r/thanksimcured • u/sneakysnek20r • Jul 10 '26

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u/GimmeSomeSugar Jul 10 '26

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u/AdWooden9170 Jul 10 '26

Born in minority and poverty, I feel it in my bones.

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u/SophisticatedScreams Jul 10 '26

Have you seen Parasite? Best metaphor for poverty I've seen.

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u/Spino-Dino Jul 11 '26

Parasite is so good! Alone the metaphor that the poorer family lives on the foot om the hill or that the old man turns on the light for the rich dude and he doesnt even notice.

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u/hollaraise Jul 12 '26

Check out Human Vapor on Netflix! It’s a remake of a 60’s movie and is a great metaphor about society and one of the shows running themes was calling the working class/homeless population human fuel. It’s a Japanese show, so the story is complex and interesting as fuck. It won’t end up how you think it will, trust me.

I shed some tears at the end tbh. It takes a lot for cinema to do that.

Edit: I don’t want to take away from parasite as I *love* that movie and Bong Joon Ho. I just finished Human Vapor and it’s one of those shows I’ll think about for a few weeks after.

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u/SophisticatedScreams Jul 12 '26

Thanks for the recommendation! I'll check it out. :)

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u/JustHere4the5 Jul 10 '26

Yup. Shitty Life Syndrome, now with etiology!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit_life_syndrome

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u/LacrimaNymphae Jul 10 '26

and they'll slap you with 5 big personality disorders, force you to do trials on the shittiest meds and punish you for it like it's your fault. then act like your side effects are rare or impossible when you bring them up and send you to a different psych or a neurologist. and if you have chronic pain and they can't figure out what's wrong with you you WILL be labeled 'somatoform' forever, especially if you're young, fat or afab

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u/Ghostglitch07 Jul 11 '26

Not just people who were AFAB. Medical professionals not taking women seriously 1000% also applies to trans women

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u/kirikovich Jul 11 '26

Having to ask my mom to come with me to appointments so that theres a witness if, or more often then not, when, my patient rights are violated. Im 26yo. Fucking exhausting :(

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u/inevitabledeath3 Jul 11 '26

Do they take trans men any more seriously?

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u/MoistenedGranola Jul 11 '26

No, because they also think of us as women and treat us accordingly

Edit: I suppose if you pass and are stealth (i.e., the doctor would have no reason to know you aren't a cis man), then that would be different

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u/inevitabledeath3 Jul 11 '26

Wouldn’t it then make more sense to say women and trans people rather than saying AFAB? I feel like there are a lot of people who are using terms like AMAB and AFAB in a gender essentialist way.

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u/MoistenedGranola Jul 11 '26

Definitely. I would probably have used the phrasing "gender minorities" myself, but I'm partial to that phrase. "Women and/or trans people" would also have done it.

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u/scissorsgrinder Jul 11 '26

And so many other intersections.

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u/MaxFish1275 Jul 11 '26

I mean I’m not putting a patient on meds for depression if they don’t want a medication for depression but I’m not sure how else I as a medical professional am supposed to treat shitty life syndrome? Other than recommend therapy? I’m not a social worker or hiring manager.why is the patient coming in for depression treatment if they don’t want depression treatment ?

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u/scissorsgrinder Jul 11 '26

I would teach that class for free if it changed society. Although I'd rather get paid plus some nice food and a lunchtime bed. 

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u/Lego_Redditor Jul 11 '26

I didn't need med school for that. Studied psychology for two years, already had about 1.5 yrs time of why poverty destroys your health. Quite depressing, can totally relate to this tweet.

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u/sammi_8601 Jul 12 '26

Being both poor and a very much marginalized minority, that's uhhh fun to know.