Having Ehlers Danlos Syndrome sometimes feels about the equivalent of being composed of jello and wet spaghetti. Nothing stays where its supposed to. Literally every single cell in the body is floppy, so fingers are definitely an issue for many of us. I can almost guarantee that for the majority of us, writing is not only slow and painful but nearly impossible at times. FIne motor skills? What even are those? An EDSer surely doesn’t have any of those. Even typing which is far easier than writing, is painful and daunting at times. But last year I joined the population of shiny zebras by getting fitted for a set of Silver Rings Splints and they are beyond magical.
For those of you who have not heard of The Silver Ring Splint Company, they are a company that custom makes finger splints that look like elegant pieces of jewelry. Don’t believe me? Well I can’t even tell you how many compliments I’ve received for them. Nobody even suspects that they might possibly be medical. But more importantly, they work amazing! I still have hand pain and finger dislocations when performing fine motor skills and writing is definitely not something I look forward to but I have saved myself thousands of painful dislocations, I can open doors easier, type faster, write longer and hold objects in my hands without looking like an alien from a sic-fi movie. With the rings on my fingers actually look like fingers rather than tentacles!
The company is also family owned and the people are so sweet and helpful!
If you are having trouble with hand pain, clumsiness and dislocations please check out this amazing company!
I’m literally crying right now. I will be able to use my hands!!! As it stands I can’t do dishes, hold things, write, hold books, type, without pain or dislocation. Oh my gosh. This is a miracle.
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those are gorgeous and that is amazing how well they’re working! signal boost!
I love these things. I use one for my thumb because due to arthritis I have very little strength/support in the joint and therefore often can’t do anything. My splint makes it possible for me to do my job, do the shit i need to do and not have as bad of pain.
these are so cool
omg the first ehlers danlos post I’ve seen, this makes me happy!
We love Siris Ring Splints (silverringsplints.com)! But we know not everyone has the same price points or style so we have a whole page of splints (and braces too) oer on PrettySick Supply so you can shop your own style and cost! And a lot of the folks we’ve found are others with EDS and hypermobility issues who support themselves by selling the splints they make!
Fucking,.,.,. Who said that males have a 90 degree mandible? What terf saw that and went “yes we can totally determine the angle of a person’s jaw bone by looking at them while they are alive and have skin and muscles on them still” cause holy fucking shit!! That’s the dumbest thing that I have ever heard!!
Also I doubt you even know what part of the mandible is 90 degrees! If y’all did then you would know that you can’t determine that by looking at a living person and that you could only see it if you were looking at bones! The part that is 90 degrees in males is the Gonial Angle, which is the the angle formed by the corpus and ascending ramus!
It’s the dumbest fucking thing to assume that all sexual dimorphism in humans is linked to our bone structure, cause if you knew how our bones are shaped, you would know it has actually pretty subtle differences except in the case of the pelvis! We aren’t like most other hominoids! Males do not have crests on their skulls or are 2-3x the size of females! This is what a male vs female skull looks like
Note that the differences aren’t actually as much as terfs seem to think! Not to mention that this doesn’t account for racial differences in skulls as well.
These are both female skulls! Note that when you compare the skull of a female European to a female african, the European skull looks much more like a male skull.
The only real sexual dimorphism in humans that we can say for certain is caused by genetics and evolution is our size. A lot of what causes sexual diamorphism in humans is hormonal! That’s why hormones can drastically change the appearance of a person. Plus, there’s social aspects that can also affect our sexual dimorphism, like workload or how society sees body types of specific genders.
But looking back at the skulls, let’s compare it to other hominoids! Heres the skulls of gorillas:
Notice how there’s FAR more sexual dimorphism in gorillas compared to that of humans. It’s much more definite and clear as to what gender is which skull. Compared to other great apes, humans have very low sexual dimorphism.
So tl;dr: stop claiming bone structure is how you can determine the gender of a human while the human is still alive because most of human sexual dimorphism is hormonal and “males have 90 degree mandibles” is not something you should be using to determine the gender of a living human
God remember when u were 12 and you would just Make Art on like spare copy paper with crayola markers and an old pencil and even though you didn’t know anything about anatomy or perspective or anything you were jus happy to b Making Art and u didn’t constantly belittle your own efforts or feel like ur drawings weren’t good enough
people who hate cats for being “cold” or “mean” never learned emotional intelligence or depth and think that love is only expressed by being submissive and unconditionally obedient
kinda cool to think how someone somewhere is having the best day of their life today. someone’s hearing “i love you” for the first time today. someone’s gonna meet the love of their life today. someone’s gonna get the job of their dreams today. it’s someone’s best day today. and guess what binch? tomorrow it could be ur best day so keep going
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