Femmeception!
2026-07-13 13:04 UTC
Replies (4)
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@velma@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-13 13:11
It took almost 4 years to get a diagnosis for my particular autoimmune disease. I was told that I was lying about how much sex I had, asked if I was raped, told that I would have to just deal with the pain, and turned away more times than I can count. I was 16 years old.
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@purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-07-13 13:24
So, people didn’t believe women, in a thread about women not being believed. Many such cases… Personally I was already used to doctors not believing me before I was out as a woman. Guess it was the fact that I was autistic? Honestly, I think a lot of people treated me as lesser for being a “lost weirdo feminine weak boy.” Now I have the lovely trifecta of being a woman, being trans and being neuroatypical. Lying to my doctors is basically routine to me. It’s a fucking necessity. Every time I start seeing one as a potential ally to me, they find a way to remind me that they’re anything but. They’re a gatekeeper, someone who has way too much power over me, what I get or don’t get, and much closer to an enemy than an ally. I have massive trust issues. I can put a lot of that blame on the medical and psychiatric system.
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@prism@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-07-13 14:16
I was diagnosed as “woman” for many, many years. I was always cold, tired, easily fatigued, depressed, and got nothing but SSRIs / antipsychotics / anxiety meds / etc. prescribed, because no doctor believed anything was wrong and I was told it’s normal to need a cane to walk since I was 23. Then one day I had a seizure and developed widespread nerve damage in 3 months, and suddenly I was taken very seriously, got a diagnosis for a degenerative nerve condition, and put on treatment for it. Unfortunately, we found out that I can’t absorb the necessary medication orally at all, so I have to do injections of it for the rest of my life… so of course, my doctors keep taking away my prescription for the injections and putting me back on the pills that we know don’t work. I’m so tired.
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@yessikg@fedia.io 2026-07-13 16:50
It takes a while to find a good doctor