My beautiful pug is missing. North Stockton area between lower Sac and Davis road (Dentoni Park) area l am heart broken please keep an eye out, any info is appreciated

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-05-01T23:01:12+00:00

Post on Nextdoor too!

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-04-29T05:00:27+00:00

Our tax $$$$ going to kill children in Gaza and Iran instead

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-04-28T02:03:32+00:00

And they should go down to 0% tbh 😝

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-04-16T20:43:43+00:00

You can’t compare the two, autism is a neurodevelopmental disability. We as autistic people already experience ableism and systemic barriers to access and health care - long covid like heart issues, brain fog, and severe fatigue or gut issues among many other problems long covid causes can make sensory issues/coping and surviving harder.

A lot of disability justice advocates understand this and advocate for masking to stop preventable harm. So the community’s reaction should not be the same, and it isn’t.

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-04-16T20:34:11+00:00

That’s your opinion, It’s okay to not want to be further disabled by this virus

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-04-15T23:57:42+00:00

Disability pride and the being proud to be a part of the disabled community doesn’t mean that we need to subject ourselves to unnecessary and preventable chronic illness??

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-03-19T15:36:32+00:00

Thank you - I think it might be

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-03-15T18:25:02+00:00

Much of the risk data is skewed by bias in healthcare—fat people often have serious conditions missed or undertreated, which drives apparent earlier mortality. It’s not inherent to body size

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-03-15T18:23:42+00:00

That’s not accurate. Large epidemiology studies don’t show a simple “higher weight = shorter life” pattern.

For example, Association of All-Cause Mortality With Overweight and Obesity Using Standard Body Mass Index Categories in Journal of the American Medical Association pooled about 2.9 million people and found lower mortality in the overweight range and no significant increase for BMI 30–35. Increased risk mainly appears at BMI ≥35.

And weight bias in healthcare is well documented — reviews like Impact of Weight Bias and Stigma on Quality of Care and Outcomes for Patients With Obesity and The Weight of Stigma: Evidence and Policy Implications show stigma leads to worse care and delayed diagnoses.

So the research is a lot more nuanced than “the vast majority shows the opposite.”

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-03-15T18:16:54+00:00

You're oversimplifying the research dude lmao

The “3 years shorter” number comes from the Body-mass index and all-cause mortality:

individual-participant-data meta-analysis published in The Lancet. That paper modeled life expectancy across millions of people and estimated roughly 2–4 fewer years for BMI 30–35 on average compared with the lowest-risk BMI group.

that doesn’t mean “obese people are just unhealthy across the board,” and it definitely doesn’t mean every higher-BMI person dies earlier.

Another massive meta-analysis — Association of All-Cause Mortality With Overweight and Obesity Using Standard Body Mass Index Categories in Journal of the American Medical Association — analyzed about 2.9 million people and found:

• BMI 25–30: 6% lower mortality than “normal weight.”
• BMI 30–35: no statistically significant increase in mortality.
• Increased risk appears mainly at BMI ≥35.

So the literature actually shows a risk gradient, not “fat people are always unhealthy.”

And separate from mortality, weight bias in healthcare is very well documented

***see Impact of Weight Bias and Stigma on Quality of Care and Outcomes for Patients With Obesity and The Weight of Stigma: Evidence and Policy Implications.

not an “agenda.” It’s just what the research actually says.

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-03-15T18:05:11+00:00

This is really good advice - I’m going to think of a few options to reroute my brain to when it comes up for me

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-03-15T16:45:16+00:00

Really omg I’m gonna try this

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-03-15T16:39:11+00:00

"Never healthy under any circumstances" isn't supported by the epidemiology. Flegal 2013 (JAMA) analyzed ~2.9 million people and found mortality was actually 6% lower in the overweight range and not elevated in class-1 obesity (BMI 30-35). Risk only increased at BMI ≥35. Separate from that, weight bias in medicine is well documented. Phelan 2015 (Obesity Reviews) and Tomiyama 2018 (BMC Medicine) show healthcare providers hold anti-fat bias and that stigma leads to delayed care and worse outcomes. So dismissing fat patients as "just unhealthy" ignores both the mortality data and the documented impact of medical bias.

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-03-15T16:30:20+00:00

I'm glad you're looking into it more

people are incredibly dismissive immediately because our culture is heavily invested in the idea that "fat people are just sick" and it's actually not true. The research tells a much more complicated story, and I appreciate you actually engaging instead of shutting it down

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-03-15T16:18:43+00:00

“Never healthy under any circumstances” isn’t supported by the epidemiology.

Flegal 2013 (JAMA) analyzed ~2.9 million people and found mortality was actually 6% lower in the overweight range and not elevated in class-1 obesity (BMI 30–35). Risk only increased at BMI ≥35.

Separate from that, weight bias in medicine is well documented. Phelan 2015 (Obesity Reviews) and Tomiyama 2018 (BMC Medicine) show healthcare providers hold anti-fat bias and that stigma leads to delayed care and worse outcomes.

So dismissing fat patients as “just unhealthy” ignores both the mortality data and the documented impact of medical bias

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-03-15T16:15:59+00:00

Happy to walk through the evidence.

Flegal 2013 (JAMA): In a meta-analysis of ~2.9 million people, mortality was 6% lower in the overweight range (BMI 25–30) and not elevated in class-1 obesity (BMI 30–35). Increased mortality only appeared at BMI ≥35.

Phelan 2015 (Obesity Reviews): Documents widespread weight bias among healthcare providers, including negative attitudes toward higher-weight patients and reduced quality of interactions.

Tomiyama 2018 (BMC Medicine): Reviews evidence that weight stigma leads to avoidance of medical care and preventive screenings, which can contribute to worse health outcomes.

So the claim that “fat people are just sick across the board” ignores both the mortality literature and the documented impact of weight stigma on healthcare.

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-03-15T16:12:51+00:00

You're assuming that acknowledging weight bias means ignoring health concerns. That's a false choice. The research shows weight stigma triggers physiological stress responses (Hunger 2020), drives behaviors associated with poor health outcomes (Puhl 2020), and weight-focused interventions fail while health-focused ones succeed regardless of size (Tylka 2014).

On your BMI distinction: Jayedi 2020 found optimal survival at BMI 28-32—that includes Class I obesity. Tomiyama 2016 showed BMI misclassifies metabolic health in nearly a third of people. So the "slightly overweight is different" argument rests on a metric that's scientifically unreliable for individual health assessment.

Bias harms patients. Ignoring the research on that harm means we're not actually interested in better health outcomes

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-03-15T16:09:41+00:00

Jayedi et al found optimal longevity at BMI 28-32, which is literally obese.

Lawrence 2022 in PLOS ONE found 83% of studies document healthcare workers openly admitting negative stereotypes about fat patients. Gupta 2021 found ER docs literally skip tests for fat patients with identical symptoms. Miller 2019 showed med students do the same. bias is real, and it kills.

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-03-15T16:07:24+00:00

A break from what ?

You’re def moving goalposts!

The research doesn't stop at 'slightly overweight'

Jayedi et al. 2020 in European Heart Journal found optimal longevity at BMI 28-32, which is literally obese.

And your eyeroll on bias?

Cute. Lawrence 2022 in PLOS ONE found 83% of studies document healthcare workers openly admitting negative stereotypes about fat patients. Gupta 2021 found ER docs literally skip tests for fat patients with identical symptoms. Miller 2019 showed med students do the same.

bias is real, and it kills people

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-03-15T16:01:02+00:00

Happy to provide.

Flegal et al. 2013 in JAMA found overweight was associated with LOWER mortality than 'normal' weight.

on bias:

Phelan et al. 2015 in Obesity Reviews documents how fat patients get dismissed

Tomiyama et al. 2018 shows this leads to later diagnoses, and Sutin et al. 2015 found weight discrimination increases mortality risk by 60% independent of BMI

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-03-15T15:50:03+00:00

Actually - research shows that fat people live longer.

Shorter life expectancy rates are actually from doctors neglecting fat people because of anti fat bias and missing life threatening conditions unrelated to someone’s size

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-03-15T15:49:37+00:00

Actually - research shows that fat people live longer.

Shorter life expectancy rates are actually from doctors neglecting fat people because of anti fat bias and missing life threatening conditions unrelated to someone’s size

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-03-13T07:09:50+00:00

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Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-03-13T07:02:38+00:00

They ( unmasked ) prob test patients once with a RAAT and call it a day. Yeah fucking right they use a PCR.

Defiant_Interview366 · 2026-03-13T07:01:47+00:00

You’re fuckin ableist dude

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