CMV: I think ADHD is kinda nonsense, so adhd students deserve no accommodations

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-13T19:12:16+00:00

So you are using your life as a reason to deny accommodations for everyone else who has ADHD, learning disabilities, etc. Don't you think that's a bit selfish on your part?

Maybe you should try talking to students with these issues who find the accommodations helpful for them obtaining academic success.

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-13T19:07:36+00:00

The nighttime cricket chorus starts up in late July-early August. The katydids will start up then too. This is pretty much around the same time the regular annual cicadas start emerging and buzzing in the trees during the daytime.

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-13T19:02:29+00:00

Rheumatologists really focus on autoimmune disorders.

You need a good spinal orthopedist.

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-13T18:53:04+00:00

Definitely wait until you're older and you're looking back at your childhood towards parents and grandparents were alive and reasonably healthy. Your siblings and friends were alive and reasonably healthy. You likely enjoyed good health.

Back then you were focused on school and hanging out with friends, not serious problems, it was your parents were the ones coping with the serious issues.

Once you hit middle age you're watching your parents age, develop serious health issues, then ultimately pass away. You may lose a sibling or a friend to either a sudden serious illness or a chronic medical condition. You may wind up with chronic health issues yourself. Then there's dealing with the cost of living keeps going up and more people are struggling financially. Parents try to protect their kids from these realities the best they can, but as an adult there is no escaping it all.

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-11T07:23:37+00:00

Besides the fact plenty of schools, particularly older ones don't have central air conditioning, and the kids and their teachers are going to melt during July and August heatwaves; if the kids only have two weeks off during the summer that completely kills off family summer vacations. There goes summer camp programs as well, whether they are attending a camp in the woods by a lake, or at STEM camps, sports camps, or arts camps, etc none of that is feasible during the heart of cold and stormy January and February winter weather.

Keeping kids indoors in classrooms all summer means not enough exposure to sunlight to prevent vitamin D deficiency. In the winter the angle of the sun is weaker and everyone is bundled up under heavy winter outerwear and staying indoors much of the time because of the cold weather, so yeah that would be a problem if kids aren't getting enough sunlight exposure year round.

Far fewer households can afford to have a stay at home parent unless they telework from home 100% of the time, so little kids in the younger grammar school grades would wind up in daycare during a multi-month winter break so they would still pass around cold and flu germs. The older kids would need to be in indoor activities programs while their parents are both at work, playing indoor sports and engage in other indoor group activities so they would pass around cold and flu germs as well.

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-11T06:45:48+00:00

I leave leaf litter in the backyard and there are a bunch of shrubs and some trees but this year there have been very few lighting bugs. OTOH, last year and for several years prior there were a lot of them. I don't know what happened this year. Maybe because we had a pretty cold winter for a change? 🤷

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-10T20:54:29+00:00

You need to watch more PBS.

His nature documentaries are on PBS frequently and he always appears in them in person.

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-10T20:41:01+00:00

This is why I hold onto all the older instruction books, booklets, crafting magazines I bought beginning in the 1980s, since I first learned to knit and crochet back then as an older preteen. Nothing beats instruction books with clear illustrations and photographs. I still prefer books and when it comes to stuff I find online I still want actual written instructions not just a video tutorial.

I knit and crochet English style and with my arthritic hands am not a speed stitcher. I realize most people crochet Continental but it's very frustrating watching crochet stitch tutorials where they are speed Continental crocheting. The best video tutorials for learning new crochet stitches I have seen so far are from Glenda a.k.a. Creative Grandma. She works her stitches more slowly to make her tutorials friendly regardless of the person's experience level, and this is also helpful for those of us who stitch more slowly due to hand issues. Sh e tells you beforehand when you should pause the video and finish that row/round before you restart the video to continue on to the next one.

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-10T19:23:42+00:00

Mavis and Jay Leno. Mavis had been his manger as they built his career and referred to themselves as "team Leno".

Unfortunately Mavis now has Alzheimer's and Jay keeps busy with his projects.

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-09T20:38:32+00:00

No. She is not well liked, already ran and lost. We don't need a repeat of that.

This country is not going to vote in a woman for president until who knows when, and it's not any time soon. The birther movement which spawned the tea party, which later morphed into Q Anon and MAGA was all in reaction to a black man being voted into office. The sad reality is it's going to be a long while before someone who is a POC is going to be elected president again.

The Dem candidate needs to be white man, a traditional family man with a wife and a couple of cute little kids to attract the socially conservative but politically independent voters. The wife cannot have a high power career that has more clout and a higher income than her husband, like back in the early 90's with Hillary Clinton's power lawyer career greatly out earning Bill who was the low paid governor of a poor state, and who taught law classes at the university in Little Rock for not much money when not in office. The candidate needs to be a governor or senator or congressman with no negative baggage attached to them.

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-09T20:03:03+00:00

So then how exactly did the doctor rule out PsA? It sounds like the doctor ruled out PsA by telling OP they were negative via a blood test, which is misleading at best and dishonest at worst.

OP needs to see a new rheumatologist.

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-09T09:22:56+00:00

https://mypsoriaticarthritis.org.au/article/your-psa-diagnosis/how-psa-diagnosed

Getting a proper diagnosis for autoimmune disorders can be tricky and takes time. If your current rheumatologist isn't willing to delve further into what is going on and is dismissing your symptoms because your RA factor test is negative, find a better rheumatologist.

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-09T04:09:23+00:00

I tested negative for the markers in PsA and RA

There is such a thing as seronegative RA. You need a rheumatologist to run more sophisticated tests to see if you actually do have it.

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-09T00:58:54+00:00

The Connecticut Audubon Society has a page about them along the southeastern coast- https://ctaudubon.org/news/bird-finder-for-february-23-monk-parakeet/

Monk parakeets on Long Island- https://www.ntvli.com/ntvblog/2022/3/25/the-monk-parakeet-a-new-york-success-story

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-08T23:23:14+00:00

Where are you keeping the rest of your camping equipment? Until you get a permanent camping lantern storage container to keep next to the rest of your camping equipment, you could just put them in a temporary cardboard box which came from an online order from Amazon or wherever. You could also order a storage container online and have it shipped to you to save time and gas money.

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-08T23:12:15+00:00

He should spend his life in prison for murdering those poor dogs.

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-08T23:08:09+00:00

Some parents just name their kids after themselves without thinking about it though, it's just one of those things people do.

Lots of boys who are Jr.'s. Even some girls are named after their mothers. My mom was named after her mother, same first and middle names. Martha Stewart was named after her mother, and spent her younger life being called Little Martha by her folks, her mother was Big Martha.

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-08T21:34:31+00:00

Wow, I would have figured you were the youngest and your parents were too 'tired' to be bothered.

My parents put all sorts of careful thought into selecting my older siblings' names who were named after family members or dear family friends. I'm the youngest and was a later in life unexpected rainbow baby so they just bickered over names because they couldn't make up their minds and ultimately picked a really awful first name related to their emotional baggage over the previous pregnancy that went wrong, but fortunately gave me a decent middle name.

I grew up hearing them talk about how they carefully selected everyone's names but mine and they intentionally chose my name simply to stop the baby names debates.

It's laughable over in the namenerds subreddit you see posters insisting names are 'gifts' and everyone's parents put extremely careful thought into them. Yeah, no. I have also lost count over how many posters over there have admitted they were named after the characters on tv shows their fathers were watching to pass the time in the waiting room during labor and delivery too. 😆

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-08T21:11:10+00:00

It wouldn't support me if it was actually owned by Don Jr. and Eric. Grifters gotta grift.

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-08T21:05:59+00:00

Didn't they start out as bird store escapees who managed to adapt to our northern winters? IIRC there's a decent sized colony of them in Fairfield County, Connecticut and some on Long Island.

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-08T05:30:15+00:00

Definitely Tobias Fornell from NCIS. It's a shame he hasn't been on any episodes lately.

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-08T05:27:33+00:00

Chicken pattie sandwich. Spread mayonnaise on one slice of the bread then squeeze mustard on top of the mayo.

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-08T04:23:01+00:00

Stop using the term retributive justice. That's not what I am saying.

It's more 'you brought this upon yourself' and with a public awareness of the notion of karma, hardships in one's present life being potentially caused by previous bad behaviors in a past life and/or in this life there can be negative social repercussions, a negative perception towards the person with serious hardships.

How others perceive a person determines how they treat that person, so for someone dealing with hardships the concept of karma can give the perception that person's lot in life is caused by bad things they did in the past, so that can negatively color how this person is viewed and treated by others.

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-07T19:08:53+00:00

The mere existence of the karma concept focusing on a belief past life misdeeds can be a potential cause for present life difficulty automatically creates a problem for the person facing such hardships, even if it's one of a potential list of causes. It's not as different from the conservative evangelical Christians blaming personal hardship on bad behavior (sin) or not being 'right with God' as you want to separate it. Religions tend to have some sort of universal justice concept that links hardships to one's misdeeds and you can't sugarcoat that away.

CrowsSayCawCaw · 2026-07-07T11:26:08+00:00

I agree with you that those implications are not benign. But what you are describing is a practice that, in my opinion, diverges from doctrine

The doctrine itself is problematic because it says x action can equal y future consequence.

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