I expected this kind of behavior when I called out Markos Gage’s abuse. What I didn’t expect is for them to be so bad at it. I mean, technically, I’m not even diabetic anymore because I took responsibility for my life instead of just sitting on my fat ass bemoaning my fate and how the world had done me wrong. I changed my eating habits, worked out as much as the broken spine and damaged feet permitted, responsibly took my medications, and followed the advice of my doctors no matter how much I disliked and found it challenging. As a result I’m about 75 lbs lighter than I was, and my A1C and other numbers are “enviable” as my endocrinologist put it. I am immune to your harassment because I have the power of personal agency. But by all means, try again. I’m sure you can find new and inventive ways to embarrass yourself, you pathetic defender of pederasty.
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I read it, didn’t understand it. Figured that it was one of those comments set to either derail the conversation or to threaten. Of course, there is always the delete key to get rid of the pesky things.
Speaking of personal agency, that is something I always railed about with the Neo-Pagan community and money. They wouldn’t do the work needed. You got to have skin in the game.
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Oh man, I know that one so well. I was raised by a single mom who was trying to put herself through college. That means that we were really fucking poor, and while it may not be socially acceptable to say, poor people tend to pick up a lot of bad habits and ideas around money which keep them in a cycle of poverty, unless you work really hard to break it and unlearn them. Even now, stress can bring them back, so it is a constant effort.
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I know. We grew up on government cheese and peanut butter. So I decided to figure out what money was and how it worked. Turns out it is a spirit that needs respect and nurturing. Things like making sure the bills in your wallet are neatly arranged. Money likes that.
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Beautifully said. And sad that so many of these people, who identify as animists, never bother to consider such things. Everything is alive, and dances.
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Something I find hilarious is that the community with members that have half a dozen physical and mental illnesses (both real and imagined) for each member would ever be so low as to pick on someone’s health. But after all, it is a community made up of all the people that got picked last for dodgeball. Can’t really expect emotional intelligence or depth of character from people whose parents never liked them.
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I want to print this out and frame it. Fucking so on point.
And maybe if I was a different person, or had handled things a different way, bringing up the amputation might have had an effect on me. It was certainly one of the scariest periods in my life. But I embraced it as a death-and-rebirth kind of thing, and came out the other end of it having gained far more than I lost. I mean, it was just a toe. I’ve got nine more.
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