right, and with that sort of prevalence, and so little detrimental effects to society, there isn’t good enough evidence for advocating “treatment” of most people who just think differently than other people.
largely, they notice or pay attention to different things, so “treatments” are unnecessary, obtrusive or damaging.
exception given to extreme cases, “treating” ADHD seems a lot like removing funding for arts courses because school administrators don’t value the arts.
having grown up with ADD and ADHD being huge in schools and then reading countless studies over the past few decades about how inaccurate diagnoses and the understanding of ADD and ADHD are, I will be very cautious in administering any medication to my children for popular syndromes.
that switch is maybe my favorite thing ever drawn in the far side.
so funny, I still think about it occasionally.
beef stuffed mexican patty.
beef in beef
trigger warnings are not “too much for me”, they are simply largely unnecessary.
anybody who wants to put out a trigger warning, good for them.
anybody who doesn’t want to put out a trigger warning, good for them.
If you’re allergic or have sensitivity to smells, don’t go to the experimental explosive fuck theater.
If you’re sensitive enough to incense on stage or in theater that it critically physically disrupts your body, it must be difficult for you to even walk down the street alongside traffic fumes.
That’s too bad, and it means you don’t get to do literally everything; you are too sensitive for some things like extreme art pieces or hindu religious festivals.
You’re sensitive and have limitations. you can’t fight fires, and if you are truly critically physiologically sensitive to incense, must carry that responsibility around with you rather than expecting every person who uses incense to issue a public trigger warning.
We should not start ear-tagging domestic pets with informational placards for having dander or stapling trees with signs warning you against eating their leaves.
Don’t eat their leaves.
trigger warnings are tolerable in certain settings(academia), and in rarer cases have a valid purpose I can get behind(warning labels, employment contracts), but they can quickly become unnecessarily burdensome, and trigger warnings for incidental appearance of incense in live experimental art shows by radical artists can fuck off.
this is a fascinating article with lots to pick out, and i did like this quote in particular.
“long list of warnings for potential triggers including incense, loud noises, explicit sexual acts and sexual violence.”
hope you’ve steeled yourself to witness intense on-stage fucking, plus sometimes they light incense!
You ready for that?!
I have recommended this show more than anything else in recent years.
it is absolutely a 10 out of 10.
the comedy, the obligations, drama, creativity, every element is heightened by every other element of the show.
I think you are the first other person I’ve heard of who has watched it, and that is a crime.
I love musical episodes, I was so happy when everyone started singing in the magicians.
I still sometimes go back and watch The Buffy musical episode, too.
spontaneous breaks for musical nimbers are so great.
scavengers reign knocked me on my ass, great recommendation.
yeah, I didn’t get into any live play games, and now I’m going to continue not getting into them.
be the change you want to see.
I was in this crystal clear cliffside cove and could see in front of me maybe 10 m or so but the Rock only went out about 5 and then just plunged into the abyss. and after exploring the coastline I swim out about 10 ft past the rocks and realized that I could see nothing but the deepest blue I’d ever seen.
literally anything could be just a few body lengths away watching me were sensing me, it was almost overwhelming.
I felt this visceral terror, that I’ve felt before in the middle of reading a Lovecraft story.
very much looking into the eye of something unknowable.
The thing wrong with a stable company is that it doesn’t afford those at the top uncontrollable, disproportionate influence and profit.
American business culture disdains stable companies that maintain their size.
American business culture advocates for and promotes unlimited expansion and profit increase above all else, which is obviously unsustainable and distracts from creating good products or social benefit If you put a moment of thought into it, and benefits the one or few at the top while exploiting everybody else.
When that venture inevitably fails, the winners at the top get to exploit their ill-gotten profit to influence culture at large, radicalize the exploited and propagate the exploitative system.
The winners are shuffled around, and continue making obscene profit from each successive top position at the expense of their society, simultaneously creating and breaking laws to further their selfish, unsustainable gain.
ha, I’m surprised it’s so high, but I guess we don’t talk to each other.
The product didn’t fail, American business culture failed.
they should have worked this into the title:
"A company needs to grow.
In the past few decades, the idea that every company should be growing, predictably and boundlessly and forever, has leached from the technology industry into much of the rest of American business."
holding two conflicting beliefs at the same time.
like you don’t believe in the death penalty, but you read about a child molester and want them to die.
yup, egg soboro.
woo that toast you make sounds goood
it sounds like you were protecting the Nazi-punchers rather than the Nazis.
That’s the right call!
“less punishing to neurodivergent people”
I mostly agree with this.
“People with ADHD have little to no trouble in society today”
i disagree, that is antithetical to my previous comment.
that said, neurotypical or divergent, if you don’t have trouble in society today, I want to know more about your society.
“not treating people who are struggling is not the way to change society”
yes, and neither is treating people who don’t wish to be treated or are treated unnecessarily.
are you sure you’re responding to the right comment? I haven’t said many of the things you are arguing against so far.
“and that’s a tremendous struggle without medication”
then according to my previous comment, you are one of the extreme cases that need and want intervention, and should receive it.
“I take issue with your metaphor at the end”
I gather from your preceding assumptions and arguments against things that I have not said, along with your general combative tone, that you have been quixoticaly swept up in an imagined narrative that you feel you must do battle with.
“What do you think is present in an unmedicated person with ADHD that is somehow missing in a medicated person?”
missing? nothing.