Post #3785831

2026-07-13 13:24 UTC

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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@velma@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-13 13:38

I have massive trust issues. I can put a lot of that blame on the medical and psychiatric system. Same. It is really difficult to get myself into doctor’s now even when I know I should. The level of incompetence is astonishing, from the front desk all the way to the providers themselves. I have very little trust in the medical system. Once had a doctor tell me that the abdominal pain I was experiencing was totally not kidney stones! They didn’t know what was wrong! So I pulled up the report from the imaging that was done and asked if the noted gallbladder stones could be doing it? Fuck doctors.

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