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@GunsNAmerica @Hydroman11234 Gen X got openly mocked by teachers and peers. Lucky for us, we didn’t have the internet to be shamed on. School was where you went because they forced you, then you were free to be on your own till whatever curfew existed for you.

@Hydroman11234 Half the time the teacher makes fun of them in sly ways

If you’ve been to a public high school within the past half-decade you’ll see a phenomenon called “Zoomer hesitation” where kids will refuse to raise their hands and answer questions out of fear of mockery from either teacher or student or both

@GunsNAmerica Even worse, they may know the material well, but the teacher wants the regurgitated answer, not an answer from understanding, because they need the standardized test responses.

@hoodii30 They likely are not grabbing for toys or food or even hands or mom well, missing things, and you can see if someone’s eyes are focused - look at a pretty drunk person sometime and see how their eyes are not where they should be.

Maybe I’m dumb and that’s fine but I need to ask. How do they know a baby can’t see properly

@sakpo0007_ @TheMuppetPastor take a stab at this one? You seem pretty good at it.

Can someone pls explain this Bible verse to me like I’m a 3 year old?

@JillBarrie25 @DiaryofaSickGrl Few people get it and I can tell it makes them uncomfortable talking to me, or, some get outright irritated if I let on I am unwell at all.

@DiaryofaSickGrl I usually just say in a "fake" happy tone of voice, "I'm okay". I do this even when I'm not feeling well from my chronic diseases. I don't like to get into details on my medical stuff unless I feel like I need to with just close family or close friends.

How do you respond to “how are you?”

Wow. I’m autistic (only learned it in my 40s) and remember having someone help me in high school with a few social cues I routinely froze on, like ‘how are you? Shaking hands, and that it was ok to say thank you for a compliment (I felt it was egotistical). I cannot recall who explained to me you ALWAYS ask the reciprocal question, or give the reciprocal greeting, and have wothout fail, since. But people often ‘forget’ to do the same to me. 🤷‍♀️

@DiaryofaSickGrl Good, thanks , and you ? I hate when I ask how they are first , and they say good. And that’s it . Do not ask me in return , it’s so rude.

@DiaryofaSickGrl ‘Upright and vertical, and you?’

I got excited about the idea of DMSO oil, but since my anaphylactic reactions re like russian roulette and it has to be ‘cut’ with a carrier oil, it seems messy at best and hazardous at worst. 😔 like, I can’t just fill the tub with it and soak all over, and get out be an oily mess hoping it helps.

@DigitalKitten5 @DexBonkAllstar @QueeringPsych That’s an interesting way to look at pain, especially in chronic conditions where people often learn tofunction through it. I’ve seen DMSO oil,fenbendazole, and ivermectin reported to support overall wellbeing, including pain relief and improved mood. @Darus_medicals is my source

I’m a therapist. Clients come in with self diagnoses all the time. Their self dx is supposed to be an invitation to a discussion. A time to gather info in an unbiased manner from the patient You don’t live in their bodies. You actually need their input for a proper diagnosis

Most early childhood education majors I’ve met are sorority girls who want to play with kids in classrooms until they husband-up and have their own kids. Some get bitter when Mr. Right hasn’t swiped right on them, and may resent the kids they teach because of anger about the kids they will never have. And, petty people like to be large and in charge and what better place than somewhere you are literally bigger than a captive audience you can indoctrinate?

@RevanWashington I find it so sad that education, especially early education, seems to attract so many petty, horrible people.

The "2nd grade teacher wants to destroy me for reading ahead" experience is a subset of the broader canon experience of realizing many people with influence & power not only don't want what's best for you, a child, but actively root against you & may even intervene to harm you

@RevanWashington @memeticsisyphus And that the person in charge may not actually be the smartest in the room. Sad to learn this at 7.

@skynetbuffering @QueeringPsych How? (Psychiatry IS medicine, btw)

@QueeringPsych Yeh, actual medicine is a little different to chatting with patients dude.

@DexBonkAllstar @QueeringPsych I find this helpful, a pain scale based on how easy it is to ignore, and adjusted for chronic pain.

@QueeringPsych Especially with something that involves pain, which is 100% subjective, so a personal pain scale is used. My 5/10 might not be the same as your 5/10, but it will always be worse than my 2/10 and better than my 9/10. Now you have functional data to guide the diagnosis.

@Euphoric_Levi @QueeringPsych This IS the discussion. ‘You sound frustrsted, but that is a disservice to your patients. Lets get to the root of it.’

@QueeringPsych Well you don't experience what they experience. As a therapist, His statement on it being frustrating should be an invitation for a discussion, not whatever this is... Secondly,Cardiology is different from Obgyn and way different from therapy. Your experience doesn't apply.

Quantitative testing is still inconclusive for a lot of chronci conditions. Mcas, for example, is often not diagnosed due to tryptase not being high enough… but for many, tryptase is only elevated during anaphylactic events. Patients being ignored based on this known issue with quantitative tests started exposing themselves to known triggers (think of a person woth a bee allergy getting stung on purpose) before visits and blood tests, to be sure a doctor could see their hives and other symptoms and to raise their tryptase to diagnosis levels to stop being ignored, and having to use an epi len and go to the ER after to avoid anaphylactic shock. A lot of things still involve, ‘doc, my stomach hjrts every day,’ and the doctor has to try to find it. Even imaging can overlook polps and tumors in some cases without die diligence on the part of all involved.

@QueeringPsych If you had a CT scanner that could diagnose psychological disorders you'd be speaking differently too.

You don’t have time to get frustrated or condescending Regulate out of that, turn your prefrontal cortex back on, & meet the patient where they’re at Assuming someone just wants to feel better is a great place to start. Otherwise you start seeing patients as enemies or burdens

Deadpan is a comedy style, not a facial expression. What you are showing is actually an example of the trope common in the 70s-90s called breaking the fourth wall to share a moment of exasperation or surprise with the audience. This person above has an emotion on their face, and it’s not a normal response to merely being told, ‘hello.’ The Gen Z stare is a blank mannequin looking nobody’s home expression. You can’t tell if they even register you are there, talking to them, or their surroundings.

@joeybtoonz It's called "deadpan." A thing people have done forever. Gen Z has zero originality. Stop labeling things "Gen Z" that are old, it makes them look dumb. 😂

ME: hello CASHIER: ME: thank you CASHIER:

@DiaryofaSickGrl This amuses me no matter how often I see it.

I keep just seeing the same posts over and over even if I try to refresh the feed. Very boring

Watch Interstellar. It’s one of the few movies that tries to address this with the time dialation in the higher gravity well of one of the panets and inside the singularity itself. Or, read A Starman’s Quest, about the twins paradox where one travels at the speed of light and ages less while the other stays on Earth and ages at a normal pace, many decades before his brother returns. Or, a Breof History of Time by Stephen Hawking 😊

@StefanMolyneux I’ve heard Leonard Susskind explain in a video that gravity is time moving slower for the bottom of you than the top of you. I still don’t understand it, is this even correct?

I think we can be pretty sure about gravity though

@Felbloodreaper @LCW_mofu My husband’s dad kept us fed in college with venison. I honestly cannot tell the difference when it’s ground or chicken fried, but my husband who grew up on it can.

@DigitalKitten5 @LCW_mofu I'm not too proud to say we spent a winter eating roadkilled moose. We also volunteered on the meat salvage team to help other families.

「イギリス人だけど労働者は朝から晩まで紅茶飲んでてヌン茶とかしねえ」みたいなコメント読んで笑ってる。そりゃそうだよ日本人だって毎日スシテンプラ食ってねえよ (ﾟωﾟ)えっアメリカ人は毎日ステーキ食ってんの？

You know ‘scientist’ merely means a masters degree or commensurate experience as a professional in a relevant scientific field? Used to manage the compliqnce committees that govern research, including very specific forms of biology. To fill a commttee to meet federal standards, you must have a number lf non-scientist lay-community people on the committee to ask the questions you find irrelevant. In a college town, finding someone without the master’s degree or working experience who was willing to slog theough biohazard safety protoocls was quite hard, seeing as the bar for scientist is actually pretty low. And… OSP, the office for Biosafety Policy woth NIH is who says the lay people kust be included and the science must be written at their level of understanding.

@Hitchslap1 Depends totally on the field. In my field people wouldn’t even know the questions to ask! (I am in a very, very specific specialty form of biology.)

I have developed a one question IQ test. Should all scientific questions be open for research and discussion?