For the Birds

🎼When I can't fly, I start to fall ... forgive me, I'm finding my wings - Miranda Lambert 🎵💗

[Jen Wilkin @jenniferwilkin]

Cold take: Churches need to know & abide by mandatory reporting requirements. In TX every adult is a mandatory reporter. The same is true for FL and 16 other states. If you report, your name is not entered into the public record. Failure to report can result in criminal charges.

[For the Birds @JoyOfTheSearch]

@jessren @abrattain She didn't want kids in the first place but changed her mind because TJ did want them

[Camus @newstart_2024]

ADHD isn’t an “attention deficit.” It’s a profound developmental disorder of self-regulation.

Dr. Russell Barkley (one of the world’s leading ADHD researchers) explains why the name “ADHD” has done massive damage:

- It trivializes a condition as serious as autism, schizophrenia, or bipolar disorder.

- It makes people think “just drink coffee and focus” — when the real issue is far deeper.

The core problem isn’t just distractibility. It’s three interlocking executive deficits:

1. Persistence toward the future — inability to stay motivated by delayed rewards

2. Resistance to distractions — constant derailment by immediate temptations

3. Working memory — struggling to hold goals, plans, and consequences in mind

Together, these create a devastating impairment in self-regulation — the ability to consciously inhibit impulses, direct actions toward yourself (self-talk, self-monitoring), and align behavior with long-term welfare.

Barkley:
“This is not an attention problem. This is a disorder of self-regulation… as serious as manic depression, and in its own way, as autism.”

Parents often hear “he’s just lazy” or “she needs to try harder.”
The truth is far more compassionate and urgent:
The child’s brain is developmentally behind in the very mechanisms that allow other kids to stop, think, plan, and protect their future selves.

If we renamed it Self-Regulatory Developmental Disorder (SRDD), the conversation would change overnight.

How many adults do you know who still struggle with exactly these same three deficits — and were never properly understood as kids?

[ً @prinkasusa]

My coworker used to take the long way home every night. Two extra bus stops, more walking, more money, more time. One day I asked her why she didn’t just take the shortcut alley behind our building.
She laughed and said, “Oh, because a guy followed me there once and told me he could ‘do whatever he wanted’ and no one would hear me scream.”
So now, every night, she calls a male friend and pretends she’s on the phone with her “boyfriend.” Sometimes she even laughs loudly and says things like, “Yeah, I’ll see you in five minutes, babe,” even when she’s completely alone.
Not because she wants attention.
Not because she’s dramatic.
Because sounding “taken” and “protected” is safer than sounding like a woman by herself.
Men cannot even begin to understand the calculations women make every day just to get home alive.

[For the Birds @JoyOfTheSearch]

@NahniTi No, none of that is true

[For the Birds @JoyOfTheSearch]

@Exit_2theLeft Gerald was a joke between Mariska & Chris, a pretend "boyfriend" that was the subject of one of their bits

[For the Birds @JoyOfTheSearch]

@JulieAnn0720 @crimsonrum And then gives Britt a room in the Q house when she moves back in

[For the Birds @JoyOfTheSearch]

@Bluerave BLQ was mad because Ned claimed Kristina as his for a while. She felt abandoned by him as a kid and betrayed by him over this lie, which led her to the thought that he was trying to replace her, in a way, with Kristina

[For the Birds @JoyOfTheSearch]

@Gigiluvs2020 He's specifically talking about museums in the post you said you read

[For the Birds @JoyOfTheSearch]

@BookConvos @crimsonrum @GeneralHospital Didn't Drew say something yesterday along the lines of he's giving her back the Quartermaine name?

[For the Birds @JoyOfTheSearch]

@KekwayB @AlanSarapa Britt carried and birthed him but has no biological tie to him, as far as we know

[For the Birds @JoyOfTheSearch]

@crimsonrum Full custody to Michael, supervised visitation for Willow

[For the Birds @JoyOfTheSearch]

@Island_Queen972 @Salinawrites1 When he had Sasha on the stand, Ric said she and Michael slept together 9 months ago, so the show might've changed the timeline

[For the Birds @JoyOfTheSearch]

@HotVannaNights @TxCatholicMama They keep reminding us that Dante was getting in with the wrong crowd and that's why Olivia sent him to the camp where Brooklyn got pregnant. They could have Lois say she was concerned Dante would go back to that crowd

[For the Birds @JoyOfTheSearch]

@CrazyLexxiCool He needs to end up being Edward's grandson from some affair Edward had

[For the Birds @JoyOfTheSearch]

@BookConvos @crimsonrum Willow also had the baby who was adopted by Lucas & Brad (before he died and Brad & Nelle switched babies)

[For the Birds @JoyOfTheSearch]

@P23M_ @GHFan10130 Jordan and Portia, I think

[Gritty is the Way @Gritty20202]

for comparison, 98% of the disbursed Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans have been completely forgiven with no requirement of repayment

[For the Birds @JoyOfTheSearch]

@GHFan10130 A large portion of that whole storyline was an insult and bad optics to surrogacy

[For the Birds @JoyOfTheSearch]

@_MissShellBell @bellqbanita He still has all Jason's memories, or have they undone that at some point?