This is a type of ablesplaining where doctors and other healthcare workers patronize, infantilize and disregard lived experience by minimizing self-reports of pain, often justifying it through medical hearsay, misogyny, transphobia, fatphobia, and racism even though they've never experienced any similar pain themselves, or they believe everyone's pain is the same as their own.
Doctor: "It's normal to experience some discomfort…" Patient: "Quit painsplaining; that was not just discomfort. That was a 9 out of 10 — almost the worst pain I've ever felt!"
by SharedMoon June 25, 2024
Get the painsplainingmug.