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Anyone here "quiet" ADHD?
  • Women tend to exhibit inattentive ADHD more frequently than men. This is part of why boys are 16x more likely than girls to be diagnosed with ADHD. It's because women and girls don't fit the traditional media representation of what ADHD looks like, and more parents become oblivious to the fact that their child needs help.

  • Woman takes 10x dose of turmeric, gets hospitalized for liver damage
  • If you're not disabled or chronically ill, please sit down and listen to people who are. Lack of 'medical evidence' does not constitute a lack of medical effectiveness. The same way that a lack of diagnosis due to medical neglect does not constitute a lack of symptoms.

    THC and CBD has always been used by chronically ill people, who were dismissed as drug addicts for using 'medically unsubstantiated' herbs to treat their pain. Just because research on marijuana is finally being conducted in recent times and it is being validated as a form of treatment, it doesn't mean that it only suddenly became effective. It always has been. The only thing that has changed is public perception of it.

    It's easy for able bodied people to point at chronically ill people and claim that everything they do is a hoax or just placebo when they know nothing about how chronic illness works. Listen to them, and treat them as reliable witnesses to their own body.

    A medical paper doesn't dictate the reality of how supplement affects each patient individually. Every person's biochemistry is unique. It's especially problematic when modern medicine is rife with systemic bias against certain groups of people. Ask doctors over the age of 60 and ask doctors who recently graduated if they think fibromyalgia is a real disease. It's disgusting how older doctors don't even think it's a real condition and that patients are just 'faking it'.

  • Woman takes 10x dose of turmeric, gets hospitalized for liver damage
  • Please don't dismiss supplement users as pseudoscience fanatics.

    You have no idea what it's like to live with a chronic illness, with no cure, and no treatment to eliminate the pain and suffering.

    People like you harbor misconceptions about modern medicine as an infallible cure-all that isn't riddled with systemic neglect for women, PoC, the uninsured, and chronically ill people.

    I take 8 supplements and 7 prescription medications a day. It fucking sucks to have to down 15 pills at night and another 7 in the morning. The only reason why I do is because those supplements are one of very few things that give a modicum of relief to the unending nightmare of pain.

    And please don't start with the 'well ahktually studies shows that it doesn't work and it's just placebo.' Please don't decide for us how our own body feels. You cannot disprove our own symptoms to us, not especially when modern medicine has neglected chronic and autoimmune conditions for so long. Because these conditions primarily affect women, and women have not been treated as reliable witnesses to their own bodies, many chronic illnesses haven't even been accepted as 'real' conditions until the last few decades.

    So please stop with the psuedoscience accusations. Doctors and researchers have no fucks to give about chronically ill patients, and we are left to trial and error every over the counter supplement we can do we don't kill ourselves from going insane with untreated pain and suffering.

  • Welcome to petty lane
    1. The phone is clearly mounted on the dashboard.

    2. It's not uncommon for people to record their whole trip for social media, not just take to a picture.

    3. This caption could have been pasted over a completely unrelated screenshot of someone else's video for all we know.

    Don't touch your phone while driving, but also, don't believe everything you see on social media.

  • PSA for those in America
  • It's always 'don't be a karen and call the cops on illegal fire works' followed by 'why the fuck did you not call the cops on the illegal fireworks' after house fires break out.

    I'd like to remind everyone that fireworks are an explosive. Want to know how dangerous fireworks are? Ask ER staff what kind of injuries they see the most on 4th of July.

  • for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men
  • People are cancer. Religion is product of people.

    Being religious doesn't inherently make anyone a good or bad person, it just allows people to justify how they feel about themselves.

    For perspective, to a devout Hindu, you are cruel and barbaric for eating factory farmed meat.

  • Do any of you have this urge?
  • Peeing is also normal behavior. But it's not normal if you have to pee every 30 minutes.

    What's with this new trend of invalidating ADHD and autism symptoms simply because you don't experience it to a degree that impacts your quality of life?

    ADHD and autism don't have one specific symptom. It's a thousand little things that drive you insane from having to conform to neurotypical behavior.

    Let patients share their experiences without normalizing and invalidating their condition.

    It's always 'everyone has ADHD these days' just like how people day 'everyone is LGBTQ these days. It's never 'underserved and underdiagnosed ADHD patients are finally getting recognition these days'.

    Boys are 16x more likely to get an ADHD diagnosis than girls. The vast majority of backlash against ADHD patients on social media are against women and PoC who are finally speaking out against the medical neglect. Women traditionally present different symptoms because girls are punished more heavily for exhibiting ADHD behaviors than boys are. Same goes for autism.

    Remember that a lack of diagnosis does not indicate the lack of ADHD and autism. Modern medicine is rife with systemic inequality. Undiagnosed ADHD and autism patients are frequently penalized and not rewarding for concealing their symptoms. The more effort they put into concealing them, the more heavily criticized they are for 'faking' it.

  • Who is most emotional?
  • The only thing fundamentally different about men's and women's emotions are how we've been conditioned to present them.

    The idea that men have fundamentally different emotions is part of what fuels the male loneliness epidemic. Men are not any less in need of emotional support then women are, women are just socially conditioned from a young age that it is okay to give and receive it.

    If you are a man, when was the last time you felt like you could talk about your feelings without being judged for it?

    If a man wants to grieve, but is only taught that it is okay to show anger, then that is all that we will see no matter deeply in grief he may be. How one presents their emotions is not always how they feel, much like in autistic people.

  • Trans rights are human rights
  • But it is radical. Trans people face persecution in most parts of the world. We are the exception, and that's a great thing.

    Be radical, even if you are the last person on earth to support trans rights. Not because it's the normal thing to do, but because it's the right thing to do.

  • Geneticists
  • Too soon for this meme format.

    For those who don't know, the woman petting the fox committed suicide a few days ago. She had ran a fox rescue farm and saved 4000 foxes, many of which were rescued from being bred for fur in inhumane conditions.

    She passed away after years of harassment and accusations of abuse for 'not doing enough'. Redditors were piling on her in a hate sub and that was one of the final nails in the coffin. People criticized her for not hiring more staff to help or expanding her operations.

    This was her life's work. She was autistic, and funneled every bit of dedication into saving as many as she could. She had a special bond with her foxes and a way of speaking to them that brings out their giggles. Not everyone can do that, and with Mikaela's passing, her foxes will now have to make it through without her.

  • I have absolutely no sympathy for anyone who lost friends and family, just because they voted for the current president.
  • Do you want to institute change, or do you just want to give trump voters an 'I told you so' because it feels good?

    Not extending sympathy is how we got into this shithole to begin with. You cannot convince over trump voters with facts and logic. The best you can do is wait for leopards to eat their faces, or pacify their egos until they are emotionally invested enough to vote for someone other than trump. Trump voters do not respond to reason. But they will respond by voting trump again if they feel alienated.

    Yes, it's shitty and they deserve so much worse. However, we deserve better, and we won't get anything better until we coddle trump voters into doing the right thing.

  • What is up with this cheese_greater person who posts non-stop everywhere?

    I get that community engagement is good and all, but some of these posts and comments seem of questionable quality. Is this person a bot?

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