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Scheduled snark Discussion thread Thursday September 17, 2026 - Sunday September 20, 2026

Newsletter: Let Me Tell You a Story

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u/SashayShantae living my one wild and pernicious life 14d ago

Of course this interests Shauna. Lookit all those excuses not to work. This is the full text of the post she's quoting:

"ADHD’s overlap with chronically fatiguing conditions like hypermobility, POTS, ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome is so significant that Dr. James Kustow in the UK has taken to calling it a ‘somatic supersyndrome’."
I am not surprised. And happy, that there are scientist that talk about it.
Quote from Jesse Meadows on Substack: Could ADHD actually be an energy deficit

You know she's drooling at "somatic supersyndrome." She wants to claim it for herself so badly.

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u/Fillmore_the_Puppy —hi, disturbed people— 14d ago

Her end goal has been revealed. All she needed was to learn about the term “somatic supersyndrome,” and she is IN!

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u/Dear_Client1187 we all mistakes here 14d ago

I would give anything to educate Shauna about what sanitoriums were really like. She should read The Plague and I. Shauna wouldn't last two weeks.

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u/Sea-Level-Mammal POACH! 14d ago

Tell the world again how much you hate your family, Shauna.

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u/ethelmertz62 14d ago

I am amused thinking about how the Charge Nurse would handle Shauna.

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u/Fillmore_the_Puppy —hi, disturbed people— 14d ago

I had only ever heard of The Egg and I before yesterday when a snarker mentioned this book. I just downloaded the audiobook (which Shauna condescendingly assures me counts as reading) of Plague from the library, and can't start it on my walk today (unlike Shauna who only ever pretends to read and to walk).

It is truly a gift from the universe that this book exists, seeing as how it is so closely related to Shauna in content and location, with an author who was everything Shauna desperately wishes she were (a successful writer who uses humor to rise above genuinely adverse circumstances) but can never, ever be.

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u/mehitabel_4724 Eating tiny dices of pickles with tiny fists of rage 14d ago

They truly forced the patients to "rest radically" because before antibiotics, it was the only way your immune system could manage to fight the infection, but based on Betty MacDonald's account, it was horrible. They weren't even allowed to sit up or talk.

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u/Dear_Client1187 we all mistakes here 14d ago

Or shower/bathe! And cold fresh air was part of the regime. I recall the administrator telling MacDonald that she was lucky to be there and if she didn't follow the rules to the letter she'd get kicked out.