com
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It’s the perfect sound byte for a medical community that doesn’t take women, or their concerns, seriously.Permalink On twitter.com
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Fibromyalgia impacts women at a roughly 8:1 ratio to men. It causes physical pain, mental fog, and many other CNS-related problems.Permalink On twitter.com
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So women have been experiencing pain, many at an excruciating level, & doctors chalk it up to “hysteria”, or 21st century “hypochondria”.Permalink On twitter.com
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The number of women who had to speak up to their doctors over the past century to finally get attention paid to FM is mind-boggling.Permalink On twitter.com
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And now we’re at the point where the medical community has finally realized that oh shit this a real thing. But still no real research.Permalink On twitter.com
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Why? I’d venture a guess that women are socialized to suffer in silence from an early age. Where’s the money in treating silent sufferers?On twitter.com
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I’ll never understand how men are perceived as the “stronger” gender when women are the ones who push out children and quietly endure pain.Permalink On twitter.com