health
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Who Died and Made You the Legitimacy Police? (A Critique of Diagnostic Gatekeeping)
The other day, I was bumbling around on YouTube and found a (then very recent) video from the I’m Autistic, Now What? channel titled “You’re Not Autistic, You’re Just Privileged.” It was, essentially, a response to two TikToks that were critical of self-diagnosing or people using social media to explore the possibility they might be…
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Hashimoto Who? (or, How My Thyroid Sent Me to the ER During COVID)
At 2 a.m. on the Saturday a week before Christmas in 2020, I woke in a cold sweat. I was dizzy, shaking, and confused, and my heart pounded like I was in the middle of a workout. Minutes passed, with my distress continuing to rise. This was no nightmare; something was wrong. Whatever was happening,…
The Multitasking Millennial 