Mostly ‘notes to self’ & things I want to find later. Pan/Demi🏳️🌈; late-diagnosed Autistic, OCD, ADHD, Celiac. Mom of 6. Fam of 8 w/ 3 T1 diabetics. she/her
Friends and strangers, husband just got diagnosed with MS. He already has Type 1 diabetes and we are an autoimmune family…so we’re fine emotionally—no grief or shock—but I don’t know what I don’t know! 😬 What do we need to know asap? 1/2
#MultipleSclerosis
@CBSThisMorning
@annawerner
This is America’s healthcare. 😞
It doesn’t take an explosion - one accident, one diagnosis, one illness can *bankrupt* a family. How, as a society, are we okay with that?!?! Hoping Alexis gets the help he needs, and that we can get ALL Americans affordable healthcare soon.
MY NEW VIDEO:
#StopTheMadnessStopTrump
Everything in this video is documented and sourced.
Please tweet and quote retweet this.
We need 7,500 retweets for this video to have a real impact.
@collectdust
Yep. We don’t have to imagine what the rest of the girls say about us, because they don’t do it behind our backs. “Why are you sticking your chest out?” “Why are you trying to show off?” “You’re acting like a slut to get attention.” “You’re pathetic, not sexy.” 🤢💔
@jfbeacom
Glad it was appreciated! This attitude of a willingness to ‘make it work’ (and a VERY basic ~50 word ASL vocabulary) always makes me worry I’ll come across as…patronizing? Ignorant about something important? (Got anxiety, so I’m going to worry about something regardless, lol).❤️
My nephew was shot and killed last night. I have no words. You know the wisecracking kid with a good ❤️; the charming young ‘troublemaker’ who starts turning his life around at 16 after he gets some better circumstances? That was him. He won’t see 17. I am so broken right now. 💔
@cncld4dncng
@calvinjburke
Any chance of a big enough moment on social media that would pressure all retailers -everywhere - into donating instead of destroying?
Retailers could take a nice tax write off and it all to goes back to needy families, schools, students, houseless, etc.
A MUST WATCH. Again, for good measure.
You can do the whole 10 minutes.
To honor the 210,000 Americans who don’t get any more minutes, you’ll need to remember 350 needlessly sacrificed lives for every SECOND you watch that video. 💔
My (now questioning) TBM husband just…ASKED ME FOR MY TAKE on the church’s late-yet-pathetic response article to the AP story our Bishop sent him. Dear reader, he means OUR TWITTER takes - all of them! He’s taking them to the Bishop to show him the scope of the problem. Help!😁
If living prophets can’t be divinely inspired to know ‘the right thing’ regarding issues like racism, sexism, or blood atonement, how can we possibly believe they ‘just know’ when they insist their divine correctness on any issue smaller than that (i.e. nearly everything)?
I can’t believe I was persuaded to trust *with my life* that these 12 men (and three more even older than that) had secret, essential information from God that they were worthy enough, holy enough or important enough to receive directly, while I somehow was not. Funny, that. 😒
For three decades, it has been my honor and privilege to associate with the members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Without exception, every one of these men has helped me become a better disciple of Jesus Christ.
As we
In 2017, Senator-Elect Raphael Warnock was arrested in the Capitol rotunda for *praying* in opposition to the GOP’s assault on health care.
Just think about that, given the events on January 6th.
Post some non filtered nature photos you took in the last few months. Lets get some nature on here. I posted this same tweet 2 months ago and people seemed to enjoy it. ✨🌧🌞🌻🍃🌖
Right now, I am still a member of this chuch, and I have never been okay with this. We need to speak out more on how this isn’t just ‘quaint’ or ‘the Lord’s way’…it’s sexist and problematic.
My Rexburg son said his job just told him since tills have been occasionally short, from now on, if a till is short, they garnish the check of the worker who opened the (shared) till that shift. What the hell?!? Seems illegal or at least shady. 🤬🤬🤬 Thoughts?
@AthulKAcharya
As someone who’s husband works in a California supermax, Norwegian prisons are the way to go. They treat everyone with dignity, help them make a ‘reentry plan’ and assign them a caseworker. They come out a benefit to their families and society and have about 1/3 the recidivism.👍🏻
a remarkable insight into the fundamental structure of matter
Often these type of videos zoom outward into the universe, making you feel insignificant, this has the opposite effect
Journey into the heart of matter
On
#InternationalWomensDay
we would like to highlight Cynthia, a UFW leader. As a trans woman working in the fields, she has faced constant discrimination and harassment simply for being herself. 1/2
These pictures were sent to us from WA state by a worker who tells us they were pruning apple trees in temperatures less than 20 ° f, in more than 1 foot of snow. He wanted our supporters to be aware of the effort workers make so we can have fruit in our homes.
#WeFeedYou
Weird parenting hack: my kids can stay home any time they need to. They just tell me why, and I call the school. Sick? Fine. Need a mental health day? Sure. Ahead in all their classes & just want a break? Done. Their grades are THEIRS, not mine, & no need to lie, ever. ☺️
My kid is home sick today and there's an 80% chance I'm getting played, but I don't even care anymore. Tell me you're over the school year without telling me...
Just finished
@patrickqmason
’s Planted - very thoughtful and well-written. My BIL gave me a copy when he heard I had issues w/ the Church; but I think it was more for people having a faith crisis. I’m a faithful person whose church is having a truth crisis. Different things. 1/2
The Build Back Better Act’s investments in clean tech will create 2 million jobs EACH YEAR over the next decade, while reducing carbon emissions 50% by 2030.
RT if you’re behind this plan!
Republicans just obstruct.
#DemsDeliverJobs
.
Smart girls who can hustle don’t fit the stereotype; so often they get overlooked and forgotten entirely. My daughter graduated with honors and got scholarships for college...worked her butt off to do it.😫
Never occurred to her to just *ask* for accommodations. She will now.❤️
So, I have ADHD and I want to share something that happened. I recently did a shoot with a network. They didn't have a teleprompter and were feeding me lines verbally. They said it took me 2x as long to complete filming than other people have and were visibly disappointed. 1/
Hey fellow
#LDS
#Mormons
, I know this stresses some of you out, but the Church stance is pro-legal abortion. If we want abortions available for incest, rape, or health of the mother, that requires legal abortion. If you agree with the Church, you are also pro-legal abortion.
@_megconley
@AddisonDJenkins
@BYU
My kids attend all 3 BYU campuses, and you would not believe the screenshots they send from their marriage and family classes…it’s ALL this bad. 🤪
Please - please bring as much attention to this as you can. Donations to
@UNICEF
or
@RESCUEorg
can help (that’s where we’ve been sending a big chunk of our tithing $ right now), but they don’t stop the violence. 💔💔💔
DAY 272
Mass atrocities are being committed in annexed Western Tigray.
Bodies of
#Tigray
|ans, tied & killed, some burned & killed, thrown to the Tekezze river by Amhara militias are resurfacing in Sudan.
Sudanese are collecting the bodies & burying them.
#HumeraMassacre
This is such a great education on what is going on with the trad wife craze. This guy explains things in a way that makes it easy to understand. I learned something today…but it was something I kind of already knew? Ah! He pointed out a pattern I can now recognize everywhere.
Everyone who idolizes these rich SAHMs - watch this, learn & then stfu. Tradwives glamorize a lifestyle none of you will likely ever be able to achieve & laugh in your face as your views make them richer. This isn’t goals - this is classism, white supremacy & patriarchy. Wake up.
@jingleAbelle
@fncmullin
@seraphrdm
My brother was classic ‘wild child’ ADHD…I was the quiet, gold star bookworm people-pleaser, lol. I had NO IDEA how heritable it is! 🤯 Fast forward to 2022, where I find out I (and several of my kids) have ADHD *and* Autism. 🤷♀️😁
Genuinely wondering how members can sustain the First Presidency this conference, when they’ve just publicly admitted to (and paid fines for) fraudulent or misleading financial practices? Yet I get quizzed if I’m ‘honest in your dealings with your fellow man’?
Holy crap!! As a mom with 2 autoimmune dx’s, w/ a husband with 2 AI dx’s & multiple kids with 2+ autoimmune diseases each…this is HUGE!!! An ‘inverse vaccine’ is already in human trials and it’s reversing (so far) MS and celiac, but it could potentially work on so many! Even T1!
University of Chicago: “A new type of vaccine developed by researchers at the Univ. of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) has shown it can completely reverse autoimmune diseases—all without shutting down the rest of the immune system’
@j_remy_green
Can there just be a whole future course required by certain (or ALL) law schools on the entire Trump Campaign 2020 Legal Fiasco?
“How NOT to embarrass yourself, your client and possibly get yourself disbarred?”
They are the poster child for what NOT to do, on so many levels.
@davidmweissman
@btselem
@hrw
@AOC
Every day you are a fabulous example of how to both be a human and be a human on Twitter. Almost no one changes their mind nowadays (or admits it), whatever the issue. You do so often, with complete transparency, and in the process educate so many others. So, thank you. ❤️
@samthielman
@JessicaHuseman
Dying. 😂 Missed my turn and had to turn around this morning, started humming ‘Turn Around’ and my kids chime in, “there’s a human skull on the ground...”. Proud mom day. 😁
WATCH as Donald Trump discloses all of his corrupt practices. (He accuses Joe, but we have receipts!)
NEW VIDEO:
#TrumpsCorruptionConfession
, from
@DemCastUSA
Please share. Please
#Vote
. In four days we end this farce of a presidency.
@_borntobemild
@1Schoolhouse
Yes. Like, I had 6 kids and joined a high-demand religion before I knew I was actually disabled and not lazy, lol — but now what?!? I have an everyday life that I can’t pause for 2 yrs to recover from burnout or give my body the rest it needs on the daily. Just…can’t. 🤷♀️
@tommy06463965
@CityMouseBC
@abrasive_j
@BreeNewsome
The internet isn’t just people’s opinions on twitter and FB (not even mentioning Parler, lol). There is actual information to be found and education to be had. That’s like blaming the library because you studied for your final out of their copies of In Style Magazine.
p. 167, Russell M. Nelson autobiography.
For RMN, loyalty to the Mormon church superseded doctor-patient confidentiality, and Spencer Kimball's pledging him to secrecy.
@paulinaporizkov
44, mom of six.
#oldandugly
Feeling every minute of it, lol, but damn - this 🧵 makes me feel like a badass. All y’all are exceptional. ❤️
@Mischa_Levin
@amandacarpenter
Any chance they could focus on putting resources toward helping those at home, instead of sacrificing every able adult these children come into contact with? Let’s support them and their family with food, job and housing assistance, income protection (people, not companies). ❤️
YOU DON’T WANT THIS FUTURE.
Our family of 8 already has 10 autoimmune diagnoses racked up, and we’d like to not keep doing this. (‘this’ being missing school, going to the hospital, missing work, being poor, getting sick again, going to the hospital again, being poorer…)
@politico
As a mom with 6 kids (3 are high-risk with autoimmune issues, as are me and my husband), this is INSANE. You’ll turn every school into a superspreader event - will it still *work* when half of the teachers & support staff are home sick or w/ sick kids/partners/parents?
When your daughter at BYU sends you excited texts on a Friday night, and they look like this…
Thanks,
@AuntMarvel
for spreading the word so I could let her know where the magic’s at! ❤️🏳️🌈❤️
@fitterhappierAJ
‘Number of employing claiming sickness has risen for four and a half years…’ Hmm. Wonder what happened 4.5 years ago? It’s such a mystery. 🤦🏼♀️
@McKenzieDee17
Oh my gosh - what an incredible (surprise) adventure to find yourself on; no one prepares for this.❤️ No wonder I’m loving your insights, you have been going through some THINGS! If you need someone to listen, or want support or ideas or feedback - we’re all here to help.
@CatieOsaurus
For me, it’s because I’m ever-present ‘me’ in my head, and “Heather” is only ever heard from the outside. I’m ‘me’ in my head 24/7, just vibin’ out! As soon as you use my name, I become *the labeled social entity that exists in the world*, which doesn’t feel like me at all. 🤷♀️
Living my entire life in the outskirts of Oregon taught me to recognize posturing, right-wing, ⚪️-power-signaling, gun-toting, Christian Nationalist folk on sight…& that IS the charitable assumption. The alternative is ignoring their stated danger to safety, peace & democracy.🫠
@Exmo_Lex
Ah yes…the good old days, where ward members ended up doing bake sale and car wash fundraisers for a decade and selling their worldly goods for scrap to cobble together the 50% of the funds the church required the members to contribute—in advance—to get a ward building. 🤪
@sensorystories_
Me—& several of my kids; you summed it up perfectly! Young (masking) overachieving people-pleaser who’s just ‘a little picky/anxious/stressed’ (all the time, my *whole life*), turned into overwhelmed, burned-out adult wondering why everything was so hard. Dx was everything. 🤯
@arianenoel
@Pivya_K
@AaronMesh
My mom, too. 😩
“Don’t you know if you support or even *say* ‘BLM’ you want us all to be Marxists and socialists? No personal property, no security, no families! I can’t support that!!” 😱😱
Anyone got a NON-snarky reply for her??? Nothing is coming to mind...😁
@jfbeacom
Ew, I could see that. No, just hoping to not accidentally use my limited familiarity with a culture/language to look like I’m either appropriating or making assumptions. Glad to hear trying to help is usually received well! ❤️
@natsechobbyist
@WFKARS
I think we should make it VERY clear that a huge percentage of us will never feel safe going to those states again…and so neither will our tourist dollars. I don’t think it will make a difference, but I doubt they’ve even considered the financial hit they’re going to take.
@BuzzFeedNews
@ceodonovan
What won was effect drug legislation. Decriminalizing small amounts and putting Health & Recovery in its place = race/prison/addiction reform.
At least, that how we do it here in Oregon.
OK.
So a huge problem here is that most people are looking at acute covid from an individual viewpoint and seeing low risk, when they should be looking at long covid from a societal viewpoint and seeing that we're in massive trouble.
@SalvMattera
Yes! My kids all got either strep or flu about 16 years ago, & daughter became diabetic. She has never tested Covid positive, but last year her appendix died, got infected, & she waited 6 months for surgery. Now she also has POTS. (Another son got T1 diabetes after strep, too!)
Dear
@AmyKlobuchar
,
@RonWyden
,
@JoeManchinWV
: Why does your new voting rights bill NOT require manual audits starting in 2022?! Without this requirement, we can expect a repeat of 2020: Republican fraudits of Democratic wins & no meaningful audits of most GOP wins.
#AUDITSNOW
1/
During Lent our congregation has partnered with a few other churches in the area to pay off medical debt in our county. By raising $30,000 we were able to pay off $3 million in our neighbors' medical debt.
With two kids at BYU and BYUI and a third applying for BYUH right now, this just...sucks. I love academic research, I hate propaganda; and that’s what they’re reaching for here. Replacing qualified with indoctrinated is not appropriate with paid-for, university-level education.😕
THE END OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AT BYU
🧵A LONG THREAD: BYU and all LDS Institutions of higher learning (BYU-H, BYU-I, etc.) has recently been given a new directive concerning hiring in Religious Education. They will now be hiring only those who have come through CES. 1/
I am loving
@PressSec
so much. A lesson in civics and a master class in good governance every freakin’ day. And she looks so good doing it! 😁
#PsakiBomb
@PressSec
In the same briefing, Psaki has said it's up to the SEC to monitor the Reddit/GameStop situation and that J&J vaccine approval will come from the FDA.
Says it's "part of our education" to inform public that regulatory bodes are separate from the WH.
Husband and I are the only ones wearing masks today in our ward…our ward full of elderly sick people and low-income families with lots of tiny kids. Seems not good. 😬😷
@scootmgoot
@mykola
Same. Diagnosed at 44 (also OCD/ADHD), but it wasn’t even on my radar. Autism never occurred to me due to a lifetime of debilitating empathy; it seemed to go against the ‘common knowledge’ about ASD re empathy. So much new and better info out there now! ❤️
Anyone have any book recommendations for that? Books like Bro Mason’s, but for truth/integrity claims, not a loss of faith? How do thoughtful and rational Saints deal with the century(+) of lying and hiding? The lack of humility or apologies? Does that book exist? ❤️❤️❤️
@HeathMayo
No, I appreciate the follow-up. He’s not saying, “I’m giving you money, like me!” He’s saying, “I already sent you money, make sure you got it.”
@profshanecrotty
@profshanecrotty
- help! Do you (they) still recommend if we are auto-immune predisposed? Me and husband have (different) autoimmune dx and half of our 6 kids have some of each, one has both. Still safe, or likely to trigger more autoimmune issues? We want to do the right thing.
@pot8um
I can’t believe none of his comms people are on social media…because they are blowing it rn. Either he’s impossible to reason with, or they’re all playing follow-the-leader, but they are seriously misjudging the moment (and their most motivated voters) on Covid, Gaza, etc. 🤦🏼♀️
When your ‘no big deal’ tasks require this much persistence, effort and patience…you’re a damn hero and deserve every extra minute you can get.
#EndALS
The hospital bill for my first baby, before insurance paid, was over $100,000. We paid about $3K. When my 10 month-old had to be flown to the nearest major hospital for 10 days, the insurance ended up paying over HALF A MILLION DOLLARS; it took years to pay our portion.
Imagine one of those old western movie shootouts: the bad guys can’t help but give away their position every time they fire—a huge ‘bang’, a big puff of smoke…and the sheriff takes them out. Covid-19 is the same movie, but the bad guys have silencers and ninja training now.😬
Hey y'all I made a video breaking down how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can hide from the immune system and lurk and mutate in different parts of your body. Linking the paper in the thread!
@lingerie_addict
Kind of makes me happy that they wanted someone else to get use out of it? Like, maybe they genuinely didn’t like the colors/texture, or had way too many handmade blankets? (First grandbaby got 15 baby quilts!!! FIFTEEN!) Instead of tossing it privately, gave it a 2nd life.❤️
@ravenscimaven
Science show!!! Maybe
@NatGeo
and
@disneyplus
can give you a sweet deal for a one-of-a-kind science platform.
Reaching all of the people that said, “WHERE WAS SHE when I was trying to learn science!?!?!” There is a huge market for this; especially with at-home learning!
Please share!!! We volunteer there and the services they provide are ABSOLUTELY indispensable to our community. They are good people doing good works - and we need more of it, not less. ❤️
“Despite the City Council’s ruling, at least one church — St. Timothy’s Episcopal (pictured below) — said it won’t stop providing the free meals [to the homeless]”
INFO FOR DONATING TO ST. TIMOTHY’S IN THREAD BELOW
@babbymd
I’m so sorry! I was on an NG tube for several weeks & even crappy food commercials were agony. Now I have celiac (plus other dumb stuff) so I can’t eat fruit, dairy, eggs, wheat - &ARFID means I can’t eat anything but one safe meal. Folks, there are so many of us out here! 😩❤️
@adhdjesse
Same same same! I always thought it was courteous, but then was told quite forcefully in college that it made me sound ‘stupid, like I don’t even have confidence in my own ideas’…and I was like, “Well, yeah. I don’t. They’re just ideas. I can have 10 more weird ones right now.”
@emilykmay
It’s always, “I’d better check the stove” and not, “I’d better mentally run through all my relationships and make sure there’s nothing anyone expects of me, or anyone I will let down if I am not *constantly vigilant*”
I now love both of these men. Did not see that coming. Be willing to teach kindly, and more than that, be willing to be taught when the opportunity presents itself. 🥰