Aubrey Hoffer, PhD

hi all! im going to be on bluesky now as hoff-phd. feel free to follow there!

@JaedynRuli wild!! im so sorry that happened

had a run-in with the potato peeler this week and ended up at urgent care. can someone give me the evidence-based rationale for not only weighing me when i came in for a fingernail avulsion but then PUTTING MY WEIGHT AND BMI ON THE AFTERCARE PACKET?? think of patients with EDs

@potato_heiress true!!! not my problem bestie

@hoff_phd Often when I refuse they tell me it’s for insurance reasons or that they’ll ‘get in trouble’ if they don’t and I’m always like hmm that sounds like your problem not mine! Lmao

@CheriLev @IrinaVanzhula sadly true

@potato_heiress good on you for sticking to it!! i didnt even think to put up a fight because i was literally holding my bloody finger. innever imagined theyd put it on my aftercare booklet

@hoff_phd This is exactly why I stick to a blanket refusal bc they’ll say “you don’t have to look” or “we won’t tell you” then send me home with this shit. It’s a fight almost every time even after I disclose being in ED recovery as a Hail Mary. It is shocking how little they care

@IrinaVanzhula @CheriLev maybe my new hobby should be finding out who to yell at about this. it’s so negligent and genuinely harmful!!!

@hoff_phd @CheriLev Urgent care I go to does "better". They don't just give me a BMI, but also a slip explaining "dangers" of BMI and how to lose weight. Noone checked if I potentially had an eating disorder and getting this would be actually dangerous for my health

@MoonsproutWitch straight to jail!!!

@hoff_phd At my dr’s they started taking my weight off the front but they keep the bmi it’s so silly lol

@Hannah80052610 and also like?? completely useless??

@hoff_phd Incredibly fucked up

@FitFlexFluid me holding my bloody finger and getting told to step on a scale made me have an out of body experience

@hoff_phd They are so caught up in this "weight-is-everything" model that they see no other way. It's ridiculous.

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@TahoeBoulder and ill totally concede times when it could be medically important to obtain weight (tho in my case i thankfully didnt need an antibiotic) - but on the packet??? ridiculous. and it’s regional bc i have never had this info given to me like this in az

Academic ironies

It’s wild how people think it’s not fatphobia to judge bodies based on their shape instead of their size. Like because you can be bigger and still attractive to them as long as you have a small waist, they’re totally body positive!

@hahnsamantha18 @phaedrajayne so excited for this! what an important topic

I think one of the key questions in mental health is whether services assess patients on the basis of their clinical needs, or on the basis of what the services can offer them. These are really not the same thing. I’ve only experienced the latter, and the absence of the former.

We should not accept struggle and exploitation as an inevitability. We should not treat poverty and going without as the default and everything above as wealth. Having your needs met is not a *privilege*. Living a baseline comfortable life is not a luxury just because many don’t.

Stop acting like their appearance is the issue, they’re just going to start going to the gym and think that makes them entitled to sex even though they’re still assholes