My favorite useless fact is that the guy who proposed modern Daylight Savings Time was an entomologist from New Zealand who wanted the extra daylight to catch bugs. That’s all.
When I was viva prepping for my PhD in Psychology I added sticky index tabs to my thesis, did a mock viva with my supervisors (extremely helpful), but I also searched the internet & collated potential qu. I am not an expert but in the hope it could help others here are some qu 🧵
Ok folks. It’s time we talked about eels.
I’m a geologist but I recently learnt about eels and… wow.
Since then, I’ve been greeting strangers with ‘DO YOU KNOW ABOUT EELS?!’
Well, consider yourself a stranger in my path.
Strap in. It’s a 🧵
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once I asked my parents if they had any ghost stories, and my mom was like "well, we used to live in a farmhouse with a faucet that always leaked." and then my dad said "one time I saw the devil"
I'm not saying chiropractors should be illegal, I'm just saying they should have to have cigarette style warning labels in big print on their waiting room walls saying "The guy who invented this says he learned it from a ghost."
I'm joining neurodivergent people in calling on Disability Minister @AnneRabbitte to ban using any behavioural interventions on Neurodivergent people in this state. Sign to support ending conversion therapy practices #BanConversionTherapy https://t.co/zkA2H1mT34 via @UpliftIRL
Expecting autistic people to “try harder” implies that: a) we are not trying hard enough; and b) trying harder would help us. These beliefs are often wrong; many of us try our *utmost*, yet still encounter issues because we can’t make ourselves NT (and we shouldn’t need to).
In college I was literally close to death due to stress and mental health problems, both related to my Autism.
But if a non-autistic looked at college me, and also a non-speaking Autistic who is thriving and healthy, they’d label me “high-functioning” and him “low-functioning.”