Yeah that happens to me too. A lot of nights I play solitaire until Im sleepy enough to just pass out.

Weed, distracting games, shower in the dark, herbal tea or hot cocoa, warm blanket, cool compress on the sternum (vagus nerve), “tapping” (emotional freedom technique, there’s videos on yt)…sometimes I just have to ride it out though. Sucks.

Hope it passes soon.

Quick, the US better make it illegal, before too many people find out.

That’s pretty cool though.

I was today years old when I realized these threads were called Tuesday Free Talk because they’re started by you, a Tuesday, not because they’re started ON a Tuesday.

You might also be interested in the intersectionality between disabled liberation, Black liberation, and animal liberation.

Highly recommend “beasts of burden” by Sunaura Taylor.

Lol, we got drunk, high, and fucked. Hung out at shopping malls.

I used to make art.

Fortified food is vegan (as long as it’s not sourced from animals).

If you’re concerned about how shit is made, i’d care a lot more about the human animals exploited for their labor and not the machinery that made it.

But if the machinery is the issue, you’re asking about primitivism, not veganism.

seaweed is a great source of iodine.

B12 deficiency happens in meat eaters too (most folks are a little deficient, which is why we fortify foods), but things like nutritional yeast are fortified.

not sure why you're anti-fortification. I assume you don't drink fluoridated water, too, and just live with the cavities?

I agree with all of this. However, there’s still plenty of bad providers (some of whom get promoted into positions of leadership and let this shit happen) and the whole concept of the modern healthcare system is gatekeeping and imbalances of power.

Continuing education is funded by the drug companies. The same companies that lobby politicians and keep insurance companies in business. Politics & the government are so deeply rooted in the system that it touches every step in the career of a provider.

Trust is earned and they don’t have any clout left.

I say this as a former healthcare worker with two STEM degrees who is now a patient attempting to navigate this system.

It’s rotten to the core.

It’s genocide.

And it’s yet another reason I want to punch every healthcare provider who doesn’t understand why no one trusts their profession any more.

Yeah storebought gf stuff is awful. Costs a fortune, tastes like ass. The one exception is Siete brand tortillas. I fucking love those. (I can’t do corn either so I get their almond tortillas.)

Never tried pure lentil for flatbreads but I’ve made a lot of dosa in my day. That sounds fun. Thanks!

The hearts of palm pasta isn’t bad! I’ve tried them a few times. I was psyched to make a white lasagna one day so I got some lasagna noodles… it was a soup can and only half full once drained and rinsed, the lasagna didn’t even fill up my 5”x5” baking dish LOL.

I’ve looked into splendid spoon before… very cool idea but there’s wheatgrass on the menu so it’s a hard no for me. (Super sensitive celiac.)

Cauli rice is pretty good too. I’ve stuffed peppers with it and made fried rice.

Thank you for this!

That’s awesome! I think the link between celiac, diabetes, and hypothyroid is super interesting. I am the only person in my family who doesn’t have diabetes so I figure it’s only a matter of time, but I wonder if it matters that I’m also the only one who quit eating gluten. Apparently my grandfather was diabetic but only had sugar issues when he ate breads (they were New York Jews— LOTS of bagels and rye bread). My parents docs have advised them to stop eating gluten too but of course they won’t.

So idk if I’m still destined to develop diabetes someday (and if it happens it happens) but so far my A1c is stable and I really think being gluten free is the main reason why.

You didn’t make me feel worse! I promise. Things have been steadily getting worse for awhile and it’s been extra tough for the last year or so, and the last few weeks in particular have been one blow after another.

It does help to know I’m not alone but it sure sucks how many of us are struggling.

I’ve been surviving purely out of spite for years.

Although even that’s getting a lot harder to do, tbh.

How much eugenics from how many different angles can one person take?

I’m so fucking tired.

No it’s cool, I don’t need an exact recipe, just some rough ideas :)

My spouse’s A1c shot up like a rocket the year we were mostly eating rice and beans (with lots of veg on the side), so I’ve kinda gotten away from that unless it’s like a tiny serving.

But now we’re eating a lot of potatoes so I’m guessing the same thing is gonna happen at his next lab test.

Can’t win.

I’m not transfem but I’m disabled and have been thinking about this a lot. I think it’s not unrealistic to plan for the possible that people like us (on the margins) could be rounded up and put into camps.

Fun fact: being trans was supposed to be protected by the ADA but the bigots and “Christian right” lost their shit when it was being drafted, and trans people were dropped from it. The ADA is a joke anyway (there are no repercussions for violations, the onus is on the wronged disabled person to sue in civil court dor “damages”), but it’s something to consider. Being trans could be considered a disability because your body doesn’t make enough of the hormones it needs.

Anyway I digress. I’m in California and I don’t plan on leaving because I think if these attacks on transness keep up, this may be one of the safer places to be. There’s plenty of bigotry up here (I’m way way way up in norcal and I see way too many confederate flags and “state of Jefferson” propaganda) but I’ve lived in Arizona too, and some other conservative states, and I’ve never felt safe. Here in cali, I feel like I have a fighting chance, even if I’m not safe.

In any case… solidarity, friend. This shit is awful. And I don’t think youre being unreasonable.

I would leave the country if I could. But I’m poor and disabled, and most countries won’t take disabled people. I hear you can move out of the country cheap if you’re savvy about where you go but still gotta be mostly able bodied.

Ratatouille is good if you have access to eggplant and tomatoes.

Zucchini bread is my go-to.

It can actually be puréed in a blender or food processor (raw or roasted) to make a decent base for a sauce. Garlic, nutritional yeast (or Parmesan), salt = Alfredo-ish.

I’ve made noodles with them (either a spiralizer or patience & a knife), but they’re not my favorite with marinara. They’re pretty good with a peanut sauce of some kind.

Also there’s a way you can preserve them by spiral cutting them and air drying. A Lakota person on TikTok talks about the history of preserving squash this way a lot. I haven’t tried it.

Yup.

Hey this worked. Thanks!

I think it can have a lot to do with embracing stereotypes (doesn’t have to but it can).

An acquaintance came out (mtf) and of course I’m supportive af, but there came a point where I was starting to feel pretty bad about MYself, because 99% of the convo was embracing very stereotypical and slightly dated stereotypes. Wearing makeup “like a real woman” or wearing heels “like real women do.”

I am AFAB. I am disabled and I can’t wear heels. I can’t wear makeup either, due to countless allergies and an autoimmune skin condition. Im also fat, so I don’t have the privilege of buying stereotypical femme clothes, and sometimes I think I’m lucky I’m able to wear anything but a bedsheet. Trauma has made it so I can’t wear dresses.

Fat women are generally denied their femininity— or are forced into hyper-femininity in the form of hyper sexuality, only if they have a traditional hourglass figure (big tits, big ass, small waist, and no unsightly out of place bumps or rolls). Disabled people are denied their sexuality.

I imagine things are pretty tough out there for fat trans folks, especially the super fat and infinifat. Fatness influences gender perception by the cis pretty hardcore.

I ID as agender or genderless because I’ve never been allowed to have a gender, and the only genders I know are based on stereotypes. At this point in my life, I’m offended that anyone assumes any gender about me, because fuck their stereotypes.

This is already happening.

This is what happens when you can’t afford lifesaving surgeries or very expensive drugs and the cheap treatments are either ineffective or harmful (either way, if you’re treating something that kills when left untreated, you die). This is what happens when you can’t afford cancer treatment. This is what happens when you can’t afford home care.

Some insurances will cover suicide drugs, but not chemo.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/sathya-dharma-kovac-als-medical-assistance-in-death-1.6605754

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/34774/insurance-denied-her-chemo-treatment-but-it-covered-drugs-for-suicide

https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis

I will never say we need a new government. GOVERNMENT IS THE PROBLEM.

I have what I think is a capitalism-induced migraine (my job is draining my will to live, I can’t find another one to replace it, and my weekend was barely long enough to get necessary tasks complete and involved no resting or recuperating), so I don’t have the energy to explain all the ways the government is the problem, but other people here are way more eloquent than me anyway.

I’m sorry about your dad. We’re going through that rn with my spouse’s parents. But they have a fuckton of money and can afford stellar care. If my spouse gets Alzheimer’s, we will have zero support.

Our retirement plan is to die. That’s it. And there’s no fixing it. I’d like to be wrong, but the reality is that while we are really bad off rn, there are tons of people way worse off than us. And I’m too disabled to do much of anything. I’ve got medic training, but even being in proximity to teargas makes me more of a liability than an asset. My spouse isn’t much better off, just different disabilities.