Health is so easily gridlocked. To get healthy, the main things you need are time, space, and energy.
Three things you’re more likely to have if you’re healthy already.
Three things you’re not likely to have as a disabled working parent to an ND child.
To be completely honest, the main reason I want the meds is in the hope it might stop the binge eating, and in turn help bring down my weight, which is probably not helping with the blood pressure.
I have been instructed that I have to bring down my blood pressure in order to be prescribed ADHD meds.
Because when someone’s blood pressure is high from stress, adding another demand to the overwhelming list is a sure fire way to bring it down. 😒
I guess I’m not getting ADHD meds.
Where exactly, in the history of a grown adult falling over for no comprehensible reason, does one seek a neurological evaluation? Because this is my third major fall this year, and it’s getting absurd.
Hip is swollen and purple, and ribs hurt when I breathe. 🙁
“I think this world renowned oncologist should be careful expressing opinions on health”.
“I think a senior NASA flight engineer should stop casting doubt on the viability of our manned mission to Jupiter”.
There is a word for both sides of this equation. One of them is “stupid”.
#Vance #PopeLeo
Well, I got my ADHD diagnosis today, to the surprise of literally no one.
Everyone is acting like I should be either shocked or overjoyed at the validation, but after this long, it’s kind of just another acronym. 😏
The number of self-identified liberals in the comments who are okay with this flavour of fascist bullshit, because they secretly believe poverty and ill health are caused by not knowing what’s best for you, is deeply depressing.
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Watching #WickedForGood and - am I missing something? It’s not good. The design is very pretty, but the pacing is shocking, the characters are obnoxiously stupid and the music is - meh.
I get why nine year old girls like it, but it’s just so insubstantial.
I don’t know why I’m putting this here, except that it’s the thought of thing I’d have put on twitter once upon a time. But there were people who knew me there. This is a new void with improved emptiness.
I have to travel 100 miles for work on Tuesday, and be away from home overnight, and I am quite hazy on what both reality and time are, and feel *profoundly* unsafe.
I don’t know what to do.
I have complete faith that the absolute fucking witchcraft my therapist is practicing on me, reintegrating all the fractured bits of self, is going to be tremendously healing in the long run, but the problem is that it’s 10 days till my next appointment, and I can’t breathe for terror. #DID #EMDR
Of course, now I’m just mentally spiralling, because I could protect my child today, but I can’t always be there to protect her, and the world is just vicious, with boys like that who grow into men even worse.
Oh, apparently it’s #WorldAutismAwarenessDay as well, so fuck them some more. 🙃
I take comfort in the fact that riding their bikes around a run-down local park is probably going to be the dizzying peak of achievement in the lives of the feral little brats.
I shouldn’t, but fuck them.
There are so many words I could use to describe a gang of 12-13 year old boys, whose idea of fun is bullying a 7 year old autistic girl to the point of tears. I also have words for their parents. But I probably shouldn’t use any of those words in front of children.
(Sorry for the dual usage of “appropriate” there - it’s late in the UK.)
I do, in fact, agree that it has commonality with the US current treatment of immigrants. But I’m equally conscious that Jim Crow has specific meaning to Black Americans, and I’m not convinced trying to appropriate it for this situation is entirely appropriate.
Okay. Thank you for that explanation - a response more in keeping with someone who has “education” in their bio, than self righteous refusal.
No, but plenty of them said “what?”, so the reference clearly passed them by.
It is incredibly tedious for Americans to impose their cultural phrasing on international events. Apartheid is universally understood. Jim Crow is specific. There have not been Palestinian minstrels.
It clearly went over EVERYONE’S head, given the responses you’ve got. Care to enlighten us?
No, because Jim Crow is a specific cultural reference to AMERICAN racism, and it’s absurd to demand the rest of the world use the term.
It is apartheid.
The thing with febrile seizures is, like so many vaccine side effects, they’re a thing children are equally likely to get from any illness that causes fever. Mine had it with flu.
Come along to the theatre and hang out with us! We might be able to smuggle you into the show. 😁
Good for you. I remonstrated at length with a homophobic hate preacher one time, then had a panic attack on the bus home.
That took you a lot more bravery than it would someone who was naturally bolshy. Celebrate that courage.
Yea, I want worldwide nuclear disarmament, given their sole purpose is to theoretically destroy *everything*, which is by definition only going to be done by an evil person. So stop leaving the damn things where evil people can reach them.
But it’s up to the US to ensure they get another president.
Unfortunately it works the whole time the US lets demented, doomsday-happy narcissists have their finger on the button. The threat of mutually assured destruction only has meaning with someone rational, who actually cares about at least a handful of other human beings.
Trust me, the rest of the world would LOVE to hold these fuckers to account, but we can only really do that if the US - you know, the ones who put them in power - hand them over.
We’re not the ones blowing up other countries to “arrest” their leaders.
We also don’t want to get nuked.
Ideally in the woods somewhere. Give him a packet of sandwiches and tell him you’ll be back before dark.
To the skateboarder who just hurled a torrent of ableist slurs at a blind woman, for attempting to cross the road ahead of him: I cordially hope there is a tram coming when you reach the bottom of the hill. 😌