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Doesn’t matter if you’re young and healthy, go get a flu shot this year. Because it’s bad. Shit is very bad this year, and the flu is way worse than a cold. It will knock you on your ass, and if you had COVID who knows how much worse it’ll be on your respiratory system.
Go get a flu shot
Really. *REALLY.* Just do this. For the sake of my colleagues doing hospital duty, and for the sake of your fellow humans to whom (post-vaccination) you won’t be able to unwittingly pass this shit along: DO EET.
Even @petermorwood’s done it. There is no higher recommendation.
…Do it. (And also: mask up again. I know, it’s a nuisance, but come ON. Make the winter a little easier for all involved… like everyone who breathes. Please and thank you!)
Anonymous:
Hey just a reminder that thought crime doesn’t exist and pretending to have empathy is just as good as having it! You can be the world’s biggest dickhead in the privacy of your own mind and as long as you’re outwardly kind it literally Does Not Matter
Say you break your ankle. You could know everything there is to know intellectually about the injury. Even with this vast knowledge, you will still experience physical pain.
Now take this logic and apply it to thingslike ADHD, autism, clinical depression, and other less visible/divergent disabilities. You cannot think your way out of feeling.
That is to say: you are not a bad, lazy, or selfish person for struggling, even if you know why you are struggling.
Testosterone is NOT a contraceptive, and there is a chance you can get pregnant (if you’re having sex with people who can get you pregnant) even if you aren’t having a period anymore. You CANNOT rely on T for birth control.
Anonymous asked: Wait, I signed up for a trans kid when I decided to become pregnant? Are you joking or are you really that crazy?
Hey there,
I’m not joking at all and I don’t really see how this would be a laughing matter to you.
Yes, you signed up for a trans kid. And while we are at it, you also signed up for a disabled kid. Autistic kid. Gay kid. A kid who doesn’’t look like you. A deaf kid. A kid who will have interests that don’t match up with yours at all. You signed up for a shy kid and a loud kid and a kid who wets the bed and a sick kid.
That’s the beauty, the miracle of parenthood, don’t you agree? You decide to care for a little person you don’t even know yet. You decide to open your heart and home to them, you promise to nurture and love and protect a tiny human being. How can you promise that, if not unconditionally?
You can’t pick and choose your kid. Maybe even more importantly, they can’t choose you. They depend on you to keep that promise - and not only if they live up to whatever expectations you had.
