@elliotpsych@the_mel_jar Maybe ask people close to you if there’s something you could work on/ what their observations are of you. A lot of happy & high functioning people have blind spots.
@ShanBarnsley Search “relational therapy.” Many relational therapists who take insurance can sprinkle in a little behaviorism to get it covered by insurance.
I have been queer and out long enough to remember this vividly: straight people objecting to being called “straight.” The majority only wants to name the minority, never to be named by them, because that means the minority group also has agency (the real thing they don’t want).
6 months ago half these people would have been saying the same thing so it's extra sad , like I get not wearing a mask, I no longer feel safe being the only masked person at an event or even one of a tiny number, I've had people laugh at me and even physical threats,
I’m a pediatric speech therapist…I was sitting in on an eval for services & the ? was “What do you use a towel for” the baby said cleaning..which is correct cuz he knew when his mama said clean something get a towel or rag.. the yt lady marked it wrong before I intervened! Smh
I cancelled a trip to Florida because I did not want to risk arrest for using the bathroom under a law that seems likely to pass. The media is not adequately conveying the degree to which this is becoming a common calculation for LGBTQ Americans traveling within the country.
This is one of the most devastating, infuriating stories I've read in a long time. You think you're already angry at the basics of what happened and then it just keeps getting worse with each new detail. I recommend reading every word by @kylietcheung https://t.co/ezFOGDZItA
Six trans and nonbinary young people sat down with Daniel Radcliffe in a candid and heartfelt conversation about their journeys and what genuine allyship looks like.
🎥The first episode of #SharingSpace premieres on YouTube tomorrow at 12 PM ET. ➡️ https://t.co/nlE3HxCkKn
@poppy_haze There’s a radio lab episode where a scientist who studied bird patterns applied the same metric to children.
Results were wild - a 10 year old in the 70s had like 2 miles of area he would travel without adults (bikes) and a 10 year old today has like 200 ft of autonomous space.
Doctors at a major US insurance company deny tens of thousands of claims a month without even looking at patients’ files.
“We literally click & submit,” a former Cigna doctor told @ProPublica & @Capitol_Forum. “It takes all of 10 seconds to do 50 at a time.”
The inside story 🧵
How do we get through to the folks posting, “Me and my family have been sick 100 times since September I will try anything to boost our immune systems and stop the suffering” and we’re like “Maybe try a mask?” and they’re like:
This is how you respond when Neo-Nazis give Hitler salutes on your doorstep. The Premier of Victoria raises the transgender flag over Parliament House in Melbourne, site of Saturday’s anti-trans demo.
A Black family from Georgia was pulled over in rural Tennessee for driving with 'dark tint and traveling in the left lane while not actively passing'
Within hours, they had lost custody all five of their children, including a nursing baby
https://t.co/iiiG1mI3HD via @TNLookout