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I find the "collapse, get rushed to the hospital, be told you're vitamin deficient, and then all your problems are fixed by a supplement" fantasy fascinating, because, if your problem is a deficiency, you can figure that out with a bit of internet research, and correct that with five bucks a month (which admittedly not everyone has).

But the fantasy isn't REALLY about correcting the deficiency itself, it's about having everyone take your health issues seriously and acknowledge that you're suffering, a common disabled wish. And there's nothing wrong with that, but unfortunately, ableists are gonna ableist, and trying to prove your suffering to them is a fool's errand.

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I just stumbled upon a (probably AI generated) article that said "two needles are used to make a crochet".

Bite bite STAB.

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Looking around, I've noticed that a lot of the people around me are disconnected: from their communities, from their own wants and needs, from their culture, from their past and their future, from the things they own and use, from their governments, from nature, from the rest of the world.

And there are a lot of reasons for this, ranging from "fascism and the kyriarchy benefit when we're all isolated" to "we're all traumatized in various ways and to different degrees, and trauma makes engagement harder", but the end result of it is that I see a lot of people who try to fill that hole in their lives with stuff. New electronics, "little treats", the latest hot new thing. I think there's a feedback mechanism going on there: the act of getting (buying) new stuff makes them feel better, but only temporarily, so they keep doing it over and over again, in the hopes of another respite from the horrors of existing in this society.