I always heard the โpenicillin was discovered from bread moldโ thing, but today I learned that one of the dudes involved in the process learned about it from Arab stable boys who would intentionally grow mold on saddle blankets to help treat saddle sores.
With every other condition everyone is all "Early diagnosis and immediate treatment!"
Unless you're trans, in which case it's "Hold up! Lets give it a decade until the damage is extensive and irreversible, *then* we can consider if you're allowed to start jumping through hoops"
The fact fictional queers very rarely hang out with other fictional queers, and that fictional autistics very rarely hang out with other fictional autistics, is always something that drags me out of story immersion with a bump.
We're like magnets, we always find each other.
@ndpoet I feel all this, very much
You are more important than your writing. You can always come back to it another time if you want to, but looking after you has to come first *hugs*
In case anyone was feeling invested in the whereabouts of my derby pads: they were in the bag of shopping bags. For reasons which, naturally, made perfect sense at the time
Spent a chunk of today happily hyperfocused on altering my new 2nd hand derby pads. Went to leave for practice tonight, couldn't find them *anywhere*. Now I'm 30 min late & have to wear sweaty borrowed pads
These days I'm mostly OK w my adhd, but right now I just want to scream
Spent a chunk of today happily hyperfocused on altering my new 2nd hand derby pads. Went to leave for practice tonight, couldn't find them *anywhere*. Now I'm 30 min late & have to wear sweaty borrowed pads
These days I'm mostly OK w my adhd, but right now I just want to scream
@AnnaWhateley@Le_phill In this paper I will be able to change my registered driver's license gender with only a stat dec and can provide an example of how the new system works for you
Dang, that's a useful thesis! ๐
My beloved & I are perfect counter-examples of what ADHD looks like when you've been brought up with acceptance of your quirks vs raised on "you need to try harder" "it's not that difficult" etc
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He's a hot mess who is literally wearing suit pants today bc they're his only clean pants, but he's mostly happy with who is. I'm superficially better at the business of being an adult, but I'm also a ball of stress constantly judging myself on my performance
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