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Life expectancy by US county.

Map showing the distribution of the slave population of the southern states of the United States. Compiled from the census of 1860

Proportion of Indigenous Americans in each county as of the 2020 United States Census

Percent of Population Living in Poverty, 2020 by County

People in the Black Belt don’t have higher mortality rates for every cause of death, but the causes that disproportionately affect them are

mcnostril

A warrrior with abundant osteoptimism and one more skeleptical re: bone toughness.

definitelybeholderrpgideas

Op I want you to know that “I don’t drink enough milk to be that confident in my bones” is now something I will say at every opportunity

anyway

updated version

it’s a skill now

Shout out to everyone who is just so tired So so exhausted So very very tired so very fatigued so sleepy and tired So

ingridverse

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see

I mean, it seems pretty obvious when you put it like that, right?

But how many families, when an introvert sibling or child makes an effort to socialize, snarkily say, “So, you’ve decided to join us”?

Or when someone does something they’ve had trouble doing, say, “Why can’t you do that all the time?” (Happened to me, too often.)

Or any sentence containing the word “finally”.

If someone makes a step, a small step, in a direction you want to encourage, encourage it. Don’t complain about how it’s not enough. Don’t bring up previous stuff. Encourage it.

Because I swear to fucking god there is nothing more soul-killing, more motivation-crushing, than struggling to succeed and finding out that success and failure are both punished.

redcurlzbychoice

Encouragement and acknowledgment are so much more effective than punishment.

ingridverse

were--ralph

There really isn't a site like twitter where the president of the US gets publicly fact-checked

caliro

when animals look back at you like they’re the girl with the pearl earring

velephia

yo-its-matt

maybe I'm finally worthy

Earl with the Unacceptable Earring

#artist #art #artwork #portrait #adveture time #lemongrab #lemon grab #the earl #girl with the pearl earring #paintings #acrylic

despairhasitsown-calm

a while ago i attended this lecture on autism. guy in the audience said he had many of the symptoms that were presented and asked what should he do to get treatment and possibly a diagnosis. instead of answering his question the psychologist went on a tangent about how “the clinic reigns all powerful over guesswork”, and how actually it has become a trend amongst little children on the internet to claim that they are autistic for cool points, and that this hurts real autistic people. no she didn’t tell him how to get his symptoms looked into, she just made it very clear that to her, aknowledging your own symptoms is bad and evil and hurts the poor real mentally ill people.

an ex-friend of mine, then a psychology major and by now probably a full psychologist, once lectured me on how horrible and bad it was that i told her “i probably have some sort of neurodivergency”, and that if i were her patient she would never give me a diagnosis because “you aren’t like this now, but i know that if you get a diagnosis you’ll use it as an excuse to start treating people badly. that’s just how mentally ill people are.”

same ex-friend was extremely disgusted when she found out that fans sometimes make neurodivergency headcanons for characters that have the same symptoms as they do, and that authors sometimes write books with neurodivergent protagonists in stories that don’t focus on that (ex: she seemed horrified that percy jackson has adhd?)

multiple psychologists i’ve seen on facebook agree that they should refuse to treat patients that say “i’m here because i have symptoms of a disorder and wonder if i have it”, and that a patient should arrive to a psychologist as a blank slate.

school psychologist asked me how i was feeling about my trauma situation and i told him i thought my friends would leave me. instead of addressing the issue he said that that no i didn’t, that i was lying, that i had searched “bpd symptoms” online and now i was faking symptoms because i wanted to have bpd, that he shouldn’t have told me he suspected i had a personality disorder because now look what was happening. no, i didn’t search bpd symptoms online. yes, my friends left me, it was a completely founded belief and not a symptom, let alone a faked symptom.

so the next time you hear someone saying they’re “anti self-diagnosis” i want you to understand what they’re saying. what they’re saying is:

- i don’t want people to be aware of their own symptoms

- i don’t think my patients should have access to any information that doesn’t come from me

- i don’t think neurodivergent people should learn how to cope with their symptoms and live “normal” lives

- i think neurodivergent people should be denied a diagnosis because the moment they get one they will become evil and dangerous

- i don’t think people who don’t look like a stereotype could possibly be neurodivergent, even if they have all the symptoms, so i think they are faking it for attention and should be denied treatment

happinessisaknife

how do these people pass their classes and become licensed if they’re too stupid to understand basic cause and effect? no patient is going to go in as a blank slate, people go to specialists because they have symptoms, the grand majority of the time. why would someone go to a specialist if they didn’t have recognizable symptoms? “hey doc nothing’s wrong with me i’m just here to waste both our time and my money.” like it just makes zero sense.

the-august-one

^THIS! This feels like such an obvious thing but evidently it isnt ??? Like, how does someone take their entire ass through school studying psychology and miss something so basic to human logic?? or i suppose more importantly, why isn’t such basic shit being taught on the off chance that some people are just that oblivious??? I mean, its not like people’s health and lives are on the line or anything. /heavy sarcasm

pisceanportraits

It's because somewhere between their first clinical to now these providers have acquired a smidgen of a God complex and they REALLY don't like when their pts are well informed/researched because it means that their "vast" s/ knowledge they accumulated that overinflated their ego isn't as special/end all be all as they like to believe. Pts who are informed ask good questions and offer suggestions. They don't just sit there and obey and submit to their provider's every whim. They don't like that.