Comments on: Yes, it DOES make a difference http://disabledfeminists.com/2009/10/23/yes-it-does-make-a-difference/ FWD (feminists with disabilities) for a way forward Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:29:21 +0000 hourly 1 By: sanabituranima http://disabledfeminists.com/2009/10/23/yes-it-does-make-a-difference/#comment-971 sanabituranima Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:01:35 +0000 http://disabledfeminists.com/?p=766#comment-971 Exactly. A couple of people have been really judgemental mental health meds, but I've never encountered this level of bigotry before. (SPOILER WARNING) And by the way, even on the <i>FICTIONAL</i> TV SHOW, that's NOT actually what happened. When House went to rehab, he kept taking the vicodin in secret. .-= sanabituranima´s last blog ..<a href="http://sanabituranima.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/like-lightening/" rel="nofollow">Like lightening</a> =-. Exactly.

A couple of people have been really judgemental mental health meds, but I’ve never encountered this level of bigotry before.

(SPOILER WARNING) And by the way, even on the FICTIONAL TV SHOW, that’s NOT actually what happened. When House went to rehab, he kept taking the vicodin in secret.
.-= sanabituranima´s last blog ..Like lightening =-.

]]> By: kitrona http://disabledfeminists.com/2009/10/23/yes-it-does-make-a-difference/#comment-893 kitrona Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:05:26 +0000 http://disabledfeminists.com/?p=766#comment-893 "I don’t know what was going on in this woman’s life. I don’t know if she’s dependent (there is a difference). I don’t know if she would be better off on another course of therapy. Or whether she’s tried all those other courses and they’ve given her awful side effects or they’re contraindicated given her particular condition or they’re unavailable to her due to income or access. I don’t know. Maybe she’s abusing. Maybe she’s handing it out on the street corner. Maybe she’s just like me. Just one person trying to power through this world as best she can. And this is the best way she’s found to do it." Yes. And they have NO RIGHT to assume ANYTHING about ANYONE who is looking for their meds, because really? I feel pretty safe in saying that people who apply to government agencies for help getting their meds are NOT doing it to get high, they're doing it because they FUCKING NEED THE MEDICATION. ARGH I am so angry about this I cannot continue without devolving into frothing, spitting exclamations made up mostly of cuss words! “I don’t know what was going on in this woman’s life. I don’t know if she’s dependent (there is a difference). I don’t know if she would be better off on another course of therapy. Or whether she’s tried all those other courses and they’ve given her awful side effects or they’re contraindicated given her particular condition or they’re unavailable to her due to income or access. I don’t know.

Maybe she’s abusing. Maybe she’s handing it out on the street corner.

Maybe she’s just like me. Just one person trying to power through this world as best she can. And this is the best way she’s found to do it.”

Yes. And they have NO RIGHT to assume ANYTHING about ANYONE who is looking for their meds, because really? I feel pretty safe in saying that people who apply to government agencies for help getting their meds are NOT doing it to get high, they’re doing it because they FUCKING NEED THE MEDICATION. ARGH I am so angry about this I cannot continue without devolving into frothing, spitting exclamations made up mostly of cuss words!

]]> By: Dr. Righteous http://disabledfeminists.com/2009/10/23/yes-it-does-make-a-difference/#comment-883 Dr. Righteous Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:50:05 +0000 http://disabledfeminists.com/?p=766#comment-883 Here we have pain clinics that treat everybody like a scum-sucking, drug-seeking addict. . . even (and maybe especially) people who clearly, obviously (to me, anyway) have severe chronic pain that isn't responsive to anything else but narcotics, and who clearly, obviously (to me, anyway) are taking them as prescribed and it's just bringing them up to normal (or some close approximation thereof) and not getting them high at all. I don't get it. My own grandmother, when she was in her late 90s and in the hospital for the last time dying in great pain, was unable to get enough narcotics because, as her doctor told my father, "she might get addicted. Or if we give her too much more it might kill her." And my father accepted that argument. What is it that these people do not understand about pain? And you have no idea just how many people get their ideas of reality from tv & movies. People believe that the FBI really has X-Files because Mulder told them that the truth was Out There, who think they understand black culture because they watch BET, and who learned everything they know about the law from watching Judge Judy. You don't believe me? Just watch, the next time something big happens on the news. At least one person, when interviewed, will breathlessly tell the reporter, "It was just like in the movies!" It never, ever fails. Dean Koontz wrote a book in which that was one of the dominant themes--<i>Mr. Murder</i>, I think. In which he nailed it as a peculiarly American cultural phenomenon. Reality is no longer the benchmark for good fiction: Here it is now the other way around. .-= Dr. Righteous´s last blog ..<a href="http://docrighteous.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/i-had-no-fucking-idea/" rel="nofollow">I had no fucking idea</a> =-. Here we have pain clinics that treat everybody like a scum-sucking, drug-seeking addict. . . even (and maybe especially) people who clearly, obviously (to me, anyway) have severe chronic pain that isn’t responsive to anything else but narcotics, and who clearly, obviously (to me, anyway) are taking them as prescribed and it’s just bringing them up to normal (or some close approximation thereof) and not getting them high at all.

I don’t get it.

My own grandmother, when she was in her late 90s and in the hospital for the last time dying in great pain, was unable to get enough narcotics because, as her doctor told my father, “she might get addicted. Or if we give her too much more it might kill her.” And my father accepted that argument.

What is it that these people do not understand about pain?

And you have no idea just how many people get their ideas of reality from tv & movies. People believe that the FBI really has X-Files because Mulder told them that the truth was Out There, who think they understand black culture because they watch BET, and who learned everything they know about the law from watching Judge Judy.

You don’t believe me? Just watch, the next time something big happens on the news. At least one person, when interviewed, will breathlessly tell the reporter, “It was just like in the movies!” It never, ever fails.

Dean Koontz wrote a book in which that was one of the dominant themes–Mr. Murder, I think. In which he nailed it as a peculiarly American cultural phenomenon. Reality is no longer the benchmark for good fiction: Here it is now the other way around.
.-= Dr. Righteous´s last blog ..I had no fucking idea =-.

]]> By: Kaz http://disabledfeminists.com/2009/10/23/yes-it-does-make-a-difference/#comment-869 Kaz Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:22:01 +0000 http://disabledfeminists.com/?p=766#comment-869 I keep coming back to this post stunned at how utterly <em>awful</em> it is. That people would think that way, would openly discuss it <em>in front of you...</em> Words really fail me. .-= Kaz´s last blog ..<a href="http://kaz.dreamwidth.org/208653.html" rel="nofollow">am such a German, le sigh</a> =-. I keep coming back to this post stunned at how utterly awful it is. That people would think that way, would openly discuss it in front of you… Words really fail me.
.-= Kaz´s last blog ..am such a German, le sigh =-.

]]> By: Tori http://disabledfeminists.com/2009/10/23/yes-it-does-make-a-difference/#comment-795 Tori Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:20:57 +0000 http://disabledfeminists.com/?p=766#comment-795 You know what? I am trying to teach my dog to poo in a paper bag, light it on fire, and run away. (Well, not really, but I can dream.) Right now, she lacks motivation, but once she masters this trick, shall I send her to you? 'Cause these sound like people who deserve to stomp on flaming dog poo. (Note: I'm not trying to be dismissive of your concerns at all. On the contrary, I have the same types of fears, and... some days I can either feel the emotions <b>or</b> eloquently put them into words. This is one of those days.) .-= Tori´s last blog ..<a href="http://frolicnaked.livejournal.com/259788.html" rel="nofollow">And I Didn't Even Mention Viagra</a> =-. You know what? I am trying to teach my dog to poo in a paper bag, light it on fire, and run away. (Well, not really, but I can dream.) Right now, she lacks motivation, but once she masters this trick, shall I send her to you? ‘Cause these sound like people who deserve to stomp on flaming dog poo.

(Note: I’m not trying to be dismissive of your concerns at all. On the contrary, I have the same types of fears, and… some days I can either feel the emotions or eloquently put them into words. This is one of those days.)
.-= Tori´s last blog ..And I Didn’t Even Mention Viagra =-.

]]> By: Sarah http://disabledfeminists.com/2009/10/23/yes-it-does-make-a-difference/#comment-793 Sarah Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:11:31 +0000 http://disabledfeminists.com/?p=766#comment-793 Oh for goodness' sake, this is just so many different kinds of wrong and ridiculous. It hits so many points of ableism: the assumption that a TV MD makes you an expert on other people's health, the refusal to acknowledge disability, the willingness to cast PWD as fakers...just, ugh. I'm sorry you had to listen to that shit. Incidentally, does anyone know if House (in the current season) still uses a cane? The way that plotline has been portrayed in the past has been quite ridiculous, so I suppose it wasn't much of a leap to tylenol-is-all-anyone-needs. I stopped watching the show after this season's first episode, because of all the ableist crap regarding psychiatric institutions and we crazies. .-= Sarah´s last blog ..<a href="http://autisticcats.blogspot.com/2009/10/power-of-self-identification.html" rel="nofollow">The Power of Self-Identification</a> =-. Oh for goodness’ sake, this is just so many different kinds of wrong and ridiculous. It hits so many points of ableism: the assumption that a TV MD makes you an expert on other people’s health, the refusal to acknowledge disability, the willingness to cast PWD as fakers…just, ugh. I’m sorry you had to listen to that shit.

Incidentally, does anyone know if House (in the current season) still uses a cane? The way that plotline has been portrayed in the past has been quite ridiculous, so I suppose it wasn’t much of a leap to tylenol-is-all-anyone-needs. I stopped watching the show after this season’s first episode, because of all the ableist crap regarding psychiatric institutions and we crazies.
.-= Sarah´s last blog ..The Power of Self-Identification =-.

]]> By: Tlönista http://disabledfeminists.com/2009/10/23/yes-it-does-make-a-difference/#comment-791 Tlönista Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:52:14 +0000 http://disabledfeminists.com/?p=766#comment-791 AUGH! It's like when people watch <em>24</em> and think that torture is OK. It's this positive feedback loop of portrayal/what people want to see. AUGH! It’s like when people watch 24 and think that torture is OK. It’s this positive feedback loop of portrayal/what people want to see.

]]> By: Shiyiya http://disabledfeminists.com/2009/10/23/yes-it-does-make-a-difference/#comment-788 Shiyiya Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:08:17 +0000 http://disabledfeminists.com/?p=766#comment-788 Jesus christ on a fucking bicycle. That is frightening that people are actually making judgments about how medication works based on A FICTIONAL TV SHOW. Yeek. .-= Shiyiya´s last blog ..<a href="http://leapersjournal.blogspot.com/2009/10/letter-to-hawaiian-senator.html" rel="nofollow">Letter to a Hawaiian senator</a> =-. Jesus christ on a fucking bicycle. That is frightening that people are actually making judgments about how medication works based on A FICTIONAL TV SHOW. Yeek.
.-= Shiyiya´s last blog ..Letter to a Hawaiian senator =-.

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