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Without taking away from the plight women suffered by professionals focusing on hyperactivity, it is worth noting that many males also lacked the visible hyperactivity and were never diagnosed. My brother and I both deal with ADD, but he was visibly hyperactive and received the diagnosis.

...ngl, the fact that ADD and ADHD got condensed into ADHD when the hyperactivity specifically is part of the reason so many girls were simply not diagnosed drives me up the wall.

It's not that the whole name isn't bullshit, because it is. It describes the way people outside of our experience perceive us, as opposed to the difficulties that are part of our lived experience. Even from an outside standpoint, it's recognizable that "deficit" is not always the issue with our attention... but that's beside the point.

When psychiatrists noticed that ADD and ADHD were basically the same thing... they chose to favor the typical male presentation in the literal naming of the condition, and in doing so condemned a generation of girls (and other afab people) to suffer through being told they're so smart, they just don't apply themselves enough, that it's a personal failing they can't regularly turn in homework, that they're lazy for waiting until the last minute to work on an assignment... because those girls weren't hyperactive. Those girls just kind of drifted off and daydreamed in classes. Those girls doodled or wrote stories all through their school years, and functioned measurably worse when a teacher noticed they were doing that and tried to stop them. Those girls are now so many of my adult friends who are now being diagnosed with ADHD as adults, because the hyperactive part of the diagnosis almost solely applies to children (CHILDREN, when, I might note, this is a lifelong condition) who are socialized male.

We need a whole other name for the condition, because attention deficit is not our problem at all. But my god, the hyperactivity part actually ruined my life for so many years, because I had no way to explain to my dad why it physically hurt me to be bored, why I had to read or write or doodle in class in order to keep my focus, why I excelled in tests but failed at homework so my grades sucked because of that. No one even considered I might have ADHD, all through my childhood, but earlier this year I had the opportunity to go through all my grade school reports, and they could not be MORE CLEARLY talking about a child with ADHD. "Pleasure to have in class", "assignments not complete", "does not pay attention in class", "Birdie is a highly intelligent child with specific and unique needs" (I would LOVE more follow-up on that one, from third grade, do not have it). But I was a quiet and reserved child, so obviously I couldn't have ADHD.

I'm legitimately angry about it in retrospect. I went off my Adderall for a couple months recently, as an adult who only started taking Adderall as an adult, and it completely fucked up my ability to function. For years I was just out there as a teenager struggling through high school and college entirely unmedicated because as a child I was too withdrawn to be diagnosed. Fucking wild and also infuriating.

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Shoots you in the clit with a nerf dart

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This is the opposite of cat logic. The cat would flip it over and climb in.

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Anyone who has been shopping for themselves as an adult for at least 20 years should go to the cereal aisle of their local grocery. Store brands are less than half the price of brand name cereals, for the same quantity. Boxes that used to say Family size now say Giant size; so smaller amounts are advertised as larger. And the prices are skyrocketing. Cereals that were $3.99 a decade ago are now $8.49. But the store brand hasn’t noticeably changed in price, nor quantity.

It’s price gouging, pure and simple.

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I’m building a dnd class rn called “Just Some Guy” and the whole thing is that they are just supremely bad at combat and ability checks the whole time. at level 20 u get an ability called “Fucking Finally” where u get the level 1 abilities of another class. ur hit dice are d4s and the only thing u have proficiency in is improvised weapons. this is the funniest thing I’ve done in a hot minute

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Masha The Hero

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You can tell when someone’s frame of reference for “normal people” is more “people at the church sponsored ice cream social” and less “people on the bus”

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My VCR of 30 years ago was able to fast forward and rewind more accurately than Disney+

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Given the culture of the region included have the young ladies dance, whilst provocatively swaying their hips, I’d state a statistical probability that men who preferred a well rounded ass to boobs were commonplace, and Jesus was certainly born of common stock. The real way to discover the answer however lies in the body type of Mary Magdalene. If you accept the premise that prostitutes endeavor to be appealing to their clients, it would follow that she would have the preferred body type. And since Jesus kept her by his side, and there is a large academic following that they were husband and wife, then her body type would be the proof for this query.

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Kink and swinger activity are quite popular. Yet, the slippery slope we are on could easily turn a safe kink activity into the sex offender registry. I enjoy exhibitionism, but will never do it again for fear of the SOR. Swinger clubs are could get raided by cops and every person put on the SOR. And the same goes for Nudist colonies. Harsh zero tolerance policies inevitably hurt a great many law abiding people.

Also, please remember this is another case of the rules apply to the poor but not the rich. All the people who are even suspected to have been to Epstein’s island? Are they on the SOR? I doubt it.

You know I'm getting really tired of the overwhelmingly popular notion that sex offenders "have it too easy".

The Sex Offender Registry is public, anyone on it has every aspect of their personal information online, allowing vigilantes to track you down and kill you and when they do, the cops aren't going to investigate your murder. Furthermore, being put on the SOR commonly disqualifies you from any form of rent, home ownership, or employment and thus most sex offenders become homeless.

If a Sex Offender does go to prison, chances are they will be killed purely for being a sex offender as every inmate will assume they are a child molester. I remember reading a story of a 20 year old man who was mutilated beyond recognition in prison after being put on the SOR for having sex with his 17 yo girlfriend.

Contrary to popular belief, you can be put onto the Sex Offender Registry for a vast variety of reasons, not just raping a child so assuming that all Sex Offenders are child rapists is illogical. Any form of indecent exposure can land you on the SOR. Back in the 2010s, there was a Texas teen who streaked at a football game and was put on the SOR as a result. He committed suicide because the courts would not take his name off the registry and yes, btw, getting taken off the Registry is virtually impossible to do even if you have mountains of evidence proving your innocence.

Furthermore, the SOR never actually reveals what crime each person on it committed but the major news networks have firmly convinced the U.S Population that every sex offender is a child rapist.

In Colorado, registered sex offenders are not allowed to own photographs of family members who are minors, nor are they allowed to even speak to minors. In Wisconsin, a registered sex offender was barred from entering a hospital where his 9-year-old son was undergoing surgery on the basis that he might rape his son.

People seem to think that the legal system is too leniant on sex offenders simply because sex offenders aren't suffering the punishments people want them to suffer. Just because a sex offender isn't being executed by firing squadron, burned at the stake, pulled apart by horses, sent to the gallows or thrown in a pit with 1000 hungry rats doesn't mean they aren't being punished.

It really bothers me that so many leftists, especially Anarchists buy into this bullshit and vigilante justice.

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We must reframe the narratives/dialog.

#LanguageMatters

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this is the funniest god damn thing ive ever seen

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So glad someone is teaching math in an enthusiastic manner. I love mathematics and it’s so often the class no one gets or even likes.

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Because Poseidon, god of 70% of the planet, is gonna fall for a woman who doesn’t stand out…of course she’s supposed to be hot.

i shared the pjo casting with my friend, who is really into pjo too, and her first reaction was “why is sally so hot??”

as if we all didn’t already know she was gonna be a milf, come on guys

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To our new Wise-girl

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changing your sheets is the hardest thing in the whole world who the fuck cares about sisyphus and his stupid rock i have to take the sheets off my bed and then put new ones on and then in a little bit? ill have to do it again