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I've thought about the scene of Bucky buying plums a lot and what it says to me, especially taking this tumblr post on how the way he orders the plums is strange into account, is that Bucky is deliberately ordering the plums weird. He's doing a cognitive behavioral exercise! An exposure! He is deliberately (and harmlessly) breaking a small, harmless, unspoken rule. He does that, the person at the farmstand Socially Disapproves but doesn't do anything terrible to him, like electroshock him into forgetting things, no -

All that happens when you ask for “about six plums” is that you get a judgey look and exactly six plums.

I think he's pressing himself way out of his (probably incredibly narrow) comfort zone in that scene. His demeanor is forced as he interacts with the vendor, and after the interaction ends, he's visibly trying to get himself back under control. He's jittery before he ever spots the headline at the news stand. He's trying to work through that fear and carve out a wider space where he doesn't need to be afraid. He can break the rules and Not Do It Right and Something Bad (an unnameable earth crushing cosmic consequence) will not happen!

...of course. Well. Something Bad does happen, which probably puts him back at square one as far as that exposure goes, but that is the problem with the practice – sometimes your fears may come true after all, even if it isn't likely that they will.

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I am so angry I want to throw things.

My parents use an independent pharmacy and my brother's prescriptions are there too. (Mine are not.)

One of the pharmacists doesn't believe in psychiatric drugs, and has a habit of harassing patients who have prescriptions for them. Nothing actually illegal, and usually not especially blatant, but today she refused to fill his ambien (her definitions are broad unlike her mind) at his usual prescription, insisting that it was for 'one' a day instead of two or 'one or two' as needed.

Yeah.

We're changing pharmacies. It's great to support independent local businesses, but not if they're populated by ablist unprofessional jerks who are harming their patients.

My urge to get my hands on her shoulders and shake will pass.
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The massive catch 22s in job application instructions are the worst. You're not supposed to mention your disability status, but you have to notify an employer if you need accommodation while you're applying! You can't mention your marriage status or whether you have kids or any kind of "medical issue" but you have to "explain all gaps in employment."

What? There's a blatant and gross contradiction here. Suppose a woman left the workplace for a while to raise her young kids. She can't say that or she's breaking non-discolusre, which exists so everyone can genteely pretend we are all able bodied men. And I can't tell the truth about most of my gaps in employment, which consists of "I was too depressed to find work."

The "explain gaps in employment" thing is so rage worthy anyway. Have you even looked around in the last fifteen years? But nooooo I have to prove I'm somehow not morally culpable for being out of work. If I just couldn't find a job, that's a mark against me!

*head in hands* I hate job hunting. It always makes me feel so worthless.
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I finished reading Edward Shorter's A History of Psychiatry this morning.

...What. What. What even was that?

No, seriously. What?

Why exactly did Shorter think that what his history of psychiatry needed was - - -

Seriously, there are so many bizarre interpretative choices in here I hardly know where to start.

Shall I start with Shorter's assertion that PTSD is a creation of Vietnam veterans who resented their difficulty in returning to normal life? I appear to have done so. Wow. Um. Oh, but I'm being unfair, that's near the end. What about the beginning?

Well. Well. Well.

...The beginning leads us to Shorter's declaration of early psychiatry's "genetic perspective." All very well, except that he's located the beginning of psychiatry in the eighteenth century.

Which doesn't actually get into the book's major problems, but I do think this kind of. Gestures loosely in their direction, at least.
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So evidently some of the professors on my campus have been disclosing students' disabilities publicly without their permission.

...Lovely.

To do the adminstration credit, they have responded with "this is super unethical and dangerous and needs to stop right now," unfortunately the next words in the press release were "it puts the university at risk for a lawsuit."
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I wonder if today's Commonwealth Club broadcast was less infuriating if heard in full instead of in fragments while dashing about filling prescriptions, picking up household necessities, and buying food for the dog.

Poorly educated. I'll give you poorly educated. Yes, everyone should self educate by asking their doctors for patient guides. This is a brilliant plan and not contraindicated by the number of people who don't have doctors and the number of doctors who pull the "you shouldn't worry your pretty little head about that" shtick. ARGH. YOU try navigating the world of chronic illness for a while and then tell me again about self advocacy and how people are deluded by the media into "wanting something done" about their pain. Which, let me tell you, it is often remarkably hard to convince doctors actually exists.

The small print is, however, very probably unfair as, as I said, I did not hear the whole thing. But venting was still vital to my stress level.
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Derailed from Discussion of Misogynist Bad Behavior to Ablist Bullshit in the very first comment oh my gracious.

Neuroatypical people are not doomed to act like entitled, controlling creeps because of their brain chemistry! Someone acting like an entitled, controlling creep is not an indication that they are neuroatypical! Do you even pay attention to what you type, people posting this horse pucky?
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