Nowyn

joined 1 year ago
[–] Nowyn@sopuli.xyz 28 points 1 year ago

People forget that for kids transition is first social only, then puberty blockers, then after a lot of counselling, hormone placement and in very, very rare cases top surgery. For latter, one of the very, very few if not only institutions that in same select cases would offer top surgery for teens that are in late puberty disbanded those surgeries.

When you look at the rates of transitioned kids who detransitioned and mental health outcomes for children and adolescents who couldn't transition, offering transition is evidence-based and saves lives.

[–] Nowyn@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

I might have to print it and put it on a lanyard. Or it sometimes feels like that.

[–] Nowyn@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The good thing for him is that he was so young when he was diagnosed that he probably doesn't know anything else. Saying this from personal experience as I was diagnosed at 14 months in mid 80s. Of course, something like this would be amazing as I can't tolerate even small amounts of accidental gluten but as I don't know anything else I can't even imagine anything else.

[–] Nowyn@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also have really complicated relationship with hope. Mainly, I try not to hope as my body seems to be insanely problematic. I am disabled with multiple autoimmune diseases and genetic syndrome. While objectively I find the advancement in treatment interesting and amazing, I personally try not to hope. It is absolutely exhausting to get your hopes up only for the other shoe to drop.

[–] Nowyn@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am 86 baby and you are one of the only very few people born in 80s or earlier that had really early adoption to computers in addition to me. I could use MS-DOS before I could write anything else as I also had had computer available since pretty much birth also because of my dads job.

[–] Nowyn@sopuli.xyz -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What the everloving fuck did I read?

First of all, I don't know who you think you are talking to but I am not lying. I 100% know how abuse affects you as I was abused most of my childhood and teenage years. I am not playing any cards, I am reminding you that calling people selfish and lazy when you do not know them based on something like grammar is ignoring multitudes of factors you have no idea of using myself as an example. And this is not a work email. It is informal language used in meme. And by the way, even though I am using a grammar checker on all that I write, it is not perfect. Of course, people also check the language when it is more relevant but the majority of people are not using it for all texts.

My point is less about bad grammar and correcting it and more about how you are going around correcting it. You also have no business defining what I should and shouldn't take from your writings when you didn't spell it out. My point is that requiring perfect grammar when you do not know the person writing from Eve is problematic especially when you call everyone with bad grammar selfish and lazy. Taking the multitudes of factors that can cause people to have bad grammar into account is not a problem. Painting everyone with the same negative brush is.

[–] Nowyn@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

That was part of the issue. The father of the idea that handwashing can lower people getting puerperal fever and even other infections Ignaz Semmelweis was practicing in the 1840s in Vienna and during that time doctors were already top of working society. Because there was no idea of the germ theory of disease until later he was basically saying that first the doctors were responsible for deaths that could rise to 18% child birthing women in hospitals and secondly that they were unclean people. As gentlemen latter was offensive as that class of people both didn't have to get their hands dirty in the way "lower" classes had to and if they got dirty definitely didn't keep them dirty. Ignaz's theory why didn't help as he thought their hands were dirty with cadaver or animal carcass matter and not with invisible microbes.

That is also where white-collar and blue-collar worker terms come from. White collar workers didn't have to get so too dirty working that they couldn't wear a white shirt and collar (which was a separate piece of garment until the early 20th century).

Even though doctors washing hands lowered the puerperal fever deaths to about 1% in the maternity ward of Ignaz's hospital handwashing didn't really become a thing in hospitals at that point. It needed many other people to get it through in 1850s and 1860s.

[–] Nowyn@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

No one said the people running it are competent.

[–] Nowyn@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

One of mine is also lupus. Thankfully it has mostly spared internal organs but it really likes skin and veins in addition to joints in my case, veins being the biggest problem. I also have EDS so the genetic lottery really didn't like me. I joke with my friends that someone should tell my body that diseases are not Pokemons.

[–] Nowyn@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I call mine overeager and incompetent. It likes to attack everything but what it is supposed to attack. The running tally of autoimmune diseases is currently at 4. It is bad enough that I am eating medication that is used also in higher doses for chemotherapy. In other words, if I trusted my immune system I would have died long ago as it also doesn't really function against infections either.

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