My response when asked about it immediately after watching: “It was good, I think?”

I like how the wording may imply that being sober that particular day might be in contrast to other days.

If I may offer some 100% not a doctor or medical advice, resistance training is great for EDS in my experience and that of others. The only thing to be aware of is it WILL hurt for awhile. I go to a gym that has a full complement of exercise machines (free weights + hypermobility = easier to injure) and started lower body exercises on the lowest weight, a whopping 10 pounds. I’m gradually working my way up but am taking it really slow. I’ll eventually move to light to medium weight free weight exercises, but not for some time. The hypermobility in my knees and hips has significantly decreased and I’ve regained a fair amount of flexibility (hypermobile folks tend to get tight muscles as we age since we use them to stabilize our joints).

In the United States, portion control means not spilling your portion as you fill up your entire plate.

I have a couple of chronic conditions (Ehler Danlos syndrome and mast cell activation syndrome, woooo) and see pushback against meditation and exercise from other EDS/MCAS people so, SO much, but they work. Really well.

Some do have major issues starting exercise. No one expects someone with severe hip instability to do leg presses or a patient with CFS to pick up jogging, but there’s almost always something you can do. My arms and shoulders are a mess, so I started upper body exercises (tricep extensions, curls, etc) with a 6 oz can of tomato paste. Four years later, I’m up to five pounds! You just have to use some problem solving skills and do what you can, when you can.

CFS is a bitch for exercise, I used to “have it” until we found and treated my underlying cause.

Maybe we should change it to the Streisand-Turner effect?

If he ever does, I’ll link up to him and rate him on his profile as highly skilled at rape.

My favorite is “communist socialism”.

I’ve only ever had one worse protein bar: the original powerbar. Made in Idaho back in the nineties, they were a uniformly brown (regardless of flavor), chewy, sticky, oddly grain flavored abomination. The OG version came in gold foil wrappers with black text, like it was out of a fancy MRE. They were awful.

I was pretty sure it was just melodrama, but wanted to give them an opportunity to explain themselves versus continuing to sling crap like an enraged monkey. They didn’t take it.

Do you have anything you can reference to back up these assertions that the instance is astro turfed? Honest question. You’re making some pretty big accusations and I’m curious if there’s any merit to them versus just writing it off as trolling and/or social media melodrama.

This is 100% bard hijinks.

Does getting cold hands and feet from watching terrifying movies count?

They’re from Chile, it’s actually possible!

Do you meditate? This is pretty much my meditative state.

That’s social conditioning, not biology.