What even is chronic pain? Why do people who have chronic pain seem so opposed to any sort of cure that isn't medication? They are treated by the doctor who says they need to exercise (because that's how you cure it) and then they complain the doctors are being disabilitophobic. This just feels so unfair compared to everyone else who has real disabilities hindering their movement, like arthiritis for example which young people can get.
I'm saying this because people with chronic pain complain so much online about anyone who asks them to exercise or expects them to use their arms and legs. They say you are being disabilityphobic when you tell them they need to lose weight or they will continue being in pain. My theory is that people with chronic pain are actually mostly just autistic people who were assigned female at birth so were not ever actually told they were autistic and what being autistic is like. They didn't have people to tell them that their senses could get overwhelmed and everything could seem painful when they have bloated fat bodies, so instead they think they are just incapable of doing things. Then they refuse the treatment for the pain which is exercising.
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Well isn't that a bit different? Anyway yeah it wouldn't be that bad and I would get over it. I hate myself when I fail doing things with my own agency, if its something I don't have any control over its kind of whatever.
Ok I admit this was a stupid thread and I feel bad for making it now. I should have thought more about the impact it would make on people. It played into the 'they don't have disabilities they are just faking it' right wing trope. It was in many ways reactionary and I was wrong for making it. I will be more thoughtful in the future.
Just to explain what I was feeling when I made it, I am just pissed off with people saying "I can't". I tell myself every day that it doesn't matter what I feel, if I'm hurt or exhausted after work, or emotionally destroyed, that politics always have to come first for the greater good. That's what drives me. And then there's all these people saying "I can't", when they are more able to do a lot of stuff than I am. I struggle very hard with getting places on time, and I think I have ADHD or something like that. But nobody accommodates that for me (and rightly so! You can't expect a whole event to be postponed just because of one person!). And nobody goes at my speed
It's really selfish of me and I shouldn't share these feelings (I certainly don't IRL). I'm embarassed and I should not have done so. I shouldn't stoop to this kind of behaviour. I do not understand what others are experiencing, and they are probably feeling the same thing about themselves. This isn't actually so big of a problem at all and I don't think about it much. I do actually just have to be a better person than this and not complain, rather than whine on the internet.
>>730845Your reflection and self-criticism is admirable and reflects good underlying judgement.
>>730845> I tell myself every day that it doesn't matter what I feel, if I'm hurt or exhausted after work, or emotionally destroyed, that politics always have to come first for the greater goodSounds like some shit my boss would say, except for the politics part.
But in seriousness, not everyone can roll like that. I'm lucky enough to have my physical health and whatever passes for mental health in the amercracken south so I get how frustrating it can be seeing other people have such a hard time with certain tasks. But i really don't think any of us are built to live like this, so I instinctively empathize with anyone who struggles with the consequences of hard labor.