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DR ADAM LEVY ClimateAdam ROSEMARY MOSCO

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my fave greek history story to tell is that of agnodice. like she noticed that women were dying a lot during childbirth so she went to egypt to study medicine in alexandria and was really fucking good but b/c it was illegal for women to be doctors in athens she had to pretend to be a man. and then the other doctors noticed that she was 10x better than them and accused her of seducing and sleeping with the women patients. like they brought her to court for this. and she just looked at them and these charges and stripped in front of everyone like “yeah. im not fucking your wives” and then they got so mad that a woman was better at their jobs then them that they tried to execute her but all her patients came to court and were like “are you fucking serious? she is the reason you have living children and a wife.” so they were shamed into changing the law and that is how women were given the right to practice medicine in athens

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Hi! A relative of mine wants to schedule her first psychiatric appointment and she has some questions that I don't know how to answer to. If someone has the answers please leave a comment, reblog (or send me an ask), it'll be really helpful to ease her anxiety (I have a hunch she might be autistic and knowing in advance what might happen might help her a lot).

Questions:

When she will call to schedule her appointment what questions will they ask her? Do they usually ask some personal info on the phone? Which ones?

What questions will the psychiatrist ask her during her first visit?

How long does a first visit last?

Could she be prescribed medication without a diagnosis? (She wants to know if the psychiatrist might give her medicines without ever giving her a diagnosis; to be clear she would like to recieve diagnosis)

After the first visit what happens?

She says not to worry about giving long asnwers, the more details the better!

Please reblog to reach more people.

Thank you!

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nobuddy feels like they have a sharp attention span these days, right? and we all just click “agree on terms of service” because its hard to love yourself sometimes, well

enter Terms of Service, Didn’t Read: a website and a browser addon that streamlines the terms of service of many popular web services to be read by the tech sunday drivers.

It’s graded from A (great) to E (awful) and if you have the addon you have access to the info about the website on your bar

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i was playing scrabble and i had a B, U, R, G, E, and R and i thought “aha burger, one who burgs, but my mom will never accept that as a word” but then i remembered burger is actually a word

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really wish gender was more of a hobby and less of a societal contract and mandate

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– Audrey Hepburn

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@nathanwpyle

I literally love this.

I couldn't stop laughing for 20 minutes.

No joke.

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Sometimes things are just... Hard.

(repost) I know sometimes it can be easy to sink into despair. At times everything just feels wrong and dysporia makes it hard to function... I still have hard days sometimes, but it does get easier. I believe in you 💕

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yknow i never noticed the sheer rareness of images having ids or alt text on this website until i started adding alt text to my art (and trying to remember to add it to any images i post in general, especially text screenshots) and that makes me kinda sad

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PSA: Don't use Open Office

I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.

Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.

Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!

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How to Write an Asexual Character

Hi, my name’s Heather and I’m a 23 year old asexual woman. I’m here to give you some advice on how to write an asexual character. 

Before we start, you should be aware that: 

Asexuality is a sexual orientation. 

An asexual is most often defined as “someone who does not experience sexual attraction”. 

Asexuality is also used as an umbrella term to describe a range of other related sexual orientations. 

I’m not going to go into any more detail about what asexuality is but if you need any more information click on the links above or scroll down to the ‘Further Reading’ section of this article. 

Keep in mind that the following advice is just one asexual person’s opinions. Other asexual people may disagree. 

Do’s When Writing Asexual Characters:

Do explicitly use terms such “asexual”, “ace”, “demisexual”, “gray-a”, etc to describe your characters. If your setting doesn’t allow you to use those terms try and describe asexuality as explicitly as you can. 

Do include multiple asexual characters in your story. Doing so decreases the burden of representation. E.g. If your story has one character who’s asexual and introverted your readers might assume all asexual people are introverted. When your story contains both introverted and extroverted asexual characters, readers are less likely to make that assumption. 

Do include characters from across the asexual spectrum. We’re all underrepresented in fiction. 

Do let your asexual characters occupy a range of roles - let us be brave heroes, desirable love interests, disapproving parents, wise mentors, loyal sidekicks, vicious rivals, etc.  

 Do give your asexual characters complex motivations, personalities, and backstories, just like you would for a non-asexual character.

Do let your asexual characters have and express their emotions. While some aces are cold and aloof, those personality traits are over-represented in fiction.  

Do show your asexual characters forming strong, complex relationships with others. These relationships can be familial, platonic, hostile, romantic or something else entirely, but they should exist. Asexual don’t exist in a a vacuum and the lonely asexual is also over-represented in fiction.

Do write asexual characters with a variety of romantic orientations.  

Do write asexual characters with a variety of attitudes towards sex.

Do keep intersectionality in mind. Aces can be people of colour, trans, disabled, neurodivergent, etc, just like anybody else. Other aspects of a character’s identity are interconnected with their asexuality. 

Do educate yourself on the types of prejudice asexual people face. Your character doesn’t have to face such prejudice if you don’t want them to, but it’s good to be aware of these issues so you can make an informed conscious decision whether or not to explore them.  

Do feel welcome to let your asexual characters engage in asexual culture, if you want them to. They can wear black rings, hang up pride flags, and make jokes about “acing” their math test. 

Do find asexual sensitivity/beta readers to critique your work.

Do acknowledge that some stories aren’t yours to tell. 

Don’ts When Writing Asexual Characters:

Don’t portray asexuality as an illness that can be cured by medication, having sex or falling in love.

Don’t describe asexual characters as “basically straight” or a “a gay person waiting to come out”. Asexuality is it’s own orientation and should be treated as such. 

Don’t confuse being asexual with being aromantic (not experiencing romantic attraction). Some asexuals are aromantic and some aren’t.

Don’t confuse being asexual with being celibate (abstaining from sex). Some asexuals are celibate and some aren’t.

Don’t let aliens, robots and other non-human characters be the only asexual representation in your story. Asexual are already seen as less human than non-asexual people. 

Don’t make your villain the only asexual character in the story, and don’t make them villainous because they’re asexual.

Don’t worry about over-representing asexuals. In my experience, asexual people tend to know other asexual people. We meet online and offline, we meet my chance and we actively seek each other out. 

Don’t make asexual characters asexual because they’re unattractive. Asexual people come in all shapes and sizes, and our appearance has nothing to with why we’re asexual. 

Don’t imply that all asexual people are asexual because of trauma. While some asexual people do link their orientation to their past experience of trauma, not all asexual people have experienced trauma and not all people who have experienced trauma identify as asexual.

Don’t portray asexuality as a choice.   

Don’t make your characters a genius or expert in something because they’re asexual. This is because it implies that they’re only geniuses/experts because they lack sexual attraction, and erases all the hard work they put into learning their respective skills.

Don’t imply that asexual characters are more innocent, pure or naive than non-asexual characters because they’re asexual. Asexual characters can be these things, but they can also be sexually experienced, knowledgeable and crude. 

Don’t treat asexuality as a defining personality trait. Sexual orientation can be an important part of someone’s identity, but it’s not a substitute for characterisation.*

Further Reading:

Asexuality: A Brief Introduction

Asexuality: Myths, Misconceptions and Other Things That Are Just Plain Wrong

Stereotypes to avoid when writing asexual characters 

Asexuals on Coming Out: Experiences 

How to show that a character is asexual 

LGBQA+ SERIES: ASEXUALITY 

6 Weird Ways the World Looks Different When You’re Asexual 

Writing sex scenes with asexual characters 

Confirmed asexual characters in fiction

25 BIGOTED THINGS YOU CAN SAY TO AN ASEXUAL PERSON. 

Prejudice Against “Group X” (Asexuals)

*Mod Note: For clarification, while asexuality is a defining character trait and can certainly drive a character’s motivations and actions, what we think should come across here is that it should not be your character’s ONLY character trait: they should have characterization beyond “asexual”, and they should be allowed to be well-rounded characters with facets beyond and unrelated to their asexuality. -Kyo

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introducing my four year old niece to the concept of "moral dilemmas" by telling her that i'm a monster that eats children and that i know it's wrong but i'm so so so hungry and everything else tastes yucky. i've tried all the human food in the world and it all tastes so yucky i can't even eat it. i can only eat children and i'm so hungry

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so we're just not gonna have a national conversation about how Boeing killed one of their own employees to keep him from talking to the press