FoxyFerengi

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[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 28 points 8 hours ago

I make significantly less at 100% rating than I would if I had been able to stay in my career since I was medically separated or if I was able to do the same thing as a civilian (easily over 6 figures). It's still much more than poverty level, but the $46k I'll get this year just can not compete with what I could have had.

I know that much of the value in my benefits is free medical though, and that adds up fast when you suddenly have pronounced weakness in half your body and doctors can't figure out why

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 10 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

When I was going through evaluation to start hormonal transition my primary care doc's nurse asked me to explain what non-binary is, and when I figured it out. I explained the things I told the doctor who evaluated me, thinking that if it was good enough for her, it should be good enough for this nurse.

My nurse told me I just hate the patriarchy and that's why I hate myself. Lol

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 9 points 11 hours ago

My cats are fed in separate rooms for the same reason. I put a little collar activated flap on one door so the picky one could eat without my youngin sniping her food. He's still trying to figure out how to get in that room, I'm a little surprised he hasn't tried to brute force it yet lol

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 138 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Did one of the college interns write this?

I never understood why anyone local drove through it. Tourists I can understand, but it's a drive it once and "holy cow that was a bad idea" experience

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 10 points 2 days ago

I'm a five. Just living my suspiciously round life

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh, yeah. I didn't mean to imply that getting a job with a disability is easy or that employers actually follow laws. I was more trying to point out that a personality disorder is a disability, because most people won't see it that way

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

My therapist told me that a diagnosis of a mental health disorder means you have a disability*. So if they choose not to hire you because of your ASPD diagnosis, in the US at least, that's discrimination against a protected class. I have AvPD, and that was a concern for me too

*(although many disorders don't always earn the label "disability" when a person is seeking benefits)

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm 5'3 (160cm) and feel like I am invisible to trucks when I'm in a parking lot. It also feels like they've doubled their height (or more) over the last ten-15 years

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

High pH is basic btw. I'm assuming you meant low pH with the reference to soda

My acid reflux has nothing to do with acidic or basic foods, and everything to do with the ratio of fat I've eaten or how many alcoholic drinks I've had in an evening. Beer is about a hundred times less acidic than soda (for reference) and soda doesn't set my reflux off

My point is that human bodies are weird and we react in weird ways to food. That's why we have to trial foods

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 10 points 3 days ago

I'm not sure about that, but the reply a little down that says people will get voluntold to attend if not enough are willing sounds probable. I served under Dubya and had a similar experience. I usually just volunteered for watch when something like that happened lol

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