as small as a world and as large as alone

3:55am June 9, 2014

thequintessentialqueer:

Who would be interested if I made a blog devoted to sharing stories about shitty doctors? One of my friends informed me that some of our mutual friends have been actively doubting my autism exclusively because the first doctor I talked to didn’t think I had it (because she didn’t know anything about it, including what special interests, stimming, and sensory processing disorders were), because “wouldn’t a doctor know better than Evelyna?” 

But yeah, obviously we’ve all had incredibly insulting and frustrating experiences with doctors. Anyone with a disability, mental illness, a body deemed “overweight” (because lol fatness is inherently unacceptable and needs to be called “over” as opposed to some arbitrary standard of thinness), chronic condition, etc. could tell you just how ableist and fatphobic and insulting doctors are. Anyone who is queer or trans can tell you how routinely and dangerously heterosexist and cissexist they are. 

I had a doctor (who believes I do have autism spectrum disorder) ask me if I “felt emotions” or “cared about people.” According to her, that means that I can have ASD but not Aspergers.

I’ve had a medical professional almost perform a hugely invasive physical procedure on me because when I said that I was sexually active she deemed it to mean “having penis-in-vagina sex with a person with a penis.” 

I’ve had tons of absolute bullshit occur, and so has almost every single person I know. 

So would that interest you? Would you follow and submit? Would that be a useful outlet? I think it would be a helpful resource to show to people when they try to treat western doctors as infallible and all-knowing, when in fact they are so routinely ignorant that my mum was once told to give my little sister cheese to increase her iron levels. I think it would be useful, and interesting, and a healthy outlet for our frustrations, but idk. Would anyone like that? 

Absolutely interested.

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