~ Faye ~ 21 ~female ~ Bi ~ I'm a fan of Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, and FUCKING GAME GRUMPS!! also a bunch of other random shit. I mostly just reblog funny things. Go ahead and message me! I'd love to hear from all you lovely people
Why is “balloon” in quotation marks? I need to know what he actually used instead of balloons. I also need to know how he trapped people.
He took a bullock’s intestines, cleaned them thoroughly from within so that only the rubbery exterior remained: an intact, elastic empty tube. He tied one end to a blacksmith’s bellows, then inflated the tubes to such an enormous size that the person he had duped into watching his ‘experiment’ would be trapped in a corner of the room by the balloons.
OH
Leonardo daGENIUS
he and benjamin franklin should have been friends in any fair universe
so i’m currently working at a law firm and the other day one of the attorneys was talking to me and he mentioned that he’s “not very confrontational” and i was like you are?? a lawyer???
and he said “yeah but in court there are rules. i can argue with some shmuck in a suit in front of a judge no problem, but when i leave the courthouse and go home i’m not gonna argue with my wife about dinner. there are no rules in our kitchen. i would die.”
How most people with invisible illnesses are treated by health care “professionals”
The Golden Girls didn’t fuck around
pls watch
honestly i really appreciated this scene when I first saw it bc it took me like two years to get a diagnosis for what’s wrong with me
Dorothy: Dr. Budd?
Dr. Budd: Yes?
Dorothy: You probably don’t remember me, but you told me I wasn’t sick. Do you remember? You told me I was just getting old.
Dr. Budd: I’m sorry, I really don’t–
Dorothy: Remember. Maybe you’re getting old. That’s a little joke. Well, I tell you, Dr. Budd, I really am sick. I have chronic fatigue syndrome. That is a real illness. You can check with the Center for Disease Control.
Dr. Budd: Huh. Well, I’m sorry about that.
Dorothy: Well, I’m glad! At least I know I have something.
Dr. Budd: I’m sure. Well, nice seeing you.
Dorothy: Not so fast. There are some things I have to say. There are a lot of things that I have to say. Words can’t express what I have to say. [tearing up] What I went through, what you put me through—I can’t do this in a restaurant.
Dr. Budd: Good!
Dorothy: But I will!
Dr. Budd’s date: Louis, who is this person?
Dr. Budd: Look, Miss–
Dorothy: Sit. I sat for you long enough. Dr. Budd, I came to you sick—sick and scared—and you dismissed me. You didn’t have the answer, and instead of saying “I’m sorry, I don’t know what’s wrong with you,” you made me feel crazy, like I had made it all up. You dismissed me! You made me feel like a child, a fool, a neurotic who was wasting your precious time. Is that your caring profession? Is that healing? No one deserves that kind of treatment, Dr. Budd, no one. I suspect had I been a man, I might have been taken a bit more seriously, and not told to go to a hairdresser.
Dr. Budd: Look, I am not going to sit here anymore–
Dr. Budd’s date: Shut up, Louis.
Dorothy: I don’t know where you doctors lose your humanity, but you lose it. You know, if all of you, at the beginning of your careers, could get very sick and very scared for a while, you’d probably learn more from that than anything else. You’d better start listening to your patients. They need to be heard. They need caring. They need compassion. They need attending to. You know, someday, Dr. Budd, you’re gonna be on the other side of the table, and as angry as I am, and as angry as I always will be, I still wish you a better doctor than you were to me.
Reblogging for any of my mutuals who’ve ever dealt with Dr. Budd.
I used to love this show and I don’t remember Dorothy having Cfs. Everything she says rings true
The Golden Girls was so ahead of its time in so many ways. Do yourselves all a favour and watch every last episode.
GO OFF DOROTHY!!!!
I’ve never seen this show, but good grief does this strike a chord with me. I’m very impressed with the writers and the actress for having the guts to make such a strong comment on the way doctors treat invisible illnesses (especially in women or female presenting patients). You kick ass ma’am.
Holy crap, why are we still dealing with this kind of bullshit DECADES later!?
I really needed this. The last doctor I went to kicked me out of her office because my “smell offended her”. Keep in mind I have POTS, Severe Depression, and everything that entails including having a very difficult time showering without blacking out. I’d actually been quite proud of myself that day for managing it and for having the courage to trust a doctor again (many bad experiences, I’m sure you all understand). I also had been sitting in a hot car while my boyfriend, who is my caregiver, had a job interview directly before my appointment.
Without even looking at my chart this doctor walked in and started basically telling me how disgusting I was. My boyfriend practically had to carry me out I was sobbing so hard. I never thought a doctor, who took an oath to heal, could treat another human being that way. I was wrong.
I remember when this episode aired. I was really young but I felt connected to it and I didn’t know why. Years later, I do. This show was phenomenal. I can’t sing its praises enough.
Why do people on this website act like misdiagnosing a mental illness is a horrible malicious sin. kids on tumblr being misinformed about bpd and diagnosing themselves with it are almost certainly struggling with SOME kinda mental illness and are just misinformed about what exactly it is, i hate that yall treat them like theyre coming for you lmao
like its honestly fucking pathetic that yall act so… entitled when people accidentally misdiagnose themselves. a lot of symptoms of different mental illnesses overlap and its very unlikely that someone who misdiagnosed themselves as [insert mental illness here] is nt. have some goddamn brains and dont act so mean and possessive over your mental illness its pitiful
also often kids reading about these symptoms on tumblr and going “Oh I have all those symptoms” is what prompts them to actually seek therapy, and once in therapy they might actually get diagnosed with something else with similar symptoms but it was that initial misdiagnosis that pushed them to seek help
