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I'm a licensed mental health professional but I don't specialize in ADHD. I've been diagnosed with ADHD and take stimulants every day.

ADHD is mostly genetic, but IMO the increase in diagnoses is partly due to the information overload from the digital age we're living in. There are simply more things distracting us, more cognitive demands, such that even "normal" brains will struggle to keep up.

I want to point out, too, that the DSM has serious issues with validity and reliability. Some of the criteria are so subjective as to be useless, and two providers diagnosing the same person can arrive at very different disorders. Allen Frances, chair of the DSM-IV (we're on DSM-5 now) wrote a book called Saving Normal where he criticizes the APA's trend of pathologizing basic human experiences. With each DSM edition the diagnostic criteria get more broad, to the point that I can argue that any given person meets criteria for SOME disorder. If everyone is disordered, then what's normal anymore? How is that helpful?

Most of the diagnostic criteria for ADHD describe someone who isn't a "good student" or a "good employee." It doesn't consider context. If someone fucking hates their job, I'm not surprised they struggle to complete tasks that require sustained mental effort. Kids are reminded every day that the world is burning, so of course they're distracted from their math homework. I'm not saying people aren't suffering from what we call ADHD, I'm saying that it's a normal human response to the state of the world right now, so why are we calling it a disorder?

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They have a handful of dumb screens, like you're describing, at Best Buy. Somehow they're thousands of dollars for a normal sized TV.

I'm sure there are folks here who have listened to a lot more Sam Harris than I have, but I've listened to several audiobooks and probably 40-50 hours of his podcast. He has some smart things to say about neuroscience and mindfulness, but my god he has some toxic, middle-school-ass takes on Islam. I haven't heard that quote before, but I'm not surprised he said it. He's Ben Shapiro with a PhD who makes deliberately obtuse, reductive, bad faith statements about Islam and Muslims.

For the record, I'm a white atheist. I think religion has been the source of immeasurable violence in the world. I don't think anyone should be shot over something they say or draw, but to declare "end of moral analysis" is ignorant.

And yet I fully expect the police union to complain that this will make their jobs harder. Or some braindead bullshit.

Frozen grapes. Once they've been out of the freezer for a couple minutes, they thaw into little slushie bubbles.

Popsicle brand makes sugar free tropical flavored, and they're delicious.

You can chill. The person who replied to you wasn't arguing against your general point, just clarifying the context.

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I'm not ready to watch the video. Why do you say it's worse?

On Alone: Australia, one of the contestants was a biologist. She refused to eat any animal that "cares for its young." I had never thought about differentiating that way.

I think this is a little prescriptive. There might be some truth in this but everyone needs to find acceptance on their own. Sometimes running works just fine.

Thank you. Does your job involve explaining things this clearly? Are you a teacher?

Galaxy Buds are just so solid. The little spendy goblin in me has looked at new ear buds for years, and I even got some free Pixel Buds with my last phone, but I keep going back to the galaxies.

Jesus, this is gross.

Similarly, I believe in democracy and often hate its result.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems more realistic to say:

1. Playing the same game twice is unlikely because of the number of possible games, OR
2. It's possible the same game has never been played twice, OR
3. After a certain number of moves, it's very possible to create a never-played game

I'm certain I've played the same game multiple times, because I suck at chess and I fall into the same obvious traps over and over.

I agree that it's a beautiful love story in a vacuum, but in the context of a larger society I think Nick Offerman's character was a psychopath. With so many people suffering around him, he chose to hoard weapons and resources, and set up booby traps to avoid having to share with anyone. That's essentially what the ultra-rich are doing today in response to the climate crisis, and nobody is romanticizing it.

Succession has some of the best screenwriting of any TV show or movie, IMO. S3E08 "Chiantishire" stands out to me. So much of the dialogue is passive-aggressive or euphemistic. S4E09 "Church and State" is also an absolute marvel, with the main scene being shot with 8 cameras simultaneously, and showing some of the most powerful performances in the series.

Oh this is so helpful. Thank you.

Same. My partner got an Apple watch and loved all the lifestyle tools, but she stopped wearing it because she couldn't stand all the notifications. I said it would just take a couple minutes to turn off the ones she didn't like, but she doesn't have time for that!