thefibrodiaries:

parents (and this can also apply to doctors, teachers etc.) need to start taking children seriously when they say they’re in pain.

 If your five year old struggles to walk and often cries in pain then something may be medically wrong. don’t just put it down to growing pains or a tantrum.

if your seven year old ever has trouble keeping up in school, something may be wrong. don’t just assume that they aren’t trying hard enough. 

If your nine year old is often spraining or dislocating their joints and is covered in unexplained bruises, something may be wrong. don’t assume they’ve just been “playing rough”. 

if your eleven year old says they can’t play sports in school because they’re struggling/hurting, something may be wrong. don’t assume they’re making an excuse to get out of it. 

if your thirteen year old says they can’t do a “simple” task, there may be something wrong. don't assume that they are making excuses. 

if your fifteen year old can’t get out of bed in the morning or goes straight to bed after school and they’re tell you that they’re exhausted every day, something may be wrong, don’t assume they’re just a lazy teenager.

stop assuming that all of these experiences are normal and that they happen to all children. if this sounds like your child they could have a chronic illness. so please, if you think something may be wrong with your child you are probably right and you need to get them medical help. The doctors may not listen and use one of the excuses above, but please keep fighting for them because you’re the only one that can. 

Many chronically ill children (like myself) go undiagnosed and unbelieved until adulthood and by that point many of us have got progressively worse and the illness has taken over our lives. However, A parent believing, supporting and fighting for their chronically ill child makes all the difference.  Whether you’re a parent, another family member, a teacher or even a doctor, Learn how to recognise the signs of a chronically ill child. Help chronically ill children get a diagnosis early on. 

@staff Make it stop, please. Thanks.

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Capitalist culture is service industry workers not being allowed to sit down for their entire shifts, no matter how dead the traffic flow gets.

Capitalist culture is service industry workers sacrificing their comfort for antagonizing and pervy customers who are “always right”.

Capitalist culture is giving students homework in order to prepare them for their future careers where they’ll inevitably need to “take work home with them” or work extra hours in order to put bread on the table.

Capitalist culture is helping physically/mentally ill people only to the extent that they’re able to generate profitable labor again.

Capitalist culture is destroying food that can’t be sold rather than distributing it to poor people according to need.

Capitalist culture is monetizing knowledge and making it artificially scarce so that owners can profit and laypeople are left in the dark.

Capitalist culture is bosses threatening workers with replacement by machines if their wage demands become “too high”.

Capitalist culture is forcing people to work bullshit jobs that don’t need to be done and squandering the wider social potential of automation.

Capitalist culture is the US government backing violent coups of democratically-elected presidents in other countries and installing fascist dictatorships so that elite material interests are catered to – only to then get super offended that another country would dare interfere with their 2016 elections.

Capitalist culture is pretending to care about the underdog, only to then advocate policies that concentrate wealth and power into fewer and fewer hands.

Capitalist culture is pretending to care about the pursuit of happiness, only to then structure society so that the overwhelming majority are forced into soul-crushing assembly line/service industry/consumerist jobs under the threat of homelessness and starvation.

Capitalist culture is pretending to oppose an unaccountable economic coordinator class that makes all the major decisions, despite that being the exact description of bosses, landlords, and billionaires under capitalism.

chessys:

my favourite quality in a person is being that one person who listens to your story when no one else is paying attention and asks you to carry on if you start and get talked over

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While it is commonly thought that the ancient Egyptians were the first to domesticate cats, the oldest known pet cat was recently found in a 9,500-year-old grave on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. This grave predates early Egyptian art depicting cats by 4,000 years or more.