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Should be a wild four years.

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dude you're talking out your ass, I don't know why pracitioners are unwilling to just give childhood abuse survivors a ptsd diagnosis but they frequently are not.

and nobody insists on a special diagnosis, why would they care? you might be confusing people wanting something other than an ADHD diagnosis for their kid, but that's because you can't get an IEP with just an ADHD diagnosis, or at least it used to be like that, someone chime in who still works in the field.
PTSD has a series of criteria for diagnosis that people don't always fit and a treatment plan that might not work for individual cases. Decent psychiatrists take a "less is more" approach because they don't want to misdiagnose someone who then receives incorrect treatment. It could be that a depression or generalized anxiety diagnosis is more accurate for a given case, but I do not know the ins and outs of the person you're talking about. I'm just giving my armchair opinion.

Also, the abundance of munchies makes it clear why certain people care about special diagnoses.
 
I think autism is caused by lack of bullying in real life. If your whole childhood is sitting alone watching tiktoks or playing fortnite then you don't develop social skills (aka most cases of autism). I doubt vaccines play a significant role. I'm open to being wrong though.
You are completely correct, moderate bullying reinforces social normality and rules. All those dudes obsessed with trains in the 60's had autism but they had it beaten into them that being trainsexual isnt apropriate in public.

We need to stop bending over backwards, as a society, to protect the autists from the consequences of their actions.
 
I used to work with a doc who ranted at length about Zantac being OTC, how using it for any length of time totally fucks up your ability to handle stomach acid making you more dependent on it. He also mostly hated statents.
Some statins are overprescribed and their side effects are sometimes ignored as an "ends justify the means" thing, but they do work and not everyone has side effects. Any long-term heartburn OTC is kinda dangerous to use, but the biggest issue with OTCs in general is always people using them longer than directed.
 
I think that a lot of people are misdiagnosed with autism when all they need is more socialization. I remember thinking I was autistic when I was a teenager and autism was a new thing in the cultural zeitgeist, but people older than me said "no, you're just an asshole." Turns out they were right. When I started exposing myself to more social situations instead of being afraid and staying inside all the time, I improved. Fear is a killer.

God is good and I have faith.
I think there’s some malice as well. As a kid, my mother had me “diagnosed” with autism so she could get more free money from the state. It wasn’t until my junior year of high school that I was able to get retested and it was determined that I wasn’t autistic. I would bet that if they didn’t cash awards for people with autistic children, the diagnoses would go down
 
its just some stupid rumor the left spread among themselves.
I'm to the point where I don't believe anything anybody says about trump, good or bad, until it is confirmed by multiple sources over the course of weeks.

I want to call it the boy who cried wolf problem but really it's the inverse... like not necessarily "that boy has lost his credibility" but rather "anybody who cries wolf is lying".

Actually come to think of it I don't believe anything leftists say either, so in that sense it is a boy who cried wolf but that's a separate phenomenon.
 
100 years ago there'd be a weird kid who could take apart a clock and put it back together after explaining every part in impassioned detail; they'd say he's weird but got a knack for gadgets and shunt him somewhere he could take apart bigger more important clocks for society's benefit.

Today little Jimmy the clock tinkerer is diagnosed with superautism and is given meds to sedate him because teacher and Mommy and Daddy don't want to deal with it.
The true horror of modern culture is realizing that if Isaac Newton were a zoomer he would have trooned out in discord.

Many such cases.
 
The other day I couldn't help but overhear two strangers talking about the tariffs with each other in a waiting room. From what I heard neither really had a strong opinion and spoke with the same tone you'd talk about the weather; mostly just conversational fluff. I gotta say, though, it's nice to get a refresher every once in a while that literally nothing about e-politics is real. Be it Xitter, /pol/, Facebook, Instagram, whatever, none of the cancer discourse rears its head in real life. It's all just faggy gossip and grifting. I can't place why, but everyone on the Internet argues like a scorned woman now.

So when you hear normal, composed people talking casually about current events, without trying to twist any new development into a political "win" or suddenly becoming an international trade expert when the "debate" calls for it, it's a great wake up call that there are still people who live in reality.

TL;DR: There is nothing gayer than arguing politics on the Internet.
I feel it's also a matter of people just consuming so much time with arguing that their mental image of politics just becomes a fusion of all the retards they dealt with. One of the reasons I'm glad I did lifeguarding was because when I had to deal with the daily retard, I climbed back up the chair wondering how people can be so stupid, then returned to my view of thousands of people obeying the rules and not being morons.
Same thing I feel applies to online discourse, need to take a step back every now and then to realize most people are not like this and that online political spergs make up a tiny portion of the nation.
 
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welp daylight saving is american good old system.
That’s not how seasons work dipshit. What if the Romans made every month 31 days? Good job fucking up every calendar. People centuries long dead could figure this out but not fat retard. Mmmhm what if we made every day 25 hours to keep the slaves toiling an hour longer? DOGE please reach out and let’s discuss.
 
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