AC’s profile just updated: I finally got an EmperorZ I truly loved and was so excited for and was shaking with glee as I started filling out the form to accessorize it six ways from Sunday but as I did the glowing eyes triggered a migraine and I had to just. Give up .... and remove it .... I can't stop crying. I have to step away. I'm sorry......... My partner will be handling all interactions until further notice. I'm sorry... I'm sorry....
as a person who DOES have chronic migraines that HAVE been triggered by choppily animated pixels in peoples' sigs before (i wish everyone who still has those dumbass mspaint deities in their signatures a very FUCK YOU)... lmao AC is fuckin lying. these glowing eye effects are so smooth and tame that i legit didn't even notice them before someone explicitly said they were glowing. even the lightning primal is super subtle. the idea that a person could have a migraine triggered by this tame ass shit means they either dont know how to turn their monitor brightness below 100% orrrrrr they're lying out their ass. genuinely how do people believe the "i have DID AND depression AND am literally dying of cancer AND was abused all my life AND am homeless AND have a literal neverending migraine AND nobody loves me AND somehow managed to survive all of this while being LITERALLY THROWN IN THE SNOW TO DIE AND i still have the time and energy to grind for significant amounts of time on a website that exacerbates my pain to spend copious amounts of money on shit i dont even like!!!" as a person who knows what it's like to go unmedicated for chronic migraines for years, to the point where i sometimes have weeklong migraines (and in the mornings they're sometimes bad enough that i can't even pull the covers off my head), to the point where i failed many classes because i literally could not think or function due to pain and/or brainfog, AC has no fucking clue what they're talking about and is just making people who actually have these disorder look like whiny attention whores. NOBODY has a tumblr blog that 2004core if they have eyestrain and migraine issues THAT badly. especially considering the past behavior/alleged multiaccounting of this person in the past, my money is on them faking it to prevent people from calling out their shitty behavior or reporting them, because then people would see their tortured edgy mary sue character trauma checklist in their bio and feel pity for them.
W...Who acts like that for a migraine? You just step away for a little bit to take care of yourself. You don't need to turn into a whiny baby? There's literally no need to make a show of it.
I've had migraines triggered by static images before, my brain does NOT like chevron/arrow in magenta for whatever reason (I suspect it's my brain trying to process the gradients all at once and just getting overloaded with the visual info? idk)... so I usually understand but this... wtf. Who does that.
I have hemiplegic migraines- they literally have the same symptoms as as a stroke. Paralysis on one side of the body, drooping face, loss of vision in the affected eye, aphasia, drooling on the affected side, loss of feeling on the affected side.
All followed by 12-24 hours of confusion, bewilderment, sometimes a loss of time, fatigue, and a postdrome headache that lingers for 24-48 hours afterwards.
It takes me 48 hours AT LEAST to recover from them.
I get them 4-5 times a month. The only thing I can medically take for them is Ajovy, which is a monthly shot that insurance usually won't cover, and one shot a month is (at the cheapest) 800$ per shot.
I haven't been on them in three years because obviously, I can't afford that when my monthly income is only 80-150 a month.
(And I still have REGULAR migraines on top of that 2-3 times a WEEK. I've been fired from two jobs because of em, so much fun :) /s)
What I do is smoke some goddamn weed. 20 bucks for a live resin cart that lasts me 2-3 months.
If I can't smoke? I sleep. I stay hydrated, have plenty of salt, some caffeine. (a cold coke, ice water, and potato chips often help me get my migraines to a TOLERABLE level)
Sometimes, it doesn't work, and you just lie in bed with your head surrounded by ice, and you just suffer. It sucks, but such is life.
What I DON'T do, however, is become a whiny little bitch on the internet over some fuckin pixels.
I refuse to believe they have half the shit they claim to have, because sadly, it's so easy to fake half of the stuff they claim, because they're labelled as "invisible illness."
They are NOT part of any disabled community I consider myself part of. They're one of the ones who make us look bad.
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(Anonymous) 2024-06-27 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)I finally got an EmperorZ I truly loved and was so excited for and was shaking with glee as I started filling out the form to accessorize it six ways from Sunday but as I did the glowing eyes triggered a migraine and I had to just. Give up .... and remove it .... I can't stop crying. I have to step away. I'm sorry......... My partner will be handling all interactions until further notice. I'm sorry... I'm sorry....
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(Anonymous) 2024-06-27 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)(frozen comment) Re: AstralCrescent
(Anonymous) 2024-06-28 01:28 am (UTC)(link)genuinely how do people believe the "i have DID AND depression AND am literally dying of cancer AND was abused all my life AND am homeless AND have a literal neverending migraine AND nobody loves me AND somehow managed to survive all of this while being LITERALLY THROWN IN THE SNOW TO DIE AND i still have the time and energy to grind for significant amounts of time on a website that exacerbates my pain to spend copious amounts of money on shit i dont even like!!!"
as a person who knows what it's like to go unmedicated for chronic migraines for years, to the point where i sometimes have weeklong migraines (and in the mornings they're sometimes bad enough that i can't even pull the covers off my head), to the point where i failed many classes because i literally could not think or function due to pain and/or brainfog, AC has no fucking clue what they're talking about and is just making people who actually have these disorder look like whiny attention whores. NOBODY has a tumblr blog that 2004core if they have eyestrain and migraine issues THAT badly. especially considering the past behavior/alleged multiaccounting of this person in the past, my money is on them faking it to prevent people from calling out their shitty behavior or reporting them, because then people would see their tortured edgy mary sue character trauma checklist in their bio and feel pity for them.
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(Anonymous) 2024-06-28 12:51 pm (UTC)(link)(frozen comment) Re: AstralCrescent
(Anonymous) 2024-06-28 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)I've had migraines triggered by static images before, my brain does NOT like chevron/arrow in magenta for whatever reason (I suspect it's my brain trying to process the gradients all at once and just getting overloaded with the visual info? idk)... so I usually understand but this... wtf. Who does that.
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(Anonymous) 2024-06-28 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)All followed by 12-24 hours of confusion, bewilderment, sometimes a loss of time, fatigue, and a postdrome headache that lingers for 24-48 hours afterwards.
It takes me 48 hours AT LEAST to recover from them.
I get them 4-5 times a month. The only thing I can medically take for them is Ajovy, which is a monthly shot that insurance usually won't cover, and one shot a month is (at the cheapest) 800$ per shot.
I haven't been on them in three years because obviously, I can't afford that when my monthly income is only 80-150 a month.
(And I still have REGULAR migraines on top of that 2-3 times a WEEK. I've been fired from two jobs because of em, so much fun :) /s)
What I do is smoke some goddamn weed. 20 bucks for a live resin cart that lasts me 2-3 months.
If I can't smoke? I sleep. I stay hydrated, have plenty of salt, some caffeine. (a cold coke, ice water, and potato chips often help me get my migraines to a TOLERABLE level)
Sometimes, it doesn't work, and you just lie in bed with your head surrounded by ice, and you just suffer. It sucks, but such is life.
What I DON'T do, however, is become a whiny little bitch on the internet over some fuckin pixels.
I refuse to believe they have half the shit they claim to have, because sadly, it's so easy to fake half of the stuff they claim, because they're labelled as "invisible illness."
They are NOT part of any disabled community I consider myself part of. They're one of the ones who make us look bad.