i think that… approximately 100% of the time, parents, teachers, etc… have this misconception that neurodivergent kids & teens don’t know anything about how to handle their neurodivergence.
for years, i suffered through people making suggestions of things that were things i had done, and either weren’t worth the effort or they actually made things worse. i told them this, and if i was still having any issues with the same problem they’d say something about “well if you’re not gonna listen to any suggestions…” when I did. they’re the one who didn’t listen when i told them that doesn’t work for me. They assume that because I didn’t try it in front of them (which is often impossible), I never tried it. I tried doing my homework as soon as I got home. I tried doing my homework at the table, I tried working where I was comfortable. I tried listening to music, I tried working in silence. I tried using a planner, I tried setting reminders on my phone, I tried. I tell people that I have executive functioning issues and they say that I have to work on it like I haven’t been doing that as long as I’ve had to do things and it’s so much better than it was before. I’m as able as I am now because I’ve spent 18 years working on it.
One of my friends has ADHD, and at one point when her grades dropped her parents took her phone, despite her telling them that the only way she can focus on her homework is to listen to music, for which she needs her phone.
I was in a study hall with another friend, who also has ADHD. Sometimes, they would be able to focus and do their work. Others, they would end up being entirely unable to and would do other stuff. The “instructional support” person would start bothering them about it, insist that they try. As if they hadn’t already done so.
I am tired of watching people assume that neurodivergent people aren’t trying, or we haven’t tried. We’re always trying.
I am 49 years old and I still get people (who are younger than me) condescending to me about how I handle being autistic and yet having to do a job that involves communicating with people. It doesn’t stop.
It’s worse for the kids because parents and authority figures are usually condescending to kids, and everyone is condescending to the neurodiverse, so you guys get a double whammy. But get a lot of practice in now at explaining to people how what you’re doing is adaptive for your divergence, because it isn’t gonna stop.
It is 2018. The Good Omens adaptation goes live on Amazon. We all queue up the first episode and press play. The Amazon logo appears, followed by… Rami Malek singing?
The Good Omens adaptation has metamorphosed into the Queen biopic.
I know 45 is trying to distract from the Blue wins but reading about the revocation of Jim Acosta’s press pass has thrown me back into a state of hopelessness.
It’s true, I once used a woman’s sunscreen and suddenly found myself being smashed into the ground by the force of gravity.
This is very important for trans people. Take care when transitioning that you don’t hurt yourself with products that are no longer appropriate, or which aren’t yet.
I once accidentally used mens shampoo and now I’m dead and haunting the store where I purchased it
I once used my wife’s razor to shave the hair off my palms, and the razor crumbled to dust. It simply wasn’t manly enough. I certainly learned my lesson.
One time my girlfriend ran out of shampoo and had to use her dads Man Shampoo
And she had to first Fist Fight The Bottle to be able to use it
What the fuck. I … what.
No, men and women are not that different. Skin is skin.
IIRC, at least one study concluded that (comparing the top of the line Gillette products at the time that were branded for each sex) Mach 3 was a better leg-shaving razor than Venus (as well as a better beard-shaving razor), in addition to being slightly cheaper.
Naturally, some professional Angry Feminists trumpeted this as proof of how the Evil Patriarchy forces women to pay more for inferior products, as if a magical forcefield prevented women from purchasing male-branded razors.
(Of course, not shaving at all remains the cheapest and the most skin-safe approach, for both sexes.)
no magical forcefield… just the fact that everybody does not have the time to research every single product and the natural naiive assumption would be that if there are two different razors being sold, it is probably because they are somehow specialised to their respective tasks. (I can certainly imagine that the different textures of facial and body hair might be best tackled with different razors.)
That, and in some circles some stigma does exist against buying the ‘wrong’ gender’s products. The pink tax is hardly the greatest issue facing women today, but it’s still bullshit that no one should have to deal with.
Re the last point, send a 12 year old boy to school with a pink lunchbox and see what happens
I can’t tell if you tryna argue with me or agree with me, but my response to this is ‘exactly’.
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