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- 2 months
Ritalin.
I’d heard all the stories about zombie kids and such. Then at 30 I was diagnosed with ADHD and it explained so much. My first ritalin was a life changer. Not a zombie - I could focus on what I wanted to, get things started, music stuck in my head gone, so many other things. Not perfect, but so much better.
I’m still pissed that for most of my life since I haven’t been able to have it or anything else to help.
- 2 months
I’m amazed at how many parents, including ones of my generation [millenials], are afraid of ADHD medication. Especially considering the volume of research on ADHD and the effectiveness of stimulants that has come out since the 90’s.
“But it will change little Timmy’s personality.”
Yeah, that’s hyperactivity. Not his personality. People don’t normally act like the Looney Toons Tazmanian Devil on crack.
“But he might become dependent on it.”
And i’m sure people with missing limbs spend a lot of time worrying about becoming dependent on prosthetics. You know what you should really be concerned about him becoming dependent on? Drugs and alcohol. Because self-medicating is real and the statistics are not in Timmy’s favor.
- 2 months
I have a below-knee amputation. I AM dependent on my prosthesis to get around. lol
That’s the thing I especially liked about the ritalin - no waiting days for it to get to a working level, it kicked in, worked, and when it was gone, it was GONE. heh. Which meant I could take it when I wanted to get stuff done, and if I didn’t care about getting stuff done, I could refrain from taking it, and that worked perfectly.
And the zombie thing - I’d almost said - but I realized after my experiences on it… yeah, kid might look like a zombie because instead of being distracted by everything, they’re sitting there concentrating on their work, getting shit done. Not staring-into-space zombie, GETTING-SHIT-DONE-POWERHOUSE lol.
- 2 months
Years ago, I thought Linux was for nerds(which it is) and performed badly and was hard to use. Now I haven’t used Windows as a daily driver in 5+ years and every time I have to use someone else’s non Linux machine, it feels like an ancient machine with absolutely no character to it.
2 monthsMy mom boiled brussels sprouts and I hated them. As an adult who knows to roast them, they’ve become one of my favorite vegetables.
- 2 months
People also did a lot of work to reduce the bitter glucosinolates https://www.bhg.com/news/brussels-sprouts-less-bitter/
- Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
the only problem is the amount of oil to produce the crispy brussel sprouts kind of undoes the health they bring to a diet.
at least the amount of oil restaurants will drown them in.
- Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Veganism.
Their entire basis of preaching guilt over the consiousness angle was egotistic, overzealous and unproven.(either all plant matter and all animal matter are consious or they are all not. Therefore everyone, no matter what matter they consume to survive, remains guilty of ending a consiousness or not and therefore neither diet maintains the higher ethical ground to guilt from. I will not be convinced otherwise. And especially not while every white paper starts with defining consiousness is always in their own pure hubris)
It was not until it was called ‘Plant based’ that i got on board as that research is proven. yes: it is healthier, yes: less emmissions. yes: uses less matter to consume. yes: more sustainable. (Although not sustainable for those who remain unable to digest beans as a form of protien. but that is another story)
Ethical? in the form of ‘less matter’ one might try to argue but i would not use any guilt angle on ethical stance so long as any matter that may be argued to contain consiousness is consumed. No ethical stance starts with measuring anything in value as ‘less than’ another so long as it is used just to justify to find their own comfort to judge others from.
- 2 months
either all plant matter and all animal matter are consious or they are all not.
Plants do not have brains or nervous systems, they are not conscious.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8052213/
I am aiming for a vegan lifestyle, but it is difficult to escape hidden milk and eggs in unexpected places. I hope everyone can agree that factory farming is needlessly cruel and should not be supported. I am happy with any steps taken to reduce suffering in the world. I think too many people view it as all-or-nothing, and they can’t do all so they do nothing. But every choice we make affects the world we share; any individual can make a difference, even a small one, and they add up.
- 1 month
Plants do not have brains or nervous systems, they are not conscious.
you know, empirical data was also used to determine that Africans and women didn’t have consciousness and were just mindless beasts.
perhaps in another 60-100 years we’ll have a better understanding of sentience and will determine that plants, being a different organism, lacks a brain or nervous system but has something comparable.
point is, just because you know something today doesn’t mean it’s factually the truth.
instead of basing decisions on your diet entirely from an emotional reaction, perhaps it’s best to determine your diet based on hard facts of nutritional value and environmental impact.
- 1 month
empirical data was also used to determine that Africans and women didn’t have consciousness and were just mindless beasts.
No, it wasn’t. Empirical data was fabricated. There was never evidence to support those claims, which is why we no longer believe them.
instead of basing decisions on your diet entirely from an emotional reaction
I’m not, I’m basing decisions on evidence. Fuck you for projecting your idiocy onto me.
perhaps it’s best to determine your diet based on hard facts of nutritional value and environmental impact.
Which includes eating meat instead of plants. But I personally do it because we know animals feel fear and pain, and we do not know that about plants.
Why are you fighting in favor of needless slaughter? Fucking psychopaths here.
- 1 month
Fuck you for projecting your idiocy onto me.
But I personally do it because we know animals feel fear and pain, and we do not know that about plants.
Why are you fighting in favor of needless slaughter? Fucking psychopaths here.
you seem to be in an emotional hysteria right now. so it’s natural that someone would think that you’re basing all your information on emotional triggers because you are arguing in an unstable emotional state.
go outside and touch grass, you need the downtime.
we’ll all be here waiting for you to call us names again once you’ve calmed down.
