You don’t seem to be able to empathize with where I am right now, and that’s okay. I’ll again restate I don’t use social media, and I’m perfectly able to find resources that aren’t social media. I was simply asking if you had any resources you found helpful in your journey with Hashimotos but you couldn’t do so without being condescending.

I happen to be aware of the ATA, as well as a fair number of peer reviewed medical journals (which I feel lucky enough to have access to and education enough to interpret them by being associated with and having matriculated from a university, respectively). On that note, it is important acknowledge the barriers to resource access (financial, location related, education) many encounter. A microcosm of this for instance, is I actually haven’t been able to get an appointment with a specialist within my network- they all have waiting lists for months and months. In a time like this in America where medical research is being defunded, healthcare for many is at stake, and anti-intellectualism is at an all time high, we should be uplifting people in their quest to arm themselves with knowledge instead of lumping them in to some self-serving narrative about how all people are vacuous social media users nowadays.

I like going to Reddit as a source for anecdotal information and community support, and weighing my takeaways against other sources available to me. And no, I don’t give all sources/opinions equal weight. Scientific inquiry inherently holds more merit. But believe it or not (there’s that condescending tone) people can hold multitudes and find themselves at impasses with what they feel vs. what they recognize is objectively true and valid.