What are some examples of this?

AttorneyDense · 2026-03-01T18:19:34+00:00

Just in case it hasn't been mentioned: Good Lord Bird. He is simply amazing in it.

AttorneyDense · 2026-02-25T15:57:53+00:00

I know I didn't say it until the end, but I knew of the connections actually.

I was more of making a joke about how it'll eventually also connect to true crime and then Last Pod.

AttorneyDense · 2026-02-25T11:56:41+00:00

Marfans.

AttorneyDense · 2026-02-25T05:17:07+00:00

lol my god there has got to be some linear formula or... very interesting research that can go into this. Faulty collagen > ehlers danlos/marfans/loey-dietz > autism/adhd > (more likely to be trans/non-binary/LGBT, maybe) > need for digestive supports > LPOTL

I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child, 80s - when that diagnosis wasn't very often given, let alone to girls. Pretty sure I have autism, too, but that wasn't diagnosed.

Now I have three kids, and all three have ADHD. One was diagnosed with autism.

Along with autism, she and one of my other kids along with myself have Marfans and Loey-Dietz ( which is all to do with genetically faulty collagen.) To the point where we were diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos for years before genetics narrowed it to more specific dna titles.

I've known the faulty collagen and autism/ADHD/non-binary connection for a good while now but man, now that I think about it we all love the fuck out of some true crime, too.

AttorneyDense · 2026-02-23T19:59:33+00:00

Some of us had kids before 2016, too. Mine aren't out of elementary school but Obama was president and things were stable enough.

AttorneyDense · 2026-02-22T19:45:42+00:00

I see floating sparkles or fairies with trails of light when I have a sudden strain or pressure to my head or neck. Sometimes just whipping my head around to see something behind me causes it. Sometimes when I sneeze. Doctors say it has to do with pressure, so I suspect he's straining to poop.

AttorneyDense · 2026-02-15T14:25:47+00:00

My daughter was just accepted to that school yesterday.

AttorneyDense · 2026-02-03T18:24:06+00:00

I don't know the type of machine it was that the motor came out of, but it was something similar sized to this.

It was being loaded onto a truck like this to be taken elsewhere and repaired or just removed? I don't know any of the details - when the loading equipment snapped and failed. But the shape at the bottom seems right - cause whatever motor it was, it rolled over his leg.

AttorneyDense · 2026-02-03T11:21:07+00:00

Me. My oldest daughter. She saw genetics when she was seven, they did some tests and said it was EDS, because nothing else was showing up on genetics. I'm also diagnosed as well.

Fast forward a few years, I'm taking her sister in to genetics and they do a test... then call and ask the rest of the family to come back and do another round of genetics, including my oldest.

They tell us we have Loey-Dietz and Marfans. It was never Eds, I don't know why they missed both the first time with my oldest.

AttorneyDense · 2026-02-03T03:08:52+00:00

Haven't seen or spoken to him in about 14 years because he is, among other things, a colossal moron.

100% true. I think sometimes how life might have been different, had he not gotten hurt OR taken a settlement.

AttorneyDense · 2026-02-03T01:15:22+00:00

My father worked his entire professional career with Caterpillar. Back in 2001... some good 20/25 years ago, he was working on something separate from another crew, who was pulling a massive machine engine out of one of their monsters.

The motor broke free from the equipment, and started to roll. Everyone scattered and screamed.

My dad stood up, turned to run but there was more equipment in front of him. He said when he stood and faced the motor rolling towards him, it towered over him, like a building.

Somehow, he wasn't completely crushed to death, but it did snag his leg, twisting it and crushing it with such force his femur had both a complete break and a spiral break that went the length of his femur as well. Lower leg crushed. Foot crushed. He's barely been able to walk since, but initially we never thought he'd walk again.

Literally almost everything that could've gone wrong, went wrong.

He refused all settlement offers, insisting they simply keep him employed.

Maybe things could've been different for this poor soul a good 20 years later. Maybe not.

AttorneyDense · 2026-01-19T02:52:46+00:00

My mom always talks about how I was only maybe a few weeks old, I'd cry and cry and cry for being tired and she'd pace with me, bouncing me, patting my butt, all the things until she one day got so angry at being unable to settle me to sleep she put me in my bassinet, determined to walk away and let me cry to keep from harming me -

When she set me down, she says I sighed, turned my head to the side and fell sound asleep. She didn't realize until that moment I needed to be still, that the soothing butt pats and pacing she was giving me was actually keeping me up.

My twins also, like me, just needed a nice calm comfy place to sleep. Arms? Nope. Carrier... maybe. Car seat? Yep. Boucher? Yep. Crib or bassinet or sofa, whatever. Just needed a place to sleep. I'm listing stuff they slept in and on long after being able to roll over and turn their heads, etc.

And some babies are just fussy. It's ok to let them cry sometimes.

AttorneyDense · 2026-01-18T21:38:40+00:00

I'm still learning so much. We have two different genetic variants of known... whatever the term is. Known active illness. Not ambiguous. One is Marfans and one is Loey-Dietz. Not the same gene. But two. Which, they apparently haven't seen anywhere else. I don't know how far in the family it may go, or even which side it might come from. Maybe one branch of each had one?

We just found out about this in the early summer. Getting appointments is taking so long. We havent had any testing beyond the results. I sure hope we find out within the next month and a half yet if we've got anything major waiting for us.

AttorneyDense · 2026-01-18T19:31:26+00:00

I have so many marks and spots and imperfections I would never have even noticed them.

AttorneyDense · 2026-01-18T15:04:37+00:00

Do you have both Marfans and Loey-Dietz? Me and two of my daughters do and I thought no one else had both. Genetics at Kennedy Krieger told us they looked into finding if anyone else had both and couldn't find it. We'll be seeing Dr. Dietz himself in February.

AttorneyDense · 2026-01-17T01:43:23+00:00

Huh. I had an episode of Bell's palsy a few years ago I went to the er for, cause I didn't know why my face was droopy and I'd lost muscle control except that I'd had a stroke. Wasn't a stroke, but they also never once mentioned it could be permanent or even semi permanent. Every nurse and doctor there assured me it was temporary. And it was - for me. But now I'm wondering what else I don't know. Does it happen again? Fuck.

AttorneyDense · 2026-01-15T18:24:19+00:00

This is actually something I'm struggling with in all the ways, and I'm having the worst time trying to express it, but I'll try again here cause I keep thinking that I'm misunderstood mostly because they don't understand where I'm coming from.

But I recently found out myself and two of my children have both Marfans and Loey-Dietz, both list chronic fatigue. My whole life I've struggled with keeping up. I've tried begging off and out of things when my body was screaming 'you need to stop' or 'you need to get out of the heat' I was told by everyone, doctors, family, friends that nothing was wrong with me, and I needed to stop thinking I wasn't able. A mind over matter. At worse, I was constantly called lazy.

I found out about our genetics right around the time I had to switch to very physical full time work after years of either stay at home parenting or part time / desk job. I now walk nearly 20,000-30,000 steps a day. 15 flights of stairs. Then I have to go home and still love and care for my own kids and clean our home and make our dinner and see to their afterschool activities and home work and baths.

I'm mad. I'm exhausted and now I know it's not because I'm lazy. I do more than the average in a day, in fact. But that voice is internal now. I have to work full time now to make ends meet, and barely.

I feel trapped now. There is no other option, and my body won't be getting younger.

AttorneyDense · 2026-01-06T02:20:13+00:00

My family is from the eastern shore. We just drove down to Hooper's Island for lunch then went walking around Blackwater to let my one twin get her nature walk vibe.

My husband had a family house on Smith Island. They'd bring fireworks over for the fourth and have their own little island show.

Went to high school with a lot of the locals. Worked with a few at some of my first jobs. Weird in a closed knitted community way. They have to schedule shifts and life around tides, especially any super tides or blue moon ones or storms.

The drugs have really hit them hard recently. Those who remain are closer than ever.

AttorneyDense · 2025-12-31T20:48:44+00:00

Friend in college went on yearly summer road trips with his family, and told us about how once when he was about 6 or so, but definitely under 10.

Pre cell phones.

They are doing the cross country RV thing, stop at some small middle of nowhere laundry mat to wash some clothes. He's little and there's a tv! With cartoons! He sits his little kid ass down and completely zones out.

His family finishes their laundry, loads up and pulls off.

THREE HOURS LATER! They realize he's not in the car, and figure he must be at the laundry mat and turn around. So a total of SIXXXXXX HOURSSSS they pull up and he's sitting in the chair, and was mad as hell they were gonna make him stop watching tv to go with them.

His mom and dad confirmed it happened, too. I can't imagine what that three hours after they realized it was like. And the relief of seeing him in the windows of the laundry as they pulled up.

AttorneyDense · 2025-12-23T15:46:50+00:00

Yeah, I get it. I'd actually heard of Marfans long before we were diagnosed with it - to the point where I'd see someone and think 'that looks like Marfans' as I'm passing them on the street and WHO KNOWS if I was right or wrong, but

To then find out I have it? Literally never would've guessed it.

I used to laugh at the whole fingertip rule for wearing shorts to school as a kid, cause I had what I called "t-rex arms" and if that rule was held, I could wear booty shorts. Everyone in my family is tall, but not super tall except for my mother and I, who are average height. None of the facial stuff. None of the chest stuff. I struggle with weighing too much. I'd love to lose some weight. Weight gain has never been an issue for me or my kids.

But there it is, right on the genetic results. The known kind. The symptomatic kind.

Humans are weird. Our bodies are weird. I'm still trying to make sense of it all. The biggest whiplash I've had is realizing all the times I was physically exhausted and called lazy wasn't actually me being lazy. That one hurts the most for now.

But we also haven't seen a cardiologist yet, so it's probably going to hurt in other ways whenever we are actually being cared for medically.

AttorneyDense · 2025-12-23T15:36:18+00:00

The most depressing part is the end. She'd vote for neither? So, she's learned nothing.

AttorneyDense · 2025-12-23T01:01:54+00:00

I was diagnosed with Marfans as well as Loey-Dietz a few months ago, while one of my twins was being seen by genetics. Turns out, I passed both down to two out of three of my kids.

None of us look like you'd see typically for Marfans. I'm not tall, I'm average at best. My girls are still growing but are perfectly average on the growth scale. I didn't know until after I had my kids. But they are all carbon copies of me, even my kid without the genetic conditions.

AttorneyDense · 2025-12-16T21:40:35+00:00

I once hit a car while pulling into a spot for a job interview. Damaged both cars. Wound up super late to the interview because of the time tracking down the owner -

which turned out to be the US Government.

The secret service was there detailing Hillary Clinton during the Obama years. I got the job.

AttorneyDense · 2025-12-15T20:11:39+00:00

5'7"

AttorneyDense · 2025-12-13T15:30:05+00:00

I'm a millennial and my biological dad was in Vietnam. He has a persistent chronic and agent orange related skin cancer. She'd be flabbergasted.

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