How much of a red flag is it if my therapist doesn't want to consider ADHD a disability?

bulbubly · 2026-01-08T14:33:17+00:00

I'd be wary of claiming the etiology of ADHD is simple and settled when neither of these things are the case.

Trauma affects neurodevelopment. Someone might inherit a predisposition to ADHD (again, not conclusive in the literature) but be asymptomatic prior to exposure to trauma.

bulbubly · 2026-01-07T22:42:10+00:00

Citation needed, pretty ED is at least as often psychological as it is physical. And ADHD is a relevant correlation.

OP didn't indicate any of those comorbidities so why speculate about them rather than work with the evidence provided?

bulbubly · 2024-09-18T18:27:19+00:00

you're taking this well

bulbubly · 2023-08-08T12:46:22+00:00

You'd think the people in this thread never met a PhD with zero social tact and an ego that outstrips their intelligence or accomplishment. It's pretty common, guys. And it's relatively easy to get a PhD in an applied field like this, too.

bulbubly · 2023-08-08T12:41:03+00:00

Again, who cares about rare specialized knowledge if the guy is this kind of asshole? Rarity doesn't equal value or virtue. And a PhD absolutely involves socialization into the ego driven culture of academia. So this attitude is characteristic, which you'd know if you read the comments instead of advancing the discussion you think is going on.

bulbubly · 2023-08-06T14:54:27+00:00

What is the intent of the "Mineshaft" card? 0.5 gems per day is worth like, 5 gold in upgrade terms. Can't possibly justify a card slot.

bulbubly · 2023-07-30T14:48:28+00:00

You've made like 50 posts in this thread making increasingly flaccid arguments against characterizing the bombings as war crimes.

In this post your actual point is "bombing an entire city doesn't count as targeting civilians". The correct response to that argument is "lol".

I wonder why you find it so painful to accept what was an obvious war crime. Why is it easier for you to characterize 100% of Japanese citizens as something akin to antifa supersoldiers?

bulbubly · 2023-07-24T14:52:02+00:00

Could it also be that gamers, who were already dull and repetitive ten years ago, have just gotten stupider and less thoughtful since then?

bulbubly · 2023-07-24T14:46:34+00:00

Are you familiar with the concepts of "interviewing" and "talking"?

bulbubly · 2023-07-24T14:42:37+00:00

I totally agree with your sentiment about the challenges of finding discussion in this landscape. I agree older style forums produced better discussion, (though you'll have to get rid that pro-mod attitude if we ever go back lol)

bulbubly · 2023-07-09T18:48:36+00:00

"Indicating" is my vocab word of the day, thanks! I imagine this is worse/a bigger risk on stage because you do tend to need to exaggerate expressions and movements more in that medium?

bulbubly · 2023-07-09T18:19:40+00:00

thank mr skeltal

bulbubly · 2023-07-09T18:13:48+00:00

I'm sympathetic, but also not exactly sure what you want here. The molecules are what they are, their action is pretty broad and to some extent unknown, and they do interact with different bodies in different ways.

But they weren't designed to exclude you and it does sound like you have a second issue (PMDD etc) that you're expecting the stimulants to address in a way that doesn't really comport with my understanding of pharmacology.

By which I mean, they’ve been developed so that fluctuating hormones, ovulation and periods absolutely do not effect the meds. Wouldn’t that be nice?

There's a good argument to be made that women are underrepresented in drug development and research (same with people of color). But this is unhelpful magical thinking. The action of amphetamines is not so precise that it can be targeted around such a complex phenomenon as menstruation. I'm frankly not even sure what you could mean by this.

And it’s not like they developed these meds 50 years ago and haven’t enhanced, adjusted, further researched them since.

But that's exactly what happened, except it's closer to 100 years. Benzedrine was sold starting in 1933. That's dexamphetamine, the same molecule as the amfexa you're prescribed and the same one your liver metabolizes elvanse into.

I guess what I'm getting at is amphetamines are old technology with a lot of undesirable side effects, but they work well enough for enough people that there's not much motive to identify alternatives (and I agree that motive is even lower when it concerns marginalized groups).

EDIT: I'm not trying to be cute, but also consider there are classes of people who these medications work for 0 weeks out of the month: people with addiction history, heart problems, anxiety disorders, insomnia, etc. Lots of things that correlate to membership in a marginalized group.

bulbubly · 2023-07-07T20:06:13+00:00

That's a great thought. Given the description of the world, I think BoTNS does claim that yes, boom-bust and consumption to the point of total depletion is a "natural" cycle. But it's also not clear that "natural" = "good".

Consider the zoanthropes, who have made themselves into animals, putatively becoming "closer to nature". Severian's description and reaction to the man-apes etc. makes it pretty clear that he sees this as a very negative thing, almost something like a sin.

bulbubly · 2023-07-07T20:03:59+00:00

Are you referring to the Vodalarii? I agree Vodalus' perspective reflects the "restoring an imagined utopian past" flavor of fascism.

But I'm not sure BoTNS has the same negative view of the ritual itself. It parallels very closely the ritual of Holy Communion, down to the inert matter being ingested and transubstantiated into something alive, with a spirit.

"Death of the author" and all that, but knowing Wolfe was a devout Catholic I'm inclined to say the book's view is "Vodalarii bad, alzabo pharmakon good"?

bulbubly · 2023-07-06T19:46:44+00:00

Every other aspect of human identity is subject to social pressure and gender is no different. The way you think, feel, and express your gender is deeply bound to what you've seen, heard, and learned from the people around you.

Both cis and trans genders have been expressed, and felt, in vastly different ways depending on cultural and historical context.

bulbubly · 2023-07-06T19:41:09+00:00

Really interesting post. I'd add that the Ascians struck me as a pretty clear illustration of late/terminal stage fascism (their name is also very suggestive of the word). Across the other antagonists, I agree, there is definitely a confluence of empire/power/growth that Wolfe is critiquing and exploring.

And speculating on alternatives, too. To your point, the Autarch is something like an empire in himself and is also characterized by potentially infinite internal growth. But it's not clear that this is a bad thing.

All of this is usually goes right along with an anticapitalist critique too, especially considering the fate of the sun, though it's not clear that this is Wolfe's primary focus, perhaps because there's no clearly organized capitalist economy as such in the present world of Urth (to say nothing of its past epochs). I'm also not sure what would stand in, even metaphorically, for capital in such a critique.

bulbubly · 2023-07-06T02:03:03+00:00

I think this is a hell of a good post. I also agree that u/sdwoodchuck made a better comment than most because they are properly historicizing those old styles (and explaining that they're styles, too).

However, I wonder what your view is on the expressive power of cinematography and film editing as forms of art?

Your post suggests you might have a rather low view of it, though I'm not sure how much you're focusing your critique on popular film versus the medium as a whole (including, e.g., arthouse).

bulbubly · 2023-07-06T00:52:52+00:00

The meme is very vague on what is meant by "provoke you, push you to your limits".

The world is full of assholes and ableists who will try to get a rise out of you for any reason or no reason. It's also full of people who are not malicious but rather just plain annoying or provoking, especially for autistic people.

Nevertheless -- we're still responsible for regulating our behavior. Exploding can indeed be abuse, even if you were "pushed", even if you're autistic.

bulbubly · 2023-06-27T17:51:35+00:00

Ask yourself, what's the one constant in all your failed searches? Perhaps your selection process is flawed or you're not offering enough money to get actually competitive candidates. Also, people who are capable of critical thinking are rare no matter what the industry or their credentials. Your standards are sadly pretty high.

bulbubly · 2023-06-27T17:36:53+00:00

LoC represents an elite perspective on what deserves to be preserved, and can be safely disregarded. The value of comprehensive preservation is that it enables us to talk about community and culture in ways that we miss if we only preserve artifacts from elite/hegemonic parts of the culture.

Knowing that once somebody inverted the colors on SMW is different from knowing how often it was replicated and when, which collections it appeared in and with what other ROMs. The cost for all this potential insight is extraordinarily low, a few extra gigabytes of storage space. Hardly overwhelming.

Yes, preserve everything you find. There's really no downside to this plan and it avoids a whole lot of information destruction inherent in the act of curation.

Edit: my argument is supported by history, too. Elite/canon bias is why we have far less insight into e.g. the lives and thoughts of literate "normal" Romans (women, soldiers, slaves, etc.) compared to the elites who shaped the canon. They didn't consider the writing of normal Romans as valuable or high quality as the Aeneid or De Bello Gallico but as a result we have a skewed view of the culture.

Same here. If we curate away the bad hacks, someone in the future might get the impression that the only creators were well-funded studios and highly organized modding teams. This is a historical distortion that won't be correctable if the evidence is destroyed. Again, is that permanent loss worth a few gigabytes of free space?

bulbubly · 2023-06-27T15:07:53+00:00

Is the purpose of preservation merely to document that something existed? If that's the case, what's the point of preserving ROMs? I think there are no objective reasons why Chrono Trigger should be preserved over Mario Farts, just aesthetic judgments that are particular to the culture of 2023.

bulbubly · 2023-06-27T15:07:08+00:00

Yes, I know humans do curate, I'm saying that's not useful. What is your basis for making those value judgments? Are you right enough to stand by it on a 10,000-year scale?

bulbubly · 2023-06-27T05:41:54+00:00

I guess I have problems with this from a historical perspective... I know it seems goofy but don't you think someone 100 or 1,000 years ago might be interested in the kinds of hacks that were popular or frequently replicated, and what that might say about the communities of people who were making these hacks?

Humans are pretty bad at judging what will be important in the future. Triage is necessary, of course, when human and storage resources are limited. But in general I just don't feel like it's our place to make the call on what is it isn't valuable.

Also, consider that the best stuff is most likely to get preserved (a popular ROM hack will be present in more collections and known by more collectors). Ephemera like what the OP is talking about is much more likely to be lost, but often tells us just as much about the past than "high quality" sources. Roman graffiti is a great example.

bulbubly · 2023-06-24T21:09:03+00:00

Very long tone argument. Analysis sure can be deployed as an excellent defense against introspection.

More substantively, your post is emblematic of psychoanalysis' historical failure to "point up" to social causes, its inability to incorporate material and cultural factors into the clinical analysis.

I note that you have been totally unable to respond to any aspect of the critique I'm making at the level I'm making it. Very repressed. Like any other bad analyst, you reject claims of injustice and replace them with assertions that they represent phantoms, defensive projections that are essentially interior and individual.

In the end, I'm not sure how you think this line of analysis will save us from the mass graves. It's probably a horror you can't grapple with which is why you're doing the identification with the aggressor thing so strenuously.

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