“Interpersonal Systemic Shame makes it easy to see people’s laziness, sloppiness, or apathy as the source of the problem rather than a consequence of repeated structural failures. Interpersonal Systemic Shame often involves blaming and shaming people who share identities or experiences with us, because they reflect the qualities we’ve been conditioned to hate in ourselves.”
- Unlearning Shame, Devon Price, PhD
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My mom took half my meds so I have a stash for them i visit her, so now I have to buy new meds. She offered to pay for them but when I told her what they cost now, she got mad that I hadn’t haggled with the pharmacy So now she wants me to sign a thing a thing that lets my sister buy meds for me because she’s “a good negotiator”. My sister doesn’t wanna do it.
You can’t haggle with the pharmacy mom, you know, this you used to buy my meds.
hhhhaggle the ph-hahaha! oh-dear… ahem. Haggle the pharmacy?
You see their prices were unreasonable, surely they could cut me a deal or something, right? I think she just remembers my meds being way cheaper and thinks I’m fucking up somehow.
Honestly I should be able to say “I’m only gonna pay 50% of that, you get to keep the box” since they doubled my prices the last year and put it in a nicer box.
lol youre preachin to the choir. id love to lay into some suite level pharmaloser. id do it with no expectation of discount, just to let em know where they stand.
mmm what a nice daydream