Tea Mistress Jen 🫖

I love how a Twitter account will be a normal, varied stream of content about a person’s life, but after a post announcing they adopted a cat, it becomes 100% dedicated to the cat.

Medicine consistently and flagrantly flips the script to blame the patient for its own failures. - Being socially isolated due to pain becomes you are in pain due to being socially isolated. - Deconditioning due to disability becomes you are disabled because you are deconditioned. - Depression or distress due to disease burden becomes you have disease burden because you are depressed or distressed. - Nerve damage due to untreated pain becomes you have pain because your nerves are too sensitive. And so on and so forth.

@WhiteHouse Propaganda celebrating the suppression of free speech. All because Trump couldn’t allow political humor with the same self-confidence as every other modern president before him.

Bye-bye 👋

I fear Trump skipping his son's birthday to spend the weekend in DC -- something he normally isn't keen to do -- is a sign we should brace for him to do something crazy this weekend

@9Syht I made a really pretty one myself a while back to keep my thumb from dislocating (due to hEDS), so I’ve got the skills and equipment to make them for all of my fingers.

@9Syht They are devices you put on your fingers to keep them straight and limit range of motion. They come in styles ranging from cheap plastic to stylish gold and platinum ones that cost thousands.

Yet another betrayal by my body. Going to make a full set of ring splints next week, while I can still hold the necessary tools.

Thrown off to starve.

I don’t think people want pure capitalism or pure socialism. People just want to afford rent. Go to the doctor without fear. Have clean streets, good schools, decent wages, and still have freedom. The happiest countries on earth figured out that balance matters. Too much greed destroys people. Too much control does too. Most normal people are just asking for a system that actually lets them live.

"There's no way you can write a ten page paper without chatGPT" WE COULD LITERALLY DO EVERYTHING THAT EVER HAPPENED IN HUMAN HISTORY WITHOUT CHATGPT WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.

The Trump administration has opened up part of the Grand Canyon for oil and gas drilling.

Turns out that "gifted, high-achieving child" who finished assignments in 10 minutes, read entire books under the blanket with a flashlight, and was praised for being mature... was actually just an undiagnosed ADHD girlie operating on pure, unregulated hyperfocus.

@RebeccaNotMsLay We did!

@JenDGerdes But hey, we made it and have cool cats

See a psychiatrist.

Scientists confirm that executive dysfunction in ADHD adults triggers a profound neurological "freeze" response within 15 seconds of looking at a multi-step task. Your brain is already treating an unorganized to-do list like an actual physical threat before your conscious mind has even picked up a pen.

@RebeccaNotMsLay 🫂

@JenDGerdes I think about all of the scholarships that I turned down because I couldn’t handle the thought of living with another human being because I didn’t want them to see all of my rituals

@RebeccaNotMsLay So much suffering gets overlooked when you are smart. Imagine the potential that we could have lived up to with early intervention.

@JenDGerdes I literally used to refuse to leave my house unless the clock was on a multiple of three or five, but because I was able to hold down a job and have excellent grades and and and everyone let it go it is one of the reasons I specialize in treating OCD

I can’t even drop it like it’s hot anymore.

Growing up Gen X: If you said, That's not fair. Your parents said, Life's not fair. And that was that. #GenX

@RGibsongirl So weird and cold, the way he said it.

My dad and I joke around that he's known me my whole life...but yeah, it's a JOKE. This is...so not that.