i grew up with a chronic illness and parents who believed i was ‘milking’ my pain. they said things like ‘it’s not that bad’ and ‘you have to get through it and do what everyone else does’. i never got the chance to know what my limits were because i wasn’t allowed to have any. because of that, i underreported symptoms until my disease became severe. scariest part is that i didn’t even realize i was underreporting. i had just been doubting my own body for years.
i still struggle to accept and seek support for pain. recently, i developed a large kidney stone. as i’m laying in the emergency room, crying from pain, i have a thought like ‘this really isn’t that bad’. and i’m like, ‘oh my god, i’m gaslighting my own pain’. meanwhile, i’m being given morphine and bumped up in triage. these should validate my experience, but suddenly i’m thinking ‘i don’t need this, i’m probably milking it’ because that’s what i’ve been told my entire life.
parents and guardians, take any pain your child reports seriously, especially if they are chronically ill. otherwise, you’re teaching them to ignore their own needs and limits, leading to the worsening of conditions and appearance of easily preventable problems. they’ll be much worse off then they’d be if they missed a day of school for supposedly faking a tummy ache.
People discussing ‘unhinged’ fanfiction always seem to talk about dark!fic or explicit stuff, as opposed to the truly unhinged stuff like the fic author zapping all their favs from a story onto a set, assigning them roles, and forcing them to act out popular movies. Because, let me tell you, I read a fic like that with the original Yugioh cast acting out Disney’s Aladdin approximately fifteen years ago, and it is to this day one of the one of the most unhinged pieces of media I’ve ever consumed.
I was tagged by @thetenthdoctorscompanion and had every intention of ignoring it, but then the car broke down on the side of the road and I had nothing but time. So!
RULES: Make a new post and spell out your URL with song titles then tag as many people as there are letters in your URL. [I will be following these rules loosely as I don’t know enough people on Tumblr to actually do that.]
For the re-record, I am the editor, and I came here specifically to find this post and roast myself only to discover Britt had done it for me.
Anywho everybody get an editor, you can blame your editor for everything
I loved the new chapter! I was a little thrown when I first "finished" it cause I was reading it from the first story, so it was only the sneak peek so I was like THAT'S IT?! but then I read the AN. But c'mon man, don't hold out on us, I know you have all the chapters. Post them all at once so I can binge read them and then be sad that it ended way too quickly lol. I'm excited for next Wednesday!
This message has me in STITCHES 🤣 For the record, I don't have all of the chapters yet, and my editor has gone through even less. I want to make sure my typos are eradicated and my sentences are sensical before I put it out there. But I am ALSO excited for Wednesday, and so thankful that you got to read. 💕
Not Dustin calling them mom and dad AAAHHHHH honestly i adore his and Christie's relationship. And like his and Steve's relationship is one of the best things in the show so this is so great. I love it and I'm so excited to see his relationship with both of them and see more of them being the parents of the group!
Listen, I was so unbelievably excited to write Steve and Dustin this season. Like - yes, Steve and Christine, great. Dustin and Christine, even better, but we already know how close they are. Getting to write Steve's redemption arc in deeper detail, especially now that Dustin has an even bigger reason to hold a grudge against him? That's been one of my favorite parts of writing season 2. Dustin will put him through the wringer, but it will all be worth it in the end. 💕