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just another human(ist)'s avatar

So glad you are back!

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Maria The Hammer's avatar

He needs to just stop. It sounds painful. He’s chasing an impossibility.

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Martha's avatar

Glad you’re back, of course.

This poor, misguided man. Lock up the damn doctors!

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Gregory S's avatar

Why stop at one surgery when you can have three?!?? There's no shortage of experimental treatments for benevolent gender affirming surgeons to upsell! At least he admits it was a mistake.

His vocal cords "stiffened up like cooked meat." LOL!

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Jeri's avatar

Did we learn nothing from "The Little Mermaid"? That poor, unfortunate soul...

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cringechamps69's avatar

You know this country's health care system is a joke because they keep refusing my requests to appoint me a minion grief counselor. To console me every time I waste $50 on a new Steam video game.

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Jai Byrd's avatar

🤣🤣😂😂😆

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Natalie L. Dinsdale's avatar

people need to respect the boundaries of TISSUE. you can't just cut and lazer and inject and poke and medicate tissue into the orientation you want it to be. tissue is living, responsive, adaptable. treat it with RESPECT.

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paper clip's avatar

what a good way to put it..

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Natalie L. Dinsdale's avatar

as someone who chose to get a cosmetic body mod that spiraled into a large stubborn keloid scar that I still deal with 12 years later...I know the pain caused by self-inflicted vanity surgeries! and mine is very minor, 100% cosmetic issue that is now easily managed.

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paper clip's avatar

this. I was recently in another conversation along the same lines. any time you cut, any time you take a new drug, something unexpected can occur. I've only had one minor surgery in my life, decades ago, and nerves are dead as a result. Not important ones fortunately but the point is anything can happen. I'd love to get a cosmetic surgery too and I am holding back partly for these reasons. Once you have had Bad Things happen, you are likely to be more cautious. You are no longer the two-year-old who puts her fingers in the flame on top of the stove.

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Thomas Smith's avatar

Glad.you are back!

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Me -KL Burke's avatar

It's great to see you back! You were missed! Who knew you could have vocal chord implants. and experiment for the low price of $20k.

Speaking of swallowing, I've developed swallowing issues such as it takes me at least 3 times to swallow my own saliva and I'm choking while eating. I start to panic when this happens. I am filling myself full of anxiety. I can't see my MS neurologist until the end of January. Ah MS, the gift that just keeps on giving. I know this is common for people with MS, but I was hoping it wouldn't happen to me, Well d'uh. I need my own grief Minion to cope lol!

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paper clip's avatar

Increasingly I am turning to YouTube and other Internet sources for these kinds of specialist physical therapies that I increasingly need and which are not always available in person. so many of the supportive therapies for chronic illnesses are not provided by physicians in those specialties but by ancillary practitioners.

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Jai Byrd's avatar

I'm sending prayers for your full recovery

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MaryK's avatar

Just immensely sad. What people will do to themselves in search of 'perfection'

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joolzzt's avatar

I can't imagine risking my voice for vanity. That money could have been spent on voice coaching instead, with enough left over to travel the world.

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Íris Erlingsdóttir's avatar

Been checking this space for you...it's so nice to see you are back.

This poor bloke, he sounds like my grandmother in her last years (she died at 96; her voice changed in the last years, and she said she liked finally sounding like her inner skessa (F troll!)) When are people going to realize that these surgeries are not only not OK, they're insanity on steroids.

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Hot LZ's avatar

As someone who was left chronically ill from a virus, it is absolutely bizarre, to put it lightly, watching these perfectly healthy people pay surgeons thousands of upon thousands upon thousands of dollars to destroy their perfectly healthy bodies. Watching society at large further exalt these self destructive tendencies is even worse.

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Joan's avatar

Sorry folks not one iota of sympathy--- male ego indulged has not paid off---

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Jai Byrd's avatar

Me too.

Not one bit of sympathy for this freak

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Matt Osborne's avatar

Egad this is painful to watch. My throat aches from listening to him.

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Cecilia Caporossi's avatar

Jeez. As a musician, I intuitively understand that the only way you can change the fundamental pitch of the instrument of the voice is by destroying its other sound qualities. You can’t chop a cello into a violin. Sadly, he had a beautiful pitch before (very masculine, but beautiful) and he decided to destroy his voice in order to make it a higher pitch. I’m reality, pitch is the least interesting aspect of any instrument (be it a tuba or a piccolo): what makes the sound pleasing or not is rather the other qualities like resonance, focus, support, fluidity of sound production, balance of proper harmonics (impossible if you destroy the fundamental). I really do believe that doctors who provide this procedure are predators who should lose their licenses immediately. There’s just no way it will work without destroying the voice. Should be illegal to do this to people, wanted or not. Knocking it out of the park with the medical descriptions, per usual Ex!

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