And another broad generalization goes to you.

Women aren’t idiots. They know what bears are. They also know what men are which is precisely why they are mostly answering the way they do.

“Women don’t know bears can kill you because they had fluffy teddy bears growing up” is what you sound like.

What? First off, boys also have teddy bears. Most people’s experiences with bears are precisely what you described as solely women’s experiences.

Like what are bears in men’s daily experience? I’ll isolate down to North America to keep things simple.

Most men’s experience with bears is identical to that of women’s. Most men live in suburbs or cities, and haven’t even seen a bear outside of a zoo. But most men and women know that bears are dangerous wild animals because…we have been taught that.

I don’t get why women are so infantalized by men. Now I’m just imagining a father walking up to his son, telling his daughter to leave the room then telling him “bears are dangerous son, you never wanna be close to one and here’s what you do to stay safe, also do NOT tell your sister this, she’s a girl and doesn’t need to know this because one day she’ll have a husband that will protect her from the bears”

It depends on your insurance iirc.

My insurance has a deductible which means I need to spend $2.5k before they will fully pay for things like meds, or visits. This makes all medication notably expensive. My ADHD meds went from $8.00ish to $210 just because my plan switched. I put aside $2.5k for this purpose though. It fucking sucks and getting a better plan just simply costs 2-3x’s as much.

I tried Atomoxetine and didn’t like it, I don’t recall any major mental benefits (maybe my motivation was non existent) but I did recall MAJOR sex related side effects that absolutely sucked.

I forget what it’s called but there is one medication that doesn’t act as a stimulant and is closer to that of an antidepressant

We call them crab spiders in Florida

It’ll be there tomorrow :)

“centrists”

I think I know what your mom’s favorite food is

Genghis Khan has joined the chat

The moment Google stops stealing my data I might consider using YouTube premium

Toddlers kill more than foreign terrorists

I KNEW there was a reason to support abortion!

Now if you don’t mind me I’m going to go push pregnant women down the stairs to do my part for this country 🇺🇲

Transfem atheist in the south so yes yes and yes

Yeah my hyperfocus is just “focus on all the bad things and get nothing done. Enjoy the panic attack”

That ain’t no super power to me. Maybe once a month I get the actual beneficial form of it and it’s generally wasted on something like a video game or other menial task.

Byeah

That’s all well and good, but my community would probably kill me eventually so…I’ll stick to not talking to them.

It also sucks if all the content is exclusively paywalled. I wouldn’t know what is or isn’t good without potentially wasting my hard earned money. I can’t even afford rent let alone a series of patreon services. I support creators when I can, but I refuse to be a fucking product for simply being poor.

Oh today I learned, TBH my information was probably out of date. But this is good to know. Definitely a step in the right direction even if more diversified public transportation options are better

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I’m aphantasic for sure, I think I’m even entirely mind-blind so to speak, I can’t imagine smells, tastes, sounds, images, or textures.

I can still dream and I can even recall the details vividly the morning of, but I suspect myself of being on the autism spectrum as I’ve always been super obsessed with finer details. Besides those recollections aren’t in a mental image, it’s more so concepts.

When I think of an apple I know the physiology of an apple and thus I can discern the details onto paper (albeit crudely as I’m not artist) but I’ve always suffered with geometry since rotating a shape in my head is impossible, algebraic translations, flips, etc across the x or y axis are also super difficult for me to grasp. But I can deal with arithmetic easier.

In terms of getting better at it? I’m not really in an environment or situation where I could safely test out hallucinogens, but with my ADHD on top of suspected autism, I really don’t think I want to see images in my head. In 2019 I had my deepest dive into depression, and while I was having a 2am panic attack (the peak of my depression I’d say) where I had endless racing thoughts just coming at me from all directions. The “noise” of my own thoughts overpowered everything. If I could imagine sound (and by extension, voices) beyond my own I might have actually gone farther than a 2 second peak of “I want to die”.