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[QUOTE="SHBailey, post: 1822490, member: 89387"] It sounds like the three of us have a lot in common... "Don't bring your dog if you don't want attention" and it's a service dog? And mental disabilities are "not real"? OMG -- seriously? :shock: Makes you wonder what some people use for brains. :roll: I also have issues with crowds and rude people -- I guess I'm just hypersensitive. It's probably a miracle that I lasted in the work force as long as I did before I completely burned out and had to quit (depression, nervous breakdown, whatever it was -- they could never get a clear diagnosis, nor could they find a "cure"). It happened twice at two different jobs, and in each case it was a critical and demanding supervisor that pushed me over the edge. I ended up not eligible for disability benefits, but I can at least file for regular social security if I need to in two more years (I'm 60 now), but I plan to hold out for a higher monthly payment if my husband is still working and if we can still live on his salary, because we may need more later if I live that long. I believe in "neurodiversity" and "size diversity". In other words, people who have ADHD, autism, mood swings, etc, or who are fat don't need to be "fixed" -- they need to find a living situation that accommodates their disabilities and allows them to use their abilities, if at all possible. You and I are both lucky, Kami, that we have husbands who are willing to help out when we're not up to doing our share of the work. For example, Puffie made a little mess at the bottom of his tank yesterday, and by the time I noticed it I was too tired to clean it up, so poor Daddy had to do it when he got home from work, and it was probably all my fault -- I was the one who gave him some Repashy Grub Pie the day before (excellent laxative). Puff did seem to enjoy it, and at least he had enough sense (this time, for once) to stay out of his own mess until it got cleaned up. I share your opinion of people who think that all your problems could be solved if you would "just lose weight", Beardymama33, even doctors (unfortunately). Someone coined the phrase "health [S]care professionals" :lol: (too true). The only thing that they can prescribe is a strict "diet" (controlled starvation) and forced "exercise" (usually impossible when you don't have enough energy and/or if it hurts to move), but that makes it worse in the long run. I've got news for them: dieting causes and/or exacerbates eating disorders and depression, and in the long term worsens the very problem it's trying to solve. The basic formula "calories in - calories out = weight lost" may work in the short term, but in the long run it's not sustainable if there's a human body involved. We are wired by evolution to adapt to repeated famine, and our bodies don't know the difference between a "diet" and a "famine". There is a growing body of research that is beginning to show that staying "overweight" is not as dangerous to one's health as "yo-yo dieting", and that probably over 90 percent of people who lose weight by dieting gain it all back and then some within about a year or two. Many of us have learned that by our own personal experience, but for many strange reasons most people in the medical profession are still prescribing things that are ultimately making the "problem" worse, instead of just accepting the possibility that both healthy and unhealthy people come in all shapes and sizes. Well, I guess that was enough of a TLDR rant for one post. :oops: But it's also understandable why none of us like being in crowds or around people who don't get it... :roll: Much better to surround ourselves with bearded dragons and/or other reptiles and critters -- then the worst you ever get is the occasional "stink eye". :wink:[/S] [/QUOTE]
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