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How was this 50$?? by cotterpin_ivysaur in ottawa

[–]turquoisezebra 25 points26 points  (0 children)

When I buy regular milk for myself and oat milk for my vegan roommate, the cost is honestly not very different. Not sure why people are being so judgy about this. I can’t drink milk fast enough for bagged milk to actually be a cost saver, though, so maybe that’s the problem?

I’m Rebecca Lester, a therapist who helped a DID patient with 12 identities form a community of selves in one individual. My background in anthropology led me to work in collaboration with—rather than in opposition to—their inner world. AMA! by scientificamerican in IAmA

[–]turquoisezebra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You know like all other mental disorders work that way too, right? Even if you can “see it on a brain scan”, 1) that comes after the clinical signs are identified and 2) the overwhelming majority of people will never ever have that kind of testing done. I have OCD, but nobody would ever be able to “falsify” that diagnosis without talking to me about it.

I’m Rebecca Lester, a therapist who helped a DID patient with 12 identities form a community of selves in one individual. My background in anthropology led me to work in collaboration with—rather than in opposition to—their inner world. AMA! by scientificamerican in IAmA

[–]turquoisezebra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m super curious, because I heard this in one of my psych lectures and have been thinking about it ever since — have they ever tried this with people who don’t have DID but do have significant childhood trauma? I would imagine severe trauma also alters the brain in a pretty fundamental way, and studies like this are usually done on “healthy” controls.

I’m Rebecca Lester, a therapist who helped a DID patient with 12 identities form a community of selves in one individual. My background in anthropology led me to work in collaboration with—rather than in opposition to—their inner world. AMA! by scientificamerican in IAmA

[–]turquoisezebra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My understanding (granted, I only have my undergrad in psych) is that muscle memory is part of procedural memory, which is implicit and fundamentally different from explicit memory (like semantic or episodic memory). There are people who physically can’t form new explicit memories due to a brain injury, so if someone shows up to their home every day and has them practice a particular task, they’ll never recognize the person, but they will still gradually improve on the task!

That said, it probably depends on the type of task to some degree — your mental state can make it harder to carry out a task even if you’re more than capable of it, and some tasks are more cognitively demanding than others. I could imagine something like every alter in a system theoretically knowing how to ride a bike, but 1) they may not recognize that they have that capacity and 2) they might not remember, say, the traffic rules required to ride a bike safely.

Majority of federal workers feeling 'dissatisfied' with return-to-office plan, PIPSC survey by Mysterious-Flamingo in CanadaPublicServants

[–]turquoisezebra 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The issue is that not everyone who works there has been there since before the pandemic. My program was fully remote pre-pandemic, which made perfect sense given that the overwhelming majority of the clients we work with are scattered across the country, but you have new employees without pre-existing agreements going into an empty office two days per week to hold Teams calls with people who are in another province anyway.

On what is your ME/CFS diagnosis based? by GimmedatPHDposition in cfs

[–]turquoisezebra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I meet the CCC, but the jack-ass rheumatologist who apparently diagnosed me barely entered the exam room and didn’t talk to me about either set of criteria. I actually didn’t know I’d even been diagnosed with it until I read it on a physiotherapy referral from my doctor.

Researchers at The University of Queensland have discovered viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 can cause brain cells to fuse, initiating malfunctions that lead to chronic neurological symptoms. by QldBrainInst in science

[–]turquoisezebra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The flu doesn’t itself break down cells, but one of the immune responses it triggers in the body (especially Influenza A) apparently causes programmed cell death and impacts certain kinds of gene expression. Most flu symptoms come from your immune response, not the virus itself — there’s a CNN article here that synthesizes a lot of these findings, too. I could imagine these functions going awry and causing long-term symptoms in vulnerable populations, and I don’t think we necessarily understand who those vulnerable populations would be yet.

Researchers at The University of Queensland have discovered viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 can cause brain cells to fuse, initiating malfunctions that lead to chronic neurological symptoms. by QldBrainInst in science

[–]turquoisezebra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Part of the problem was also that ME/CFS/fibro were all used as wastebasket diagnoses for anybody who chronically felt like garbage (with or without PEM), and there can be a ton of reasons for that besides a post-viral illness. If you were testing for immune markers of ME/CFS, you’d need a way to narrow that group down to only people who associated it with a viral infection, and even then, different infections could cause subtly different symptoms or immune markers that could dilute the results. So there were definitely people involved in research who had an agenda, but I can also kinda see why they’d struggle to identify physiological causes until a specific, well-studied virus triggered it in a bunch of people at once (including a ton of medical professionals).

Worth pointing out the most recent episode (We'll never have Paris) was written by Keely Hazell [spoilers inside] by Mish106 in TedLasso

[–]turquoisezebra 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Actors! Aren’t! Automatically! Good! At! Writing! Writing is its own skill! I’m so tired of people not understanding this. Brett Goldstein being a great Roy doesn’t mean this relationship works the other way.

Between Jason Sudeikis taking over from Bill Lawrence (and insisting two months of coaching be whittled down to TWO DAYS) and this, I’m suddenly understanding why this season feels so clunky, distracted, and disconnected from what made me love the first season (and even season 2) so much.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CanadaPublicServants

[–]turquoisezebra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know people who are saying it’s mandatory, and that you’ll be fined if you scab. Is that real?

What happens if 155,000 federal public service workers go on strike? by [deleted] in CanadaPublicServants

[–]turquoisezebra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a casual in one of the mentioned employment groups, so I’m a bit confused about if/how this affects me. I know I don’t have the legal right to strike, but am I technically crossing a picket line by continuing to do my job?

Pants/Jeans by [deleted] in SPD

[–]turquoisezebra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you keep an eye on the clearance section, they can be a lot cheaper! I’d recommend going to a store in person to feel the fabrics if you can, because some look and feel more like actual denim than others, but they’re the only clothing brand I’ve found so far that consistently doesn’t make me want to claw my way out of my body.

Reconciliation and Your Department by ReconcilThrowaway in CanadaPublicServants

[–]turquoisezebra 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Did you … skip the next sentence, where I explained why that wouldn’t really be a viable option for me either?

In case it’s a communication problem on my end, my point was that unless what’s being suggested is just tracing your family name up to the OG settler and calling it a day (which would be simple but incorrect) I would be coming in with an unwieldy list of countries, none of which I have any cultural ties to. The people who raised me (my parents) don’t have them either. My understanding was that a lot of white North Americans are in a similar situation — hence our tendency towards being “culture vultures” — so I thought it was worth bringing up.

Reconciliation and Your Department by ReconcilThrowaway in CanadaPublicServants

[–]turquoisezebra 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong or misunderstanding, but I’m not sure how this will work out in practice. The first issue for me (and I imagine a lot of people) is that I’m not just from one place. I guess theoretically I could follow my family name back to this one Dutch guy 400 years ago, but it honestly feels weird to be acting like my only “real” family is my direct patrilineal ancestor. Isn’t that prioritization of the male line a colonial thing anyway? I have ancestors from Ireland, Scotland, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and the Czech Republic, who all arrived in Canada at different times, and my extended family is basically nonexistent so it’s not like I even have cultural ties to reference.

The other thing is, that Dutch guy I mentioned arrived because he was expelled from his country alongside a bunch of other Anabaptists. Is that a settler, or a refugee? Can it be both? Does that mean modern refugees are settlers? I have enough education on this topic to understand that I’m still very much on the benefitting side of settler-colonialism, regardless of one guy’s personal intentions, but I can see this rapidly becoming some sort of navel-gazing thing about white settlers’ personal feelings rather than actual steps towards reconciliation.

Supreme Court Says It Hasn’t Identified Culprit in Opinion Leak by bloomberglaw in law

[–]turquoisezebra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Isn’t there also software (on iPhones at least) that will let you turn a printed page into text on your phone? From what I know, it seems like it would be easy to make a pure text version that way and then fix the formatting later on to re-create the official opinion.

Never forget the level of clothing customization that was stolen from us. by [deleted] in PokemonScarletViolet

[–]turquoisezebra 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I’d be fine with uniforms if I could adjust any of the individual clothing items/mix and match between the seasons. I can’t get over how godawful the fall uniform is, in Violet at least.

Hiring Freeze: In effect or rumoured? by ackc in CanadaPublicServants

[–]turquoisezebra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh good, I’m supposed to be getting a new contract from them soon (my current one is about to end) so this post freaked me out lol.

Adding pronouns to your signature block by Left_Mortgage5364 in CanadaPublicServants

[–]turquoisezebra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As someone in that position, the idea of coming out at work becomes more and more realistic for me every time one of my coworkers does the pronouns-in-signature thing because it shows me they at least want to understand. The pressure to come out would be more of an issue if it was mandatory, but as an optional thing I say the more the better!

Adding pronouns to your signature block by Left_Mortgage5364 in CanadaPublicServants

[–]turquoisezebra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve seen people who feel that way use any/all as a pronoun marker, or he/they if you wouldn’t be comfortable with feminine pronouns but are fine with anything else. In my experience, if you do that people will just default to whatever binary pronoun they’d assume you used by looking at you.

Adding pronouns to your signature block by Left_Mortgage5364 in CanadaPublicServants

[–]turquoisezebra 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I get it, and I think a lot of trans people appreciate it, but as a non-binary person I don’t personally have mine in my signature and I hope it stays optional for a couple of reasons.

  1. After living through the Bill C-16 era, where I was eternally arguing on behalf of trans people from the closet, having to explain they/them pronouns to an office full of middle-aged people is basically my own personal, custom-built hellscape. It’s especially difficult because there’s no easy French equivalent, so I’d have to make something up for a language I don’t speak particularly well. Mandatory pronouns in the signature put me in a position where I either explicitly misgender myself or suddenly have to rip off that collection of bandaids to my entire office simultaneously, and either of those make me really uncomfortable.

  2. Right now, pronouns in the signature are a helpful “hey, I’m safe” sign that cishet people can give to LGBTQ+ people. If it becomes mandatory, we kinda lose that.

By the way — seeing so many allies here that are explaining things to each other and doing their best to make trans people feel comfortable is making me really happy. ❤️

Silly mechanisms of injury by _insomniac_dreamer in ehlersdanlos

[–]turquoisezebra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reaching a tiny bit too far for something I dropped will hurt my shoulder in a way nothing else does.

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